"While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of……" — Charles Frazier
"While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic."
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60 Quotes by Charles Frazier
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If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping…
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We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week.…
— Bill Bryson
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian…
— Carlisle Floyd
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Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.
— Van Jones
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My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured…
— Jennifer Pharr Davis
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We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of…
— Katherine Dunham
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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very…
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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows…
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