Mary Goodwin

“The first contact with Cherokee people made by Europeans occurred in 1540, when members of the de Soto Expedition recorded that they had found “Chalaque” settlements along the Tennessee River.”
― Charles River Editors, The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes

“There are so many things in my life I wish I hadn’t done, large and small. The older you get, the more regrets you have. You can try to push them aside, but they swarm around you and bite at you like gnats.”
― Donna Mabry, Jessica