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Book cover for The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce Book 24)
What does it mean that the cedar choppers had their origins in Appalachia? It identifies them with immigrants whose roots are the borderlands of Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. They are often called Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish, as ...more
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What does it mean that the cedar choppers had their origins in Appalachia? It identifies them with immigrants whose roots are the borderlands of Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. They are often called Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish, as my father said of his ancestors), and they certainly include the lowland Scots resettled in Northern Ireland by the British. David Hackett Fischer called them “a double-distilled selection of some of the most disorderly inhabitants of a deeply disordered land.”1
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“She was one of those people who was stingy without motive or reason even when they gain nothing from it. - Willa Cather”
Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

Matthew Edward Hall
“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION

Harshita Gottipati
“The true dwellers help you embrace
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
Harshita Gottipati, Born A Free Spirit

Jerry Stahl
“If the world is divided into Undesirables and You, then you are always going to need a wall to keep them out.”
Jerry Stahl, Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust

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