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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
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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
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Complete Works - Volume XII
― Complete Works - Volume XII
“What sealed the deal for me was that the cloak wouldn't come off without a generous donation of my tears. Those used to be almost impossible for me to summon, I admit, until I watched Field of Dreams. When Kevin Costner asks his dad at the end if he'd like to have a catch, I just completely lose my shit.”
― Hounded
― Hounded
“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.”
― Open City
― Open City
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
― The Hottest State
― The Hottest State
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