Tim Forrest

“The spirit of the early settlers, fighting for self-reliance and survival, would be passed down from generation to generation in a vibrant and respected culture of North Carolinians.”
― J. William Denton, A History of Eastern North Carolina: Indigenous People, Colonization, and the Birth of a State

“Personally, I will never understand the critical association between “serious” music and “quality” music. In the ‘90s, however, one thing was spectacularly clear—if you played good-time, fun, party-songs, you were a joke; if you sang about hard times and depressing topics, you were legitimate.”
― Christopher P. Hilton, The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Hair Metal

“The birth of the very soul of the United States can be traced to the first attempts at colonization in North Carolina.”
― J. William Denton, A History of Eastern North Carolina: Indigenous People, Colonization, and the Birth of a State

“Neither Ginsberg nor Burroughs achieved the level of fame that Kerouac did in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This is partly because, of the three, Kerouac was the least counter-cultural, the least anti-American in sentiment and purpose. To the contrary, he had a deep love of America as land, as place — On The Road is basically a prose love poem to America — which naturally translated itself into conservative political leanings, albeit of a nonconventional sort. (He famously watched the McCarthy hearings while getting high on marijuana and cheering for McCarthy.)”
― Semmelweis, Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the West