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Mag Tollett busts up the homemade grave stone. “Vengeance is mine.” And peace settles over thundering creek.

Linksters and Draggers...

Interesting how most Appalachian migration came from the northern colonies through valleys instead of from the coast.

Interesting intro looking at Wytheville as this epicenter of Appalachian study. Max Meadows seems like such a random spot to begin studying the entirety of Appalachia. I like it.

Wesley Shelton vs Preacher Ike, a flood, “babtists vs. Methodists,” and a shockingly heroic rescue ending in death.

“But somewhere below all the thinking, the digging into the entrails of the Holy Constitution for prophecy and justification, very real bodies suffered the pain of a theory gone bad.”

“But a book binds you to it forever, every damn word, from the moment of publication. All those permanent black marks on paper. You think you own it, but over time it owns you.” Possible reflections on Cold Mountain?

“The you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. And also maybe something about the great reluctance with which we let go of our belief in a just God.”

I want to visit The Briers

Pretty engaging so far. Much more cozy than the sprawling Cold Mountain. Lots of Civil War trivia, the odd stuff.

Finally Harry is at war....I think there was a bit too much back story for my taste...

Harry on the move to Minnesota. This is a true work of rich nonfiction, capturing all the complexities of divided loyalties.

Tyson’s little one liner tongue in cheek comments are winning me over, such as “Yes, if the Pillsbury Doughboy were a figure skater, then fast spins would be a high-risk activity” (140). This was in reference to the flattening out of spheres into oblong disk shapes (i.e our galaxy).

This opening chapter was a bit too much. Dizzying array of tribunes and consuls and senators all interacting in something that seems to resemble a downward spiral.

Stegner sets the mood: patient, calm, and a morning walk through the woods. Amidst family.

Racial hierarchy in this country is worse than what I could have possibly imagined.

Dark matter and dark energy. Wtf!!!!!

Claire and the wildlife refuge. Finally, some substantial plot lines that plunge deep.

Traveling across America with Abbey is like standing in the center of a building that collapses around you.

Already a dizzying area of events and characters, a brideshow, a filicide, more titles and marriages than i could possibly keep straight. This is why I love history.

This is truly a shattering of my own ignorance.