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flowers, beautiful flowers, and to me there ain't nothing like a wild flower. And occasionally I run up on a deer. And last time I was out I saw a wild turkey and heard another one ahollerin '." Mullins adds that although he has lived outside of Appalachia, he has always returned. There is something about Southwestern Virginia that is almost beyond articulation, he says, but something that nonetheless binds him to the steep mountains and jungle-like forests of Dickenson County. "I just like the people here. Good neighbors, real good neighbors we have here. It's a good hunting and fishing area. I like the environment that's around me. Good water. Good air. It's a good place for me and I'm satisfied with it." Mullins continues. "I'd rather live here than New York City or wherever. It's just a place that I like, and there ain't much crime and people get along good. When you go to bed here you can rest and have a good night's sleep. Every night when I go to bed I hear Fryin' Pan Creek runnin' out there and to me that's the best sound I ever heard. I love it in these hills and I'll spend the rest of my days here." Works Cited Dunn, Durwood. Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community , 1818-1937. Knoxville: UT Press, 1988. Eller, Ron. Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers : Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: UT Press, 1982. Gunn, John C. Gunn's Domestic Medicine. Knoxville: 1820. ____________. Gunn's Domestic Physician. Cincinnati: 1860. Lanman, Charles. Letters from the Allegany Mountains. In Adventures in the Wilds of the United States. 4 vols. New York: 1856. Mellinger, Marie. "Ginseng." Foxfire 3. Ed. Eliot Wigginton. New York: Anchor Press, 1975. 245-73. Michaux, Francois Andre. Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains to the States of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee in the Year 1802. London: 1806. Mooney, Jennifer. "Ginseng: Lure of Root is Beauty, Money, Collectors Say." The Coalfield Progress 20 Sept. 1984: 1,12. Still, James. River of Earth. Lexington: UK Press, Reprint. 1978. Cousins at the Cemetery I turned away to hide the tears, clung to you for moments as new memories were trapped beneath the frozen ground of her new home. Then, I headed south to West Virginia, alone again to wrestle Pennsylvania Christmas cards that grow fewer year by year. -Sherrell R. Nuzum 43 ...

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