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particular place can offer those ofus living in other places inspiration and guidance about how to live rightly in a long-settled landscape. East Kentucky At the top of Pine Mountain among the moss and spiraling arms ofvines, the waters of the Mississippi first set their stain in shale. Along oozing veins of coal between round hills rush creeks bearing the runoff. By the banks grow things you can eat ifyou know when to gather and how to keep diem. Deep inside the mountains layered in the dark is offered the black gold ifyou know the dangers and how to set your timbers; ifyou know what to tap and how to keep it. In this soft country of tough harvests it is easy to feel the mingling waters springing through the veins. Best to turn away unless you know more than vou think vou do wui ivy iuiii civvciy iuui' than you think you do -Noel Smith 25 ...

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