Happening upon 'Making Fire' brought forth a cloud of personal recollections. I was invited to pastor some churches around Hot Springs, NC. Big Laurel Creek is close by. My family moved from LA to Western NC to be near those mountains. I traversed most of The Appalachian Trail entire length of The Great Smokies. Reading Summer Boy I'm consistently reminded of those experiences shared to me by my friend Henry Mitchell.
We live now near the water in Florida, but we simply have to go back up there at least every year; in between those trips the next best thing is reading Summer Boy.
Hot Springs is about as close to Robberlee's town as you can get outside the Laurel.
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