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Back Home Michael McFee Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1998, pp. 13-19 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0077 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435830/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:11 GMT from JHU Libraries Back Home Michael McFee I have split my life more or less in half between the mountains and the Piedmont of North Carolina. I was born in Asheville and raised ten miles south of town in Arden, where I lived until I was eighteen; I went off to college in the Research Triangle area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) for a while, with frequent trips back home to the mountains; but since the mid-1970s, except for a few teaching sojourns in upstate New York and mid-Wisconsin, I've stayed put right here in the Piedmont, with my Piedmont wife and son. Yet I go back home to the mountains frequently in my poems, in my dreams. Why? Is it just a matter of being haunted by whatever imprints you at an early age, whether Blue Ridge or Brooklyn? Is there some essential quality about the mountains that keeps calling me back? What is it about the mountains that sets them apart from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Michael McFee Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1998, pp. 13-19 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0077 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435830/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:11 GMT from JHU Libraries Back Home Michael McFee I have split my life more or less in half between the mountains and the Piedmont of North Carolina. I was born in Asheville and raised ten miles south of town in Arden, where I lived until I was eighteen; I went off to college in the Research Triangle area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) for a while, with frequent trips back home to the mountains; but since the mid-1970s, except for a few teaching sojourns in upstate New York and mid-Wisconsin, I've stayed put right here in the Piedmont, with my Piedmont wife and son. Yet I go back home to the mountains frequently in my poems, in my dreams. Why? Is it just a matter of being haunted by whatever imprints you at an early age, whether Blue Ridge or Brooklyn? Is there some essential quality about the mountains that keeps calling me back? What is it about the mountains that sets them apart from

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