The Mountains That Made Me

Our hearts live in these hills, bound to these hollers

Bobi Conn
10 min readJun 24, 2021

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The Appalachians are among the oldest mountains on Earth, born of powerful upheavals within the terrestrial crust and sculpted by the ceaseless action of water upon the surface. — Encyclopedia Britannica

Those mountains still stand, mostly intact, though smaller now than they must have been in the…

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Bobi Conn

Author of A Woman in Time, a novel about rural Kentucky women surviving the Depression and Prohibition. Order now! https://amzn.to/3Es7JzH