Eriksen, K. (1978). Everything in its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. Simon and Schuster: New York, New York.
“On the Culture of Central Appalachia”
This is a quote by the author, Kai Erikson: “The Appalachian way of life, then, like any other culture, can be visualized as a tangle of contrary tendencies . . . identify those axes of variation that seem most characteristic of mountain society. . .”