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Gordon Mercer is the director of the Western Carolina University Public Policy Institute. He and his wife, Marcia, enjoy hiking in the region and writing about their experiences. They can be reached at gordonmarcia4@gmail.com.
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Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Old Wives’ Tales and Sayings
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Mar 17“Some of those old wives were pretty smart.” Charlie Brown, “Peanuts,” Charles Shulz Western Carolina University has an exciting new 6.7 mile ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Predicting the Future
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Mar 08“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all economic growth in the United States.” Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 Often ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Do We Need Daylight Saving Time?
By By Gordon Mercer and ... - Feb 25Daylight Saving Time: “It impacts diverse and unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, street crime, the reporting of sports scores, ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Western Cowboy Culture and Code of Ethics
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Jan 22“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” Will Rogers, Cherokee Cowboy and American Humorist, 1879-1935 We were ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Waynesville Prepares for Santa
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Dec 17“He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,...He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a ...
Notes on Quotes: Waynesville’s Steven Reinhold Selected to Climb Mt. Whitney in California
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Nov 30“The joy and strife of adventure have given me a confident and humble approach to life, which helps me in all my endeavors. I am honored to help ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Elvis Presley
By By Gordon Mercer and ... - Nov 05“I don’t sound like nobody.” Elvis Presley Comment at Sun Recording Studio in 1953 When we think of hiking, we usually think of remote rural areas ...
Tracking the Legends: Hiking and Edward Teach (Blackbeard), 1680-1718
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Oct 08“A period’s history can probably best be told through the biography of one of its leading characters, be he a hero or villain.” Robert E. Lee, ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking, Cookbooks and What Did the Founding Fathers Eat?
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Sep 09“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Charles Schulz When we eat hotdogs with all the trimmings, as we discuss ...
Hiking the Appalachian Trail and Lost History: The Roswell Mill Workers
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Aug 13“I repeat my orders to you that you arrest all people male and female connected with those factories, no matter what the clamor and let them foot ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Do We Need Daylight Saving Time?
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Mar 17Daylight Saving Time: “It impacts diverse and unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, street crime, the reporting of sports scores, ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Predicting the Future
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Mar 06“Change is not merely necessary to life-it is life.” Alvin Toffler, Futurist Often in creating significant hiking trail areas, leadership is ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking, Happiness and Valentine’s Day
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Feb 04“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963 This week found ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Creative Holidays and Celebrations in 2013
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Jan 07“The more you praise and celebrate….the more there is to celebrate.” Oprah Winfrey We were planning to hike on Richland Balsam Trail, but when we ...
Notes on Quotes: Exploring, Hiking and Christmas Card Trends
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Dec 10“At Christmas season, cards mailed definitely mean so much more. I send a variety of cards: religious, funny, wintery scenes and cards with ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and The History of Thanksgiving
By By Gordon Mercer and ... - Nov 17“Now the purpose of this letter is to entreat President Lincoln to put forth his Proclamation, appointing the last Thursday in November… as the ...
Hiking and Halloween: Who Thought Halloween Up Anyway?
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Oct 18“From ghoulies and ghosties and long- leggety beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us.” Old Scottish Saying The ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking and Hank Williams, 1923-1953
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Sep 24“Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low, I’m so lonesome I could cry.” Hank Williams While ...
Notes on Quotes: Hiking the Bartram Trail and the Silencing of Mother Tongues
By By Gordon Mercer and ... - Aug 26“One language dies every 14 days.” Russ Rymer, National Geographic We were hiking the Wallace Branch section of the Bartram Trail, which is named ...
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Notes on Quotes: Hiking the Arkaquah Trail and Did the Early Maya Come to the Southeast in North America?
By Gordon Mercer and ... - Jul 30“Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many ...
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