A Thousand and One Appalachian Tales
Errata

These are the mistakes, errors and uncorrected edits found after going to press.

1. Pg 2: Last sentence from preceding paragraph on pg.1, remove entire sentence.
2. Pg 4: last paragraph, last sentence, replace ‘ranking-officer-in-charge’ with ‘NCO’ between the words ‘his’ and ‘only’ as in the text below:
   Immediately he began making plans to hike the "app-illusion trail" as his NCO, Staff Sergeant Holcombe²⁴, only half-jokingly called it.
3. Pg 5: 1^st paragraph, 4^th or last sentence, remove ‘had’ from between ‘already’ and ‘mailed,’ as below:
   Page purchased pretty much all-new gear, everything except a sleeping bag, which he’d already mailed to himself from home.
4. Pg 5: 4^th paragraph, 1^st sentence, replace ‘days-old reborn civilian’ with ‘re-civilian*, with an asterisk, as below:
   Meeting Harold was a great stroke of luck as the freshly-minted re-civilian* had only been able to make arrangements as far as Atlanta.
5. Pg 5: Add at the bottom of the page the following:
   * From The Fictionary, Re-civilian: One who has returned to being a civilian, after not being one for an indefinite or extended period of time.
6. Pg 6: 3^rd paragraph, add the following after last sentence:
   He urged caution while seemingly showing none. But Steve knew these roads like the back of his hand!
7. Pg 6: 4^th paragraph, 1^st sentence: remove the word ‘collective’ as is shown in the text below:
   They soon reached Nimblewill Gap, to the loud sigh of relief from his passengers, in the mid-to-late afternoon.
8. Pg 6: 5^th or last paragraph, replace the words ‘he left’ with ‘leaving’ as below:
   Düg's pack-weight, coupled with the fact that he hadn't had any sleep since leaving San Antonio over a day and a half earlier, made him look like he might topple over at any moment.
9. Pg 10: 3^rd paragraph, 4^th or next to last sentence after semicolon, move the word ‘had’ from between the words ‘filled’ and ‘him’ to between ‘air’ and ‘filled’ as in the text below:
   But that didn't work out and the ride from New Orleans on had been particularly torturous due to an overweight woman chain- smoking next to him in the no-smoking section of an overcrowded bus; he couldn't move or breathe and the crushing confinement and lack of air had filled him with acute anxiety and claustrophobia for the rest of the way to Georgia.
10. Pg 11: 1^st paragraph, 3^rd sentence, replace the words ‘monumental effort’ with ‘near Herculean labor’ between the words ‘With’ and ’he’ as shown in the text below:
    With near Herculean labor he un-shuttered an eye, saw there was still a roof overhead (for a brief moment he thought there wasn’t) and immediately fell back asleep.
11. Pg 23: 4^th paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace the words ‘tendonitis’ with ‘tendinitis’ and ‘on’ with ‘for’ as in the text below: Jeff noticed his limping, intuited tendinitis and mentioned that it could easily flare up on his right leg as a result of overcompensating for the left.
12. Pg 26: 5^th or last paragraph, 6^th or last sentence, remove the word ‘anyway’ as shown in the text below:
    Strider emphasized that one had to be very careful of moose during rutting season: they’re big and clumsy and don’t see very well; add periodically recurring reproductive arousal to the mix and they could be very dangerous.
13. Pg 31: 3^rd paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace ‘did’ with ‘had’ as below:
    Then, no sooner had he explained himself than a local with a truck offered on the spot to drive him all the way back to Deep Gap, USFS 71, a mere .8 miles from the shelter!
14. Pg 52: 4^th paragraph, including quote, 1^st sentence, replace ‘Red Road’ with ‘red road’ as shown in the text below:
    Düg followed the white blazes north up the red road out of town.
15. Pg 54: 6^th paragraph, 3^rd sentence move the word ‘simply’ from between ‘who’ and ‘did’ to between ‘were’ and ‘those,’ as below:
    To him agnostics were simply those who did not accept the tenets of belief, the mythos given to them by their cultural milieu.
16. Pg 56: 3^rd paragraph including quote, 2^nd sentence, move the word ‘both’ from between ‘hiking’ and ‘helped’ to between ‘that’ and ‘marathon,’ as shown in the text below:
    He mentioned that both marathon running and long distance hiking helped the body to produce endorphins.
17. Pg 75: 6^th paragraph, 1^st sentence, replace, “he’d been saving since who knows when.” with “someone had left behind in the shelter.”
18. Pg 96: 4^th paragraph, first sentence, add the word ‘to’ between the words ‘than’ and ‘mention’ as shown below:
    The next morning the Monk had no more than to mention it and the next thing he knew, he and a group of others were crammed into the church’s big blue stretch van and blasting back to Bastian at warp speed.
19. Pg 98: 1^st paragraph, last sentence, add the word ‘bottle’ between the words ‘soda’ and ‘in’ as below:
    For what he needed to drink, he filled the two-liter plastic soda bottle in the homemade hands-free drinking system he’d made back in Hot Springs.
20. Pg 106: 2^nd paragraph, last sentence, change the words ‘spend’ to ‘sped’ and ‘franticly’ to ‘frantically’ as shown in the text below:
    They sped almost frantically on, passing Lunch Box Rock along the way.
21. Pg 106: 5^th paragraph, 1^st sentence, switch the words ‘fair was’ to ‘was fair’ as shown in the text below:
    The problem, as near as they could figure, was that what was fair market yesterday was often not what was fair market today, or tomorrow.
22. Pg 112: 2^nd paragraph, 1^st sentence, change ‘backpacking paragon of paradox’ to ‘thru-hiking machine’ as below:
    Day 74: a short jaunt brought the thru-hiking machine back up to the Parkway and Thunder Ridge overlook.
23. Pg 116: 5^th or last paragraph, 3^rd sentence, replace the words ‘pseudo-ascetical skeptic’ with ‘skeptical pseudo-ascetic,’ as below:
    Keeping up a good pace, the skeptical pseudo-ascetic whizzed through an old abandoned apple orchard before reaching Wolf Rocks (3,893 ft) in the early evening.
24. Pg 118: 3^rd paragraph, 3^rd sentence, change ‘VB’ to ‘VW’ as shown below:
    Indeed, the small VW bug looked like a world record holder for the number of people squeezed inside.
25. Pg 119: 5^th paragraph, 5^th sentence, change ‘grew’ to ‘drew’ as below:
    As he drew closer he realized they weren't dwarves at all but young boys!
26. Pg 120: 3^rd paragraph 2^nd sentence, remove the word ’them’ and add the words ‘matches and,’ as shown in the text below: On the one hand he was glad these children were able to get out and experience nature - he had to feel this was a priceless experience unto itself - but on the other hand he felt they were being made to suffer cruel and unusual punishment by not being allowed the decency of simple things like matches and toilet paper.
27. Pg 136: last paragraph, 4^th sentence, change ‘thought’ to ‘though’:
    Several tourists offered to move but the Monk thanked them and said no, he did not want to inconvenience anyone even though the huts were for people hiking the Trail.
28. Pgs 140 & 141: reverse the last quote on page 140 (from Thomas Hood) with the quote at the top of page 141 (from M. Scott Peck.)
29. Pg 143: 4^th paragraph, last sentence, change ‘watched’ to ‘was watching,’ as below:
    The Universe was putting on a show all its own right there and he was watching it live from the observation deck of spaceship Earth.
30. Pg 146: 1^st paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace ‘would’ with ‘could’ as in the text below:
    Without the help of a periodic shower to knock back this pungent bouquet, average city-folk could not long endure a close encounter.
31. Pg 153: 1^st paragraph, 1^st sentence, add the word ‘with’ or replace sentence with text below:
    The Monk shared with them how hard it was to hike after joining the Half-Gallon Club.
32. Pg 160: Add missing left-hand braket t o source of quote line before ‘01973)’ as below:
    Frank Zappa, Zomby Woof , Over-Nite Sensation (01973)
33. Pg 167: last paragraph from pg 166, 1^st sentence on page, after the semicolon, change the word ‘or’ to ‘of’ or replace with the text below:
    …we sin; if we have no conscience, there is nothing to prevent us from all sorts of sordid behavior, except perhaps the threat of incarceration.
34. Pg 181: 5^th paragraph, last sentence, replace the word ‘call’ with ‘called’ between the words ‘they’ and ‘him’ as in the text below:
    No one knew who or what it was but they called him Jake.
35. Pg 183: 4^th paragraph, last sentence, the words “Dark Side of the Moon” should be italicized as in the text below:
    Indeed, it was these video-collages that inspired Düg, in his incarnation as Airman Page, to create one of his own¹²², to the album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
36. Pg 185: 5^th paragraph, 2^nd sentence, remove entire sentence:
    Indeed, one could almost say they comprised the totality of it!
37. Pg 190: 4^th paragraph, 9^th or last sentence, reverse the order of the words ‘was’ and ‘he’ before the semicolon, and move ‘sometimes’ to between ‘that’ and ‘leaving,’ as shown below:
    He realized this was no less dangerous to him than he was to it; that sometimes leaving even footprints could be too much.
38. Pg 191: 2^nd paragraph, 3^rd sentence, change second ‘it’ to ‘if’ as below: They were all temporarily stunned; it was as if someone turned off a faucet!
39. Pg 199: 1^st paragraph, last sentence, replace the word ‘did’ with ‘had’ as in: Better to complete the journey than to leave it unfulfilled; better to reach Katahdin than to forever wish you had
40. Pg 233: 1^st paragraph, 5^th sentence, reverse ‘were’ and ‘are’ as in the sentence below: The Monk felt these were just arbitrary classifications for the purpose of investigation and insight (which are themselves modalities of left and right.)
41. Pg 285, 1st theme, replace everything after the word ‘Synchronicity:’ as shown below:
    A conspiracy of the universe to bring about certain events which, though seemingly unrelated, possess strange or hidden significance. The actions of The Holy Spirit.
42. Pg 286: 1^st paragraph, 2^nd sentence, remove the word ‘the’ from between ‘Man-in’ and ‘Universe’ as is shown below:
    The future of Man-in-Universe no longer looks so daunting and impossible.
43. Pg 286: 4^th paragraph, 2^nd sentence, change date from 01998 to 01997, as below:
    One day in 01997, in a sudden flash of inspiration, he sees in his mind’s eye the beauty, elegance and desperate need for the International Peace Trail.
44. Pg 298: 2^nd paragraph, 4^th sentence, remove comma after ‘Road’ as below:
    But the heat grows unbearable and by the time I reach Camp Road I’m ready to drop.
45. Pg 298: 4^th paragraph, 1^st sentence remove second ‘brief’ as below:
    The following morning, back along the sharp spires of the Kittatinny Mountains, I pay brief homage with a climb up the Catfish Fire Tower before pressing on.
46. Pg 300: 2^nd paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace ‘And’ with ‘However,’ as below: However, as the day is still warming up and as it’s already yet another scorcher, I do not want to linger.
47. Pg 302: 3^rd paragraph, last sentence, add the word ‘almost’ between ‘have’ and ‘none’ as in the text below:
    I have almost none of that in 01988.
48. Pg 308 & 309:
    The photos on these pages should be at the top, not the bottom.
49. Pg 312: 7^th or last paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace the word ‘offers’ to ‘offering’ and move the commas, as below:
    The Trail, offering numerous commanding views of the lake before it, at long last brings me back to where I hide my bike.
50. Pg 320: 3^rd paragraph, 4^th sentence, remove ‘right’ as below:
    I finally arrive at the Inn a little before 5 in the afternoon.
51. Pg 323: 6^th paragraph, 2^nd sentence add the word ‘moldy’ as below:
    It looks like it could be Styrofoam or even moldy plutonium sponge cake for all I know.
52. Pg 325: 1^st paragraph, 2^nd sentence, remove the words ‘lonely’ and the second ‘there’ as below:
    There, we spy a hotdog vendor sitting across the road and quickly avail ourselves to her fine culinary delights.
53. Pg 335: last paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace ‘there’ with ‘here’ as below:
    This is a large 10 foot tall glacial erratic which the last ice age deposits here roughly 12,500 years ago.
54. Pg 355: top of page, sentence from preceding page, replace ‘2’ with ‘9’ as below:
    All signs point to this not being a very good day to go but Mom reluctantly agrees to follow me out to the parking area east of Bennington on Vt. 9, where I drop off my car.
55. Pg 361: 1^st paragraph, 1^st sentence, remove the first ‘is,’ as below:
    What’s hardest for me to deal with regarding these events is that I’m not just victim of sexual molestation but of psychological and psychic molestation as well.
56. Pg 403: End Note 24, 2^nd paragraph, 4^th sentence, replace ‘sparing’ with ‘sparring’ as below:
    In fact, he considered himself to be pretty smart to be able to command his own little niche of the USAF. Thus Airman Page became his own personal mental sparring partner.
57. Pg 418: End Note 139, 2^nd sentence, replace with text as shown below:
    It’s almost like the movie the Matrix. Though this was released eleven years after Düg’s thru-hike, it borrowed from many ideas already in the weltanschauung and collective psyche of modern culture.
58. Pg 418: End Note 139, 2^nd paragraph 4^th sentence, change ‘Plank’ to ‘Planck’ as below:
    Due to the limitations imposed on us by Planck’s constant, we can answer that the amount of information required to perfectly simulate the universe is a finite number
59. Pg 426: End Note 221, 1^st sentence, there is no ‘r’ in ‘Abenaki,’ replace ‘Abernaki’ with ‘Abenaki’ as in the text below:
    Pamola Peak is named after a bird-spirit sacred to the Abenaki and who appears in their legends.
60. Pg 426: End note 224, 3^rd 2^rd sentence, add the word ‘Greed,’ and replace the word ‘is’ with ‘are,’ as shown in the text below:
    Greed, ignorance and egoism are its surest path.
61. Pg 434: End note 303, 5^th or last sentence, add the word ‘be’ between ‘even’ and ‘anything’ as shown below:
    But in this weather, will there even be anything to see?
62. Pg 438: End Note 346, 2^nd sentence, in parentheses, change ‘04’ to ’03,’ as below:
    (It is begun online in 09/03/02000.)
63. Pg 438: End note 359, 3^rd paragraph, 2^nd sentence, replace ‘famers’ with ‘farmers’ as below:
    The agricultural revolution essentially makes food so abundant that farmers become trivialized.
64. Pg 438: End note 359, 3^rd paragraph, 5^th or last sentence, add the word ‘next’ between ‘the’ and ‘new’ as below:
    Now we have overflowing landfills because, at an ever increasing rate of change, we want to throw way our old products to embrace the cool cutting edge, the next new, improved and ever more awesome disposable fashion.
65. Pg 439: End note 360, 3^rd paragraph, replace the word ‘nature’ with ‘literature,’ as below:
    To me, nonfiction is a metaphysical archetype that exists nowhere in literature.

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