Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways
by Zell Miller
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ISBN
0-9796462-3-5
Paperback
192 pages
Zell Miller a hard dog to keep under the porch
By Dick Yarbrough
Publication: CovNews.com
To help me while away my recovery time, my friend and neighbor, Tom Hoover, dropped off a copy of Zell Miller’s latest literary effort, “Purt Nigh Gone,” a compendium of the Southern Appalachians and of a way of life that Zell says, “once was but is no more, a way of life that is purt nigh gone.”
He laments the fact that as boy, he could play hopscotch in the road in his hometown of Young Harris and see nary a car. (Try as I may, I have a hard time visualizing Zell Miller playing hopscotch.)
Q&A: Zell Miller talks about latest book, avoids politics
By Rosalind Bentley
Publication: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former U.S. senator and Georgia Gov. Zell Miller always makes an impression. When he’s passionate about something he speaks with the zeal of a preacher. Now Miller has poured some of that passion into his latest book, “Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways.” It’s at once a meditation on one of his favorite topics, the historic culture of Appalachia, and a lamentation over its wane.Here the man from Young Harris talks about hog killing, stereotypes and keeping his word.
Q: Why another book about mountain ways? You’ve written a lot about it already.
A: Because I could see these old mountain ways disappearing. And I wanted to put down, between two covers, some of my thoughts on mountain ways before they were gone.
Zell Miller mourns loss of ‘old mountain ways’ in new book
By Harris Blackwood
Publication: Gainesville Times
Last semester, Zell Miller stepped back into the role of professor at Young Harris College.
Next month, he introduces his next course of study in the form of a book that he says is “Appalachia 101.”
Miller, Georgia’s former governor and senator born in the mountains 77 years ago, is lamenting the loss of the tradition and lore of his native hills.
Zell Miller at Book Nook for signing
Publication: Union Sentinel
The Book Nook bookstore in Blairsville celebrates New York Times Best-Selling Author, former Governor and Senator Zell Miller with a book signing Friday, April 17, 11:00 - 1:00. Zell Miller’s newest book, Purt Nigh Gone, is a fond recollection of the old mountain ways here in North Georgia.