Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment and Carlo Marx's papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.

我走出去推了一辆推车到我的公寓,卡洛马克思的纸型山随着,东边太阳升起变成了红色。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I would like to see the mountains," I said, and then my dream began to form along with the sentence, "I might,I want to be a doctor."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"And I also knew how important music was in my own life,and how much fun, and what a sense of community the music of the mountains brings."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02