Q&A: Zell Miller talks about latest book, avoids politics
2009 06 25
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.