Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story A central idea of "Nameless, Tennessee" is that no matter its name, it's the inhabitants of a town who make it special.
Which quotation from "Nameless, Tennessee" develops this central idea?
"He told me he was raised in a one-hundred-fifty-year-old cabin still standing in one of the hollows. 'How many's left,'
he said, 'that grew up in a log cabin? I ain't the last surely, but I must be climbin' on the list."
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"I've studied on it, and maybe it's the end of our place.' He stirred the coals. This store could give a comfortable livin',
but not likely get you rich."
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"It was one of those moments that you know at the time will stay with you to the grave: the sweet pie, the gaunt man
playing the old music, the coals in the stove glowing orange the scent of kerosene and hot bread."
"Come back when the hills dry off,' Watts said. "We'll go lookin' for some of them round rocks all sparkly inside. The
county's properly full of them."