
- One of the places Jenkins visited was a hippie commune in Tennessee named the Farm. Its leader was Stephen Gaskin, and the people who lived there worked together to farm hundreds of acres of land. Jenkins spent several weeks there.
- The Appalachian Mountains have more varieties of plants than grow in all of Europe.
- Winston County, Alabama, seceded from the Confederacy during the Civil War. They didn't own any slaves, so they didn't see the need to put their lives in danger for a cause they didn't believe in.
- It's a rather short list of facts, because listing facts was not really the aim of this book. It focused more on the people Jenkins met.