Peggy Dotterer Archive “Honey, I rode every pig track here to yonder”: Bookmobiles in Southern Appalachia Author: Carolyn Ogburn | Jul052016 Categories: Reading No comments Madison County, North Carolina contains roughly 450 square miles of the oldest mountains in the world, with sharply pitched forested slopes, grassy balds, rocky ridges, and swift creeks typical of the Southern Appalachian highlands.