Popular Culture
Guitar luthier Mark Blanchard has named one of his models the tamarack.
Tamarack is the Territorial tree of Northwest Territories.
It is mentioned in the Ernest Hemingway short story 'The Battler' from In Our Time.
In the USA, the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois is named from the Algonquin word for the species.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I do not see why, since America and her autumn woods have been discovered, our leaves should not compete with the precious stones in giving names to colors; and, indeed, I believe that in course of time the names of some of our trees and shrubs, as well as flowers, will get into our popular chromatic nomenclature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
—Elizabeth Morris (b. c. 1933)