Now and Then
Appalachian Childhood
Volume 4, Number 1- Spring 1987
Guest Editor: Pauline Cheek
Columns

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Reece Museum by Margaret Carr

From the Archives by Marie Tedesco and Norma Thomas

Interviews

Creative Response to Life—Pauline Cheek by Jane Harris Woodside

Insights and Experience: A Talk With Eliot Wigginton by Pauline Binkley Cheek

Short Stories

Thief in the Night by Jan Barnett

The Flood by Drema S. Redd

Soul Train Ride by Judy Odom

Memories

The Old Place by Edward J. Cabbell

Sundays by Susie Gott

Memories of Lynn Garden by Tony Feathers

Growing Up in Washington County, Tennessee by Alina Oxendine

OUT! Children at Play, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1945-1950 by Marilou Awiakta

Growing Up on Puncheon Fork Creek by Della Tipton Brittain

Cat Fish Corner by Mabel Moser

Articles

An ABC to Bledsoe, Harlan County, Kentucky by Pauline B. Creek

Appalachian Childhood Now and Then photographs

Zealots for Children by Pat Arnow

Changes in Their Lives by Pat Arnow

Lessons From the Kids at Hanging Limb by Jennie Carter

Sunny Side and the Kentucky Soldier: Excerpts From a Correspondence compiled by Martha Crowe

Golden Days: How Children Now Can Find Out About Children Then Now and Then

Poetry

A True Yard by the Nose by Bettie M. Sellers

Physical for my Son by Barbara Smith

Tossing the Bouquet by Pat Verhulst

Where Home Is by Cretchen McCroskey

The Ballad of Corey Brown by Dan Puckett

Lester Hangs Out at the Millpond Store by Rita Quillen

Trim Slim Lifferent by Paige Bader

Reviews

The Adventure of Charlie and His Wheat-Straw Hat by Berniece T. Hiser, Pioneer Children of Appalachia by Joan Anderson, The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant, reviewed by Miriam Bein

Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience by Eliot Wigginton, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Essay: Appalachian Books for All Children by Roberta Herrin


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Appalachian Writing
Volume 4, Number 2- Summer 1987
Columns

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Reece Museum by Helen Roseberry

From the Archives by Marie Tedesco and Norma Thomas

Interviews

Southern Writings: A Conversation with Jack Higgs by Jo Carson

An Ohio Valley Consciousness: Gurney Norman by Pat Arnow

Nikki Giovanni by Jill Oxendine

Stories

The Dance by Gurney Norman

Parking Meter by George Ella Lyon

Assumptions by Jo Carson

Teleplay

The Brier Writes the Last Episode of the Andy Griffith Show by Jim Wayne Miller

Articles

From Manchester to New Market by Pauline B. Cheek

The State of Appalachian Letters by Pat Arnow

  • Some Regional Magazines by Rita Quillen
  • Some Organizations and Events of Interest to Writers compiled by Rita Quillen, Pat Arnow, Jim Wayne Miller, Barbara Smith, and Kathy Whaley

The World of Appalachian Writing Now & Then photographs

Rocking with Ernest T from The Louisville Courier-Journal

A Talk with Jerry Wayne Williamson, Associate Editor, Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review sidebar

Poetry

A Testament of Flesh by Bob Henry Baber

Storm Talk by Mike Pendley

Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni

Intellectualism by Nikki Giovanni

Ma Talks About Junior by George Ella Lyon

The Embreeville Dolls by Greta Talton

Your Sickness: A Memory of Birds by Don Johnson

Birds in Flight by Errol Hess

Kingfisher by Jeff Daniel Marion

raven comes by John Hart

Aunt Mary Rising by Ann Gavere Kilkelly

Fudgsicle by Judy K. Miller

A Boy of Summer by Fred Waage

Paper Ribbons by Michelle Boisseau

Reviews

The Fred Chappell Reader by Fred Chappell, reviewed by Don Johnson

Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel edited by Jim Webb and Gurney Norman, reviewed by Pat Verhulst

October Dusk by Rita Quillen, reviewed by Fred Waage

Agee by Ross Spears, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Heirs to Misfortune by Steve Bradshaw and Joyce Duncan, reviewed by Lane Morefield

Latchpins of Lost Cove by Malone Young, reviewed by Robert J. Higgs

Homewords—A Book of Tennessee Writers edited by Douglas Paschall and Alice Swanson


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Appalachian Veterans
Volume 4, Number 3- Fall 1987
Guest Editor Bert Allen
Columns

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Archives by Norma Thomas & Marie Tedesco

From the Museum by Helen Roseberry

Features

More Than our Share of Heroes: Mountaineers in Combat by Ed Price

The Making of a Legend: Alvin Cullum York by Ed Price

In the Shadow of Six Mile Mountain by Dot Jackson

Congressional Medal of Honor Appalachians by Bert Allen

Appalachian Veterans Now and Then photographs

“The Effects of These Times We Had …”: Prisoners of War 42 Years Later by Bert Allen

Diary of a Prisoner of War by John R. Clark

Veterans of Appalachia Remember the World at War by Colin Baxter

Five Hundred Miles Behind Enemy Lines: Wright Swanay of the 15th Air Force from an Oral History recorded in 1984 by Eddie Carver

In Revolt Against the Laws of the Universe by Joyce Duncan

A Soldier’s Wife by Mrs. Robert Frank Orr compiled by Nancy Joyner

Volunteers on the Frontlines by a Veteran of the American Field Service by McQuown Wright

Preacher Pressley and the School of the Way It Used to Be by Dave Long

Profiles

Bert Allen by Jo Carson

Juanita Quillen by Pat Arnow

Linnard Simmons by Judy Odom

David Evans by Ed Price

Geneva Jenkins by Jane Woodside

Stories

Medal of Honor by Fred Chappell

Green Fields Turned Red by a soldier by Thomas Rollins

Essays

Reticence by Joyce Duncan

Poetry

Phu Bai Poems by Ron Giles

The Other Vietnam Vet by Susan Roper

Day Before Yesterday by Milt Tober

Halftime shows and Knell, from Sense of Peace by Tom Frazier

V.C. G.I. by Dan Crowe

Things He Did Not Say by Jo Carson

Guadalcanal by Bob Henry Baber

Gallipoli by Bob Henry Baber

Reviews

Long Shadows by Ross Spears, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Sergeant York: An American Hero by David D. Lee, reviewed by Charles L. Walter

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr., reviewed by Roberta Herrin

History of the Thirteenth Regiment—Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry by Samuel W. Scott, reviewed by Pat Arnow

The Beulah Quintet: “… the feral edge of what has made us.” by Mary Lee Settle, reviewed by Nancy Carol Joyner


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