Now and Then
Health In Appalachia
Volume 6, Number 1- Spring 1989
Columns

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Museum by Helen Roseberry and Blair White

From the Archives by Norma Thomas and Marie Tedesco

Articles

Faith and Herbs: Folk Medicine in Appalachia by Anthony Cavender

Appalachian Ailments: A Quiz by Tom K. McKnight

Health Advice: Then and Now from Gunn’s Domestic Medicine, The Poor Man’s Medicine Bag, and Cherokee Plants: Their Uses

Rx: Stumpwater and Streptomycin—Urban Appalachian Health by Phillip Obermiller

A Quiet Revival by Jane Harris Woodside

Meeting the Challenge: A Highwire Act on the Qualla Boundary by Robert Gipe

Interviews

Grady Stumbo: An Ounce of Legislation, A Pound of School by Nancy Adams

Childbirth: Back to the Future

Bonnie Fillers by Lucinda Flodin

Lucinda Flodin by Pat Arnow

Essays

About My Healing by Tim Waggoner

Old Men by Abraham Verghese, MD

Health in Appalachia Now and Then photographs

Night Comes to the Chromosomes by Pamela Zahorik

Poetry

The Last Mule Driver in the Fairmont Field by P. J. Laska

Poem for James Collins by Bob Henry Baber

12:02 A.M. Clarence Bush’s Systems Report by Walter Darrell Haden

First autopsy observed by six freshman nursing students by Hilda Downer

Lines by a Moderator by Lorene T. Wagner

Terminus by David K. Fenner

Looking by Robert E. Cummings

Reviews

Community Health Systems in the Rural American South: Linking People and Policy by Carole I. Hill, reviewed by Gary Burkett

Appalachian Mental Health edited by Susan Emley Keefe, reviewed by Steven L. Giles

Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood by Kai T. Erikson, reviewed by Pamela Zahorik

People Helping People—More Lessons in Community, 1985 by Pat Arnow

Emerging Paters in the Southern Highlands: A Reverence Atlas, Volume III, Health Care edited by Paul E. Lovingood and Robert E. Reiman, reviewed by Richard Couto

Gunn’s Domestic Medicine by John C. Gunn, introduction by Charles E. Rosenberg (reprint of 1830 edition), reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Music

“Denial” by Steve Lyon, commentary by Ed Snodderly

“Lunatic Asylum” sung by Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Broyles, commentary by Anthony Cavender and Ed Snodderly


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Sense of Place in Appalachia
Volume 6, Number 2- Summer 1989
Columns

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Museum by Helen Roseberry

From the Archives by Norma Thomas and Marie Tedesco

Essays

Eminent Domain by Amy Tipton Gray

You Can’t Go Home If You Haven’t Been Away by Pauline Binkley Cheek

One Photographer’s Sense of Place—Pictureman Mullens photo essay with the assistance of Bob Henry Baber, Angel Rucker, Robert Gipe, and Scott Oliver

Here & Elsewhere: Views of Regionalism from Writers Gurney Norman, Lou Crabtree, Joe Bruchac, Linda Hogan, Penelope Schott, Hugh Nissenson by Fred Waage

Stories

Letcher by Sondra Millner

Baptismal by Randy Oakes

A Country Summer by Lance Olsen

Maps

Jo Carson Traces Her Routes #1-6

Interviews

Wilma Dykeman by Sandra L. Ballard

Lee Smith by Pat Arnow

Poetry

Homeward by Joseph Barrett

Honey, you drive by Jo Carson

The Widow Riley Tells It Like It Is P.J. Laska

Word on Stone by Wayne Hogan

Reeling In by Jim Clark

Traveler’s Rest by Walter Darrell Haden

Houses: For My Grandmother by Georgeann Eskievich Rettberg

Seasonal Pig by J.B. Goodenough

And This Is the Way to be Poor by Barbara Smith

Polio Summers by Edward C. Lynsky

Direction by Gretchen McCroskey

Reviews

Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet by Jo Carson, reviewed by Greta Hedberg

A Southern Appalachian Reader edited by Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb, reviewed by Grace Toney Edwards

Foxfire Reconsidered: A Twenty-Year Experiment in Progressive Education by John L. Puckett, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Folks II: A Collection of People Stories from Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia by Garret Mathews, reviewed by Jacqueline Cook

With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama by Joyce H. Cauthen and Possum Up a Gum Stump: Home, Field and Commercial Recordings of Alabama Fiddlers, Past and Present compiled by Brierfield Ironworks Park Foundation, reviewed by Tim Stafford

All Night Dog by Garry Barker, reviewed by Gary Carden

Some Writing with a Sense of Place compiled by Pat Arnow

Music

“Small Southern Town” by Ed Snodderly


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Appalachian Art Folk & Fine
Volume 6, Number 3- Fall 1989
Columns

Art Folk and Fine by Jane Harris Woodside, associate editor

Beyond Nostalgia by Richard Blaustein

Studying the Craftmakers by Marie Tedesco, public service archivist, and Norma Thomas, assistant director, Archives and Special Collections

Pottery of Appalachia Then and Now by Helen Roseberry, director, and Margaret Carr, registrar, Reece Museum

Articles

In search of the Appalachian Quilt by Laurel Horton

The Cherokee: Hungry for Dance by Jane Harris Woodside

Playing the Past: Scenes from Outdoor Historical Dramas by Pat Buck

Outdoor Historical Dramas in Appalachia a list compiled by N&T staff

Arts in Appalachia Now and Then photographs

Women and the Crafts Movement: Missionaries for Appalachian Arts by Bernice A. Stevens

Stories

Art Lessons by Judy Odom

Walk Through the Woods by Barbara Smith

Interviews

Kenton Coe by Jill Oxendine

Interviews/Crafts by Jane Harris Woodside

Ellen Zahorec:Asheville, North Carolina, Studio Artist

Jesse Jones: Scott County, Virginia, Basketmaker

Sammie Nicely: Russellville, Tennessee, Potter and Sculptor

Renee Stewart: Hancock County, Tennessee, Woodcarver

Bill Henry: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Whittler

Interviews/Theater by Pat Arnow

Roadside Theater, Whitesburg, Kentucky: Dudley Cocke, Director

The Road Company, Johnson City, Tennessee: Bob Leonard, Director

Portraits of Change: The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild—A Discussion with Robert Gray and Garry Barker by Pat Arnow and Jane Harris Woodside

A Dialogue in Folk and Fine Art with Roby Cogswell and Sandy Blain by Jane Harris Woodside

Poetry

Elmira Corbett Tries Natural Toothpaste by Marilyn Orchoff

Boonesburg as Empire by Mark Anderson

Somewhere in Georgia, 1931 by Anita Poole

Hitchhiker by Marilyn Orchoff

Watercolor Barns by A. Jane Hicks

Jacob’s Butterfly Tree by Charlotte H. Deskins

brown whiskey for a blue heart by Marty L. Silverthorne

Family Pictures by Judy Odom

Reviews

Stereoscopic Perspective: Reflections on American Fine and Folk Art by Michael Hall, reviewed by 'Douglas Day

Craft & Community: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Society Edited by Shalom D. Staub, reviewed b y Richard Blaustein

The Arts at Black Mountain College by Mary Emma Harris, reviewed by Blair White

The Outrageous Life of Henry Faulkner: Portrait of an Appalachian Artist by Charles House, reviewed by John Hart

In Place: A Collection of Appalachian Writers edited by Ronald K. Giles, reviewed by Robert Fox

First and Last Words by Fred Chappell, reviewed by Jim Wayne Miller

Lily May Ledford a Headwaters Television Program directed by Anne Johnson, reviewed by Amy Tipton Gray

Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning a Headwaters Television Program directed by Mimi Pickering, reviewed by Jo Carson

Music

“Last Train From Poor Valley” by Norman Blake, commentary by Ed Snodderly


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