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Education in Appalachia
Volume 10, Number 1- Spring 1993
Columns

Developing Intellectual Resources by Jean Hackle Peer, director, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services

Terrors and Multiculturalism by Pat Aaron, editor

The Process and Product of Art by Bal. H. White, curator, Erase Museum

Teacher Testing by Nor Dyers, head, and Marie Tedesco, public service archivist, Archives of Appalachia

Articles

Breach of Promise: School Reform in Letcher County, Kentucky by Nancy Adams

Jesse Stuart’s Vision for the Schools in Eastern Kentucky, from his memoir of teaching, The Thread That Runs So True, 1949 by Jesse Stuart

Of Mr. Ward & Mrs. Dixon & Miss Belle & Chief: The influence of teachers & other thoughts on education by some people of Appalachia interviews by Now & Then staff

Renewing a Sense of Place by Randy W. Oakes

Education and the Re-Visioning of Appalachia by Jean Haskell Speer

Listening to Elvis and James by Raleigh Wynn

Memories of School: Confessions of a Bad Student by Jo Carson

Memories of School: Enrolling at Mars Hill College by Boyd S. Ray

Memories of School: Bored of Education: An Interview With Elbert Childress by Scott Allan Jacobs

Memories of School: My Mom, Mrs. Mullins and LBJ by Laurene Scalf

Buying a Suit for Graduation by Boyd S. Ray

And Not a Single Arm Rotted Off: Memories of a One-Room Schoolhouse by Tom Howze

Sing What You Know: An Interview with Thad Beach by Ted Olson

Service in the Valley: The Bonner Scholars Program by Laurene Scalf

Eliot Wigginton: A Meditation by Guy L. Osborne

Fiction

Stand up by Janet Hearne

Heritage Hour by Kate Long

Poetry

Meeting a Dropped-Out Student in a Bar, the Teacher Makes a Little Speech by Richard Hague

Words by Ron Rash

The Former Miner Returns From His First Day as a Service Worker by Mark DeFoe

Sestina for Second Semester by A. Jane Hicks

May Day Substitute by Andrena Zawinski

Fifth Grade Poetry Class by Debra Conner

Reviews

Missing the Point: Newberry Awards, Literary Tourism and God in the Potato Salad in New Children’s Literature of Appalachia by Roberta Herrin

Recommended Titles: Recent Appalachian Children’s Books by Roberta Herrin

Looking Up Appalachia: A librarian checks out the reference books—an is appalled at what he finds by Mark Ellis

Refuse to Stand Silently By: An Oral History of Grass Roots Activism in America, 1921-1964 edited by Eliot Wigginton, reviewed by Guy L. Osborne

Looking Back: Wise County in the Early Years by Lonesome Pine Office on Youth, reviewed by Laurene Scalf

The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina, reviewed by Laurie Lindberg

Music

“In Praise of Books” — The Book Rap by Adora Dupree, commentary by Ed Snodderly


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Civil War in Appalachia
Volume 10, Number 2- Summer 1993
Columns

Transcending Ingrained Attitudes by Jean Haskell Speer, director, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services

The Never-Ending War by Pat Arnow, editor

Civil War Slice of Life by Norma Myers, head, and Marie Tedesco, public service archivist, Archives of Appalachia

Seeing the Elephant and Other Thoughts on the Civil War by Helen Roseberry, director, Reece Museum

Articles

South vs. South by Peter Wallenstein

Lincoln Memorial University by Norma Myers

Playing the Field: Re-enacting the Civil War by Pat Arnow

Dressing for Secession by Pat Arnow

Mild in the Streets by Pinckney Benedict

The Flag of Sullivan South by Martin Edwards

The Cherokee and the Confederacy by John R. Finger

The War in Southwestern Virginia by James I. Robertson Jr.

Why didn’t Southwest Virginia become part of West Virginia when that part of the state broke off from Secessionist Virginia? by Edwin T. Hardison

Green Hills, Blue Hearts by Cathleen Carlson Reynolds

Unionism in Southwest Virginia by Cathleen Carlson Reynolds

Bristol by James I. Robertson Jr.

Flags by John Shelton Reed and Loyal Jones

Distaff Sergeants: West Virginia Women from West Virginia University’s Public History Program

Julia Marcum: Scott County’s (and the USA’s) Only Woman to Receive a Pension For Her Civil War Service from the Whitley Republican

Unionists vs. Secessionists in Southern Appalachia 1861 by Pat Arnow with a map by Charles Moore and Martin Edwards

Civil War Leaders of Appalachia: Confederate and Union by Charles Moore and Laurene Scalf

Elihu Embree, Reluctant Master courtesy of Jonesborough History Museum

Excerpt from The Emancipator, May 31, 1820 by Elihu Embree

Masters as Profiteers, Slaves as Subversives by John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney

Unsung Pioneers by Pat Arnow

Learning Freely: Black Education in North Carolina After the Civil War by Phoebe Pollitt

Between Slavery and Suffrage: Southern Women in Mid-Passage by Margaret Ripley Wolfe

George Ella’s Story an interview by Laurene Scalf

Looking Back for Words: Esther’s Story a play by George Ella Lyon

Babby’s Trunk by Gary Carden

The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky by Laurene Scalf

Old Soldier’s Mountain Home

Fiction

Hunting on Purgatory by Anthony W. Reevy

Poetry

Mississippi, 1964 by A. Jane Hicks

Battlegrounds by Marge Fulton

Confederate Money by William Miller

Antietam by Anna Egan Smucker

Battlefield by Michael J. Pauley

The Great Battle: March 22, 1884 by Patricia Shirley

No Men in the Fields by Sherrell R. Wigal

Field Trip to Montgomery, 1965 by William Miller

Reviews

The Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga by Peter Cozzens, reviewed by Keith Miles

The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 1, 1843-1862 edited by Frontis W. Johnston, reviewed by John Alexander Williams

Further Reading: Appalachia in the Civil War by Peter Wallenstein

East Tennessee in the Civil War As Published by Overmountain Press compiled by Martin Edwards

Music
“Cumberland Gap,” traditional 1862, commentary by Ed Snodderly

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Storytelling in Appalachia
Volume 10, Number 3- Fall 1993
Columns

The Power to Create Identity by Jean Haskell Speer, director, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services

Studying Stories by Norma Myers, head, and Marie Tedesco, public services archivist, Archives of Appalachia

Preserving Our Stories by Margaret Carr, registrar, Reece Museum

Exploring the Meaning of Stories by Pat Arnow, editor

Articles

Storytelling and Jonesborough: A Mutual Revival by Joseph Daniel Sobol

That Fateful Day in the Car: How Jimmy Neil Smith Conceived the National Storytelling Festival by Laurene Scalf

Oral History and Artistic License: A Local Descendent Investigates a Family Story Recounted by a Local Colorist by Jan Barnett

Merrymaking and Murder: Contrasting Tales of the Bald by Jan Barnett

Robert Morgan by Martin Edwards

Donald Davis, Storyteller by Joy Jones

The Vitality of Folklore by Stephen Warren

Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad of the Beautiful Appalachian Death Sun by Jeffrey Marks

Gary Carden: A Fish Trying Not to Drown by Parks Lanier

Crackle -Glass Marbles by Gary Carden

Opening the Classroom Door: Storytelling Gets an Advanced Degree by Pat Arnow

Adora Dupree Tells It Like It Is: A Storyteller’s Progress by Pat Arnow

Get It Right or Don’t Get It at All by Janet Hearne

Fiction

Let the Fire Fall by Sandy Crimins

Vance-Carson Duel by Robert Morgan

Poetry

Storyteller: A First Amendment Poem by Jo Carson

Raising Doubt by Glenn McKee

The Brief Moment of Fathers by Linda Parsons

Passing It On by Joy D’Elia

The March Flood by Carter Hendrickson

Up On Green Mountain by Melinda S. Szafran

Elegy by William Miller

What the Dollmaker’s Children Hear by Hilda Downer

In My Babysitter’s House by Jim Minick

Pennsylvania Gothic by Joan Aiello

Fishing Canto by Keith Miles

Reviews

The Last of ‘The Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories by Jo Carson, reviewed by Robert J. Higgs

Small Caucasian Women by Elaine Fowler Palencia, reviewed by Pat Arnow

An American Homeplace by Donald McCraig, reviewed by Ginger Renner

Hogwild: A Back-To-The-Land Saga by Jock Lauterer

Tall Tales of the Blue Ridge: Stories from the Heart of Appalachia video produced by Eastern National Park and Monument Association

Blow the Tannery Whistle video written and narrated by Gary Carden, reviewed by Dot Jackson

Storytelling Publications: Storytelling World from ETSU's Storytelling Master’s Degree Program and Storytelling Magazine, The Yarnspinner, and Journeys produced at NAPPS, the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling

Music

“The Wild Boar’s Den” by Nimrod Workman, commentary by Ed Snodderly


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