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| Volume 21, Number 1 - Spring 2005 |
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The Media and Appalachia: Portrayals of the Region from Inside and Out
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Articles |
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Writing on Appalachia: Beauty, Strength, and Stereotype
by Rick Bragg
“People should know better than to use stereotype as a metaphor, should know better than to poke fun at someone because they are from a part of the country that has more haunted ridges than museums, more coal mines than subway tunnels.” |
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Careful Where You Cast for Hillbillies
by Norma Wilson
What you may find instead, CBS learned, is a resistant strain of folks sick and tired of being stereotyped. |
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Hollywood Wants Hicks
by Lana Whited
A new take on the “Ballad of Jed Clampett …” |
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The War: 40 Years Later
by Diana Nelson Jones
How are things faring four decades since LBJ made Appalachia the poster region for the country’s War on Poverty?
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One Town’s Turnaround Story
byDiana Nelson Jones
Once Matewan, W.Va., officially became historic, $18 million became available to build a floodwall, allowing for redevelopment and a new industry: tourism. |
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Bringing the News Back Home
by IRJCI Staff
The IRJCI wants to keep rural issues on the national—and community—agenda.
Read an excerpt. |
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On Our Minds: Columns by Dorothy Copus Brush
The award-winning columnist keeps Appalachia’s past alive in her ‘Random Thoughts.’ |
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Shop Talk from Rosy’s Diner
by Fred Sauceman
It may be ‘No Hat, No Service’ at Rosy’s, but editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel is never caught without his thinking cap.
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Whitness to the Local
by Marianne Worthington
Journalist and photographer Stephen Marion keeps an eye and a heart on his community, its news, its stories, and its people. |
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Fiction |
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An excerpt from: Hollow Ground
by Stephen Marion
“Tony shut off the engine and pulled the car over. Taft half expected to hear people behind them, but there was nothing, absolutely nothing, except the whir of Moody’s tower, louder than ever. Taft saw that they were exactly at the base of the tower. Air gushed out of the top with enough force to vibrate the ground. All of a sudden the tower started clicking and went quiet.”
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A Good Time Was Had By All
by Leigh Ann Preston and Kimberly Spears
“This week on Toler Creek, the Spears Family hosted a reunion at the home of the clan’s patriarch and matriarch, Dewey and Lott Mae. Family flocked from all corners of the state of Kentucky, plus from as far away as Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.” |
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Poetry |
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After High Water by Sandra Marshburn
Leery by Cathy Lentes |
Photo and illustration credits (from the top):Marion Ettinger,Viacom/Hallmark Channel, Viacom/Hallmark Channel, Steve Mellon, Matewan Development Center, IRJCI, Crossville Chronicle, Charlie Daniel, Stephen Marion, Jeff Daniel Marion/Nancy Fischman. Images may not be reproduced without permission.
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