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| Volume 18, Number 3- Winter 2001 |
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Striking a Balance: Conserving and Developing Appalachia’s Natural Resources
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Planting a New Industry in the North Carolina Mountains
by Jane Harris Woodside
One Western North Carolina county has decided to use native plants as the centerpiece of its economic development strategy. It's unorthodox, but it just might work.
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The Bush Energy Policy and Appalachia: Back to the Coal Mines?
byCarl Zipper
The associate director of the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research at Virginia Tech talks about what the Bush national energy policy might mean for Appalachia if it becomes law
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Mountaintop Removal: Necessity or Nightmare?
by Rudy Abramson
Proponents see mountaintop removal as the Appalachian coal industry's best hope for staying competitive. Opponents can hardly contain their outrage.
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From Ravaged to Recovered
by Timothy G. Anderson
Southern Ohio' 19th-century iron manufacturing industry, one of Appalachia's earliest encounters with boom-and-bust cycles, offers lessons and hope to those living in the region today. |
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Keeping West Virginia Green
by Michael Barrick
West Virginia parks, this native son argues, are a model of how states can act as stewards of natural resources, history, and culture. |
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Essays |
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Living Sustainably, Appalachian Style
by John Nolt
An East Tennessee family tries to live a sustainable life day in and day out. |
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Hollow Journey
by Jack Owens
A trip back to his childhood home in a West Virginia coal camp reconnects a newly retired FBI agent with his roots.
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Fiction |
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Walking on the Gob
by S.D. Rowe
“He was only about fifteen feet away, but I could see his eyes clearly. They appeared large and brown and puzzled. My heart was racing with frenzy, and I stretched out one foot onto the Gob, one hand extended as far as I could to my brother, the other firmly grasping the limb of a small tree.” |
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Poetry |
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Calling Like a Distant Bird by George Ellison
The Bee Charmer by Steve Sparks
These Hills Are His by Barbara Smith
Making a Living by Dana Wildsmith
Waterfall by David Staudt
It's My Dream by R.A. Skeens
Between Mountains Girl Don’t Echo by Angie Hogan
Milkweed by Bradford Tice
Late August, Walking the Ridge by Julie Kate Howard |
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Reviews |
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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, reviewed by Kathy Griffith Fish
West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers: Echoes From the Hills by Fawn Valentine with the West Virginia Quilt Search, Inc., reviewed by Jane Hicks
The Gifts and Thefts by David Staudt, reviewed by Leslie M. LaChance
Books Worth Mentioning by Marianne Worthington
Blind Horse: Poems by Jeanne Bryner, reviewed by Joyce Compton Brown
Books in Brief by Marianne Worthington |
Photo and illustration credits (from the top):Nancy Fischman and YCBI Website, ETSU Archives of Appalachia/James Garvin Ellis Negatives Collection, Rudy Abramson, Department of Geography/Ohio University, West Virginia State Parks, Annette Mendola, Jack Owens, ETSU Archives of Appalachia/Jeanne M. Rasmussen Collection, Nancy Fischman, ©2000 Steve Taylor/Stone. Images may not be reproduced without permission.
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