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| Volume 18, Number 1- Spring 2001 |
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Appalachian Rivers, Lakes & Streams: A Region's Life Reflected in its Waters
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Articles |
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Going Thirsty? Appalachia Faces Water Supply Problems
by David Lewis Feldman
Droughts and development threaten Southern Appalachia’s water supply. As the streams coming down from Appalachia’s mountains and plateaus join a long list of natural resources coveted by communities from both inside and outside the region’s boundaries, disputes proliferate over who has the right to exactly how much water.
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Learning Happens
by Jo Ann Simmons
Aquaculture labs turn Alabama high school students into fish farmers and teach them math, science, and so much more.
Read an excerpt.
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Rivers of Steel
by Christine M. Goldbeck
A Southwest Pennsylvania Heritage Area turns the legacy of steel into a tool for economic recovery and future growth. |
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Essays |
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East Tennessee Journeys: The Photographs of Fred W. Behrend
by Linda Behrend
A daughter recalls how her father, a German immigrant to East Tennessee, documented the backwoods and mountains, rivers and valleys of his adopted homeland with lyrical photographs. |
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Lessons from Ganderbill Holler
by Inez Fugate Liftig
An award-winning science teacher remembers her earliest classroom — an Eastern Kentucky holler.
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Blue Beach
by Kelley Rae
The only constant in a young West Virginia girl’s life was the lopsided cabin along the South Branch of the Potomac that her family called home from June to September. |
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Fiction |
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Time Flies
by Doyle Bickers
“Obsessions can produce what seem to be mystical moments for those obsessed. What sprang from that moment — sitting by the creek, thinking about his life — was a plan for his final fishing trip. He knew there had to be one eventually ...” |
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A Flood of Mighty Waters
by Tamara Baxter
“My mama is crying and praying and thanking God that the rain has finally stopped pounding on the roof. Everything is still and quiet, except the river gurgling and the house creaking and moaning and the snakes hissing and my mama praying, Please God help us. Please God help us. And we are standing on chairs in the corner while the river comes running through the cracks, and by the middle of the night, the water comes up to my feet, and by morning, it is up to my waist. Mama says we must not think about the water swirling around our legs and our feet freezing. We must think about keeping the snakes away. ...” |
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Poetry |
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Reflections by Lisa Shaw Black
Progress by Mary Lucille DeBerry
American Bemberg by G.C. Waldrep
The Illusion of Rivers by Edwina Pendarvis
Stories by Sandra Marshburn
Dowsing by Laura Treacy Bentley
Goshen Pass: Among the Fallen by Cy Dillon
Indecision by Sue Anne Siegrist |
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Reviews |
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Gap Creek by Robert Morgan, reviewed by Pat Arnow
Death and the River by Ron Houchin, reviewed by Edwina Pendarvis
It All Happened in Renfro Valley by Pete Stamper, reviewed by Loyal Jones
The Kentucky River by William E. Ellis, reviewed by Jim Minick
Among the Believers by Ron Rash, reviewed by Lynn Powell
Between the Flowers by Harriette Simpson Arnow and edited by Joseph Svoboda,
reviewed by Joy Hayes
Books & Films Worth Mentioning by Marianne Worthington
“Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu”: Classics About Appalachian Rivers and Valleys by Marianne Worthington |
Photo and illustration credits (from the top):Dixie Graphics, Marten Jenkins, Rivers of Steel Archives, courtesy of Linda Behrend, Anya Liftig, Otis Martin, Richard Tumbleston, Sherri Hager, Steele Creek Nature Center, courtesy of The Iris Press. Images may not be reproduced without permission.
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