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| Volume 19, Number 3- Winter 2002 |
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Paying Tribute
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Articles |
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The Hand That Wrote The Dollmaker: A Tribute to Harriette Arnow
by Silas House
An intense, passionate writer from Kentucky still inspires her successors to portray Appalachia honestly.
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The Remarkable Baseball Career of Pete Gray
by Jay Bowes and Christine Goldbeck
A determined ballplayer from the Pennsylvania coalfields didn’t let limitations stop him from achieving beyond the realm of the ordinary. |
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Joseph Hall: A Man and His Work
by Michael Montgomery
For a Montana native, a summer job leads to a lifelong passion for Smoky Mountain people—their language and their culture. |
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A Strong and Lonely Voice
by Jim Clark
A writer stumbles across a relatively unknown North Georgia poet, who quickly joins the eclectic ranks of his literary heroes. |
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Remembering the Lives of Lynchburg, Virginia’s 19th-Century African Americans
by Melinda Wheeler
A Virginia cemetery yields up the secrets of an earlier era. |
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Essays |
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Appalachian Steward: Ed Bingham
by Tal Stanley
A pioneer in Appalachian Studies, Ed Bingham kept the land and its people the focus of his life.
Read an excerpt. |
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Harvey J. Miller: The Sage of Pigeon Roost
by Dot Jackson
An old friend fondly remembers a columnist from the Western North Carolina mountains who wrote about what really mattered. |
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Stitches in Time
by Nancy Jane Earnest
A granddaughter remembers an enterprising, vibrant grandmother who taught her how to find her own place in the world.
Read an excerpt. |
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Fiction |
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Paying Tribute
by Tami R.S. Penley
“Lola stubbed her toe against a leaning marble angel with ‘Rest in Peace’ etched on its sides and dropped her Styrofoam plate full of Aunt Dorothy’s potato salad all down her new high-tech, sweat-wicking hiking shorts. Damn. That’s what she got for belonging to a family that, for God’s sake, held its reunion in the family cemetery. Of all places. Everybody in her mother’s generation thought this made perfect sense. It did not make sense to Lola and to most of the cousins her age. Why didn’t they just rent the Ruritan cabin and meet like normal people?” |
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Poetry |
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Looking for Leonids by Donna Doyle
A Fire of Boughs by Byron Herbert Reece
Long Ago and Far Away by Glenn McKee
Cemetery Maples by Peter Stillman
Bluegrass Conversion by Michael Graber
Patton’s Soldier by Stephen M. Holt
My daughter sits for the artist by Marianne Worthington
Coal Girls by Page Dougherty
The Bike by Jim Minick |
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Reviews |
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Review Essay: “A Man’s Shagbark Sound”: The Poetry of James Still by James Owens
Sodom Laurel Album by Rob Amberg, reviewed by Pat Arnow
No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt, reviewed by Beth Newberry
Raising the Dead by Ron Rash, reviewed by Laura Treacy Bentley
The Gods of Little Pleasures by Bill Brown, reviewed by A. Jane Hicks
In Brief by Marianne Worthington |
Photo and illustration credits (from the top):Joyce Hancock, The Sporting News, Archives of Appalachia, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Melinda Wheeler, Emory & Henry College, Ethel Miller Stafford, Nancy Jane Earnest, Drue Dixon, Herbert McFeely, Hindman Settlement School Archives. Images may not be reproduced without permission.
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