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APPALACHIAN JOURNAL

A REGIONAL STUDIES REVIEW

Quarterly, founded 1972 by Appalachian State University
Contents, complete run, listed below:

Volume 1 No. 1. (Autumn 1972) CONTENTS: "Who Are the Southern Mountaineers?" by Cratis D. Williams. "Farewell to Appalachia" by Robert Coles. "The Idylls of the Appalachian: an unpublished lecture by William Gilmore Simms (Part One)" ed. Miriam Shillingsburg. "The Genesis of Forestry in the Southern Appalachians" by John and Ina Van Noppen. "Agee's Use of Regional Material in A Death in the Family" by Victor Kramer. "Lincoln Memorial University" by Jesse Stuart. "A Phalanx of Children": four articles by Kenneth E. Eble, Robert Coles, George R. Wesley, and Thomas J. Cottle. "People Versus Place Prosperity: A Debate Revisited" by Dean A. Dudley and Tridib K. Mukherjee. A short story by Vokes Richardson ("Government Boy and the Federal Chickens"). Reviews by Guy Owen (The Foxfire Book ed. Eliot Wigginton), Michael Wise (Change in Rural Appalachia: Implications for Action Programs ed. John D. Photiadis and Harry K. Schwarzwell), Nancy Hollander (Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening ed. David S. Walls and John B. Stephenson), and Cratis Williams (Sayings from Old Smoky: Some Traditional Phrases, Expressions, and Sentences Heard in the Great Smoky Mountains and Nearby Areas. An Introduction to a Southern Mountain Dialect ed. Joseph S. Hall). Brief Reviews by Charlotte Ross (Coaltown Revisited, An Appalachian Notebook by Bill Peterson, The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann by John Jacob Nildes, Only a Miner by Archie Green, Tennessee Hillfolk by Joe Clark, and The Journey of August King by John Ehle). Poetry by Muriel Miller Dressler ("Mountain Sarvis"), Alice Moser Claudel ("Matinee"), and Robert Irwin ("Poem on a September Morning" and "School Children"). (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

Volume 1 No. 2. (Spring 1973) CONTENTS: "Economic Imperialism: An Interpretation of Appalachian Underdevelopment" by Emil Malizia. "Racism and the Electorate: Two Late Nineteenth Century Mountain Elections" by Gordon B. McKinney. "The Lovingood Patriarchy" by Ormonde Plater. "Easter Eggs and Peckers: Three Reminiscences" by Joseph D. Clark. "Two Tales from Bloody Harlan" by Joy & Lee Pennington. "The Idylls of the Appalachian: an unpublished lecture by William Gilmore Simms (Part Two)" ed. Miriam Shillingsburg, and "Black Mountain College: A Strange Spot in a Strange Spot." Reviews by Charles Hudson (Mountain Families in Transition: A Case Study of Appalachian Migration by Harry K. Schwarzweller, James S. Brown, and J.J. Mangalam), and Peg Shull (Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis). A short story by Jesse Stuart ("Only One was Perfect"). Poetry by Jim Wayne Miller ("Census Reports"), Paul Ramsey ("A Tennessee Story"), John Foster West ("Democratic Dilemma"), and Victor M. Depta ("Buffalo Creek"). (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

Volume 1 No. 3. (Autumn 1973) CONTENTS: A special retrospective on Frank Proffitt:. "Good Times and Hard Times on the Beaver Dam Road" by Frank and Anne Warner, "Your Friend Frank: A Sampling from Frank Proffitt's letters," and "Good Memories for Me" by Frank Proffit. Also "Land of the Purple People Eaters" by Marie B. Mellinger. "An Introduction to the Guineas: West Virginia's Melungeons" by Avery F. Gaskins. "Indications of Regular Sound Shifting in an Appalachian Dialect" by Robert Callary. Reviews by Jim Branscome (Death and the Mines: Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers by Brit Hume), W. H. Ward (Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs by Archie Green, The Social Harp ed. Daniel W. Patterson and John F. Garst, and Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachian Mountains coll. Cecil J. Sharp and Maud Karpeles), Ruth Moose (Return the Innocent Earth by Wilma Dykeman), Harold Counihan (The Kingdom of Madison: A Southern Mountain Fastness and Its People by Manly Wade Wellman), and J.W. Williamson (Appalachian Dawn by John Foster Wes. Brief Reviews by Charlotte Ross (Eastern Cherokees 1851 census compiled by David W. Siler, Tell Them They Lie by Traveller Bird, A Long, Long Day for November by Moffitt Sinclair Henderson, Covered Bridges of West Virginia, Past and Present by Myrtle Auvil, Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets, A Garland for the Appalachians by Jonathan Williams, and Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Struggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia by Kathy Kahn). Poetry and fiction by Thelma Harrington Bell ("The Hickory Pole: A Ballad of the Blue Ridge"), Lillie D. Chaffin ("Senses Taking"), Henry Taylor ("Below Carvin's Cove"), Don Frantz ("Two Sonnets"), George Scarbrough ("The Private Papers of J.L. McDowell"), Malcolm Glass "Five Poems"). ($5.00 each)

Volume 1 No. 4. (Spring 1974) CONTENTS: God and the Devil in Appalachia: "Development of Religion in Southern Appalachia: The Personal Quality" by Richard A. Humphrey. "Holy Ghost People: The Snake-Handlers of Southern Appalachia" by Steven M. Kane. "Christian Harmony Singing at Etowah" by Mabel Y. Moser. "Witchcraft and the Devil in West Virginia" by Ruth Ann Musick. "Pappa and the Hex Doctor" by Vokes Richardson. "Wind and Foxes" by Lee Pennington. "A Short Revival" by Vic Huggins. "Appalachian Belongings" by Jack Welch. "Appalachia: In-Migration in the Twentieth Century" by Gene Wilhelm Jr. "Signs of Kinship: Thomas Wolfe and his Appalachian Background" by Richard Gray. Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Remembrance of Things to Come by the New Lost City Ramblers). Brief Reviews by Charlotte T. Ross (James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists by Patricia Givens Johnson, Yesterday in the Hills by Floyd C. Watkins and The Court Martial of Daniel Boone by Allan W. Eckert). Poetry by John Foster West ("Miracle at Dunkirk") and Muriel Miller Dressler ("Legacy"). (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

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Volume 2 No. 1. (Autumn 1974) CONTENTS: "Up'n under Appalachia: Comment. Appalred vs. 'Judicare': Public Interest Law in West Virginia" by Paul J. Kaufman, and "Southern Appalachian Conference: 'Towards 1984'" by James Branscome. "Controversy in God's Grand Division: The Council of the Southern Mountains" by David E. Whisnant. "Appalachian Congressmen during the New Deal Era" by Philip A. Grant Jr. "Municipal British-Received Place Names in Tennessee" by Donald Kay. "Recent Southern Literary Criticism" a review essay by M. Thomas Inge. Brief Reviews by Charlotte T. Ross (Sequatchie: A Story of the Southern Cumberlands by J. Leonard Raulston and James W. Livingood, The Scopes Trial: The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes by Mary Lee Settle, Growin' Up Country edited by Jim Axelrod, How to Make and Play the Dulcimore by Chet Hines, The Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory edited by R.P. Christeson, and Passerman's Hollow by Jane Stuart). Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Old Love Songs & Ballads from the Big Laurel, North Carolina produced by Folkways). Poetry by Kelly Cherry ("For Teenage Boys Murdered in Texas: The Refusal to Dramatize Bloodlust") and Jim Wayne Miller ("Small Farms Disappearing in Tennessee"). ($5.00 each)

Volume 2 No. 2. (Winter 1975) CONTENTS: "In Memorium: Ruth Ann Musick, 1897-1974." "Up'n under Appalachia: Comment. The More Things Change" by Tony Whitmore. "Beyond the Appalachians" by James McBride Dabbs. "Ambivalence Toward Promotion among Appalachian Coal Miners: The Legend of Larry Harper" by John Lozier. "The Flood" by Rich Kirby, "Several More Scenes from Act One" by George Scarbrough. "Unusual Words, Expressions, and Pronunciations in a North Carolina Mountain Community" by Sarah Evelyn Jackson. Reviews by Don Cunningham (32 Votes Before Breakfast by Jesse Stuart), Victor Depta (O Mountaineers! A Collection of Poetry by Don West) , George Scarbrough (The Creek by Victor Depta) , and "Watson of Deep Gap: A Retrospective" by W.H. Ward. Poetry by Fred Chappell ("Awakening to Music"), Ross Talarico ("After Some Rain: Trying to Write"), Neil Graves ("The Barn") , Peter Zivkovic ("Woodsmoke"), and Jeff Daniel Marion ("Lines," "Landscapes," and "The Bridge"). ($5.00 each)

Volume 2 No. 3. (Spring 1975) CONTENTS: "Alice's Wonderland" by Paul J. Kaufman, "A New Concept in Legal Education" by Betty Hall and Betty Justice, "Folk Culture History of the Blue Ridge Mountains" by Gene Wilhelm Jr., and "An Ambivalent Relationship: Dog and Human in the Folk Culture of the Rural South" by James William Jordan. Reviews by Brom Weber (Tar Heel Laughter edited by Richard Walser), Rogers Whitener (News from Pigeon Roost by Harvey J. Miller, A Right Good People by Harold Warren, and Bits of Mountain Speech by Paul Fink), Alice Claudel (Dialogue with a Dead Man by Jim Wayne Miller), and Bruce Rosenberg (And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845 by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.). Brief Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Diamond Studs, The Red Clay Ramblers by the Red Clay Ramblers, Country Blue-grass from Southwest Virginia produced by Folkways, and Getting Folk Out of the Country by Hedy West and Bill Clifton). "More Controversy in God's Grand Division: Communications to the Editor." Poetry by Coleman Barks ("Lakewater Brides") and George Scarbrough ("On Plowing a One-Eyed Mule"). ($5.00 each)

Volume 2 No. 4. (Summer 1975) CONTENTS: Special Issue: New Perspectives on the Cherokees. "Foreword" and "Introduction: Reassessing Cherokee Studies" by Burton L. Purrington (guest editor), "The Mythico-Religious Origin of the Cherokees" by Duane H. King and Laura H. King, "The Reawakening of the Cherokees" by Hawk Littlejohn, "Cultural Identity for the Modern Cherokees" by Gilliam Jackson, "A Note on the District Boundaries of the Cherokee Nation" by Douglas Wilms, "The European Perspective and Cherokee Law" by John Phillip Reid, "The Quaker Era of Cherokee Indian Education, 1880-1892" by Sharlotte Neely, "Contemporary Usage of Native Plant Foods by the Eastern Cherokees" by Max E. White, "More Than Mere Work: The Substinence System of Oklahoma's Cherokee Indians" by Albert L. Wahrhaftig, "The Drunken Indian Stereotype and the Eastern Cherokees" by Laurence French and Renitia Bertoluzzi, and "Comments" by Laura H. King. Fiction and poetry by Joyce Rockwood ("Let Us Speak of Beauty"), Paul Merchant ("Cherokee Relics"), and Lewis W. Green ("Sam Welch Is not the Name of a White Man"). (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

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Volume 3 No. 1. (Autumn 1975) CONTENTS: "Up'n under Appalachia: Fiddling While Wise County Burns" by Burton L. Purrington, "The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction, Part I: Ch. 1 Who are the Southern Mountaineers?, Ch. 2 Dead Time and the Lost Frontier: The Mountaineer as Reported by Travelers" by Cratis D. Williams, edited by Martha H. Pipes. "Symbolism and Poetic Vision in Jesse Stuart's Early Poetry" by Lee Pennington. "A Note on Jesse Stuart's 'Birdland's Golden Age'" by Lee Pennington. "The Development of Strip Mining in Southern Appalachia" by Robert F. Munn. Music Reviews by W. H. Ward: "Records" (Ray Hicks by Ray Hicks, Folk-Legacy FTA-14 and Red, White and Blue(grass) Pickin' Up by Red, White & Blue(grass), GA 10003) and Calvin Claudel (Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Folkstales of a Kentucky Mountain Family by Leonard Roberts with music by C. Buell Agey). Fiction and Poetry by Jesse Stuart ("A Witness for Noonie Paw," "Big Names in the News," "Our Status Birds," "Michiko Yamaoka," "Butterfly Boy"). (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

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Volume 3 No. 2. (Winter 1976) CONTENTS: "Up'n under: Comment" by Gordon K. Ebersole, "The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction, Part II: Ch. 3 The Shaping of the Fictional Legend of the Southern Mountaineer, Ch. 4 Charles Egbert Craddock and the Southern Mountaineer in Fiction " by Cratis Williams, edited by Martha H. Pipes. "A Sociological Rationale for the Existence of Appalachian Literature" by Jack Welch. Reviews by David E. White (The Birth of Forestry in America: Biltmore Forest School 1898-1913 by Carl Alwin Schenck). Music Reviews by W. H. Ward (Come Springtime by the Marshall Family and Memories by Doc Watson). Poetry by Betty Adcock ("Backyard"), Michael Mott ("Ropeburn"), Thomas Johnson ("Dandelions"), and George Scarbrough ("Rings"). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 3 No. 3. (Spring 1976) CONTENTS: "The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction, Part III: Ch. 5 Fictional Stereotypes of the Southern Mountaineer, Ch. 6 The Primitive Stereotype in Conflict with Outside Influences, Ch. 7 Settlement Centers, Mission Schools, and 'Fotched on Women'" by Cratis Williams, edited by Martha H. Pipe. "Folk Vocabulary of Western North Carolina" by Ted Roland Ledford. Reviews by Henry Taylor (Statues of the Grass by James Applewhite and No Running on the Boardwalk by Paul Ramsey), Victor M. Depta (8th Day 13th Moon by Lillie D. Chaffin and Mountain Measure: A Southern Appalachian Verse Notebook by Francis Pledger Hulme), John Foster West (Us Poor Folks and the Things of Dog Flat Hollow by Donald L. McCurry), "Recent Books of Special Interest" by George Bennett (Ghosts Along the Cumberland; Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills by William Lynwood Montell, Witches, Ghosts and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians by Patrick W. Gainer, Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia ed. Robert J. Higgs and Ambrose N. Manning, Appalachia: Its People, Heritage, and Problems ed. Frank S. Riddel, Who Speaks for Appalachia? ed. Cecille Haddix, Act of Vengeance: The Yablonksi Murders and Their Solution by Trevor Armbrister and Murder by Contract: The People v. 'Tough Tony' Boyle by Arthur H. Lewis). Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (The End of An Old Song by Dillard Chandler, On Close to Home by Roscoe Holcomb, and Walkin' in the Parlor by the Iron Mountain String Band). Poetry by Jeff Daniel Marion ("Deserted Barn"), Robert Parham ("Tag"), Robert W. Hill ("Girl in a Barber's Shop). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 3 No. 4. (Summer 1976) CONTENTS: "The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction, Part IV: Ch. 8 New Directions: Folk or Hillbilly?, Ch. 9 Hillbilly! Hillbilly!, and Ch. 10 Unto the Hills and Beyond" by Cratis Williams, edited by Martha H. Pipe. "Gillis Ridge" by R. J. Van Nest. Poetry by Christopher Clausen ("A Letter to the State Tax Commissioners"), Kelly Cherry ("Three Songs for a Soviet Composer"), Jennie Frye ("Spring Break"), and Neil Graves ("Pentecostal Woman"). (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

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Volume 4 No. 1. (Autumn 1976) CONTENTS: "WHOSE Bicentennial? Appalachia '76": essays and issues by (in alphabetical order) Hal Barron, Pat Beaver, Robert Coles, Tom Cottle, Richard Drake, Steve Fisher, Lewis Green, Robert Higgs, Loyal Jones, Paul Kaufman, Emil Malizia, Mike Maloney, Jim Wayne Miller, John Opie, George Scarbrough, the SAWC-Coop, John Stephenson, Lawrence Thompson, David Walls, Jack Welch, Jack Weller, David Whisnant, Jonathan Williams. "'Buncombe Bob' and Red Russian Fish Eggs: The Senatorial Election of 1932 in North Carolina" by Julian M. Pleasants. C. Hugh Holman amd Alfred H. Perrin on Higgs and Manning and Appalachian Literature "Appalachian Literature? Two Views." Reviews by Eliot Wigginton (The Good Life Almanac by the Solway Community Club), Leon Lewis (A House by the Side of the Road by E.V. Austin), Al Zolynas (The Small Farm ed. Jeff Daniel Marion), Mary Dunlap (The Frontier Humorists: Critical Views ed. M. Thomas Inge), and Dennis McCutcheon (Voices from the Mountains collected and recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan, This Proud Land: The Blue Ridge Mountains by John Foster West and Bruce Roberts, Down to Earth - People of Appalachia by Kenneth Murray). Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Live! At McClure, Virginia SLP 1554/55. Fiction by V.M. Richardson ("The Medical Student") and Bruce Hensley ("Mr. Bailey"). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 4 No. 2. (Winter 1977) CONTENTS: "Cormac McCarthy: The Hard Wages of Original Sin" by William J. Schafer. "The Appalachian Backgrounds of Billy De Beck's Snuffy Smith" by M. Thomas Inge. "Primitivism and Exoticism in John Fox's Early Work" by Marilyn DeEulis. Higgs and Manning answer Hugh Holman on Appalachian literature. Sketches, reminiscence, and folklore by Sidney Farr ("Dark Hollow and Other Memories"), Sarah Evelyn Jackson ("Ashley Weaver: Microcosm of Appalachia"), Granville Liles ("The Blue Ridge Parkway: Some Personal Notes on Its History"), and W. Edward Orser ("Morris R. Mitchell: Social and Educational Visionary"). Fiction by Joyce Rockwood ("Grand Ole Opry") and Betty N. Weaver ("The Celebrity"). Reviews by Kelly Cherry (River by Fred Chappell), Robert L. Taylor (Valley So Wild: A Folk History by Alberta and Carson Brewer), Gordon B. McKinney (John George Jackson by Dorothy Davis), and W.H. Ward (The Folk Music Sourcebook by Larry Sandberg and Dick Weissman). Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Stolen Love by the Red Clay Ramblers, Lester Raymond Flatt by Lester Flatt, and Doc and the Boys by Doc Watson and Merle Watson). Poetry by Mary Balazs ("Lifeguard"), Jeff Daniel Marion ("Relics"), George Scarbrough ("Small Community with Two Houses").($5.00 each)

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Volume 4 No. 3-4. (Spring-Summer 1977) CONTENTS: "Up'n under Appalachia: Some Thoughts on Appalachia and the 1976 Election" by Steve Fisher. "The Coal Barons of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930" by Ron Eller. "A Case for Appalachian Demographic History" by Hal Seth Barron. "The Great Appalachian Iron and Coal Town Boom of 1889-1893" by Stuart Seely Sprague. "Language Assessment in Appalachia: A Sociolinguistic Perspective" by Walt Wolfram. "Humanizing the Language Arts in Appalachian Schools" by Thomas Cloer. "The Spirit Is Strong in the Root" together with "A Brief Mountain Herbal" by Marie B. Mellinger. Poetry by Howard Mohr ("Quitting"), Philip Dentinger ("Camping on the French River," "Inquisitive I Approach This Man," and "Fall Evening"), Shelby Stephenson ("Country Painter"), John Vernon ("Snow"), Don Johnson ("For Wilma, For Whom"), Steve Lewandowski ("One Lesson" and "Thaw"), and Louis Jenkins ("Cold & Applejack"). Reviews by Tom McGowan (Bibliography of Southern Appalachia ed. Charlotte T. Ross), George Scarbrough (Ann by John Vernon, The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood by Mary Balaz, Tell Me No Sad Tales by Quentin Howard, Scream of the Midnight Owl by Randy Smallwood, Robert Morgan's poetry in The Small Farm, Medina and Other Poems by Neil Graves, Westward from Bald Mountain by Bettie M. Sellers illustrated by Deborah K. Wood, and Upon Loving, Losing, and Other Thoughts by Jerry Robinson), Richard Dorson (The McCoys: Their Story as Told to the Author by Eye Witnesses and Descendents by Truda Williams McCoy), Richard Humphrey (The Chalice and the Covenant: A History of the New Covenant Baptist Association 1868-1975 by Mark S. Sexton), Gene Conti (Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present eds. Bruce Ergood and Bruce E. Kuhre), Charles Lieble (North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State eds. James W. Clay, Douglas M. Orr Jr., and Alfred W. Stuart). Brief Reviews by George Bennett (Stalking Blind by Steven Ashley, The Year the Lights Came On by Terry Kay, The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter, Appalachian Valley by George L. Hicks, Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's daughter by Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey, The Long Tunnel: A Coal Miner's Journal by Meade Arble, Appalachian Ways by the Appalachian Regional Commission, and "On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Religion in the South" Southern Exposure vol. 4 no.3). Brief Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Love, Hell, and Biscuits by Hedy West, Celebration! Old-Time Music at Berea by various artists, and American Sampler by Buddy Spicher). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 5 No. 1. (Autumn 1977) CONTENTS: A Guide to Appalachian Studies with an introduction by Stephen L. Fisher and bibliographies, finding lists, guides, indexes to dissertations and scholars. "Appalachian Education: A Critique and Suggestions for Reform" by Jim Wayne Miller. "Appalachian Studies from and For Social Change" by John Gaventa. Appalachian Studies assessed in the disciplines: "Anthropology and Appalachian Studies: Implications for the Discipline and Consequent Course Design" by Thomas Plaut, "The Status and Future of Archeology and Native American Studies in the Southern Mountains" by Burton L. Purrington, "Appalachian Folklore Scholarship" by W.K. McNeil, "A Bibliography of Appalachian Geography" by Edgar Bingham, "Toward a New History of the Appalachian South" by Ronald D. Eller, "Appalachian Literature" by Jim Wayne Miller, "On the Linguistic Study of Appalachian Speech and A Bibliography of Appalachian English" by Walt Wolfram, "Thicker than Fiddlers in Hell: Issues and Resources in Appalachian Music" by David Whisnant, "Political Science and Appalachia" by Richard A. Couto, "Studying Mountain Religion" by Loyal Jones, "The Sociology of Southern Appalachia" by David S. Walls and Dwight B. Billings, and "Appalachians as an Urban Ethnic Group: Romanticism, Renaissance, or Revolution? and A Brief Bibliographical Essay on Urban Appalachians" by Phillip Obermiller. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 5 No. 2. (Winter 1978) CONTENTS: "Up'n under Appalachia: The Horse Creek Story, A Model for the Coal Industry" by Paul J. Kaufman and "On the Humanities and on Appalachia" by Robert Coles MD. "Folk Settlements in the Blue Ridge Mountains" by Gene Wilhelm Jr. "Revolution in Appalachia" by Evelyn B. Powers. "Old-Timey Fiddler" by Ann McMurry Black. "A Checklist and Purchase Guide for School and Community Libraries in Appalachia" by Jim Wayne Miller. Poetry by Jeff Daniel Marion ("The Garden," "The Farm Wife's Aubade," "The Way Home," and "Late October in Tennessee") and Jessie T. Ellison ("The Stone Fern" and "The Pterodactyl Wing"). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 5 No. 3. (Spring 1978) CONTENTS: "Class, Political Consciousness, and Destructive Power: A Strategy for Change in Appalachia" by Jim Foster, Steve Robinson, and Steve Fisher. "German Folk Art in Harmony Cemetery" by Bob Swisher. "Inequality and the Appalachian Studies Industry" by John Gaventa. "The Rush to Find an Appalachian Literature by W.H. Ward. "Two Modes: a Plea for Tolerance" by Fred Chappell. "Colonial Mimesis and the Appalachian Renascence" by Bob Snyder. "Henry Shapiro and the Idea of Appalachia: A Review/Essay" by John Alexander Williams. Short fiction by Carroll Dale Short ("Emmett"). Reviews by Christopher Clausen (An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards by Henry Taylor and Relativity: A Point of View by Kelly Cherry), D.M. Tedards (Out in the Country, Back Home by Jeff Daniel Marion), and Max E. White (Cabbagetown Families/Cabbagetown Food ed. Pam Durban Porter). Brief Reviews by George Bennett (Our Appalachia eds. Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg, Rough Weather Makes Good Timber: Carolinians Recall by Patsy Moore Ginns and art by J.L. Osborne, Everything in its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood by Kai T. Erikson, Country Miles are Longer than City Miles by Craig Evans Royce, The Restless Journey of James Agee by Genevieve Moreau, Pattern of a Man and Other Stories by James Still, The Only Place We Live writings by August Derlath, Robert E. Gard, and Jesse Stuart and engravings by Frank Utpatel, The Seasons of Jesse Stuart: An Autobiography in Poetry 1907-1976 by Jesse Stuart, Appalachian Literature: Critical Essays ed. Ruel E. Foster. Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Ray Lum: Mule Trade by Ray Lum, The New Seldom Scene Album by the Seldom Scene, Joe's Last Train by the Country Gentlemen, The Wind That Shakes the Barley by John McCutcheon, The Bluegrass Session by Vassar Clements, Dillard-Hartford-Dillard by John Hartford, Doug Dillard, and Rodney Dillard). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 5 No. 4. (Summer 1978) CONTENTS: "Appalachian Religion: A Diversity of Consciousness" by Charles Thomas Davis and Richard Alan Humphrey. "Independence, Egalitarianism, and the Historical Myth" by Patricia D. Beaver. "A Selection from the Brier Poems" by Jim Wayne Miller ("The Brier Losing Touch with His Traditions," "Turn Your Radio On," "Going to Sleep by a Troutstream," "In a Ring of Lantern Light," "On Trammel Creek," "Abandoned," "Harvest," and "Brier Sermon-'You Must Be Born Again.'"). "John Foster West's Time Was: A Reconsideration" and "An Interview with John Foster West" by Edwin T. Arnold. "Caudill Agonistes: A Review/Essay" by John Alexander Williams. Photography by Susan Kuklin ("The Cumberland: 1975"). Short fiction by Annabel Thomas ("Breakdown Brown and Brother") and Barbara Smith ("Poolside Manner"). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 6 No. 1. (Autumn 1978) CONTENTS: "A Modern Appalachian Folk Healer" by Edward C. Green. "An Interview with Gurney Norman" by Beth Tashery Shannon. "An Appalachian Footnote to Toynbee's A Study of History" by James S. Brown. "The Truth at the Door: The Poems of George Scarbrough" by Paul Ramsey. Poetry by Fred Chappell ("My Mother Shoots the Breeze"), Joseph Harris ("Old Man in America"), C. Trent Busch ("The Man and the Road"), Paul H. Cook ("Uncle Paul"), W.S. Doxey ("The Chain"). Short fiction by Charles Nix ("River Storm") and Carla Hoffman ("The Death of the Snake"). Book reviews by Ellen J. Stekert (Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales collected by Vance Rudolph, annotated by Frank A. Hoffman), Robert L. Taylor ("That D...d Brownlow," etc. by Steve Humphrey), W.K. McNeil (Quare Do's In Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memorats compiled by Berniece T. Hiser), Neil R. Grobman (Our Appalachia ed. Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg), and John M. Ramsay (A Time to Dance by Richard Nevell). W.H. Ward on the Red Clay Ramblers. ($5.00 each)

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Volume 6 No. 2. (Winter 1979) CONTENTS: "Land and Family: An Historical View of Preindustrial Appalachia" by Ronald D. Eller. "William Gilmore Simms and the Myth of Appalachia" by Miriam J. Shillingsburg. An interview with James Still with his story, "The Run for the Elbertas." "Appalachia as Colony and as Periphery: A Review Essay " by John Alexander Williams (Colonialism in Modern America eds. Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins). Poetry by Carol J. Collier ("Tennessee Nightfall" ). Review by David Whisnant (Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music by Frye Gaillard). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 6 No. 3. (Spring 1979) CONTENTS: "Models for Furthering Revolutionary Praxis in Appalachia" by Steve Fisher and Jim Foster. "Mary Noailles Murfree: A Reappraisal" by Durwood Dunn. Interview with Jim Wayne Miller. "Two Kinds of Committment: Some Directions in Current Appalachian Poetry" by Frank Steele. Poetry by Carol Collier ("Night Runner") and Jessie T. Ellison ("Playing with Mountains"). "On the Study of Religion in Appalachia: a Review/Essay" by Melanie Sovine Reid (Religion in Appalachia: Theological, Social and Psychological Dimensions and Correlates ed. John D. Photiadis). "And Sometimes it Doesn't," brief music reviews by W.H. Ward (Been a Long Time Traveling by Addie Graham, Buel Kazee by Buell Kazee, Plank Road by Plank Road, Sycamore Tea by Dutch Cove Old Time String Band, Melodic Clawhammer Banjo by various artists, Guitarist's Choice by Dale Miller, Pace Yourself by P.T. Gazell, Fresh Fish by Mason Williams, and The View from Home by Bryan Bowers). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 6 No. 4. (Summer 1979) CONTENTS: "Appalachia and Social Change: A Cultural Systems Approach" by Tom Plaut. "Culture and Development: Through Romantic Relativism into the Emerging Present" by Thomas O'Toole. "A Bibliographic Survey of Dissertations Dealing with Appalachia" compiled by Richard M. Kesner. "Retrospective: Miner's Day by R.L. Coombes" by David Brooks. "Hillbilly Paideia," a review essay by Bob Snyder (Teaching Mountain Children ed. David Mielke, Things Appalachian, and Handbook both ed. by Lorena Anderson, William Plumley, and Marge Warner). "The Complicated Equation: Worker Rebellion and Unionization," a review essay by Peter Gottlieb (Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39 by John W. Henever). Review by Sharon Lord ("Johnny's such a bright boy, what a shame he's retarded": In Support of Mainstreaming in Public Schools by Kate Long). Poetry by Ann Romines ("Piecing: Birds in the Air), Jessie Ellison ("Deep in the Center of the Eye"), Evelyn Hayes ("Near Glenville, W.Va."), Neal Bowers ("Ten and Now" and "Control"), and Chester Wolford ("Pa's Three Climates: I," "Pa's Three Climates: II," and "Pennsylvania is an Oshun"). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 7 No. 1-2. (Autumn-Winter 1979-80) CONTENTS: Special Culture Issue. Introduction by David E. Whisnant, guest editor. "Appalachia and the Concept of Culture: A Theory of Shared Misunderstandings" by Allen Batteau. "Ballad Collecting in the 1930s" by Cratis Williams. "A Folklorist's Creed and Folksinger's Gift" by Archie Green. "Regional Stereotype and Folklore" by Neil V. Rosenberg. "The Cultural Role of Local Elites in the Kentucky Mountains: A Retrospective Analysis" by Eugene A. Conti Jr. "J. Fred Johnson, His Town, and His People: A Case Study of Class Values, the Work Ethic, and Technology in Southern Appalachia, 1916-1944" by Margaret Ripley Wolfe. "Appalachian Fables and Facts: A Case Study of the Shenandoah National Park Removals" by Charles and Nancy Perdue. "Musicians and Mountaineers: The Resettlement Administration's Music Program in Appalachia, 1935-37" by Jannelle Warren Findley. "Multicultural Education in Appalachia: Origins, Prospects and Problems" by Alan J. DeYoung and Julia Domron Porter. "Finding the Way between the Old and the New: The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival and Bascom Lamar Lunsford's Work as a Citizen" by David Whisnant."Appalachia on Television: Region as Symbol in American Popular Culture" by Horace Newcomb. (Out of print. Available as spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

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Volume 7 No. 3. (Spring 1980) CONTENTS: "Sociology and the Study of American Regions" by John Shelton Reed. "Regions, Folk Life and Literary Criticism" by Jim Wayne Miller. "The Emergence of a Capitalistic Labor Market in Eastern Kentucky" by Alan Banks. "The Political Uses of Appalachian Identity after the Civil War" by Gordon B. McKinney. "Let Me Tell You the Story: Transforming Oral Tradition" by David Madden. "Country Records and Blue Ridge Music" by Charles Wolfe. "The Sound of New Made Old: June Appal Records and Folk Tradition" by Charles Camp. Short fiction by Annabel Thomas ("Daisy is a Hillbilly Name") and poetry by Susan Sheppard ("Song from the Distant Native"). "Mirth-Taking Taken Seriously, A Review/Essay" by Robert Higgs (Gyascutus: Studies in Antebellum Southern Humorous and Sporting Writing ed. James L.W. West III). Reviews by John Stephenson (The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures by Paul Cowan), F. Borden Mace (Appalachia: A Self-Portrait ed. Wendy Ewald), Nancy Dye (Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900; Politics and the Appalachian Community by Gordon B. McKinney), Bill Lightfoot (The Big Sandy by Carol Crowe-Carraco), and Evelyn Hovanec (The Guns of Lattimer: the True Story of a Massacre and a Trial August 1897-March 1898 by Michael Novak). Brief Reviews by Bill McNeil (In the Pine: Selected Kentucky Folk Songs by Leonard Roberts and C. Buell Agey and The New Harp of Columbia by M.L. Swan), David Brooks (Patch/Work Voices: the Culture and Lore of a Mining People by Dennis F. Brestensky, Evelyn A. Hovanec, and Albert A. Skomra and In Our Blood: Four Coal Mining Families by Matt Witt), and John A. Williams (The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone by Michael A. Lofaro and The Hatfields and the McCoys by Otis K. Rice). Brief record reviews by W.H. Ward (Waitin' for the Evening Mail by Riley Puckett, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners, 20 Years/Concert Performances by New Lost City Ramblers, New England Contra Dance Music by Strathspey and Arm & Hammer String Band, Mike Auldridge & 'Old Dog', Indian Summer by Phil Rosenthal, and Songs from Woody's Pen by Sammy Walker). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 7 No. 4. (Summer 1980) CONTENTS: INDEX I. Complete name and subject Index to Volumes 1 through 7 of the Appalachian Journal (1972-80), including a complete Index to An Appalachian Symposium in Honor of Cratis Williams. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 8 No. 1. (Autumn 1980) CONTENTS: "Land and Capital in Eastern Kentucky, 1890-1915" by Alan Banks. "Living Is More Important than Schooling: Schools and Self Concept in Appalachia" by Una Mae Lange Reck and Gregory Reck. "The Politics of Nostalgia: Uses of the Past in Recent Appalachian Poetry" by Frank Einstein. "Developments in the Appalachian Identity Movement: All Is Process" by David Whisnant. "Black Invisibility and Racism in Appalachia: An Informal Survey" by Edward J. Cabbel. "Double Language: Three Appalachian Poets" by Fred Chappell (Jim Wayne Miller, Hilda Downer, and Robert Morgan). Review essays by Steve Fisher (Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning in Appalachia by David Whisnant), and Richard M. Simon (Planters and the Making of a "New South": Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900 by Dwight Billings). Reviews by Jim Wayne Miller (Take One Blood Red Rose by Mary Joan Coleman, Going Ahead, Looking Back by Rodney Jones, Mummy Truths by Jim Stokely), Charlotte T. Ross (The Bard of Ottaray: The Life, Letters and Documents of Shepherd Monroe Dugger by Leslie Banner Cottingham and Carol Lowe Timblin), and W.K. McNeil (Yarns and Tales From the Great Smokies: Some Narratives From the Southern Appalachians ed. Joseph S. Hall). Brief music reviews by W.H. Ward (Decade Waltz by the Dillards, Slumberin' on the Cumberland by John Hartford, Sweet Southern Girl by Dan Crary, Chuckin' the Frizz by the Red Clay Ramblers, and Dixie Highway Sign by Robin and Linda Williams). Poetry by Eric Weil ("A Need for Sassafras"), Bob Snyder ("A Prophet's Honor"), and Michael Chitwood ("Heart Failure"). Assorted "Signs of the Times" (what they're saying about us in the nation's press). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 8 No. 2. (Winter 1981) CONTENTS: "The Klan in the Southern Mountains: The Lusk-Shotwell Controversy" by Gordon B. McKinney. "Cities and Their Place in Southern Appalachia" by Ann DeWitt Watts. "Seventh-Day Adventists: A Study of Home Mission Work in Western North Carolina" by Nancy F. Elkins. "Appalachia and the 1980 Election" by David Sutton. "J. D. Crowe, Back-Forty Fugitive" by W.H. Ward. Review essay by Steve Fisher (Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley by John Gaventa). Poetry by Hilda Downer ("Swollen, I'm ripe as a tomatoe"), Jim Webb ("America," "Hog Killing," and Pike County: Doo Dee Oomp Wah Wah"), Richard Hague ("Possum Variations" and "City Gardens"), Nancy Simpson ("Walk Face into the Wind"), and George Ella Lyon ("My Grandfather in Search of Moonhine" and "My Grandfather Sees the World"). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 8 No. 3. (Spring 1981) CONTENTS: "Uneven Development and the Case of West Virginia: Going Beyond the Colonialism Model" by Richard Simon. "The Seamless Vision of James Still" by Fred Chappell. "This Laid-On Paradise" by Vic Depta. "Appalachian Welcome: A Photographic Essay" by Joyce Hancock. Review Essay: "An Agenda for Irrelevance: Malcolm Chapman's The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture" by Allen Batteau. "Jean Ritchie, Twenty-Five Years After" by Loyal Jones. "The Poet's Job" by George Ella Lyon. "An Appalachian Relic: Notes on 'Swarp.'" Poetry by George Ella Lyon ("Stripped") and John Foster West ("Astarte"). Book Reviews: by W.K. McNeil (Coon Creek Girl by Lily May Ledford) and Virginia McCoy Watkins (Appalachian Women: A Learning/Teaching Guide ed. by Sharon B. Lord and Carolyn Patton-Crowder). Record Review: "Four Recent Fiddle Albums" by Gary Stanton (Road to Home by Marion Sumner, Farm Yard Swing by Kenny Baker, Vassar by Vassar Clements, and Fiddling by the Hearth by John Ashby). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 8 No. 4. (Summer 1981) CONTENTS: Interview with Harry Caudill. "Selectively Annotated Bibliography of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)" compiled by Steve Fisher. Poetry by Bob Henry Baber ("Two Lowku," "Tob Earp's Barnyard Lesson for the Day," and "Untitled."). A listing of new books and records related to Appalachia compiled by George Brosi. "The New Mandolin" by John Bird. Record Review: "Regional Music with and without Notes" by Bill Ellis (Fiddle Tunes I Recall by Lyman Enloe, Red Wing by I.D. Stamper, and Last Chance by the Home Folks). Assorted "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 9 No. 1. (Fall 1981) CONTENTS: "Make 'em and Shed 'em Quick: The Appalachian Craftsman Revisited" by Charles Martin. "Oral Traditional History in the Southern Highlands" by John Otto. "The Country of Conscience" by Jim Wayne Miller. "Union Attitudes and Class Consciousness: The Case of the Tufted Textile Industry" by Joseph McDonald. "Evaluating Educational Performance in Appalachian Kentucky" by Alan DeYoung, Charles Vaught, and Julia Porter. "The Large Vision: Fred Chappell's Midquest" by Rodney Jones. "Prosody in Revolt" by Vic Depta. Reviews by George Scarbrough (Poets of Darkness by James B. Goode) and Bill Lightfoot (Tom Ashley, Sam McGee, Bukka White: Tennessee Traditional Singers ed. Thomas G. Burton). Music reviews by Pat Mullen ("The Music of Peter Rowan"), and W.K. McNeil ("Six Plus One from Flying Fish": Magic in Concert by Jim Post, Coconut Gove by Gove Scrivenor, You and Me At Home by John Hartford, Bright Morning Stars by Happy Traum, River of Swing by Dakota Dave Hull and Sean Blackburn, Settin' the Woods on Fire by Joel Mabus, and Premium Blend by Orrin Star and Gary Mehalick). More "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 9 No. 2-3. (Winter-Spring 1982) CONTENTS: Assessing Appalachian Studies, a special issue on the state of regional studies. Introduction by John Stephenson;"Appalachian Studies Hard and Soft: The Action People and the Creative Folk" by Jim Wayne Miller; "Second-Level Appalachian History: Another Look at Some Fotched-On Women" by David Whisnant; "Image and Identity in Appalachia" by Bob Snyder; "Appalachian Studies: Class, Culture, and Politics" by Dwight Billings and Herbert Reid; "From Nonsense to Good Sense: A Collective Reflection on Appalachia and Appalachian Studies" by Steve Fisher, Jim Foster, and Mary Harnish; "Appalachian Studies--The Next Step" by Helen Lewis; "Regionalism Is a Forever Agenda" by Archie Green; "Traveling with Clint Howard: The Role of Outsiders in Appalachian Studies" by Richard Blaustein; "Chasing Hats in the Winds of Appalachian Studies" by Loyal Jones; "The Struggle in Appalachian Studies 1950-81" by Richard Drake; "Theory Si, Practice No! Appalachian Studies Comes Full Circle" by Frank Einstein; "Consciousness and Appalachia," by Robert Higgs; and "A Selective Bibliography for Appalachian Studies" compiled by Steve Fisher. ($5.00 each)

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Volume 9 No. 4. (Summer 1982) CONTENTS: "The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly: An Interview with Myles Horton" by Bill Moyers."Good-Bad (Appalachian) Novels" by William Schafer. "Religious Songs Remembered: Sweet Rivers, Jean Ritchie" by Beverly Boggs. "The Report of the President's Commission on Coal: A Review Essay" by Alan Banks. "The Development of Working-Class Culture: A Review Essay" by Richard Simon (Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 by David Alan Corbin). Reviews by Fred Chappell (The Laurel Review Winter 1981 " Devoted to Contemporary Appalachian Poetry"), Mary Dunlap (The High-Pitched Laugh of a Painted Lady by Lewis W. Green), Gordon B. McKinney (Fighting Mountaineers: The Struggle for Jusitice in the Appalachians by Edwin D. Hoffman), Richard Couto (Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service by Mary Breckinridge), Brett Sutton (Wayne Erbsen's Backpocket Old Time Songbook and Wayne Erbsen's Backpocket Bluegrass Songbook by Wayne Erbsen), Edwin Arnold (The Phototropic Woman by Annabel Thomas), Jim Wayne Miller (Rural Route by R.T. Smith). Music Reviews by Tim Lloyd ("Three from Folkways": Rural Delivery Number One by The New Lost City Ramblers, Now and Then by Tommy Scott and Curley Seckler, and Are You Feeling it Too? by the Allen Brothers), and Bill Lightfoot ("Quicksilver: Rocking Our Souls"). Poetry by Jim Wayne Miller ("The Brier Heads Clean-Up Preparations for the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, May-October 1982"), George Ella Lyon ("Untitled" and "Salvation"), Lee Howard ("Megaphone") and Bob Snyder ("Donna Jean's Original Face" and "Family Dreams"). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 10 No. 1. (Autumn 1982) CONTENTS: "'Plain and Fancy': The Socioeconomics of Blue Ridge Quilts" by Geraldine Johnson. "Decorating the Appalachian House" by Charles Martin. "'Appalachian' as a Variable in Educational and Psychological Research": a comment by Bruce Henderson on the educational research and theory of Reck & Reck, DeYoung & Vaught, together with their replies. "Kinship and Return Migration in Eastern Kentucky" by Lorraine Garkovich. "Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet: History Darkly, Through A Single-Lens Reflex" by William Schafer. "The Smithsonian Institution and Country Music" by David Whisnant. "Bad Blood: The Afterlife of Elvis Presley" by Charles Camp. Poetry by Phibby Woodward ("Mountain Women" and "Duty"), Parks Lanier ("Sunday Paper Blueprints"), Pauletta Hansel ("To her mother, lying in state"), Mark Wallace ("Fall"), and Ernest Kroll ("Slate Fall [Kentucky]"). Book reviews by W.K. McNeil (Stoney Knows How: Life As a Tattoo Artist by Leonard L. St. Clair and Alan B. Govenar) and Robert L. Taylor (An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee ed. by Jim Stokely). Record reviews by W.K. McNeil (Catalogue by John Hartford, Clogging Lessons by Beverly Cotten, and It Just Suits Me by various artists, June Appal Records), David Whisnant (On the Tennessee Line by Virgil Anderson, In Full Swing by the Luke Smathers String Band, and Meat and Potatoes and Stuff Like That by The Hotmund Family), and Robert Cantwell (Radio Boogie by Hot Rize, American and Clean by the Country Gazette, and Tellulive by various artists from Colorado's Telluride Bluegrass and Country Music Festival). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 10 No. 2. (Winter 1983) CONTENTS: "Land Reform and Appalachia: Lessons from the Third World" with a selected bibliography of works in English on non-U.S. land reform by Steve Fisher. "On the Rim of Knowing: The Achievement of Jeff Daniel Marion" by Dan Leidig. "John F. Day and the Disappearance of Appalachia from the American Consciousness" by Henry Shapiro. "Ethnicity and the Harvard Encyclopedia" by John Lowe. "Class, Conflict and Modernization in the Appalachian South" by Ronald D. Eller. Review essays on Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: The Modernization of the Appalachian South by Ronald D. Eller: "Poverty and Progress in Appalachia" by James C. Cobb and "A New Benchmark in Appalachian History" by John A. Williams. Poetry by George Scarbrough ("The Game"), Richard Hague (Finished with the Poetry of Coal"), Paul Rice ("Made in the Shade"), and Jo Carson ("Six People Pieces": "I wrote and I wrote," "I threw my mother-in-law out," "My brother Estes," "I was born three months before I's due," "Every time I get a little headache," and "One day, I'm gonna write a letter"). Book reviews by Fredrika Teute (Westward into Kentucky: the Narrative of Daniel Trabue ed. by Chester Raymond Young), Pete Daniel (Holding on to the Land and the Lord: Kinship, Ritual, Land Tenure, and Social Policy in the Rural South eds. Robert L. Hall and Carol B. Stack), Frank Einstein (Appalachia/America: Proceedings of the 1980 Appalachian Studies Conference ed. by Wilson Somerville), Tijan M. Sallah (The Tragedy of Platitudinous Piety by Bill Best), John Stephenson (Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance eds. John Shelton Reed and Daniel Joseph Singal), Una Mae L. Reck (Choosing Books for Appalachian Children: An Annotated Bibliography by judy Martin), and W.H. Ward (The Andy Griffith Show by Richard Kelly). Record reviews by Bill Lightfoot ("Playing Outside: Spectrum") and Burt Feintuck (Traditional Music of Southern Appalachia by Byard Ray, Fiddler's Companion by Tracy Schwarz, and Fiddle Fever by Jay Ungar, Evan Stover, and Matt Glaser). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 10 No. 3. (Spring 1983) CONTENTS: "Comparison of the Quality of Life in the Coal and Manufacturing Counties of Eastern Kentucky" by Cynthia L. Duncan and Ann R. Tickamyer. "Skyline Farms: A Case Study of Community Development and Rural Rehabilitation" by David Campbell and David Coombs. "Henry Glassie, Culture, and the Scotch-Irish" by Karl Raitz. "An Introduction to Eugene Healan Thomason: The 'Ashcan Artist' Who Came to the Mountains" by A. Everette James Jr., A. Everette James III, and Elizabeth Williams Thomason. "Some Questions about the ARC's Past and Its Possible Future" by Edgar Bingham. "Election '82: Democratic Resurgence in Appalachia" by C. David Sutton. Fiction by Jo Carson ("Big Yellow Onions"). Poetry by Vicky Hayes ("The Country Store and Diner"). Book reviews by David Liden (Property Tax Effort in Eastern Kentucky Counties: Implications for Financing Public Services by Douglas Dotterweich and Current and Projected Socioeconomic Conditions of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River Basin of Kentucky and Virginia by Gary Cox). Record reviews by Loyal Jones (Powerhouse for God: Sacred Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church by Jeff Todd Titon, Primitive Baptist Hymns of the Blue Ridge recorded by Brett Sutton and Pete Hartman, and Children of the Heav'nly King: Religious Expression in the Central Blue Ridge ed. by Charles K. Wolfe) and John Morefield (The First Family of Country Music by Roni Stoneman and Where Rainbows Touch Down by The Bluegrass Cardinals). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 10 No. 4. (Summer 1983) CONTENTS: "The Status of Formal Education in Central Appalachia" by Alan DeYoung. "Hollywood in the Hills": an interview with Hollywood scriptwriter Tom Rickman (Coal Miner's Daughter)."Wales and Appalachia -- Coal Mining, Culture, and Conflict" by Helen Lewis. "Don West's Sermon on the Mount" by Richard Marius. Review essays: "Culture as Barter" by Jean Haskel Speer (The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible by Mark Dawidziak), "The Mystifications of Post-Industrialism" by Alan Banks and Jim Foster (Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence ed. by Allen Batteau, and "The Solemn Burial of Dialect Humor" by Robert J. Higgs (Mirth of a Nation: America's Great Dialect Humor eds. Walter Blair and Raven I. McDavid Jr.). Book reviews by William Schafer (The Winter People by John Ehle), David Whisnant (TVA and The Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area by Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowney), Bill Lightfoot (I: Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky by Charles K. Wolfe), Jonathan Greene (II: Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky by Charles K. Wolfe), Phil Balla (The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy), George Holt (Folk Festivals: A Handbook for Organization and Management by Joe Wilson and Lee Udall), Doug Gamble (Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present, second edition, eds. Bruce Ergood and Bruce E. Kuhre), Peter Gottlieb (Wheelwright, Kentucky: Community in Transition by Stephan Clark King), John Stephenson and Dwight Billings (We're All Kin: A Cultural Study of a Mountain Neighborhood by F. Carlene Bryant). Record reviews by Bill Lightfoot (It Still Lives by various artists, including Stanley Hicks, from Foxfire Records). Poetry by William Keith Hall ("His Dream's") and Maren Rose ("Cultivation"). "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 11 No. 1-2. (Autumn-Winter 1983-84) CONTENTS: Special "Class" Issue, edited by Alan Banks, Steve Fisher, Jim Foster, Doug Gamble, and Bill Horton. "Regions and Social Relations: A Research Note" by Rick Simon; "Things Fall Apart in Appalachia Too: Hubert Skidmore's Account of the Transition to Capitalism" by Frank Einstein; "Dock Boggs, Musician and Coal Miner" by Barry O'Connell; "Images of Classlessness and Berea College" by Bill Horton; "Cultural Hegemony: The News Media and Appalachia" by Sally Ward Maggard; "Coal Miners and Firebrick Workers: The Structure of Work Relations in Two Eastern Kentucky Communities" by Alan Banks; "The Professional-Managerial Class in Eastern Kentucky" by Richard Thompson and Mary Lou Wylie; "Health and Safety versus Profits in the Coal Industry: The Gateway Case and Class Struggle" by Jim Foster; "Appalachia and the State" by Tom Shannon; "Life with Father: Reflections on Class Analysis" by Steve Fisher. Poems by George Ella Lyon ("Progress"), Astor Simpson ("The Company Man"), Jane Wilson Joyce ("Delving"), and Robert Baber ("In the Capitol Complex"). "Signs of the Times." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 11 No. 3. (Spring 1984) CONTENTS: "Escape to the Periphery: Commodifying Place in Rural Appalachia" by John B. Stephenson. "Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed" by David Henige. "Is There an 'Appalachian English'?" by Walt Wolfram. "An Interview with Lee Smith" by Edwin T. Arnold. "The World of William Lynwood Montell" by Gordon B. McKinney. "The Ninety-Ninth Foxfire Book" by Fred Chappell. "As the World Turns: The Melodrama of Harry Caudill" by Steve Fisher (Review essay on Theirs Be the Power: the Moguls of Eastern Kentucky by Harry Caudill). Shorter book reviews by W.H. Ward (Stories from Tennessee ed. by Linda Burton), Bill Best (Critical Essays in Appalachian Life & Culture: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference ed. by Rick Simon), Jim Wayne Miller (Dancing on Canaan's Ruins by Jim Clark), and James W. Jordan (Mountaineers and Rangers: A History of Federal Forest Management in the Southern Appalachians, 1900-81 by Shelley Smith Mastran and Nan Lowerre). Record review by W.K. McNeil (Way Out On The Mountain: Jimmie Rogers' [sic] Songs by Bud Reed by Bud reed, Down Yonder: Old-Time String Band Music from Georgia by various artists, from Folkways Records, and Early American Folk Music and Songs by various artists, from Folkways Records). Poetry by Kathryn Stripling Byer ("Croon," "Chestnut Flat Mine," "Easter for Willa Mae," and "Soup Pot"), Michael Chitwood ("The Child" and "Dirt Roads"), Rudy Thomas ("Night Life"), Rita Quillen ("The Good Life [for Fred Chappell]"), and Hilda Downer ("Toe River still keeps rhythm to my walk"). Letters to the editor from Douglas P. Dotterweich, Rodger Cunningham, Alan Banks & Jim Foster, and Allen Batteau. "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 11 No. 4. (Summer 1984) CONTENTS: "Appalachian Film List" compiled and edited by Laura Schuster & Sharyn McCrumb."Drama for Appalachians: Maryat Lee's Ecotheater" by William W. French. "Subsistence Farming, Capitalism, and the Depression in West Virginia" by Paul Salstrom. "The Asheville Citizen Strike: An Example of the Ineffectiveness of Appalachian Labor" by James S. Bissett. Interviews with Appalshop filmmakers Herb E. Smith and Helen Lewis. Poetry by Paul Ramsey ("These," "Visitant," and "Hoedown") and Jim Webb ("Get In, Jesus"). Review essay: "South and Non-South: Or, How Monochrome Was My Valley" by Werner Sollors (One South: An ethnic Approach to Regional Culture by John Shelton Reed), "Land Ownership in Appalachia: The Limits of Public Interest Research" by Gene Wunderlich (Who Owns Appalachia? by the Appalachian Land Ownership Trust), and "The Americanization of John Egerton and Aunt Arie" by Charles L. Perdue Jr. (Generations: An American Family by John Egerton and Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait eds. Linda Garland and Eliot Wigginton). Shorter book reviews by John Egerton (The Kidwells: A Family Odyssey by Dwayne E. Walls), Lynwood Montell (Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Folktales from the Mountains of Northern Pennsylvania by James York Glimm), Wilma Dykeman (My Other Loneliness. Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein ed. by Suzanne Stutman and Beyond Love and Loyalty. The Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell Together with 'No More Rivers,' a story by Thomas Wolfe ed. by Richard S. Kennedy), Carl Ross (One of God's Children: In Toe River Valley by Robert B. Phillips), Charles Joyner (A Catalogue of Pre-Revival Appalachian Dulcimers by L. Allen Smith), and Thomas Shannon (Our Own Worst Enemy: the Impact of Military Production on the Upper South by the Highlander Research and Education Center). Record reviews by Stephanie Perrin (New Leaves On an Old Tree by Caswell-Carnahan, Mountain Tales by Roadside Theater by Roadside Theater, and Hits from Home by Tom Bledsoe and Rich Kirby), Edelma de Leon (Fine Times At Our House by John McCutcheon, Second Helping by the Harmony Sisters, American Son by Kevin Delaney, and Finally Letting It Go by Geof Morgan), and Deb Thompson (Sandy's Fancy by Sandy Bradley and Green Sneakers by Robin Flowers). A letter from Rodger Cunningham. "Signs of the Times" and the quarterly "Chronicle" (some of the more remarkable events in recent Appalachian history). ($5.00 each)

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Volume 12 No. 1. (Fall 1984) CONTENTS: "Whose Land and Music Shall Ours Be?" by Barry O'Connell."Two 'Peripheries' Look at Each Other: Italy and Appalachian America" by Alessandro Portelli. An interview with Gurney Norman. "Appalachian Identity at Ohio State University" by Norman R. Rose and Bettye A. Pfau-Vicent. "Undercurrents of Idealism" by Robin Gregg. Review essays: "Divine Right's Trip: A Folk Tale or Postmodern Novel?" by Annalucia Accardo (Divine Right's Trip by Gurney Norman) and "Florence Reece: Against the Current" by Loyal Jones (Against the Current: Poems and Stories by Florence Reece). Poetry by Bob Henry Baber ("The Broad Form of the Company's Deeds, II") and Victor M. Depta ("Pike County"). Book reviews by Fred S. Rolater (Westering Man: the Life of Joseph Walker, Master of the Frontier by Bill Gilbert), and Gordon B. McKinney (The Invention of Tradition ed. by Eric Hobsbawn and Terence Ranger). Music Reviews by W.K. McNeil ("Doc Watson on Flying Fish"), and William E. Lightfoot ("Folk Music From Georgia"). "Signs of the Times" and the quarterly "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 12 No. 2. (Winter 1985) CONTENTS: "Hackfights and Derbies" by Harold A. Herzog Jr. "Embracing the Common: Mary Lee Settle in World War II" by Joyce Coyne Dyer. "The New Pluralism and the New Local History" by Henry D. Shapiro. "Falling Apart and Staying Together: Recent Fiction by Bobbie Ann Mason and Leon Driskell" examined by Edwin T. Arnold. "Culture and Rumors of Culture: David E. Whisnant's All That is Native and Fine " an essay by Charles Alan Watkins."Bends in The River: Hollywood's Problem with Place" by Gerald C. Wood. "Short Coattails: The 1984 Election in Appalachia" by C. David Sutton. Book reviews by Thomas Plaut (Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments eds. Patricia D. Beaver and Burton L. Purrington), Gene Conti (TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy eds. Erwin Hargrove and Paul Conkin), and Stephanie Perrin (Ford: A Village in the West Highlands of Scotland by John B. Stephenson with the assistance of Sheena Carmichael). "Signs of the Times" and"Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 12 No. 3. (Spring 1985) CONTENTS: "Merchandising the Mountaineer: Photography, the Great Depression, and Cabins in the Laurel" by Charles Alan Watkins. "'That Ribbon of Social Neglect': Appalachia and the Media in 1964" by Betty Miller Bowler. "Heritage or Hermitage? John Shelton Reed's Southerners" by Rodger Cunningham. "The First Hundred Thousand" by Richard Hague. Poetry by Kenneth King ("I Would Like to Say Hello" and "Put Down"), Walter Lane ("Autobiography of a Nobody" and "Just a Stray Dog"), James McIntosh ("By the Fence at the Mount Morris Cemetery outside Morgantown," "At the Beech Street Crossing in Grafton, West Virginia," and "The Sideshow Girl with the Blue Eyelids"), and Rudy Thomas ("Even a mt. poet should be able to write something"). Book reviews by Robert Coles (The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr.), Richard Peet (Appalachian: A Regional Geography: Land, People, and Development by Karl B. Raitz and Richard Ulack with Thomas R. Leinbach), and Jim Wayne Miller (The Importance of Visible Scars by Don Johnson). Letters to the editor from David Whisnant and Sue Ella Kobak with a response from Stephanie Perrin. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 12 No. 4. (Summer 1985) CONTENTS: "Are They Better Off Than They Were Four Years Ago? Reaganomics and the Women of Athens County" by Patricia Bayer Richard & Joy Huntley. "Reconsidering the Southern 'Hillbilly': Appalachia and the Ozarks" by John Solomon Otto. "'Sweet Bereavement': Robert Cantwell's Bluegrass Breakdown" by David E. Whisnant. "Today's Contemporary Postneohypernewgrass" by Bill Ellis. "Some Real Fruits and Vegetables: Richard Hague's Ripenings" by Frank Steele. Interview with filmmaker Frances Morton by Gordon B. McKinney. Poetry by Anne Shelby ("Appalachian Studies") and Jeanne Shannon ("Spicewood"). Book reviews by Carolyn Hazlett Adams (Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips), Helen M. Lewis (Today at School, Let's Talk about Miners... Montreal: La Maitresse d'ecole Inc. and Centrale de L'Enseignement du Quebec, Getting There: Producing Photostories with Immigrant Women by Deborah Brandt, and AH-HAH! A New Approach to Popular Education by Gatt-Fly), and William W. French (Cabbagetown: 3 Women...An Oral Hiustory Play with Music Adapted by R. Cary Bynum)."Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 13 No. 1. (Fall 1985) CONTENTS: "The Canonization of Jesse Stuart" by Edwin T. Arnold. "A Lost Generation: The Appalachia of Breece D'J Pancake" by Ellesa Clay High."The High-Pitched Laugh of a Sainted Crazy" by Donald Secreast. "Modern and Contemporary Mountain Poetry: A Bibliography" by Rita Quillen. Poetry by Peter D. Zivkovic ("In the Name of the Son and the Holy Ghost") and Jeff Daniel Marion ("Panther" and "Fall"). Book reviews by Burton L. Purrington (The Cherokee Indian Nation: A Troubled History and Journal of Cherokee Studies both ed. by Duane H. King , Bill Ellis (The Garden Seed Inventory ed. by Kent Whealy), Thomas R. Shannon (Does Who Governs Matter? and Political Elites and Social Change both ed. by Moshe M. Czudnowski), Zohara Boyd (Sick of Shadows and Lovely in Her Bones by Sharyn McCrumb), John Morefield (Everybody's Grandpa by Louis M."Grandpa" Jones with Charles K. Wolfe), Charles Joyner (Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford by R. Gerald Alvey), Pete Daniel (The Electric Valley, a James Agee Film Project Production, produced, directed and written by Ross Spears), Edwin T. Arnold (Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy), and Robert J. Higgs (Familiar Ground by Elizabeth Cox). Letters to the editor, "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 13 No. 2. (Winter 1986) CONTENTS: "Culture, Family and Community in Preindustrial Appalachia" by Dwight Billings, Kathleen Blee, and Louis Swanson."The Clam Shell: Mary Lee Settle on East Coast Gentility" by Joyce Coyne Dyer. Reviews by Sam Howie (The Sixkiller Chronicles by Paul Hemphill), Sharyn McCrumb (Sergeant York: An American Hero by David D. Lee), Tena Willemsma & Don Prange (Poverty and Economic Justice: A Philosophical Approach ed. Robert Hartman), Chester Raymond Young (Seedtime on the Cumberland and Flowering of the Cumberland both by Hariette Simpson Arnow), George Scarbrough (Alma poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer and Night Student poems by Nancy Simpson), George Ella Lyon (Growing Up Hard in Harlan County by G.C. Jones), Bill Bake (A Naturalist's Blue Ridge Parkway by David T. Catlin), and Kay Baker Gaston (Sequatchie County by Henry R. Camp). "Beyond the Pale and the Leader: Old-Time Music Issues and Reissues" by Bill Ellis. Poetry by Kenneth King ("Cheese Burgher" and "I Must Pay Attentoin to the Teachers") and Llewellyn McKernan ("The Only Old Timer in the Neighborhood"). "Chronicle" and "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 13 No. 3. (Spring 1986) CONTENTS: "Herself: Woman and Place in Appalachian Literature" by Carole Ganim. "Experts vs. Amateurs: The Irony of School Consolidation in Jackson County, Kentucky" by Tom Boyd and Alan J. DeYoung."A Complete Mountaineer" by Loyal Jones. Poetry by Victor M. Depta ("The Glittering") and Bob Henry Baber ("The Stripping of Cold Knob" and "West Virginia Lowku"). Reviews by Robert L. Taylor (Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930 by Don H. Doyle), Charles Camp (Where the Potomac Begins: A History of the North Branch Valley by Gilbert Gude), Richard Gordon (Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia by Ivan M. Tribe), John C. Inscoe (Fiddle and Bow by Robert Taylor, Jr.), W.K. McNeil (Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford by Loyal Jones), William J. Schafer (Southern Dreams and Trojan Women by Leo Snow), Robert B. Jones (Editorial Wild Oats: Edward Ward Carmack and Tennesseee Politics by Willima R. Majors), Carole Ganim (Feminist Archetypal Theory: Interdisciplinary Re-Visions of Jungian Thought ed. with an introduction and a Theoretical Conclusion by Estella Lauter and Carol Schreier Rupprecht), Durwood Dunn (Literature of Tennessee ed. by Ray Willbanks), Marshall Hyatt (Blacks in Appalachia ed. by William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell), and Pete Daniel (Lord and Father A Film by Joe B. Gray, Junior). "Festival Theater at Rock Kiln Ruin, Lexington, VA" by William W. French. "Appalachian Music from Folkways" by Ivan M. Tribe (Let Me Fall: Old Time Bluegrass from the Virginia-North Carolina Border by Cullen Galyean and Bobby Harrison, Smokey Joe Miller and His Georgia Pals by Smokey Joe Miller, Newman Young and Lawrence Humphries, Half and Half, Volume II by Half and Half, and Suzanne by Harley Allen and Mike Lilly). "Chronicle" and "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 13 No. 4. (Summer 1986) CONTENTS: "Harvey Davis's Unpublished Civil War 'Diary' and the Story of Company D of the First North Carolina Cavalry" edited and introduced by Francis B. Dedmond. An interview with Mike Seeger and Hazel Dickens by Richard Straw. Poetry by George Scarbrough ("The Heart Attack") and Kenneth King ("Renderings"). Reviews by Melanie L. Sovine (Women's Folklore, Women's Culture ed. by Rosan A. Jordan and Susan J. Kalcik), Paul Campbell (Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians by Wendy Ewald), Richard A. Couto (Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry by Curtis Seltzer), Barbara Smith (Man Pains by John Clark), and David E. Whisnant (The Edden Hammons Collection ed. by John A. Cuthbert and Alan Jabbour and Dock Boggs: His Original Recordings produced by Mike Seeger). A letter to the editor from Paul Salstrom, with a response from Dwight Billings, Kathleen Blee, and Louis Swanson. "Chronicle" and "Signs of the Times." (out of print. Available in spiral-bound photocopy. $20.00 each)

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Volume 14 No. 1. (Fall 1986) CONTENTS: "The Nicaraguan Revolution and the U.S. Response: Lessons for Appalachia," by Steve Fisher. "Gradual Changes: Meredith Sue Willis and the New Appalachian Fiction" by Ken Sullivan."Carving Out a Life: The Dollmaker Revisited" by William J. Schafer. "'On a Slow Train through Arkansaw': Creating an Image for a Mountain State" by John Solomon Otto. Interviews with Harriette Arnow by Nancy Joyner and with Lou Crabtree by E.T. Arnold. "...And Ladies of the Club": Jim Wayne Miller's attack on The History of Southern Literature. Poetry by Bob Snyder ("Comfort Me with Hyssop" and "Up State") and Ed Davis ("Summitry"). Reviews by John Inscoe (A History of Mt. Mitchell and the Black Mountains: Exploration, Development, and Preservation by S. Kent Schwarzkopf), Leon Driskell (Sweet Hollow: Stories by Lou V. Crabtree), and Barbara Smith (Pearl by Patricia Shirley). The "Chronicle" and "Signs of the Times." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 14 No. 2. (Winter 1987) CONTENTS: "Old Jack and the New Deal: The Virginia Writers' Project and Jack Tale Collecting in Wise County, Virginia" by Charles L. Perdue Jr. (includes the complete texts of 28 previously unpublished Jack tales). "Catawba Influences on the Modern Cherokee Pottery Tradition" by Thomas J. Blumer. "Rethinking the House: Interior Space and Social Change" by Michael Ann Williams. Poetry by Rita Quillen ("Sunday School Lesson") and Michael Chitwood ("Goats"). Reviews by Sally Ward Maggard (The Correspondence of Mother Jones ed. Edward M. Steel), Zohara Boyd (Highland Laddie Gone by Sharyn McCrumb), John Shelton Reed (Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life in the Twentieth Century by Pete Daniel), Robert L. Taylor (Nashville Since the 1920s by Don H. Doyle), and Sharyn McCrumb (Heaven by V.C. Andrews) . "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle. ($5.00 each)

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Volume 14 No. 3. (Spring 1987) CONTENTS: "I wanted to go to school forever" by Lucinda Oakley Ogle. "True Grit: Conversations on the Appalachian Literary Renascence" by Bob Henry Baber (interviews with Bob Snyder, Don Askins, Gurney Norman, Jim Webb, Peggy Hall, Jim Wayne Miller). "Election '86: All Politics Is Local" by David Sutton. Reviews by David E. Whisnant (Bluegrass: A History by Neil V. Rosenberg), Sandra L. Ballard (Hunter's Horn by Harriette Simpson Arnow), John M. Glen (Rural Community in the Appalachian South by Patricia Duane Beaver), Fred Chappell (O-Zone by Paul Theroux), George Scarbrough (The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest by Kathryn Stripling Byer), Gene Conti (TVA and the Tellico Dam 1936-1979 by William Bruce Wheeler and Michael J. McDonald), Durwood Dunn (Homewards: A Book of Tennessee Writers ed. by Douglas Paschall and Alice Swanson), Burt Purrington (The Eastern Band of Cherokees, 1819-1900 by John R. Finger), Sam Howie (Me and the Boy: Journey of Discovery - Father and Son on the Appalachian Trail by Paul Hemphill), Charles Alan Watkins (Doris Ulmann, American Portraits by David Featherstone), Thomas McGowan (Weaving Rag Rugs: A Women's Craft in Western Maryland by Geraldine Niva Johnson), Edgar Bingham (ARC from Implementation to Payoff Decade and Beyond by Stuart Seely Sprague), and "1986 Season of the Festival Theater at Rock Kiln Ruin" by William W. French. Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 14 No. 4. (Summer 1987) CONTENTS: 'Brethren, We Have Met Again': The Old Regular Baptists and 'Association Time'" by Howard Dorgan; 'God'll Just Bless You All Over the Place,: Hymnody in a Blue Ridge Mountain Independent Baptist Church" by Jeff Todd Titon. A new and comprehensive bibliography on Harriette Arnow by Sandra L. Ballard. Poetry by Jo Carson ("Lightning," "Crows," "Saved," "Fishing"), Bob Henry Baber ("Richwood"), and Victor M. Depta ("A Hillbilly at the Center of Civilization"). Book reviews by Richard A. Straw (Eastern Kentucky: A Pictorial History by Stuart Sprague), Dan Leidig (A Summer Ago by George Scarbrough), Curtis Seltzer (Coal in Appalachia: An Economic Analysis by Curtis E.Harvey), Sam Howie (Talking Man: A Fantasy Novel by Terry Bisson), Carolyn Hazlett Adams (Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel: Contemporary Appalachian Writing Edited by Jim Webb and Gurney Norman), and John Opie (Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience by Roger Cunningham). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 15 No. 2. (Winter 1988) CONTENTS: "Pattern of a Writer: Attitudes of James Still" by Dean Cadle; "Memories of a Presbyterian Mission Worker: An Interview with Rubie Ray Cunningham" by John C. Inscoe; "Miners' Wisdom" by Mike Yarrow. Reviews by Marshall Hyatt (The Day of Small Things: Abolitionism in the Midst of Slavery: Berea, Kentucky by Richard Sears), Dwight B. Billings (Killings: Folk Justice in the Upper South by William Lynwood Montell), Gordon B. McKinney (The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America Edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude, also Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia by Frederick A. Bode and Donald E. Ginter), Bill C. Malone (Recordings from the Tennessee Folklore Society), and William W. French (Festival Theater at Lime Kiln Ruin, 1987). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 15 No. 3. (Spring 1988) CONTENTS: "Cradle of the Copperheads: Education and the Career of Jesse Stuart" by Paul Douglass; "A Change in Altitude Demands a Change in Attitude" by Karl Raitz; "Pancake and Benedict" by Bob Snyder. An interview with Helen Matthews Lewis by Patricia Beaver. Poetry by Don Johnson ("Raymond Pierce's Vietnamese Wife"), George Scarbrough ("Grace" and "The Sharer: For My Father"), and Richard Hague ("Black Sheep"). Reviews by William J. Schafer (Cradle of Copperheads by Jesse Stuart), Melanie Sovine (The Breckinridges of Kentucky by James C. Klotter), George Scarbrough (The Tall Tales of Davy Crockett. The Second Nashville Series of Crockett Almanacs, 1839-1841 Edited by Michael A. Lofaro), Richard Marius (The Fred Chappell Reader by Fred Chappell), John Morefield (Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor Edited by Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler), and Mike Henson (His First, Best Country by Jim Wayne Miller). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 15 No. 4. (Summer 1988) CONTENTS: "John Sayles Plays the Preacher" [review of Matewan (film) and Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie "Matewan"] by John Alexander Williams; "Hatfields and McCoys Revised" by James C. Klotter; "Feudin', Prayin', Writin' by Bill Ellis. Poetry by Jeff Daniel Marion ("Signs of the Times: Poems found by the Roadsides" and "An Agrarian Triumph on the Final Marquee of Maloy Drive-In Theatre at Mossy Creek, Tennessee) and Kenneth King ("I Do Not Get to Gobble Gobble"). Reviews by Robert J. Higgs (The Humor of H.E. Taliaferro Edited by Raymond C. Craig), Joyce Dyer (The Southern Family by Gail Godwin), Jean Haskell Speer (Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina), Matthew R. Walpole (The History of Jackson County Edited by Max R. Williams), Phillip J. Obermiller (Building Appalachia's Capacity to Compete: Report to the Appalachian Regional Commission SRI INternational, Center for Economic Competitiveness), Llewellyn McKernan Father Time and the Day Boxes by George Ella Lyon, A Regular Rolling Noah by George Ella Lyon, Borrowed Children by George Ella Lyon, In the Time of Nick by Bob Henry Baber, Ice Cycle Soup poem by Bob Henry Baber, A Bed Time Rhyme poem by Bob Henry Baber, and Appalachian Scrapbook: An A,B,C, of Growing Up in the Mountains by Pauline Cheek), Burton L. Purrington (Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to Adena and Ohio Hopewell Sites by Susan L. Woodward and Jerry N. McDonald, also Indian Mounds of the Atlantic Coast: A Guide to Sites from Maine to Florida by Jerry N. McDonald and Susan L. Woodward), William M. Hutchins (Ransack by Michael Henson, also A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind and Other Stories by Mike Henson), Rebecca Winders (Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American by Margaret Ripley Wolfe), John M. Glen (Voices from the Sixties a four-part radio documentary), Bill Ellis (Murder, Mayhem, Hydrophobia (and just plain ol' dyning in Central West Virginia) by Shirley E. Grose), John Morefield (Stories from Sherwood Anderson Country: Contest Winners, 1976-1986 Edited by Charles E. Modlin and Hilbert Campbell), and Ivan M. Tribe (Appalachian Music on Flying Fish Records). Letters from Bill Best and Martin Morse Wooster. Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 16 No. 2. (Winter 1989) CONTENTS: "The Study of Appalachian Mountain Religion" by Deborah Vansau McCauley; "Working Women: The Intersection of Historical Anthropology and Social History" by Mary K. Anglin; "Ghosts (by the wind grieved)" by Lewis W. Green; and "Incumbent Appreciation Day: The 1988 Election in Appalachia" by C. David Sutton. Poetry by George Scarbrough ("Early Schooling"), Ernest Kroll ("Why 'Mill Brook'"), and P.J. Laska ("Mstistry"). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 16 No. 3. (Spring 1989) CONTENTS: "The Brier Goes to College" by Joyce Dyer; "Cash Is a Four-Letter Word" by Paul Salstrom. Poetry by Jeff Daniel Marion ("Schwinn Beaver, the Vegetable Vendor Greets His Best Customer Fresh From Her Bath at Her Own Backdoor," "Signs of the Times: Part II: Poems Found by the Roadside") and Judy K. Miller ("Disobedience," "Skin Tight"). Reviews by Charles L. Perdue Jr. (Shenandoah National Park: An Interpretative Guide by John A. Conners), Edwin T. Arnold (The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy by Vereen M. Bell), Zohara Boyd (Paying the Piper by Sharyn McCrumb), Laurel Horton (North Carolina Quilts Edited by Ruth Haislip), John Morefield (All Night Dog by Garry Barker), John Alexander Williams (The Conservation of Culture: Folklorists and the Public Sector Edited by Burt Feintuch), R. Chesla Sharp (Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 by Durwood Dunn), Patricia Beaver (Beech Creek: A Study of a Kentucky Mountain Neighborhood by James Brown), Robert Coles (Appalachian Mental Health Edited by Susan Emley Keefe), and Gordon B. McKinney (Bushwackers/The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains by William R. Trotter). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 16 No. 4. (Summer 1989) CONTENTS: "The Closing of the Open Range in Watauga County, N.C." by Matthew R. Walpole; "How Isolated Was Appalachia? Upper East Tennessee, 1780-1835" by David C. Hsiung; "America's Soweto: Population Redistribution in Appalachian Kentucky, 1940-1986" by Stephen E. White. Billy D. Horton on Highlander: No Ordinary School and a "Postscript: Highlander Agonistes" by Sam Howie. Other reviews by Sharlotte Neely (Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle), Michael Henson (Possible Debris by Richard Hague), and Sidney Saylor Farr (Kinfolks and Custard Pie: Recollections and Recipes from an East Tennessean by Walter N. Lambert). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 17 No. 1. (Fall 1989) CONTENTS: "Transylvania Breakdown: A Mirror for Appalachia," by Phil Balla; "An Interview with Michael Maloney" by Bruce Tucker; "Burning Mississipi: Letters Home/Hollywood History" by Michael Yarrow. Reviews by Bob Snyder (A Southern Appalachian Reader by Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb), P.J. Laska (Crum by Lee Maynard, also Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina), Robert J. Higgs (A Literary History of Kentucky by William S. Ward), Susan Emley Keefe (Gettin' Some Age on Me: Social Organization of Older People in a Rural American Community by John Van Willigen), Barbara Ellen Smith (What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining by Keith Dix), Tom McKnight (More Than Moonshine: Appalachian Recipes and Recollections by Sidney Saylor Farr), Gerald Milnes (With Fiddle and Well-Bosined Bow: Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama by Joyce H. Cauthen), Ivan Tribe (Old-Time Appalachian Music From Old Homestead Part I, recordings), and Gene Wiggins (Old-Time Appalachian Music From Old Homestead, Part II, recordings). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)

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Volume 17 No. 2. (Winter 1990) CONTENTS: "Patterns of Paternalism in Harlan County" by Alessandro Portelli; "Blue Knob: Gone But Not Forgotten" by Bob Henry Baber; "Eat Grits and Die: Or, Cracker, Your Breed Ain't Hermeneutical" by Rodger Cunningham. Poetry by Barbara Presnell ("Ethel's poem") and Kenneth King ("The Things She Has, The Things She Needs"). Book reviews by Joyce Dyer (Charley Bland by Mary Lee Settle), Sally Ward Maggard (The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones Edited by Edward M. Steel), R. Chesla Sharp (Variation and Change in Georgraphically Isolated Communities: Appalachian English and Ozark English by Donna Christian, Walt Wolfram, and Nanjo Dube), George Ella Lyon (Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces by Jo Carson), and Richard A. Humphrey (The Journey is My Home: A Film About Nelle Morton 16mm film). Letters to the editor, "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 17 No. 3. (Spring 1990) CONTENTS: "The Paradox of the 'Familiar Outsider'" by Nelda Knelson Daley and Sue Ella Kobak; "Al, Abner, and Appalachia,' by Edwin T. Arnold; "All God's Children Got Wings (And Six Legs, Carapaces, Rub Accents)" by William J. Schafer. Book Reviews by David E. Whisnant (The Past Is Another Country: Representation, Historical Consciousness, and Resistance in the Blue Ridge by Stephen William Foster), John C. Inscoe (The Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Cultural Traditions and Literary Form by Mary Ann Wimsatt), John Alexander Williams (Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina by John Inscoe), William K. McNeil (Four From June Appal, Mountain Masters series), and Ivan Tribe (The Appalachian Heritage on Heritage Records). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 17 No. 4. (Summer 1990) CONTENTS: "The Story of Breece D'J Pancake" and a Breece Pancake Bibliography by Thomas E. Douglass; "Will the Curriculum Be Unbroken?" by Bob Snyder; "Culture, Southern?" by Werner Sollors. Poetry by Jim Wayne Miller ("When He Was Brier in Residence" and "Bhagavad-Briar"). Book reviews by Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. (Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge by James L. Peacock and Ruel W. Tyson, Jr.), John Morefield (Appalachian Patterns by Bo Ball), Sam Howie (The Year the Lights Came On by Terry Kay, After Eli by Terry Kay, and Dark Thirty by Terry Kay), and Richard Drake (A Mountain Heritage: The Illustrated History of Western Carolina University by Curtis W. Wood and H. Tyler Blethen, Beside the Waters of the Buffalo: A History of Milligan College to 1941 by Cynthia Ann Cornwell). A letter to the editor from Denise Giardina. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume18 No. 1. (Fall 1990) CONTENTS: Interview with Marilou Awiakta, "Reweaving the Future," by Thomas Rain Crowe; "What Doth it Profit? The Study of Mountain Religion," a round-table discussion, including "The Social Sciences and Born-Again Religion" by Paul Salstrom; 'Being There': The Hermeneutic of Facticity, of Presence" by Deborah Vansau McCauley; "The Eagerness to Theorize" by Howard Dorgan; "Is the Past Another Country?" by Altina Waller; "Titon's Mirror" by Charles T. Davis III; "Crossing Academic Disciplines" by Jeff Todd Titon. "Scotch-Irish and Others" by Rodger Cunningham. Poetry by Joseph Barrett ("Perverse Milk Runaway"), Michael Chitwood ("A Sense of Place"), Dana Wildsmith ("New Poor"), and P.J. Laska ("The Race of the Century"). Book reviews by Charles Alan Watkins (Images of the Appalachian Coalfields by Builder Levy), Richard Marius (Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Fred Chappell), Mack H. Gillenwater (Little Cities of Black Diamonds: Urban Development in the Hocking Coal Region, 1870-1900 by Ivan M. Tribe, Sprinkled with Coal Dust: Life and Work in the Hocking Coal Region, 1870-1900 by Ivan M. Tribe), Robert Conte (A Village Tapestry: The History of Blowing Rock by Barry M. Buxton), Guy L. Osborne (Four Voices: Stories of Community Based Education a film by Pamela Yates), John Alexander Williams (The History of the Greenbrier, America's Resort by Robert S. Conte), J. Linn Mackey (Conscience of a Conservationist by Michael Frome), and Gilbert O. Steensma (Appalachian Authors: A Selective Bibliography by Jefferson D. Caskey). A film review by Guy L. Osborne and record reviews by Dennis J. Delprato and Rachel B. Harley. An obituary on Myles Horton by John Egerton. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 18 No. 2. (Winter 1991) CONTENTS: "Hollywood in the Hills: The Making of Stark Love" including "Introduction" by Kevin Brownlow and "[The Making of Stark Love] from The Paramount Adventure" by Karl Brown. Poetry by James Still ("Those I Want in Heaven With Me Should There Be Such a Place") and Bob Snyder. Book reviews by John Lang (Looking for Native Ground: Contemporary Appalachian Poetry by Rita Quillen), Edwin T. Arnold (Comics as Culture by M. Thomas Inge), and Barry Lee Pearson (Virginia's Blues, Country & Gospel Records 1902-1943: An Annotated Discography by Kip Lornell). Record reviews by William E. Lightfoot (Lulu Belle and Scotty in Context), Rachel B. Harley and Dennis J. Delprato (Copper Creek and Blue Tone Records: Live Performances and Reissues). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 18 No. 3. (Spring 1991) CONTENTS: "Trip to Ypsilanti: Traveling for Unity among the Old Regular Baptists" by Howard Dorgan; "Writing Out of the Region" by Meredith Sue Willis; "Incumbents Survive, But Warning Shots Fired: Election 19011 by David Sutton. Poetry by P.J. Laska ("By Way of Night") and a letter from Larry Vonalt (about William Schafer's essay on Donald Harington). Reviews by Woodrow Hill (Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina by Roger Manley and O, Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountains by Ramona and Millard Lampell), Curtis Seltzer (Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry by Priscilla Long), Nancy J. Martin-Perdue (A Bearer of Tradition: Dwight Stump, Basketmaker by Rosemary O. Joyce), Philip Balla (Vigils by Jeff Daniel Marion and Sigodlin by Robert Morgan), Virginia Hege Tobiassen (The Barefoot Bride by Rebecca Paisley), and Richard B. Drake (Catawba: The Story of a College by Francis B. Dedmond). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 18 No. 4. (Summer 1991) CONTENTS: INDEX II. Complete subject index to volumes 8-18, 1980-1991, compiled by Robert Bruce Hadley and edited by Anna Creadick. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 19 No. 1. (Fall 1991) CONTENTS: "Agrarian Tragedy: Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker" by Steve Mooney; "The Apprenticeship of Breece DIJ Pancake: An Unpublished Story, Poems, and Letters" with an introduction by Thomas E. Douglass; "App. Lit. and the H. Grail" by Jim Williams. Poetry by Rita Quillen ("Innocence"), Elizabeth Adams("Burnt Fingers"), and Jeff Hardin ("Dashboards"). Reviews by Pat Arnow (Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam by James R. Wilson), Philip Balla (Invitation to Kim by George Scarbrough), Jeff Todd Titon (The Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope by Howard Dorgan), Meredith Sue Willis (A Good Baby by Leon Rooke), Jean Haskell Spear (The Cratis Williams Symposium Proceedings: A Memorial and Examination of the State of Regional Studies in Appalachia by Appalachian Consortium Press and the Faculty Development and Instructional Services Center and Cratis D. Williams Graduate School of Appalachian State University), Michael E. Maloney & Phillip J. Obermiller (The Livelihood of Kin: Making Ends Meet "The Kentucky Way" by Rhoda H. Halperin), and Ivan M. Tribe & Deanna L. Tribe ("Heritage Runs Off Another Batch"). A letter to the editor from Ken Sullivan. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 19 No. 2. (Winter 1992) CONTENTS: "Culture Wars: David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed," a round-table discussion including "David Hackett Fischer and the origins of Appalachian Culture" by Gordon B. McKinney; "Back Home and the Backcountry" by Edward J. Cowan; "Second and Third Thoughts on Albion's Seed" by Rodger Cunningham; "The Power of Culture" by Altina Waller; and a response, "Albion and Appalachia," by David Hackett Fischer. Reviews by Jo Harris (The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life by James Still), John C. Inscoe (Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas by E. Stanley Godbold, Jr.), Charles G. Zug III (Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas, 1819-1870 by Swannee Bennett & William B. Worthen), Avery F. Gaskins (Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Laws in the Mountain South, 1865-1900 by Wilbur R. Miller), John Edmund Stealey III (This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair, 1951-52 by Charles H. McCormick), John Lang (The Poetics of Appalachian Space Ed. by Parks Lanier, Jr.), Larry Vonalt (The Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington), Steve Mooney (The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology Ed. by David Allen Corbin), Barbara Ellen Smith (Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932 by Joe William Trotter, Jr.), Gary Stanton (Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley by John A. Jakle, Robert W. Bastian, and Douglas K. Meyer), Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. (God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society by Melinda Bollar Wagner), Jonathan Greene (Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds--An Anthology of Personal Accounts Ed. by Mervin Lane), Lonn Taylor (Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures Ed. by Barbara Allen and Thomas J. Schlereth), Dennis J. Delprato & Rachel B. Harley ("Three Assorted Releases from Rounder"). Letters to the editor from George Ella Lyon, Lynn Powell, and Bob Snyder. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 19 No. 3. (Spring 1992) CONTENTS: "On the Use of Dialect as Evidence: Albion's Seed in Appalachia" by Michael Ellis; "Work, Family, and Faith: Marshall Fleming's Folk Art" by Woodward S. Bousquet; "Middle-Class Townie: Jayne Anne Phillips and the Appalachian Experience" by Avery F. Gaskins; "'Twirl and Bob and Flop and Lurch': The Novels of T.R. Pearson" by William J. Schafer. Reviews by Sam Howie (Remembering Our Past--Building Our Future compiled and edited by Helen M. Lewis), Tyler Blethen (Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire Ed. by Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan), and Gene Wiggins ("Four Stoneman Family Recordings"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 19 No. 4. (Summer 1992) CONTENTS: "Family Group, Family Migration, and the Civil War in the Sandy Basin of Virginia," by Ralph Mann; "The Sincere Milk of the Word" by Victor M. Depta; an interview with Lee Smith by Nancy Parrish; an interview with Fred Chappell by Tersh Palmer; and poetry by Michael McFee ("Triple Exposure") and Elizabeth Adams ("Little Canyons"). Reviews by Philip F. Notarianni (The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History by Alessandro Portelli), Philip Balla (Old Martins, New Strings by the Mason-Dison Trio [Joseph Barrett, P.J. Laska, Bob Snyder]), Barry J. Ward (The Milkweed Ladies by Louise McNeill and Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems by Louise McNeill), Gordon B. McKinney (Burnside by William Marvel), Joe W. Trotter (Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960 by Crandall A. Shifflett), David C. Hsiung (Appalachian Frontiers: Settlement, Society, & Development in the Preindustrial Era Ed. by Robert D. Mitchell), Paul Salstrom (Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789 by Albert H. Tillson, Jr.), David Reynolds (The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars Ed. by Ken Sullivan), Susan O'Dell Underwood (More Shapes Than One by Fred Chappell), Gary Stanton (Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina by Michael Ann Williams), and Guy L. Osborne (O, Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountains An exhibition organized by the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 20 No. 1. (Fall 1992) CONTENTS: "The Thread That Runs So Bodacious" by Bob Snyder; "The Edification of Lill Abnerfeather" by William J. Schafer; "Style and Meaning in Contemporary Documentary Film" by Jeff Todd Titon; an interview with Jo Carson by Jo Harris; an interview with Pinckney Benedict by Thomas E. Douglas. Reviews by John B. Stephenson (Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South by John Egerton), Philip Balla (Quilt Pieces: "The Quilt Poems" by Jane Wilson Joyce and "Family Knots" by Meredith Sue Willis and Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board by Michael McFee), Jim Minick (The Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Discovery by Jan D. Curran), Richard A. Cuoto (Appalachian Passage by Helen B. Hiscoe), Burton L. Purrington (Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence by Sharlotte Neely), Paul F. Wells (That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture by Karen Linn), Mike Yarrow (Law and Order vs. the Miners: West Virginia 1906-1917 by Richard D. Lunt), Robert J. Higgs (Snakehunter by Chuck Kinder), and W.K. McNeil (Two Virginia Stalwarts); and poetry by George Scarbrough ("Christmas, 1991") and Hilda Downer ("The steady buzz of molecules was the spawning of new worlds"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 20 No. 2. (Winter 1993) CONTENTS: "Mountain Echoes of the African Banjo" by Cecelia Conway; "Unpacking Pinckney in Poland" by John Alexander Williams; "The Low-Down on a High Place: Family Matters in Heathen Valley" by D.F. Hurley; an interview with Daniel Boyd. Reviews by Charles Alan Watkins (Cabins in the Laurel by Muriel Earley Sheppard), Meredith Sue Willis (The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina), Barbara Smith (A Sheltered Life by Harry Dean), Victor M. Depta (Letourneau's Used Auto Parts by Carolyn Chute), William E. Lightfoot (Coon Creek Girl by Lily May Ledford), Steve Fisher (The Appalachian Regional Commission: Twenty-Five Years of Government Policy by Michael Bradshaw), Cecelia Conway (Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player From Bull Creek directed by Anne Johnson), and Ivan M. Tribe (Rebel Goes to Compact Disc); and poetry by George Scarbrough ("Lee's Funeral" and "Fingerposts") and Hilda Downer ("Every open space fills with sky"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 20 No. 3. (Spring 1993) CONTENTS: "The Salem School and Orphanage: White Missionaries, Black School" by Conrad Ostwalt and Phoebe Pollitt; "A Picture From Life's Other Side: Lee Smith's The Devil's Dream" by Robert Cantwell; an interview with Meredith Sue Willis by Thomas E. Douglass; "It Was the Economy, Stupid: The 1992 Election in Appalachia," by David Sutton. Reviews by Patricia D. Beaver (Female Pastoral: Women Writers Re-Visioning the American South by Elizabeth Jane Harrison), Michael Ellis (Southern Mountain Speech by Cratis D. Williams), John Van Willigen (Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly by Patrick B. Mullen), Ken Sullivan (The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb), Ralph Mann (Jedediah Hotchkiss: Rebel Mapmaker and Virginia Businessman by Peter W. Roper), and Joy Gragg (Hardware River by Alyson Hagy). Poetry by Michael Chitwood ("The Life"), Dana Wildsmith ("Annie Has a New Guitar"), Hilda Downer ("When a Giant Lays Down"), and Bob Snyder ("Patchwork Passion"); and a letter to the editor by Jack Welch. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 20 No. 4. (Summer 1993) CONTENTS: "White Trash in Your Face: The Literary Descent of Dorothy Allison" by David Reynolds; "The Regional Claim" by Chris Holbrook; an interview with Richard Currey by Thomas E. Douglass; an interview with Denise Giardina by Thomas E. Douglass. Reviews by Richard A. Couto (The Culture of Contentment by John Kenneth Galbraith and Miners and Medicine: West Virginia Memories by Claude A. Frazier), Lynn Doyle (The Undertaker's Daughter by Susie Mee and Wildwood Flower by Kathryn Stripling), Sam Howie (Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change Ed. by Steve Fisher), Judy Rodd and Paul Salstrom (Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee: The Archaeology of Bluff Furnance by R. Bruce Council, Nicholas Honerkamp, and M. Elizabeth Will), Michael Ann Williams (Performance, Culture, and Identity Ed. by Elizabeth C. Fine and Jean Haskell Speer), Curtis Seltzer (An American Homplace by Donald McCraig), P.L. Powell (The Activist's Almanac: The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America by David Walls), Jesse Aquillah Jones (The Bitter Berry. The Life of Byron Herbert Reece, Poet/Writer/Farmer/Teacher a film by Gary Moss and Bettie Sellers and The Bitter Berry: The Life of Byron Herbert Reece Study guide by Bettie Sellers), and Ted Olson (The Lonesome River Band: Carrying the Tradition). Poetry by David Black ("At the Gate") and George Scarbrough ("Hardware River Baptism," "Direction," and "Monday"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 21 No. 1. (Fall 1993) CONTENTS: "Portal to Portal: My Experience Mining Coal in Ohio" by R.Glenn Ray; "Kentucky Straight/Kentucky Bent" by William J. Schafer; "Homeless Brothers and Sisters: Interviews in East Tennessee" by Anthony Cavender et al; an interview with Kenneth Walsh by Charles Alan Watkins. Reviews by Jean H. Speer (Roll Me in Your Arms: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Music Volume One: Folksongs and Music by Vance Randolph and Blow the Candle Out: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore. Volume Two: Folk Rhymes and Other Lore by Vance Randolph), Meredith Sue Willis (Small Caucasian Women by Elaine Fowler Palencia), and Charles Alan Watkins (The Handicraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990 by Gary G. Barker). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 21 No. 2. (Winter 1994) CONTENTS: "Will the Real Daisy Mae Please Stand Up?: A Methodological Essay on Gender Analysis in Appalachian Research" by Sally Ward Maggard; "Romanticizing Democracy: The Mountain Art of Howard Murray" by Mary Margaret Cheek; "Waiting for the Revolution" by Mary Beth Pudup; an interview with Jayne Anne Phillips by Thomas E. Douglass. Reviews by Jesse Acquillah Jones (Return to Thunder Road: The Story Behind the Legend by Alex Gabbard), Joyce Dyer (His First, Best Country by Jim Wayne Miller), Llewellyn McKernan (Dreamplace, Who Came Down That Road?, The Outside Inn, Cecil's Story, Basket, Come A Tide, Together, and A B Cedar: An Alphabet of Trees by George Ella Lyon), Susan O'Dell Underwood (The Last of the "Waltz Across Texas" and Other Stories by Jo Carson), Jim Minick (Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life by Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska, also Hogwild: A Back-To-The-Land Saga by Jock Lauterer), and David L. Kimbrough (The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives by Ivan M. Tribe); and poetry by Bob Henry Baber ("December's Shadows"), P.J. Laska ("The Visit"), David Black ("Westbound Tracks," "Killing Time," and "Hiking with My Son"), and Bob Snyder ("West Virginia's Darlin' Gal"). Letters to the editor by Tal Stanley and Sam Howie. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 21 No. 3.(Spring 1994)CONTENTS: "Wealth and Income: The Preindustrial Structure of East Tennessee in 1860" by Robert Tracy McKenzie; an interview with Earl Owensby by Nancy M. Collins; an interview with Jacob Young by Thomas E. Douglass. Reviews by Marc Harshman (West Virginia: A History for Beginners by John Alexander Williams), W.K. McNeil (Lift Up Your Head, Tom Dooley: The True Story of the Appalachian Murder That Inspired One of America's Most Popular Ballards by John Foster), Parks Lanier Jr. (Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom by Marilou Awiakta), Elizabeth Fine (The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia by Howard Dorgan), Jim Birckhead (Serpent-Handling Believers by Thomas Burton), Thomas J. Blumer (Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century by John R. Finger), Charles Perdue Jr. (Grandpap Told Me Tales: Memories of an Appalachian Childhood by James Taylor Adams), and Sam Howie (The Rat Becomes Light and White Trash, Red Velvet by Donald Secreast). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 21 No. 4. (Summer 1994) CONTENTS: "The Blue Ridge Parkway and Myths of the Pioneer" by Phil Noblitt; "Increasing Dependency and the Touristization Rag" by Paul Salstrom and Steve Hollenhorst; "Democracy and Religion: Dissension among the Primitive Baptists" by David Reynolds; an interview with Donald Harington by Edwin T. Arnold. Reviews by Michael Ann Williams (East Tennessee Cantilever Barns by Marian Moffett), Richard Hood (Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music by John Wright), Carolyn Hazlett Adams (Joey Learns to Fly a film by Ed Counts), and Ted Olson ("The Appalachian Express: Making Tracks"); and poetry by Rachel Jennings ("Ode to Revolution" and "At the Site of Old South Clinton Elementary") and E.D. Pendarvis ("Crazy Quilt"). Letters to the editor from Paul Salstrom and Robert Tracy McKenzie. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 22 No. 1.(Fall 1994) CONTENTS: "The Wythe County Lynching of Raymond Bird: Progressivism vs. Mob Violence in the '20s" by Paul G. Beers; "Breece Pancake and the Problem with Place: A West Virginia State of Mind" by Thomas E. Douglass; "Barbara Kingsolver, Moving On" by Meredith Sue Willis. Reviews by David E. Whisnant (Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined edited by Neil V. Rosenberg), Chris Holbrook (Dogs of God by Pinckney Benedict), Alyson Hagy (In the Mountains of America by Meredith Sue Willis), Anita Puckett (Homemade Tales: Songs and Sayings of Florida Slone directed by Mary Angelyn DeBord and Anthony Slone), and Ivan M. & Deanna L. Tribe ("Old-Time Appalachian Music Makers and the Compact Disc"). Letters to the editor from Barbara Rasmussen and John Alexander Williams. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 22 No. 2. (Winter 1995) CONTENTS: "The Bridges of Fenton Johnson" by William J. Schafer; an interview with Fenton Johnson by Anna Creadick; an interview with Andrew S. Garrison by J.W. Williamson. Reviews by Gordon B. McKinney (Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 by Douglas Flamming), Jim Minick (Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge by Charles B. Dew), Laurel Horton (Quilt Culture: Tracing the Pattern edited by Cheryl B. Torsney and Judy Eisley), W.K. McNeil (Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices by James K. Crissman), William E. Lightfoot (Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture edited by W.K. McNeil), and Jesse Acquillah Jones (Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians directed by Anne Lewis Johnson and Bluegrass, Blackmarket directed by Hans Luxemburger); and poetry by Michael Chitwood ("Your People"), Sam Prestridge ("Reception"), David Black ("At the Baptist Cemetary"), and Dana Wildsmith ("Resolve"). A letter to the editor from Richard Blaustein. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 22 No. 3. (Spring 1995) CONTENTS: "The Appalachian Band in the Moral Spectrum" by Bob Snyder; "Annie Oakley and the Hillbilly Jinx" by Paul E. Ross; "Sour Dough: The Elections of '94" by David Sutton. Reviews by Bill Ellis (An Appalachian Medley: Hot Springs and the Gentry Family, Volume 1 by Jacqueline Burgin Painter), Paul Salstrom (Appalachia in an International Context: Cross-National Comparisons of Developing Nations edited by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber), Stephen E. White (From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities edited by Kathryn M. Borman nad Phillip J. Obermiller), John Lang (Ripshin by Kemp Battle Nye), Ralph Mann (Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 by John Solomon Otto), William J. Schafer (Appalachia Inside Out Vol. 1: Conflict and Chage; Vol. 2: Culture and Custom edited by Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller) Martin Crawford (One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee by Robert Tracy McKenzie), Robert Tracy McKenzie (Appalachia's Path to Dependency: Rethinking a Region's Economic History, 1730-1940 by Paul Salstrom), and Gina Herring (Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music by Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann); and poetry by Lynn Doyle ("On First Looking Into the Mountains of the Heart") and Rachel Jennings ("Three Appalachian Alphabets"). John B. Stephenson by Loyal Jones. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 22 No. 4. (Summer 1995) CONTENTS: "Old Appalachia's Path to Interdependency: Economic Development and the Creation of Community in Western Maryland, 1730-1850" by James D. Rice; "West Virginia's Omie Wise: The Folk Process Unveiled" by Gerald Milnes; an interview with Raymond Fairchild by Britt Long. Reviews by John Alexander Williams (Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis by Kenneth W. Noe), John Lang (Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project edited by Bob Henry Baber, The Holy Season: Walking in the Wild. Poems Sacred and Profane. by Albert Stewart, A Picture from Life's Other Side: Appalachian Poems by Bob Henry Baber, The Helen Poems by Victor Depta, So Far by Ted Olson, and Lost & Found by Jeff Daniel Marion), Stephen D. Mooney (Those That Mattered by Barbara Angle), Sam Howie (Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920 by Barbara Rasmussem), Mary Heather Smith (Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies by J.W. Williamson), Melinda Bollar Wagner (Appalachian Atlas by Clifford A. Grammich Jr.), Gordon Simmons (Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips), and Edward L. Henson Jr. (Daughters of Canaan: A Saga of Southern Women by Margaret Ripley Wolfe); and poetry by Victor M. Depta ("Prosody in the Mountains" and "Mountain Poet"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 23 No. 1. (Fall 1995) CONTENTS: "Mountain Justice: The Making of a Feminist Icon and a Cultural Scapegoat" by Sharon Hatfield; an interview with Bordon Mace by Steve Ward; an interview with Walker Calhoun by Ted Olson. Reviews by Douglas Powell (The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdese by Alexander Wilson) , Gordon B. McKinney (My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS by Abraham Verghese), Alan Banks (Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky by Shaunna L. Scott), Michael Lorenzen (A College for Appalachia: Alice Lloyd on Caney Creek by P. David Searles), Richard A. Couto (Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990 by Erwin C. Hargrove and Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz), Joanna Barnes Newton (Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry by Johanna Miller), Dwight B. Billings ("To Shoot, Burn, and Hang": Folk-History from a Kentucky Mountain Family Community by Daniel N. Rolph), Charles Alan Watkins (The Picture Man ed. Ann Hawthorne), Joyce Dyer (Choices by Mary Lee Settle), and Briscoe C. Darling (Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven by Curtis W. Ellison); and P.J. Laska's obituary for Bob Snyder. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 23 No. 2. (Winter 1996) CONTENTS: "Too Odd for California: Incest and West Virginia in James M. Cain's The Butterfly" by Phillip Dubuisson Castille; an interview with David Huddle by Tal Stanley. Reviews by John C. Inscoe (The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2: 1863 ed. Joe A. Mobley), Michael Yarrow (Coal Miners' Wives: Portraits of Endurance by Carol A.B. Giesen), George Stevenson (High Hopes to High Walls: A Documentary History of Wise County, Virginia compiled by Larry A. Lawson and Edward L. Henson Jr.), Conrad Ostwalt (Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History by Deborah Vansau McCauley), Gordon B. McKinney (Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century by Dona Brown), Roger V. Morrison (It Comes From the People: Community Development and Local Theology by Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen M. Lewis, and S. Maxine Waller), Meredith Sue Willis (Come Go Home With Me: Stories by Sheila Kay Adams), Marc Harshman (The Life and Death of a Rural American High School: Farewell Little Kanawha by Alan J. DeYoung), William E. Lightfoot (Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music by Bill C. Malone), Terry E. Miller (The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches by Beverly Bush Patterson), Steve Fisher (Justice in the Coalfields dir. Anne Lewis), and Jessica L. Kelley (Beyond Measure dir. Herb E. Smith); and poetry by Frank X. Walker ("AWake" and "Affralachian"), P.J. Laska ("The Mason-Dixon Sutra"), and Mary Lucille DeBerry ("Child Life In Harrisville"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 23 No. 3. (Spring 1996) CONTENTS: "Snake Handlers: Heritage, Salvation, and Celebrity in the '90's" by Jim Birckhead; an interview with Robert Morgan by Tal Stanley. Reviews by Jim Minick (Notes From a Native Son: Essays on the Appalachian Experience by Garry Barker) , E.D. Pendarvis (Tales Along the Appalachian Plateau by Danny Fulks), John Alexander Williams (Skin: Talking about Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison and World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy by Rosabeth Moss Kantor), Gordon B. McKinney (Troubled Waters: Champion International and the Pigeon River Controversy by Richard A. Bartlett and The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia by Wilma A. Dunaway), Paul Salstrom (Will Appalachia Finally Overcome Poverty? by Anthony J. Salatino), Alyson Hagy (Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia by Chris Holbrook), Sam Howie (Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike by John A. Salmond), Alan J. DeYoung (I Become a Teacher: A Memoir of One-Room School Life in Eastern Kentucky by Cratis D. Williams), F. Carson Mencken (An American Challenge: A Report on Economic Trends and Social Issues in Appalachia by Richard A. Couto), and Jay Ruby (Appalachian Portraits by Shelby Lee Adams); and poetry by Kristin Camitta Zimet ("Pokeweed") and George Scarbrough ("Limits"). A letter to the editor from Watt Childress. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 23 No. 4. (Summer 1996) CONTENTS: INDEX III. Complete subject index to volumes 19-23, 1991-1996. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 24 No. 1. (Fall 1996) CONTENTS: "Gloria Houston and the Burden of the 'Old Culture'" by Roberta Herrin; "Witness in the Nightmare Country: Jayne Anne Phillips" by Meredith Sue Willis; an interview with Donald Secreast by Tal Stanley. Reviews by George Ella Lyon (Counting the Sums by Rita Quillen and Alchemy by Dana Wildsmith), John Lang (Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work by Haeja K. Chung), Henry D. Shapiro (Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century ed.Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina l. Waller), Ralph Mann (Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War by Charles F. Price), Shaunna L. Scott (The Court-Martial of Mother Jones ed. Edward M. Steel), Burton L. Purrington (William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians ed. and annotated Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund), Paul Salstrom (Rethinking Our Centralized Monetary System: The Case for a System of Local Currencies by Lewis D. Solomon), Jesse Acquillah Jones (Early Pioneer Gravestones of Pope County, Illinois by Michael J. McNerney and Herb Meyer), and Stephen Flinn Young (The Plow Reader: Selections from an Appalachian Alternative Newsmagazine of the Late 1970's ed. Ann F. Richman); and poetry by Rachel Jennings ("Letters from Home" and "The Squatters"); a letter to the editor from Craig Howley; "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 24 No. 2. (Winter 1997) CONTENTS: "Culture, History, and Development on the Qualla Boundary: The Eastern Cherokees and the Blue Ridge Parkway, 1935-40" by Anne V. Mitchell. "Hollywood Does Antebellum Appalachia and Gets It (Half) Right": Part I, "How Monochrome Was Their Valley" by Jack Wright; and Part II, "Slavery, Freedom, Frontier: The Historical Perspective" by John C. Inscoe. Reviews by Bill Ellis (The Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family of Beech Mountain by Robert Isbell), Joanna Barnes Newton (A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America by Kathleen Stewart), Steve Fisher (High Tide in Tuscon: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver), and Samuel R. Cook (Indian Island in Amherst County by Peter W. Houck and Mintcy D. Maxham). An obituary tribute to Jim Wayne Miller by Jack Higgs. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 24 No. 3. (Spring 1997) CONTENTS: "Cincinnati's 'Second Minority': The Emergence of Appalachian Advocacy, 1953-1973," by Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas J. Wagner; "Big Dough, Small Change: The Elections of 1996," by David Sutton. Poetry by Pauletta Hansel ("Her Words" and "Kentucky"), John F. Keener ("Thomas Jefferson Kills Aaron Burr on a Footbridge in Clarksburg"), Lynn Martin ("Now, in Late October, I Can See"), and Richard Hague ("My Grandfather's Mandolin"). Reviews by Gordon B. McKinney (A Mansion in the Mountains: The Story of Moses and Bertha Cone and Their Blowing Rock Manor by Philip T. Noblitt and Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Richard Robbins), Phil Noblitt (Great Smoky Mountains Folklife by Michael Ann Williams), William J. Schafer (Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War by David Madden), Karen Linn (African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway), John Alexander Williams (The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925 by John C. Hennen), Chris Holbrook (Knucklebones: 27 Stories by Annabel Thomas), Joanna Barnes Newton (The Christmas Letters: A Novella by Lee Smith), Carolyn Hazlett Adams (Conversations with Kentucky Writers ed. L. Elisabeth Beattie), Jim Minick (Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry), John Lang (Wild Peavines by Robert Morgan), Bruce Dick (Evelyn Williams dir. Anne Lewis), and Dennis J. Delprato. Letters to the editor from Charles F. Price and Paula Wiseman. "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 24 No. 4. (Summer 1997) CONTENTS: "My Exhilerating, Self Destructive, and Near-Criminal Candidacy for the Governorship of West Virginia" by Bob Henry Baber; "Abner Unpinned: Al Capp's Li'l Abner, 1940-1955" by Edwin T. Arnold. Poetry by Richard Hague ("Talking Together"), Suzanne U. Clark ("Looking for Arrowheads"), Hilda Downer ("Why Cows Aren't Christians"), Rita Sims Quillen ("How Do You Remember Him? (for Jim Wayne Miller)"), and Bob Henry Baber ("Aunt Nita"). Reviews by Gina Herring (Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction by Danny L. Miller), Wilma A. Dunaway (Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes by David C. Hsiung), and Susan O'Dell Underwood (Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You by Fred Chappell). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 25 No. 1. (Fall 1997) CONTENTS: "The Market Revolution and Party Preference in East Tennessee: Spatial Patterns of Partisanship in the 1840 Presidential Election" by Craig Brashear. "Fox Hunting: History and Change in a Mountain Sport" by Anne M. Hastings. "Harriette Simpson Arnow's Unpublished Final Novel, Belle" by Sandra L. Ballard. "'Are You Quality or Do You Stack?' Appalachia and the Future of Southern Letters" by Robert J. Higgs. "The Bucks Start Here: Alternative Currencies and the Coming Welfare Disaster" by Paul Salstrom. Reviews by Jesse Aquillah Jones (May We All Remember Well, Volume 1: A Journal of the History and Cultures of Western North Carolina ed. Robert S. Brunk), Paul E. Ross (An Unseemly Man by Larry Flynt and Kenneth Ross), Carolyn Hazlett Adams (Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South by Rodger Lyle Brown), Ralph Mann (Across the Dark River: The Odyssey of the 56th N.C. Infantry in the American Civil War by Clyde H. Ray), Gordon B. McKinney (An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South: Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846 by Durwood Dunn), Craig Brashear (Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861 by Jonathan M. Atkins), Katherine E. Ledford (White Trash: Race and Class in America ed. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz), David H. McGee (Voices from Cemetery Hill: The Civil War Diary, Reports, and Letters of Colonel William Henry Asbury Speer (1861-1864) ed. Allen Paul Speer), and Jim Minick (The Best Short Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains and The Best Overnight Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains by Kenneth Wise and James Andrews). Letters to the editor from Paul Salstrom and David Hsiung, with a response from Wilma A. Dunaway. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 25 No. 2. (Winter 1998) CONTENTS: "White Like Me: A Confession On Race, Region, and Class" by Kathy Jennings. Reviews by David Madden (The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays ed. Kenneth W. Noe and Shannon H. Wilson), Chris Holbrook (Fox Hunter's Paradise by Rodger Goodson), David C. Hsiung (Diversity and Accomodation: Essays on the Cultural Composition of the Virginia Frontier ed. Michael J. Puglisi), Richard Blaustein (One Hundred Years of Appalachian Visions, 1897-1996 ed. Bill Best), Paul Salstrom (People, Land, and Community: Collected E.F. Schumacher Society Lectures ed. Hildegarde Hannum), Mike Yarrow (Women of Coal by Randall Norris and Jean-Phillippe Cypres), Gordon B. McKinney (Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson), Lauri J. Jones (Women, Development, and Communities for Empowerment in Appalachia by Virginia Rinaldo Seitz), and John Dougan (The Redneck Manifesto. America's Scapegoats: How We Got That Way amd Why We're Not Going to Take it Anymore by Jim Goad) . "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 25 No. 3. (Spring 1998) CONTENTS: "The Origins and Fortunes of Negativity: The West Virginia Worlds of Kromer, Pancake and Benedict" by Angela B. Freeman. "Brent Kennedy's Melungeons": "The Melungeons Become a Race" by David Henige, "A Response to Henige" by Darlene Wilson, and "Henige Answers Wilson." "The Ballads of Sharyn McCrumb" by Meredith Sue Willis. "Appalachian Odysseus: Love, War, and Best-Sellerdom in the Blue Ridge," by John C. Inscoe. Poetry by Richard Hague ("Where Drunk Men Go"). Reviews by Jim Sessions (In the Hands of a Happy God: The "No-Hellers" of Central Appalachia by Howard Dorgan) and William J. Schafer (The Good Brother by Chris Offutt) . "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

Volume 25 No. 4. (Summer 1998) CONTENTS: "Three Decades of Appalshop Films: Representational Strategies and Regional Politics" by Stephen P. Hanna. "Politics and Men: What's 'Really Important' about Meredith Sue Willis and Blair Ellen Morgan" by Gina Herring. Reviews by Joanna Barnes Newton (With a Hammer for My Heart by George Ella Lyon), Pamela Steed Hill (Human Landscapes: Home Land by Daniel Smith, Joy Ride by Edwina Pendarvis, and Acid Creek by Philip St. Clair), Edwin T. Arnold (The Oxford Book of the South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction ed. Edward L. Ayers and Bradley C. Mittendorf), William J. Schafer (The Senator from Slaughter by Harry M. Caudill) , Thomas J. Blumer (Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry by Sarah H. Hill), Gary Stanton (An Old House in Greenville, Virginia: A Study of Human Intention in Vernacular Architecture by Michael S. Shutty Jr.), Fred J. Hay (Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis), and Angela B. Freeman (A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake by Thomas E. Douglass). Letters to the editor from Victor M. Depta and Kathryn L. Staley with responses from Richard Hague and Darlene Wilson. Poetry by George Scarbrough ("Scandel (Late Day Funeral)"), Victor M. Depta ("Suicide in Charlottesville" and "Minor Gods in the Coal Fields"), and Robert Morgan ("Funny Books"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 26 No. 1. (Fall 1998) CONTENTS: "Chris Offutt Comes Home," an interview by Louis H. Palmer III. "Dialogue with a Dead Man," a tribute to Jim Wayne Miller with photos, by Joyce Dyer. Reviews by Katherine Ledford (English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green and The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley ed. Michael P. Branch and Daniel J. Philippon), John Lang (A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry by Fred Chappell, Eureka Mill by Ron Rash, The Weave Room by Michael Chitwood, and Dancing on Canaan's Ruins by Jim Clark), David Cozzo (Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine and A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present by John K. Crellin), Grace McEntee (The Quare Women's Journals: May Stone & Katherine Pettit's Summers in the Kentucky Mountains and the Founding of the Hindman Settlement School ed. Jess Stoddart), Paul E. Ross (Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers ed. Joyce Dyer), Gordon B. McKinney (Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South: Alabama's Hill Country, 1874-1920 by Samuel L. Webb), Charles D. Thompson Jr. (A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson), Jim Sessions (More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces ed. Ann E. Kingsolver), Karl E. Campbell (Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community by Gordon B. McKinney), Richard A. Couto (From Company Doctors to Managed Care: The United Mine Workers' Noble Experiment by Ivana Krajcinovic), Lynn Moss Sanders (Kiss the Doorknob: Folkways and Folklore of Floyd County, Virginia by Julia Woodbridge Oxrieder), Neva Jean Specht (Memiors of Grassy Creek: Growing Up in the Mountains on the Virginia-North Carolina Line by Zetta Barker, The Pond Mountain Chronicle: Self-Portrait of a Southern Appalachian Community by Leland R. Cooper and Mary Lee Cooper, and Wade E. Brown: Recollections and Reflections by Wade Edward Brown), Michael G. Wade (A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky by James F. Hopkins), Phillip J. Obermiller (Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940-1965 by Carl E. Feather), and Anthony Harkins (Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson). Poetry by Robert Morgan ("Spitting in the Stove") and Dana Wildsmith ("Puppy Love"). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 26 No. 2. (Winter 1999) CONTENTS: "Diaspora, Death, and Sexual Exploitation: Slave Families at Risk in the Mountain South" by Wilma A. Dunaway; "The Blair Committee Investigation of 1883: Industrialization in the Southern Mountains" by Gordon B. McKinney; "Anger and Hope, In Nearly Equal Measure: An Interview With Steve Fisher;" and "Blessed Are the Rich (For Theirs Is a Seat in Congress): The Election of 1998" by David Sutton. Poetry by Dana Wildsmith ("Searching for Signs") and John F. Keener ("Migration"). Book reviews by Chris Bolgiano (Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920 by Ronald L. Lewis), John C. Hennen (The Road by John Ehle and An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression by Jerry Bruce Thomas), Phillip J. Obermiller (Practicing Community: Class, Culture, and Power in an Urban Neighborhood by Rhoda H. Halperin), Donald Edward Davis (The Appalachian Forest: A Search for Roots and Renewal by Chris Bolgiano and A Natural History of Mount Le Conte by Kenneth Wise and Ron Peterson), Lynn Moss Sanders (The Untold Story of Frankie Silver: Was She Unjustly Hanged? by Perry Dean Young), David L. Kimbrough (Love Valley: An American Utopia by Conrad Ostwalt) , Gordon B. McKinney (A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 by Karin A. Shapiro), and Edwin T. Arnold (Blood Feud: A Novel by Annabel Thomas). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 26 No. 3. (Spring 1999) CONTENTS: "Insiders, Outsiders, and The Struggle For Community" by Fred Carlisle; "Race, Religion, and Community: The Demolition of a Black Church" by Susan E. Keefe & Jodie D. Manross; "Aunt Molly Jackson: The Benefits and The Costs of Cussedness" by Carolyn Hazlett Adams; "Sentimental Journey: Janice Holt Giles Finds a Career But No Immortality in Appalachia" by Gina Herring; "Crisis, Transition, and Resistance Movements: A Conversation With Immanuel Wallerstein" by Wilma A. Dunaway. Poetry by John F. Keener and Llewellyn McKernan. Book reviews by Michael E. Birdwell (Sgt. York: His Life, Legend, and Legacy - The Remarkable Untold Story of Sergeant Alvin C. York by John C. Perry), Grace McEntee (From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks by Olive Tilford), Robert J. Higgs (Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, ed. Carroll Van West) , and Skeeter McRoberts (Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 by Jane S. Becker) . "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 26 No. 4. (Summer 1999) CONTENTS: "Melungeon History and Myth" by C.S. Everett; "An Interview With Sue Ellen Bridgers" by Nancy Carol Joyner. Letters to the editor from Chris Bolgiano and Don Davis. Book reviews by Joyce Dyer (Addie: A Memoir by Mary Lee Settle), Gordon B. McKinney (Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book, ed. Steven V. Ash), Skeeter McRoberts (The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art by Julia S. Ardery) , and Beverly Patterson (Blue Ridge Folklife by Ted Olson). "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 27 No. 1 (Fall 1999) CONTENTS: "Buffalo Creek Revisited: Deconstructing Kai Erikson's Stereotypes" by Lynda Ann Ewen and Julia A Lewis; "Grassroots Environmentalism: Origins of the Western North Carolina Alliance" by Kathryn Newfont; "The Consolidation Coal Company Photograph Collection, 1910-1945" by Geoffrey L. Buckley and Timothy G. Anderson. Reviews by Conrad Ostwalt (Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism ed. Bill J. Leonard), Paul Salstrom (Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands by Loyal Jones), Sarah H. Hill (Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 by Theda Perdue), Ivan M. Tribe (Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia by Gerald Milnes), Jonathan D. Sarris (Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater From the Carolina Mountains by Thomas E. Jeffrey), Thomas McGowan (The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival by Joseph Daniel Sobol), Jim Sessions (Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America by Cynthia M. Duncan), Richard Mulcahy (Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster by Alan Derickson, The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 by Daniel Letwin, Coal: A Memoir and Critique by Duane Lockard), and Charleen W. Beckwith (My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 27 No. 2 (Winter 2000) CONTENTS: "Looking Forward, Talking Back: The Politics of Appalachian Cultural Studies" by Douglas Reichert Powell; and "Unruly Woman: An Interview with Helen Lewis" interviewed by Lori Briscoe, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw. Reviews by Loyal Jones (Local Baptists, Local Politics: Churches and Communities in the Middle and Uplands South by Clifford A Grammich, Jr.), Jim Minick (The Holy Spirit of my Uncle's Cojones by Marcos McPeek Villatoro), Gordon B. McKinney (A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski), Ralph Mann (Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 by W. Todd Groce), Carolyn Hazelett Adams (We've Got Spirit: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Cheerleading Team by James T. McElroy), Richard Blaustein (Ulster and North America: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish eds., H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr.), and John C. Inscoe (Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front by Daniel E. Sutherland). Poetry by Walter B. Lane ("The Way North") and John F. Keener ("Sparks"). Letters to the editor from Martin Crawford, Libby Pearson Killebrew, and N. Brent Kennedy on Chris Everett's "Melungeon History & Myth" and "Everett Answers Killebrew and Kennedy." With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 27 No. 3 (Spring 2000) CONTENTS: "Re-gendering Coal: Female Miners and Male Supervisors" by Carletta Savage; "The Crime of Malachia Hayden: The Loss of Black Community" by Les M. Brown; "Climbing Paradox Mountain: The Stories of Robert Morgan" by Gina Herring; and "On the Other Hand ... An Interview With David Whisnant" interviewed by Lori Briscoe, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw. Reviews by Jim Minick (Appalachian Summer by Marcia Bonta), William J. Schafer (Cassandra Singing by David Madden) , Loyal Jones (Thomas Wolfe: A Writer's Life by Ted Mitchell), Sandra L. Ballard (Between the Flowers by Harriette Arnow), Jonathan D. Sarris (Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865 by Sean Michael O'Brien), and Cecelia Conway (The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 27 No. 4 (Summer 2000) CONTENTS: "Thomas Wolfe Gets Over Himself" by John L. Idol; "Herbal Medicine in Cameroon and North Carolina" by Nga Joseph Timah; "Grassroots Rule: Richard Couto on the Democratic Prospect for Appalachia" by Steve Fisher; "Interview with Loyal Jones" interviewed by Lori Briscoe, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw. Poetry by Richard Hague ("Sky King Sells His Satin Sheets" and "A Wrench My Grandfather Left"). "A Camera with a Gun: A Discussion of Stranger with a Camera," by Ruth Ellen Blakeney, Donovan Cain, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Kelly H. Elliott, Kristina Marie Heiks, Patricia Lyn Kilby, Laurie Lea Lyda, Jeannie C. Parker, Diane Price, Scott J. Sebok, and Jinny Turman. Reviews by Rodger Cunningham (Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture by Charles Joyner), Lisa Yarger (It All Happened in Renfro Valley by Pete Stamper), Anthony Cavender (Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Appalachia, 1880-1930 by Sandra Lee Barney), Paul Salstrom (Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town by Brian Donahue), and Gordon B. McKinney (Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant, eds. William C. Davis and Meredith L. Swentor).With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 28 No. 1 (Fall 2000) CONTENTS: "Letters: Appalachian Journal Editor Gets Mail; "Jerry Williamson: An Appreciation," by Gordon McKinney; "A Cold Day in Hell: An Interview with Jerry Williamson" interviewed by Patricia Beaver and Helen Lewis; "His Own Drummer" by John Egerton. Poetry by Hilda Downer ("Watauga Lake is Manmade") and Ron Rash ("Watauga County: 1962" and "The Call"). Reviews by Loyal Jones (Traditional Musicians of the Central Blue Ridge: Old Time, Early Country, Folk, Bluegrass Label Recording Artists, With Discographies by Marty McGee), Kathryn Newfont (Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians by Donald E. Davis), Meredith Sue Willis (Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley by Elaine Fowler Palencia), and Fred J. Hay (Citizen Power: Stories of America's New Civic Spirit by Robin Epstein). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 28 No. 2 (Winter 2001) CONTENTS: "Appalachian History: Regional History in the Post-Modern Zone" by John Alexander Williams; "The Feminine Mystique and Elizabeth Madox Roberts" by Gina Herring; "Latino Hillbilly: An Interview with Marcos McPeek Villatoro" interviewed by Jim Minick; "You Can't Get There From Here" by Robert Morgan. Poetry by Linda Parsons Marion ("Genealogy") and Jeff Daniel Marion ("Writing Spider" and "Basic Math"). Reviews by Fred Chappell (Among the Believers by Ron Rash), Terry Roberts (O Lost, by Thomas Wolfe edited by Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli), Candie Carawan (Mountains of Music by John Lilly), Betty Smith (Bound for Shady Grove by Steven Harvey), John Inscoe (Sisters of Providence by Allen Paul Speer with Janet Barton Speer), Kathryn Staley (Rebels in Blue by Peter Stevens), Chad Montrie (To Save the Land and People, directed by Anne Lewis), Mark Sohn (Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong wine by Joseph Dabney), and Merikay Waldvogel (West Virginia Quiltmakers by Fawn Valentine); Photography by David Underwood. With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 28 No. 3 (Spring 2001) CONTENTS: "No Tennessee Waltz in Appalachia" by David Sutton; "Messing with the Sacred: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver" by Guy Mendes; "Backtracking from Oklahoma to North Carolina: An Interview with Robert J. Conley." Poetry by William Jolliff ("Eating the Route 23 Blues"), John Foster West ("Imagery of Trees"), Dan Leidig ("Time Out"), and Kathryn Kirkpatrick ("Looking for Ceilidh"). Photography by David Underwood. Reviews by John Hartigan (Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles by Chad Berry), Donald E. Davis (The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park by Daniel Pierce) , Merrill M. Hawkins, Jr. (The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith by Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald), Jonathan Greene (Casualties by Ron Rash), Silas House (Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry), Monroe Ledbetter (The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark), Donald Secreast (Blue Ridge by T.R. Pearson), Susan O'Dell Underwood (Family Gathering: Poems by Fred Chappell), Lynn Powell (Heart Cake by Leatha Kendrick), Edwina Pendarvis (The Silence of Blackberries by Victor Depta & In Praise of Motels by Pamela Steed Hill), Joyce Compton Brown (The Flavour of Home: A Southern Appalachian Family Remembers), Fred J. Hay (Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music by Benjamin Filene), and Lana Whited (A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver by Daniel Patterson).With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 28 No. 4 (Summer 2001) CONTENTS: INDEX IV.Complete subject index to volumes 24-28, 1996-2001. ($10.00 each)

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Volume 29 Nos. 1-2 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002) A Festschrift in honor of J.W. Williamson. CONTENTS: "Remembering James Still" by Gurney Norman. Poetry by Robert Morgan ("Blowing Rock"), Hilda Downer ("The Source of Confessional Poetry Along the Toe" and "Katy's Heart"), Jeff Daniel Marion ("Detroit: November 1943," "Night Train, 1944," and "Jack Taylor's Garage"), John Foster West ("Meditations on Cloud 10"), and Jim Webb ("Bush Man," "Black Mountain," and "Montani Semper Liberi"). "Country Comedy: Victim of Pseudo-Sophistication and Political Correctness" by Loyal Jones; "Zeb Vance and the Construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad" by Gordon B. McKinney; "'The primitive circle': Inscribing Class in Southern Appalachian Travel Writing" by Katherine Ledford; "'Making Hope Practical and Despair Unconvincing': Some Thoughts on Transformative Education" by Steve Fisher; "The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations of Southern Mountaineers in Situation Comedies, 1952-1971" by Anthony Harkins; "Looking for the Quintessential June: Archetypes and Stereotypes in Fox's Film Legacy" by Sharon Hatfield; "Truth or Consequences: The Blair Witch Project, Stranger with a Camera, & Regional Cultural Politics" by Douglas Reichart Powell; "Appalachia Art Brut: Reflections on the Life Works of Fred J. Carter" by Jack Wright; "'Sort of like an Appalachian Journal Editor': Presenting and Playing with Identity in the Storytelling of Orville Hicks" by Thomas McGowan; "Robert Morgan's Mountain Voice and Lucid Prose" by Cecelia Conway; AppalJ Roundtable Discussion of American Hollow, with Chad Berry, Dwight B. Billings, Amy Tipton Cortner, Anna Creadick, Anthony Harkins, Fred J. Hay, Katherine E. Ledford, Charles J. Maland, Mimi Pickering, Douglas Reichart Powell, and Gerald C. Wood. Reviews by Mark A. Weitz, Patrick Bizzaro, Gordon B. McKinney, Edwin T. Arnold, Carol Boggess, Robert L. Reid, Sheila Kay Adams, Jonathan Greene, Jim Minick, and Fawn Valentine. With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($20.00 each)

Volume 29 No. 3 (Spring 2002) CONTENTS: Poetry by John York ("Finches, Phoebes, Starlings?"), Jane Hicks ("James Still Leaves Wolfpen"), Jeff Mann ("Ramps," "Helvetia" and "In Memoriam: Muriel Miller Dressler"), Richard Hague ("George Ella Lyon Has A Vision of Jim Wayne Miller in Heaven"), Brooke Calton ("The Moving Mountain"). "Appalachia and the South-Collective Memory, Identity, and Representation" by Larry J. Griffin and Ashley B. Thompson, Three Responses to Griffin & Thompson: "Insularity, Advocacy, and Postmodernism in Appalachian Studies" by Dwight B. Billings; "Looking for Common Ground" by Chad Berry; "Encouraging Cross-Pollination" by John C. Inscoe. "Place, Power, and Pedadogy in Appalachia": Review Essay by Alan Banks and Anne Blakeney. Reviews by Chad Berry (A History of Appalachia by Richard B. Drake); Trent Alexander (Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration edited by Phillip J. Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker); Carrie Holthouser (Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South by Martin Crawford); Harriette C. Buchanan (Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman edited by Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen); Meredith Sue Willis (At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O'Brien); Lana Whited (The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb); Gary R. Boye (Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe by Richard D. Smith); Patricia Lynn Kilby (Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words, 1966-86 by Carl Fleischhauer and Neil V. Rosenberg). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

Volume 29 No. 4 (Summer 2002) CONTENTS: "Roundtable Discussion: A Conversation about Teaching Appalachian Studies," with an Introduction and Reflections by Sandra Hayslette & Chad Berry, includes "'We're All Appalachian'" by Mark Banker, "The Power of Stories" by Steve Fisher, "The Culture and the Classroom" by Roberta Herrin, "Appalachian Literature and Senior Learners" by Marianne Worthington, "The Education of a Sociologist of Appalachia," by Susan H. Ambler, "Hillbilly Trinkets and Doodads" by Grace Toney Edwards, "Faith in Ourselves, Faith in Our Future" by Stephen D. Mooney. Interview with Wilma Dykeman. "Wilma Dykeman: A Bibliography" by Scott Sebok. Interview with Robert Morgan. Poetry by Lynn Doyle, Diane Gilliam Fisher, George Scarbrough, Walter Lane, Edwina Pendarvis, George Ella Lyon, John York. Reviews by Grace McEntee (Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters: Women's Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs (1835-1856) by Michael A. Lofaro); Rodger Cunningham (Fools' Parade: A Novel by Davis Grubb); Marianne Worthington (This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers edited by Michael McFee, and Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories edited by Morris Allen Grubbs); Patrick Bizzaro (Topsoil Road: Poems by Robert Morgan); John Crutchfield (Late Mowing: Poems and Essays by Stephen M. Holt); Lynn Moss Sanders (The Serpent's Tale: Snakes in Folklore and Literature edited by Gregory McNamee); Howard Dorgan (The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns by Elder John Sparks). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 30 Number 1 (Fall 2002) CONTENTS: Letters to the Editor (from Rodger Cunningham, Larry J. Griffin and Ashley B. Thompson. "From the Ground Up: The Community Building of Marie Cirillo, An Interview" by Caroline E. Knight, Sarah Poteete, Amy Sparrow, Jessica C. Wrye. "Tell Them I Said Something," by Jim Wayne Miller. " 'Accepting Things Near': Bibliography of Non-Fiction by Jim Wayne Miller" by Joyce Dyer. "AppalJ Roundtable Discussion: Robert S. Weise's Grasping at Independence: Debt, Male Authority, and Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1830-1915" by John Hennen, Shaunna L. Scott, Altina Waller, Dwight B. Billings, with Paul Salstrom, and response by Robert Weise. Poetry by Ron Houchin ("Birds in the tops of winter trees"), Lisa J. Parker ("Tracing" and "How Is It With Dad"), Jane Hicks ("Come October"), Dana Wildsmith ("Bones"), Moira Bailis ("The Museum at Cullhowee"), and John York ("Brains"). Reviews by Ronald D. Eller (Appalachia: A History by John Alexander Williams), Monroe Ledbetter (Howard Finster: The Early Years by Thelma Finster Bradshaw), Stephen D. Mooney (Monacans and Miners by Samuel R. Cook), and Sherry Robinson (The Last Girls by Lee Smith). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

Volume 30, Numbers 2-3 (Winter-Spring 2003) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: Al Stewart, Poet of Yellow Mountain" by Barbara Smith. "Practicing Sociology in Appalachia: Interview with Dwight Billings" by Caroline E. Knight, Sarah Poteete, Amy Sparrow, Jessica C. Wrye. "Cold Mountain Fictions: Appalachian Half-Truths" by Martin Crawford. "The Right to a Voice" by George Ella Lyon. "Dr. Ralph Stanley and a Journey of Faith: An Interview" by Adda Leah Davis, with photos by Gail Asbury and Vivian & Buford Blankenship. "The Dangerous Mother Jones" by J.W. Williamson. Poetry by Bill Brown ("Grounding the New Millennium"), Kathryn Stripling Byer ("In the Cumberlands"), Pete Upham ("March (Hereafter: Excruciating Bloom)"), Reba Vance ("Home, Part One," "Home, Part Two," and "Home, Part Three"), Michael Chitwood ("Black Locust" and "The Tree"), Bob Henry Baber ("Shiver Ridge"). Reviews by Jim Minick (Living in the Appalachian Forest: True Tales of Sustainable Forestry by Chris Bolgiano), Robert L. Reid (Fallam's Secret: A Novel by Denise Giardina), Robert M. West (Hollow Ground by Stephen Marion), Harriette C. Buchanan (Conversations with Lee Smith, edited by Linda Tate), John Inscoe (No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt), Marianne Worthington (Letters Home by Jeff Daniel Marion), Silas House (Salt: A Novel by Isabel Zuber), Betty Smith (Songcatcher). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

Volume 30, Number 4 (Summer 2003) CONTENTS: "Beyond Tall Tales: Ray Hicks and Mountain Herbalism" by David Cozzo. "Ray Hicks, From Local Storyteller to Cultural Icon: A Bibliography" by Elizabeth M.Williams. "The NeoNatives: Back-to-the-Land in Appalachia's 1970s" by Paul Salstrom. "Regarding the NeoNatives" by Lenore McComas Coberly. "The Still Life in River of Earth by Carol Boggess. "George Went Hensley: A Biographical Note" by Thomas Burton and Ed Speer. "New Opportunities for Appalachian Women" by Sidney Saylor Farr. "Interview with Paul Brett Johnson, Children's Author & Illustrator" by Renee Critcher. Poetry by Kathryn Stripling Byer ("Black Fork"), Charles A. Swanson ("Bloodroots"), Lenore McComas Coberly ("American Chestnut"), Barbara Smith ("Somewhat Belated"), Jim Minick ("Naming the Mourning Dove"), Bob Henry Baber ("Creative Writhing"), Ellesa Clay High ("Sweat Lodge"), Jeff Daniel Marion ("Uncle Newt's Chow-Chow"). Reviews by Conrad Ostwalt (Mountain Holiness: A Photographic Narrative by Deborah Vansau McCauley, Laura E. Porter, Patricia Parker Brunner, photographs by Warren E. Brunner), Cassie Robinson (Sodom Laurel Album by Rob Amberg), Jesse Acquillah Jones (Sound Wormy: Memoir of Andrew Gennett, Lumberman, edited by Nicole Hayler), John Crutchfield (The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert), John Lang (Gospel Road Going: Poems by Michael Chitwood). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Volume 31, Number 1 (Fall 2003) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: Remembering Lee Howard" by Anne Shelby. "Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? A History of the Appalachian Studies Association by Logan Brown, Theresa Burchett-Anderson, Donavan Cain, and Jinny Turman Deal, with Howard Dorgan. Three Responses: "Early Voices in the Appalachian Conversation" by Richard B. Drake, "ASA Budgets and the Advantages of Planning Ahead" by Howard Dorgan, & "Growing Pains" by Phillip J. Obermiller. "Interview: A Conversation with Writer Silas House" by Janna McMahan. Poetry by Michael McFee ("Home" and "Wolfe's Grave"), Irene McKinney ("Woods Burning"), Jane Hicks ("Deep Winter"), Bil Lepp ("Grandfather Father Son Grandson"), Ruth Ann Antle ("Your Presence Lingers Here" and "I Can See Through the Woods"). Reviews by Meta Mendel-Reyes (Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water: Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South by Suzanne Marshall), Matt Schroeder (To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia by Chad Montrie), Guy L. Osborne (Pockets of Hope: How Students and Teachers Change the World by Eileen de los Reys and Patricia A. Gozemba), Loyal Jones (Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine by Drew Beisswenger), Eddie L. Huffman (Southern Music/American Music by Bill Malone and David Stricklin). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Vol. 31, Number 2 (Winter 2004) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: Remembering Henry D. Shapiro" by J.W. Williamson."Ray Hicks: A Man Who Became a Name" by Thomas Burton."Revisionist with a Cause: Interview with Wilma Dunaway" by Erin Casto, Sara E. Harris, Eddie Huffman, Melanie Keyes, Sharon Price, and Paul Robertson, with Patricia Beaver. "The Journey a Poem Makes: Interviewing Jeff Daniel Marion" by Ernest Lee. " The Long Way Around: Circling Back Home, A Metaphor for Writing" by Jeff Daniel Marion. Poetry by T. Paige Dalporto ("This is Harewood"), Llewellyn McKernan ("i do it the american way"), Nancy Dew Taylor ("Penland Afternoon"), Bill Brown ("Epistle" and "On a Trail Near Shining Rock"), Noel Smith ("How Aunt Nellie Fixed Myrtle Jones"). Reviews by Charles L. Perdue (The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation by Wilma A. Dunaway), John Alexander Williams (Slavery in the American Mountain South by Wilma A. Dunaway), William Jolliff (Ebbing & Flowing Springs: New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976-2001 by Jeff Daniel Marion), Martin Crawford (The Civil War in North Carolina: Soldiers’ and Civilians’ Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865. Volume 2: The Mountains. Edited by Christopher M. Watford), J.W. Williamson (H illbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Anthony Harkins), Sam L. Linkous on Challenge and Change in Appalachia: The Story of the Hindman Settlement School by Jess Stoddart, Christopher B. Teuton ( Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity. Edited by Lisa J. Lefler & Frederic W. Gleach), Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook by Barbara R. Duncan & Brett H. Riggs), Harriette Buchanan (John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author by Bill York ), Leatha Kendrick (Black Swan: Poetry by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon), Thomas Alan Holmes (Legacy by Doc Watson & David Holt), Sherry Robinson (Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry by Felicia Mitchell). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each)

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Vol. 31, Number 3-4 (Spring/Summer 2004) CONTENTS: "A Citizen and a Native: An Interview with Wendell Berry" by Jim Minick, "AppalJ Roundtable Discussion: Cold Mountain, The Film" by E.T. Arnold, Tyler Blethen, Amy Tipton Cortner, Anna Creadick, John Crutchfield, Silas House, John Inscoe, Gordon McKinney, Jack Wright, "Keith Maillard: Five Novels of Raysburg, West Virginia" by Meredith Sue Willis, "Big Ugly Creek, West Virginia: Interview with Writer Lenore McComas Coberly" by Paul Salstrom,"Thanks for Not Shooting Me"—A Review-Essay on Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachian Lives by Katherine E. Ledford. Poetry by Stephen Holt ("Time Was, In Your Cities" and "At the Church in the Valley"), Al Maginnes ("The Hawk in the Ballpark" and "The Evolution of Bread"), Dory L. Hudspeth ("Sine and Cosine in Black" and "Making Do"), Richard Hague ("Jesus H. Christ"), R.T. Smith ("Fiddlewood: Fancy Gap's Monk Daniels Testifies"), Lenore McComas Coberly ("Shenandoah"), Jeff Mann ("Queen Anne's Lace"), Leslie M. LaChance ("Father: Self-Employed" and "Poem Without Him") and Bob Henry Baber ("I'm not broke..."). Reviews by Tyler Blethen (Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America by Timothy Silver), David Haney (The Bill Monroe Reader, edited by Tom Ewing), Leslie Liedel (Mountain Sisters by Helen M. Lewis and Monica Appleby), Theresa Lloyd (Weavers of the Southern Highlands by Philis Alvic), Kevin E. O’Donnell (The Blackwater Chronicle by Philip Pendleton Kennedy. Edited by Timothy Sweet), Lana Whited (Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb). With a letter to the editor by Wilma A. Dunaway and the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Vol. 32, Number 1 (Fall 2004) CONTENTS: "Attacking "Red-Legged Grasshoppers": Moonshiners, Violence, and the Politics of Federal Liquor Taxation in Western North Carolina, 1865-1876" by Bruce E. Stewart. "The Past in the Present: The Greater Newport Rural Historic District" by Fred Carlisle. "The Margins of Civilization: Progressives and Moonshiners in the 19th-Century Mountain South" by Elvin Hatch. "'Pleasure Out of Telling': Voice Poems in George Ella Lyon's Fiction for Adults" by Marianne Worthington. "Return to Mount Le Conte: Or, A Short Treatise on Memory, Responsibility, and the American Black Bear" by John Crutchfield. Poetry by Leatha Kendrick ("Hiding Place"), Bill Brown ("Remains"), Summar West ("Fall is creeping round the corner..."), and Michael C. Dowdy ("Avoiding Failure"). Reviews by David Cozzo (Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia by Anthony Cavender), C.S. Everett (North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio by John S. Kessler), Ken Fones-Wolf (Child Labor: An American History by Hugh D. Hindman), Tom Douglass (No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems by Don West, edited by Jeff Biggers and George Brosi), Martha Billips (Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America by David C. Duke), Melanie Beals Goan (Coal Miners' Doctor by Rita A. Mariotti), Edwina Pendarvis (Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representing Identity in Selected Souths edited by Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Vol. 32, Number 2 (Winter 2005) CONTENTS: "From Historical Trauma to Hope and Healing: 2004 Plenary Address at the Appalachian Studies Conference" by Eduardo Duran. With Respondents: "Diabetes Support Advocate" by Patricia Grant Long, "The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting" by Barbara Ellen Smith, "Finding Historical Trauma in the Ordinary" by Tal Stanley. "A Midwife’s Commonplace Book" by Anthony Cavender. "Radical Rhetoric, American Iconography, and the Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Eric G. Waggoner. "'Flying the Flag of Rough Branch': Rethinking Post-September 11 Patriotism Through the Writings of Wendell Berry" by Ian Deweese-Boyd & Margaret Deweese-Boyd. Poetry by Glenn Mckee ("Then, Not Now" and "Lester Watches the Harvest"), Michael McFee ("McCormick Field"), John Thomas York ("O Christmas Tree"), Charles A. Swanson ("The Profane and the Holy"), Dan Stryk ("Fading 'Spirits"), and Bill Brown ("Cold Comfort"). Book Reviews by Kenneth W. Noe (Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader by Gordon B. McKinney), Amy McNeese-Mechan (The Thistle and the Brier: Historical and Cultural Parallels Between Scotland and Appalachia by Richard Blaustein), Meredith Sue Willis (In Their Own Country: Fourteen Entertaining Visits with Fourteen of West Virginia’s Most Celebrated Writers. Produced and Hosted by Kate Long), Jason Bailey (The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change. Edited by Dale Jacobs), Tina D. Parker (Songs of Life and Grace by Linda Scott DeRosier), Viki Dasher Rouse (How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia by Katherine Vande Brake), Mark W. Vogel (The Gift Moves by Steve Lyon), Robert Cowser (Azrael on the Mountain by Victor Depta), Grace Toney Edwards (Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Vol. 32, Number 3 (Spring 2005) CONTENTS: "'That's What They're All Singing About': Appalachian Heritage, Celtic Pride, and American Nationalism at the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival" by Emily Satterwhite. "'Living Poor and Voting Rich' in Appalachia" by David Sutton. "An American Conflict: Representing the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy" by Carol Mason. Poetry by Richard Hague ("The Job Of Work"), Sherry Beasley ("The Churn" and "Last Night on Earth"), and Jo Carson ("Spring Rites"). Reviews by William C. Hamilton (The Bluegrass Reader. Edited by Thomas Goldsmith), Fred J. Hay (High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen), Lynda Ann Ewen (Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner by Robert Armstead (with S.L. Gardner)), Dan Shope (Red, White, Black and Blue: A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia by William M. Drennen, Jr. and Kojo (William) Jones. Edited by Dolores Johnson), Merrill M. Hawkins, Jr. (The Serpent and The Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story by Thomas Burton), Michael Montgomery (Mountain Talk: Language and Life in Southern Appalachia. Video produced by Neal Hutcheson and Walt Wolfram), Annette Coleman McGrew (Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher), Linda Parsons Marion (Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered by Jeanne Bryner). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Vol. 32, Number 4 (Summer 2005) CONTENTS: Letter to the Editor from Elvin Hatch. "Constructing a Marketable Writer: James Still’s Fictional Persona" by Claude Lafie Crum. "The Persistence of Folly: 40 Years of Gnomon Press, an Interview with Jonathan Greene." "On Being Harriette Arnow’s Son" by Thomas L. Arnow. "The Writer and the Land: Harriette Simpson Arnow and the Genesis of Her Novel Between the Flowers" by Martha Billips. Poetry by Michael Henson ("My Father's Voice"), Jonathan Greene ("The Art of Revision" and "Biographies of Us All"), Charles A. Swanson ("I Am a Mountain"), Patrick Bizzaro ("In Hostile Climates"), James B. Goode ("Brier Ruminates"), R.D. Biliter ("Fox Hunt"), and Charlotte Matthews ("Country Auction"). Reviews by Kristin Kant (Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains by Al Fritsch and Kristin Johannsen), John Inscoe (Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. Edited by Kevin O'Donnell and Helen Hollingsworth), Paul Robertson (Country Music Goes to War. Edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson), Mark Freed (Strings of Life--Conversations with Old-Time Musicians from Virginia and North Carolina by Kevin Donleavy), Grace McEntee (Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation by Tammy Horn), Deborah Thompson (The Magic City: Footnotes to the History of Middlesborough, Kentucky, and the Yellow Creek Valley by Ann Dudley Matheny), Rebecca Baird (Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey by Karen Salyer McElmurray). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Vol. 33, Number 1 (Fall 2005) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: Mary Lee Settle, 1918-2005" by Joyce Dyer. "Interview with John Ehle" by Carol Boggess. "Community Self-Help Activism in Water/Sewer Development: Case Studies from McDowell County, West Virginia, and Lechter County, Kentucky" by Gary A. O'Dell. "Religion, Race, Gender, and Education: The Allen School, Asheville, North Carolina, 1885 to 1974" by Jamie Butcher. Poetry by Janice Townley Moore ("Note to the King of Green Lawn Service"), George Ella Lyon ("All"), Jacob Strautmann ("Poem for You"), and Neva Hamilton ("Green Onions"). Reviews by Conrad Ostwalt (Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition by Jimmy Morrow with Ralph W. Hood Jr, editor), Jerry Davila (The Maya of Morganton: Work and Communty in the Nuevo New South by Leon Fink), Paul Salstrom (An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life: The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920 by Mark D. Groover), Christopher B. Teuton (Voices from The Trail of Tears and Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East. Edited by Vicki Rozema), Charles L. Smith (The ECO Guide to Environmental Careers That Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World by Environmental Careers Organization. Edited by Beth Ginsberg), John Lang (Experimentation and Versatility: The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell by Casey Howard Clabough), Leigh Ann Henion (Prodigals by Mark Powell), Casey Clabough (Bitter Milk by John McManus). Museum review by Theresa Burchett-Anderson (Birthplace of Country Music Alliance Museum in Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Vol. 33, Number 2 (Winter 2006) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: W.K. McNeil" by William E. Lightfoot. "'You Dig Where You Stand': An Interview with Barbara Ellen Smith" by Dare Cook, Ashley Crabtree, Aaron Davis, Katie Gray, Michael Troy, with Patricia Beaver. "A Manumission in the Mountains: Slavery and the African Colonization Movement in Southwestern Virginia" by Eric Burin. Poetry by Dana Wildsmith ("Jim Wayne Speaks from Heaven"), E.D. Pendarvis ("Harvest Man"), Rick Mulkey ("A Natural History of Divorce"), Elizabeth Howard ("Family Pages"), Richard Hague ("A Mastiff's Eye"), and Willis Baker ("Walk Into The Sunset"). Review essays by Elder John Sparks (Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman) and Kathryn L. Staley (Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia by Wayne Winkler). Reviews by Chris Baker (Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South, 2nd ed. by William Bruce Wheeler), Jim Minick (The Eastern Cougar: Historic Accounts, Scientific Investigations, and New Evidence edited by Chris Bolgiano and Jerry Roberts), Jennifer Hughes Westerman (Hawk's Nest: A Novel by Hubert Skidmore), Jane Harris Woodside (Saints at the River by Ron Rash), Robert B. Jones (Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland edited by Michael E. Birdwell and W. Calvin Dickinson), Leigh Ann Henion (Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods by Thomas Rain Crowe), Jeanne Bryner (Their Name Means Medicine: The Story of the Myers Family by Barbara Smith), Marianne Worthington (Science in Your Own Back Yard by Leatha Kendrick), and Diane Gilliam Fisher (Vivid Companion by Irene McKinney). Museum review by Theresa Burchett-Anderson (Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park in Big Stone Gap, Virginia). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Volume 33, Number 3-4 (Spring/Summer 2006) CONTENTS: "Both Ends of the Road: Making the Appalachian Connection" by William H. Turner. "The Sago Mine Disaster: Another Way of Seeing" by Mark DeFoe. "'It's Not a Job to Me': Mike Mullins and the Hindman Settlement School" by Dare Cook, Ashley Crabtree, Aaron Davis, Katie Gray, Michael Troy, with Patricia Beaver. Review Essay by Amy McNeese-Mechan (Transatlantic Scots by Celeste Ray). Reviews by Anthony Harkins (The United States of Appalachia by Jeff Biggers), Lana A. Whited (Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell by Sharon Hatfield), Erica Abrams Locklear (Whistlin' and Crowin' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices since College by Katherine Kelleher Sohn), Norma Myers (Memories of Old Smoky: Early Experiences in the Great Smoky Mountains by Carlos C. Campbell, ed. Rebecca Campbell Arrants), Martha Billips (The Collected Short Stories of Hariette Simpson Arnow eds. Sandra L. Ballard and Haeja K. Chung), Pat Arnow (Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South selected by Anne Tyler, ed. Shannon Ravenel), Robert West (Shinemaster and Never Closer by Michael McFee), Marianne Worthington (What Travels With Us by Darnell Arnoult), Jeff Mann (The Place Setting by Fred W. Sauceman), and Shannon Wilson (Berry College: A History by Ouida Dickey and Doyle Mathis). Poetry by David Wayne Hampton ("Yelling Into the Mouth of a Cave"), Kathryn Kirkpatrick ("The Poets Give Up on Meaning"), Brently Johnson ("The Periodical Cicada"), Linda Parsons Marion ("Madame Alexander"), Jim R. Hinsdale ("Opening Day, Cherokee, NC - 2004"), Jeri McCormick ("To Charlotte, after the stroke"), Heather Ross Miller ("Teaching Among Tattoos"), Glenis Redmond ("Sign of the Times" and "Sticks & Stones"), John Thomas York ("Teaching Time"), and Katherine Smith ("Exhibit's End" and "Rebel Song"). With a letter to the editor (from Tricia Hearn) and the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

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Volume 34, Number 1 (Fall 2006) CONTENTS: "Payson Kennedy, the Nantahala Outdoor Recreation Center, & Troubled Times in North Carolina's Whitewater Recreation Industry": an interview with Payson Kennedy by Gerald Thurmond. "An Excerpt from 'The Early Life of William Albert Wilson': a Civil War Memoir of Community in Ashe County, North Carolina" by William Albert Wilson. "Guerilla War and Remembrance" by John C. Inscoe. "The Civil War on the North Fork of the New River: the Cultural Politics of Elevation & Sustaining Community" by Patricia D. Beaver. Book Reviews by Logan Brown (Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina by Richard D. Starnes), Kim Donehower (Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions by Martha C. Sims and Martine Stephens), Barry Whittemore (The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950 by Tom Lee), and Elaine Fowler Palencia (Can a Democrat Get into Heaven? Politics, Religion & Other Things You Ain't Supposed to Talk About and Appalachian Studies by Anne Shelby). Poetry by: David Salner ("The Solvitall Salesman At a Plant Safety Meeting"), Rachel Jennings ("Hermitage"), James Engelhardt ("Use of Hands"), and Tim Poland ("At First They Startle You" and "Reflex"). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 each).

Volume 34, Number 2 (Winter 2007) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: Lou Crabtree" by Edwin T. Arnold. " 'Singing Just to Make Music': Betty Smith in Her Own Voice" by Annie Bryant, Phil Jamison, Carl Jenkins, Susan Pepper, Leila Weinstein, with Patricia D. Beaver. "On the Occasion of James Still's 100th Birthday" by Hal Crowther. "Literature, Education, and The Return of the Whippoorwill: A Conversation with Freeman Owle" by Christopher Teuton. " ' Bluewashing' the Mountaineer: A Recent Television Trend" by Douglas Reichert Powell. " 'The Natural World is the Most Universal of Languages': An Interview with Ron Rash" by Thomas Ærvold Bjerre. Review Essay: "From Harry Caudill to Erik Reece: A Review of Lost Mountain" by Chris Holbrook. Reviews by Brian D. McKnight (The Shenandoah Campaign of 1854 edited by Gary Gallagher), Ralph Mann (Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia by Brian D. McKnight), Paul Salstrom (The West Virginia Encyclopedia edited by Ken Sullivan), Gregory Hansen (Music in the Air Somewhere by Erynn Marshall), Jeff Biggers (The World Made Straight: A Novel by Ron Rash), Matthew Hild (Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progessive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915 by Connie L. Lester), J im Sessions (Under the Workers' Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge Paper by George W. Loveland), Thomas A. McGowan (Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology edited by Margaret Bender), Robert West (Coming to Rest by Kathryn Stripling Byer), Elizabeth Engelhardt (Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools by Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin and Uplifting the South: Mary Mildred Sullivan's Legacy for Appalachia by Kathleen Curtis Wilson). Poetry by Leatha Kendrick ( "Brought On Bride"), Rita Quillen ( "Excerpts from a Lifetime of Letters"), David Salner ("The Whip" and "Dr. Raines"), and Sandi Keaton-Wilson ( "Maudie's Last Trip to the Mall"). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle." ($10.00 ).

Volume 34, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring/Summer 2007) A SPECIAL ISSUE ON APPALACHIAN ACTIVISM IN HONOR OF STEVE FISHER. CONTENTS: "In Memoriam: Wilma Dykeman–A Good Spring Is Mighty Hard to Find" by Robert Morgan. “‘We’re All in this Together’–and Other Lessons Learned along the Way: Reflections on 35 Years at Emory & Henry College” by Steve Fisher. "Renaming the World in the Valley of the Holston" by Tal Stanley. “Rebuilding Communities: 12-step Recovery Program” by Helen Lewis. “Interview with Jack Spadaro: on Being a Whistleblower for Mine Safety and Health” by Annie Bryant, Phil Jamison, Carl Jenkins, Susan Pepper, and Leila Weinstein, with Patricia Beaver. “The Appalachian Teaching Project: An Opportunity for Academic-Community Activism” by Alice V. Sampson & Roberta T. Herrin, an essay which includes “Substance, Evidence, and Credit Hours” by Robert Gipe, “Thoughts in the Presence of Fear” by Alan Banks, “Educating to Sustain In Appalachia” by Grace Toney Edwards, “Community Heritage as Asset Production by Anita Puckett, “View from the ASU Center for Appalachian Studies” by Patricia D. Beaver, “Building Sustainable Partnerships” by Tim Ezzell. "Activist Stories" essays including, “Plant Both Annuals and Perennials” by Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble, “Buying, Eating, and Acting Locally” by Chad Berry, “Separate Paths Lead to Just Connections” by Susan Ambler and Kathie Shiba, “Peaks and Valleys” by Guy & Candie Carawan, “Active Living” by Loyal Jones, “Appalachian Stepchild to Child of Appalachia” by Bill Best, “Letter to the Carnegie Foundation” by Richard A. Couto, “The Class of ’74: Appalachian Teachers’ Workshop, Berea College” by Grace Toney Edwards, “Crossing the Campus-Community Divide: New Trends in Research Collaboration” by Phil Obermiller, “Scholars and Activists in Cincinnati” by Michael E. Maloney, “Inspiring Transformative Community-Based Learning” by Gordon B. McKinney, “Living an Inspired Life: Teaching Social Activism” by Theresa L. Burriss, “Common Causes” by Jeff Boyer, “Thinking Back on Fighting Back” by Fran Ansley, “Teaching and Community Work in Appalachia” by Chris Baker, “Feminist Praxis” by Mary K. Anglin, “Connecting the Academy and the Community” by Dwight B. Billings, “Road Work” by Herb Reid, “Reflections on Struggle” by Elizabeth C. Fine, “The Work Poetry Can Do” by Diane Gilliam, “The Mountaineer Queer Ponders His Risk-List” by Jeff Mann,“Inspiration” by John Hennen, “On Discovering Teachers: An Escape From the Classroom” by George Loveland, “Chainsaw Activism; Or, a Chainsaw as an Activist’s Tool” by Jim Minick, “Serendipity and Strip Mining” by Chad Montrie, “Getting Ready to Learn” by Guy Larry Osborne, and “We're All Activists” by Melinda Bollar Wagner. Poetry by Maurice Manning, ("THat Durned Ole Via Negativa"), Rita Quillen ("To Somehow Say It All"), Wally Smith ("From Bray Fiel, Cohutta Wilderness"), and Gilbert Allen ("Some Week"). With "Appalachia By Numbers." ($20.00).

Volume 35, Numbers 1 & 2 (Fall 2007/Winter 2008) CONTENTS: Letter to the Editor by William L. Dockery, "A Successful Strike: 'The Entire Community is with the Employees'" by Daniel R. Varat, "I Always Used 'I'" by Bill Best, "Mountaineer Queer: An Interview with Jeff Mann" by Rebecca Baird and Kathryn Staley, "'Foolin' With Me is Like Makin' Faces at a Rattlesnake': Signifyin(g) in Mary N. Murfree's 'Electioneerin' on Big Injun Mounting'" by Christopher Bundrick, "Another Reappraisal: The Cultural Work of Mary Noailles Murfree's In the Tennessee Mountains" by Karen J. Jacobsen. Reviews by Neva Jean Specht (Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History by Anne Mitchell Whisnant), Sharon Hatfield (Afflicting the Comfortable: Journalism and Politics in West Virginia by Thomas F. Stafford), John Inscoe (Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant by Kristin Johannsen and Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant that Captivated the World by David A. Taylor), Amy Tipton Cortner (Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentiteth-Century Southern Writing by Mary Weaks-Baxter), Joseph Schaub (How Celtic Culture Invented Souther Literature by James P. Cantrell), Resa Crane Bizzaro (Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes by Mark F. Sohn), Frankie Finley (Loving Mountains, Loving Men by Jeff Mann), Amy Tipton Cortner (Homeplace Geography: Essays For Appalachia by Donald E. Davis), Moura McGovern (Sarah's Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek by Lenore McComas Coberly), and Tim Dunn (Breathing in Darkness by Ted Olson). Poetry by Gilbert Allen ("Parade of Days"), Barbara Wade ("New Bridge Over Stillhouse Branch"), Rita Quillen ("Back When I Wrote Poems"), George Ella Lyon ("Why"), and Donald R. Johnson ("Pink Poca Dot"). With the "Signs of the Times" and "Appalachia by the Numbers." ($20.00).

Volume 35, Number 3 (Spring 2008) CONTENTS: "Burning Seasons, Burning Bans: Fire in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, 1750-2000" by William M. Jurgelski, "A Conversation with Sidney Saylor Farr" by Trish Ayers, "The Appalachian Land Ownership Study Revisited" by Shaunna Scott, "Community Organizers: A Review of Kristin Layng Szakos & Joe Szakos’ We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do—and Why" by Steve Fisher. Reviews by John Alexander Williams (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 3: History edited by Charles Reagan Wilson), Anita Turpin (Teller Tales: What Sweet Lips Can Do and Men of Their Time by Jo Carson), Betty Smith (The Appalachians (CD): A Companion Recording to the Public Television Series The Appalachians), Suzanne Wise (Silent Speedways of the Carolinas: The Grand National Histories of 29 Former Tracks) by Perry Allen Wood. Poetry by Mark DeFoe ("Spring Song for Spade/Hoe/Saw"), Jill M. Fraley ("Night Screams"), Jill M. Fraley ("Unexpected Memories of Coal"), Sandra Kay Heck ("Finding Daddy's Yearbook after His Passing"), Bob Henry Baber ("Word Warriors"). With the "Signs of the Times," "Chronicle," and "Appalachia by the Numbers." ($10.00).

Volume 35, Number 4 (Summer 2008) CONTENTS: "In Memoriam, John Foster West (1918-2008)" by R.T. Smith, "In Memoriam, Wandering in the World of Jonathan Williams (1929-2008)" by Leon Lewis. Poetry by David Biliter ("Summer Camp Counselor"), Glenis Redmond ("Naming," "Spelling Freedom"), David Salner ("Power Plant Dawn," "For Martin Bergen, Hanged as a Molly Maguire"), Jason Fritz ("The Food Pantry," "Pronouncing Louisville"), Harold Branam ("Gated Log-Cabin Community"), Joseph Bathanti ("Vilas Flood"). "Dancing with the One that Brung You" by Lee Smith. "'In Love with Words': An Interview with Sharon Hatfield" by Whitney Kimball Coe, Jennifer Cohen-Jordan, Amanda T. Hedrick, Emily Schaad, and Anna Rachel Terman, with Patricia D. Beaver. "'Looking into My Culture': An Interview with Jack Wright" by Whitney Kimball Coe, Jennifer Cohen-Jordan, Amanda T. Hedrick, Emily Schaad, and Anna Rachel Terman, with Patricia D. Beaver. "Revisiting Monongah" by Joseph L. Tropea, Review of Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History by Davitt McAteer. "It's Not All About Jack: Old and New Tales from Anne Shelby" by Tina L. Hanlon, Review of The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales by Anne Shelby. Reviews by Marianne Worthington (Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake), J.W. Williamson (Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape by Douglas Reichert Powell), Steven E. Nash (Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family edited by Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell), Judkin Browning (Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War by John W. Shaffer), Carol Boggess (On Agate Hill: A Novel by Lee Smith), Jim Minick (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver), Jeff Mann (Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore by Gerald Milnes), Gregory Hansen (Millennium Folk: American Folk Music since the Sixties by Thomas R. Gruning), Louis Palmer III (Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations With Writers from the Mountain South edited by John Lang), Elaine O’Quinn (The Midwife’s Tale by Gretchen Moran Laskas and The Miner’s Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas), William Jolliff (Larger Bodies Than Mine by Marianne Worthington). With the "Signs of the Times," "Chronicle," and "Appalachia by the Numbers." ($10.00).