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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 "The Idylls of the Appalachian: an unpublished lecture by William Gilmore Simms (Part One)" ed.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 "The Idylls of the Appalachian: an unpublished lecture by William Gilmore Simms (Part Two)" ed.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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 Ll.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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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. Worlfe) 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Volume 15 No. 1. (Fall 1987) CONTENTS: "The Poverty of Abundance Revisited" by John Gaventa; "Reseeding Appalachian Soul: Bill Best's The Great Appalachian Sperm Bank" by Rodger Cunningham; "Say it ain't true, Davy! The Real David Crockett vs. The Backwoodsman in Us All" by Jesse Aquillah Jones. Poetry by Judy K. Miller ("Widowed") and Terence Hoagwood ("Story-Telling in Appalachia"). Book, record, and film reviews by Albert H. Tillson Jr. (The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution by Thomas P. Slaughter), Gerald Milnes (Fiddlin; Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin' John Carson, His Real World, and the World of His Songs by Gene Wiggins), Barbara Smith (Haskell by Ed Davis), Marie Tyler McGraw (Unseen Danger by David DeKok and Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania by Renee Jacobs), Sam Howie (Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 by Jack Temple Kirby and Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types by John Shelton Reed), John Alexander Williams (Good Friends and Bad Enemies: Robert Winslow Gordon and the Study of American Folksong by Debora Kodish), Thomas R. Shannon (Enforcement of Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy by Neal Shover), Loyal Jones (Long Journey Home a film directed by Elizabeth Barrett), and William E. Lightfoot (Good Time and Hard Time Old-Time From County a set of albums from Country Records). Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)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)
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)
Volume 15 No. 4. (Summer 1988) CONTENTS: "John Sayles Plays the Preacher" 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)
Volume 16 No. 1. (Fall 1988) CONTENTS: "Appalachia as Science Fiction" by Alessandro Portelli; "The Northification of the South" by Sam Howie; "Down in the Valley, The Valley So Low" by Daniel F. Hurley. "When I Get Good and Ready," an interview with "Helen" by Laurence French. Poetry by Hilda Downer ("So much has come and gone that the Appalachians never existed," "The Smoke of Winter Trees,"). Reviews by Bill Ellis (The Season of Dorlan-Bell: History of an Appalachian Mission School by Jacqueline Burgin Painter), Walter R. Hibbard (St. Clair by Anthony F. C. Wallace), Charles Thomas Davis III (Diversities of Gifts: Field Studies in Southern Religion Edited by Ruel W. Tyson, Jr., James L. Peacock, and Daniel W. Patterson), Bruce Henderson (Education in Appalachia: Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on Appalachia paper), Curtis Seltzer (Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease by Barbara Ellen Smith), and Alessandro Portelli (Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson). Carl A. Ross obituary by Gene Hyde. Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle." ($5.00 each)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)
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)
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 Rchard 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)
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)
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." ($5.00 each)
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: Cultureal 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." ($5.00 each)
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 teh 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." ($5.00 each)
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." ($5.00 each)
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." ($5.00 each)
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. ($8.00 each)
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)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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." ($8.00 each)
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), A