VOLUME 36, NUMBERS 3 & 4 (SPRING/SUMMER 2009) $15.00

■SIGNS OF THE TIMES

■THE POETS

■MAJOR TURNING POINTS: RETHINKING APPALACHIAN MIGRATION by
PHILLIP J. OBERMILLER, CHAD BERRY, ROGER GUY, J. TRENT ALEXANDER, WILLIAM PHILLIBER, MICHAEL MALONEY, AND BRUCE TUCKER, a discussion including

A SOCIOLOGICAL EYE ON URBAN APPALACHIANS by Roger Guy
APPALACHIANS, SOUTHERN WHITES, AND THE GREAT MIGRATION by J. Trent Alexander
APPALACHIAN MIGRANTS HAVE ASSIMILATED by William Philliber
REFLECTIONS ON THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE by Michael Maloney
THE STATE OF SCHOLARSHIP ON MIGRANTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS by Bruce Tucker
ON WHOLES AND PARTS AND SOMETHING INBETWEEN by Chad Berry
THE ROLE OF MIGRATION RESEARCH IN APPALACHIAN STUDIES by Phillip J. Obermiller

■THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN APPALACHIA: READING FROM THE MARGINS by David Sutton

■“INVENT SOMETHING LOCAL”: AN INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN HOPP by Jim Minick

■THE POWER OF JAMES STILL by Bill Weinberg

■“ANYTHING WORTH DOING...”: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOEL SALATIN by Anne E. Chesky

■COMING FROM WEST VIRGINIA: INTERVIEW WITH SONGWRITER TOM BREIDING by Jacob Strautmann

■REVIEW ESSAYS
NO MORE APPALACHIAN GHOSTS: JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS’ NEW NOVEL, LARK AND TERMITE by Thomas Douglass

LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGLER [on Tim Poland’s THE SAFETY OF DEEP WATER] by Donald Secreast

“THIS WORLD’S STEADY UNFOLDING”: JIM MINICK’S POETRY by John Lang

■BOOK REVIEWS
Meredith Doster on The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge by Charles D. Thompson Jr.

Briscoe C. Darling on Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story by Roni Stoneman, as told to Ellen Wright

Donald Good on All Around the Track by Anne B. Jones and Rex White

Drew A. Swanson on The Snail Darter Case: TVA Versus the Endangered Species Act by Kenneth M. Murchison

William Jolliff on From Whence by Michael Chitwood

Jacob Strautmann on The Unbroken Circle: Songs of the West Virginia Coalfields by Tom Breiding

■CHRONICLE

■APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS

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