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A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in "... A Right Good...

The Seventh Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Lake Junaluska Assembly, North Carolina, on September 11-13, 1997. Contributors to the proceedings are Kathleen L. Kadlec; Bill Carson; Bill...

This anthology of Appalachian literature is designed for high school students, containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, ballads, and examples of mountain speech and song.Author: Nellie...

Born in the Wallingford Clinic in 1949, Barry Buxton called the town of Blowing Rock home during his childhood. The youngest of seven children, he grew up in the mountains attending Blowing Rock...

An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long teacher workshop held on the campus of Appalachian State University in June, 1995. The purpose of the workshop was to allow children of the...

An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long symposium workshop held at Radford University In June 1998. The purpose of the workshop was to create materials that allowed children from the...

Published in 1977, this collection of essays was published to honor Cratis D. Williams upon his retirement from Appalachian State University. Williams was an influential scholar, folklorist, teacher,...

The proceedings from the 1980 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Wilson Somerville; George W. Hopkins; Helen M. Lewis and Myles Horton; Gene Wilhelm, Jr.; Rick Simon and Betty...

Published in 1988, this children's scrapbook is based on an oral history project conducted by Pauline Cheek. Cheek based her fictional characters, Mrs. Gwen Carter, Eugene, Emma, and Ellie, on her...

Archives in Appalachia: A Directory consists of tabulated entries describing 181 repositories in 195 counties in the South-Central Appalachia region which hold historical records documenting the...

This monograph represents a massive effort to assemble printed works of regional materials held by Appalachian Consortium members at various institutions in the Appalachia region. The five libraries...

Paul Fink's Bits of Mountain Speech is a dictionary of "folk speech." In this work Fink has provided a glossary of terms that are often considered the language of the less educated people of the...

Published in 1985, the Blue Ridge Parkway: Agent of Transition is a compilation of papers presented at the conference. Intended to be a celebration of the Parkway, the conference was a way for people...

The North Carolina Mountains--Boone, Sugar Mountain, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock--was a whole new Appalachian world opening before the eyes of Barbara Hallowell and her husband, Tom, when they decided...

Colonialism in Modern America is a series of essays exploring the economic and social problems of the region within the context of colonialism. It is a relatively simple task to document the social...

The proceedings from the 1986 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Carl Ross; Ron Eller; Howard Dorgan; Ricky Cox; Becky Eller; Sally Bruce; Bennie Sinclair; Paul Salstrom; Dennis...

The proceedings from the 1982 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Rick Simon; Ronald D. Eller; Deborah Morentz Markley and Brady J. Deaton; William W. Philliber and Phillip J...

The second volume of Emerging Patterns in the Southern Highlands: A Reference Atlas focuses on agriculture in the 156 counties in the Southern Appalachian region. In addition to the maps and data,...

Through text and photographs, Donald Saunders explores the history of the Rumple Presbyterian Church, Blowing Rock, NC, as well as its members from the Blowing Rock community.Author: Donald B...

In Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga, readers learn that the term "Hogwild" was an outrageous ideology--that a loosely organized confederation of like-minded individuals could carve out a simple...

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Elizabeth C. Fine; Archie Green; Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer; Susan Eike Spalding; Linda Plaut and Lyn Wolz;...

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Parks Lanier, Jr.; Marilou Awiakta; C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.; Ricky L. Cox; Betty Smith; James E. Byer; Edgar H...

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by John C. Inscoe; John Alexander Williams; Richard B. Drake; Richard Blaustein; H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W...

This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions by Gordon B. McKinney; Jean Haskell Speer; Rodger Cunningham; Thomas A. Arcury; Rhonda England; Roger A. Lohmann;...

Written in 1986, Bettie Sellers's book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing in a narrative and lyrical style, Sellers brings...

Fred Chappell, Jeff Daniel Marion, Jim Wayne Miller, and Robert Morgan are primarily folk artists who write poetry about people doing common, everyday tasks. Each poet in his own unique style...

The Fifth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Boone, North Carolina, on September 8-11, 1993. Contributors to the proceedings are Edward T. McMahon; Sid?nio Costa Pardal; Nancy K. Robinson;...

Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Highlander. English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish immigrants to the Appalachian region of North Carolina...

A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate...

Civilized man has been prone to conjure up a maxim or saying to reflect the prevailing philosophy of the day. Two of those familiar favorites readily apply to the world famous Blue Ridge Parkway,...