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The Fourth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, on November 12-14, 1991. Contributors to the proceedings are Philip A. Grant Jr.; Helen Cozzetto and Don Cozzetto;...

The Third Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 19-22, 1989. Contributors to the proceedings are Woodward S. Bousquet; Anne Lusk; Jerry L. Rogers; Noel...

The Second Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1987. Contributors to the proceedings are Gilbert W. Leebrick; Barry Buxton; Douglas Cruickshanks Jr.; Gary Everhardt; H...

The Sixth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 9-11, 1995. Contributors to the proceedings are Steven Elkinton; Christopher D. Jones and William E. Hammitt;...

The culmination of more than sixty years of observing and collecting superstitions, customs, cures, riddles, games, stories, songs, and beliefs Paul Green's Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence was...

Published in 1999, this is a second edition of People, Politics and Economic Life. The original workbook's intention was to be a supplementary text for courses on regional studies, geography,...

Published in 1983, Recollections of the Catawba Valley is a selection of family stories, local history, and mountain folklore chosen by Alexander Mull and Gordon Boger who were longtime citizens of...

The proceedings from the 1987 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Sandra L. Ballard; Richard Blaustein; Ricky Cox; Alan J. DeYoung; Howard Dorgan; Karen Tice and Albie Pabon;...

Published in 1974, these symposia proceedings examine the management of trout habitat in mountain streams. Conservation organizations, researchers, and land managers, discussed trout habitat...

Published in 1978, this book tells the story of William Gannaway Brownlow, a Methodist minister, Whig politician, author of a Civil War bestseller, and anti-Confederate who documented the trials and...

The proceedings from the 1983 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Melinda B. Wagner, Allen Batteau and Archie Green; William Philliber; Susan Emley Keefe; Loyal Jones; Richard...

Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colorful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by native Virginian Robert Porterfield in 1933, the...

Written in Robert Leeper's student days at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later at Columbia University, The Brindle Mule is a book of stories and poems emphasizing a childhood...

In 1973, Cherokee students at the Qualla Boundary started a student organization with the intention of improving the educational prospects among Native Americans attending non-Indian colleges and...

Following his retirement in 1976 from a distinguished career as a teacher and administrator at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, Cratis Williams wrote these memoirs of his life...

An almanac of stories on the microcosm of the Appalachian region during a period of transition, this book was published in 1975. Written to showcase the stories and folklore passed on in the...

The very ancient Eastern forest of North America is characterized by an extraordinary variety of plants, animals, and human communities. Barry M. Buxton refers to this diverse area as the Great...

The proceedings from the 1985 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Anne Campbell; Loyal Jones; David Williams; Grace Edwards; Charlotte Ross; James Gifford; Howard Dorgan; Ron...

The proceedings from the 1984 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Sam Gray; Derrell Roberts; Laurel Horton; Grace Toney Edwards; Parks Lanier; Ron Wlloughby; Allen Bateau; Thomas...

Mountains Have Come Closer is a collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller was awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award for the book...

In the summer of 1974, twenty-four year old Anna DeVoss finds herself widowed and alone in the unfamiliar country of the North Carolina mountains. The body of her husband, a navy pilot missing in...

The first novelist from North Carolina to become an influential voice in American literature, Thomas Wolfe was an imaginative and persuasive fictional writer. Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina,...

Between the 1940s and 1970s the mountains of Appalachia were viewed as a center for economic and employment opportunities. Over three million people chased the American dream to the mountains in...

This volume is the proceedings from the 1974 Southern Appalachian Regional Conference which was sponsored by the Appalachian Consortium Press. This was the first meeting in what would eventually turn...

This biography explores the life of James G. K. McClure, Jr., and his vision for a better life in the mountains of North Carolina. At his prompting, and under his leadership, The Farmers Federation...

No region has undergone more dramatic changes in the last century than Western North Carolina. Published in 1973, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War takes a look at the mountain people and...

Published in 1977, Western North Carolina is a narrative history of the Southern Appalachian Mountains up to 1880. Ora Blackmun depicts the stories of native Cherokee and Sequoyah people and pioneers...