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Appalachian Review was founded in 1973 as Appalachian Heritage by mountain poet Albert Stewart at Alice Lloyd College. The magazine moved to the Hindman Settlement School in 1982. Berea College began sponsoring the magazine in 1985. It publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, craft essays, interviews, book reviews, and visual art.
The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775–1850 is a book written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Oxford University Press in 1978 (first edition) and Indiana University Press (third edition) in 2008.
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.He is most widely known for developing with his high school students the Foxfire Project, a writing project consisting of interviews and stories about Appalachia.
Ron Rash has made the fog-shrouded ridges of Appalachia his fictional home in novels and short stories over a highly acclaimed career dating back decades. With “The Caretaker,” his first novel ...
Ann Pancake is an American fiction writer and essayist.She has published a novel, short stories and essays describing the people and atmosphere of Appalachia, often from the first-person perspective of those living there.
Loyal Jones was born in Marble, North Carolina, on January 5, 1928, [3] one of eight siblings in a farming family. [4] At the age of 12, his family moved to Brasstown, North Carolina, in proximity to the John C. Campbell Folk School established in 1925. [4]
Our Southern Highlanders was the "seminal work" of Appalachian nonfiction, and provided a foundation for numerous other studies of Appalachian culture over subsequent decades. [1] In spite of the book's shortcomings, its keen observations went a long way toward demystifying the rural people of Southern Appalachia. [ 1 ]
OpEd: J.D. Vance isn’t a coal baron but he’s the exact mold of a man who is going to exploit the same people he claims to speak for.