Appalachian Journal

Volume 51 Numbers 1-2 ● 2024 

POEM by Annie Woodford, Forest Prayer ... 5

SIGNS OF THE TIMES   
    with illustrations by Annie Greenwood  ... 6 

THE POETS ... 21                                                                      

ARTICLES

IN MEMORIAM
Remembering Loyal Jones by Rodger Cunningham ... 22

POEM by Leatha Kendrick,  On the Death of Yet Another Friend ... 27 

MUSIC HISTORY
“Just one of the People,” Doc Watson: The Early Years, 1941-1964 by Gary R. Boye ... 28

POEM by Annie Woodford, That Doc Watson Believed is as Good a Reason as Any ... 70

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Foraging Ginseng, Commons Culture, and the Role of Private Property in Preservation on the Cumberland Plateau by George Lindemann ... 72

POEM  by Leatha Kendrick, Tree, Bird ... 90

POEM by Annie Woodford, At the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show ... 91

LITERATURE
The Gentleman Jester of Harlan County: Robert Gipe and the Comedy of Tough Times by J.W. Williamson ... 92

POEM by Jeanne Bryner, Above All ... 107

IN MEMORIAM
Remembering Edwin T. “Chip” Arnold by Thomas McLaughlin, Thomas McGowan, Jay Watson, Patricia Beaver, Jerry Wayne Williamson,
and Meredith McCarroll ... 108

POEM by George Ella Lyon, Catechisms -- Talking with a Four-Year-Old, 1980 ... 116 

POEM by George Ella Lyon, Catechisms -- Talking with a Two-Year-Old, 1988  ... 117

POEM by George Ella Lyon, Catechisms -- Talking with a Four-Year-Old, 2022 ... 118  

POEM by George Ella Lyon, My Granddaughter, Almost Five ... 119 

POEM by Zach Hambrick, Roma in the Hills ... 120

BOOK REVIEWS

• Rachel Ellen Simon on Holler Rat: A Memoir by Anya Liftig ... 122
• Phillip Obermiller on Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class by Max Fraser ... 124
• Maggie Anderson on Genesis Road: A Novel by Susan O’Dell Underwood ... 127
• Mark Powell on The Caretaker: A Novel by Ron Rash ... 129
• Elise Johnson on The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South edited by Kami Ahrens ... 131
• Neema Avashia on Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr....133
• Jessica Cory on In Plena Vita―The Full Life: The Collected Poems of Timothy Russell edited by Marc Harshman and Larry Smith ... 135
• Charles Dodd White on Tamp: Poems by Denton Loving ... 138
• Lacy Snapp on In Any of These Towns: Poems by Stephanie Kendrick ... 140
• Patrick Bizzaro on Yellow Leaves: Poems by Alana Dagenhart ... 142

POEM by Lisa Graley, Porch Talk ... 145

CHRONICLE ... 146

POEM by Jeanne Bryner, Call from West Virginia to Ohio, 1956 ... 152

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 154

AppalJ is dedicated to fostering diversity of opinion; the viewpoints expressed in these pages are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent opinions of the editor, the Board, or Appalachian State University.

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