Volume 46 Numbers 1-2  ●  2019

SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 16

THE POETS ... 31

IN MEMORIAM

• Ed (Edward Joseph) Cabbell by Phyllis Wilson Moore ... 6
• Jim (James Watson) Webb by J.W. Williamson ... 10
• Dispatch from Wiley’s Last Resort by Richard Hague ... 14

INTERVIEW

• Roots, Seeds, and Branches: A Conversation about Foodways Research with Elizabeth Engelhardt by Maria Hale, Trent Ipock, Ian Kirkpatrick, Christopher McCloud, Emma Parrish, Laura Schaffer, with Lynn Moss Sanders ... 32

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

• Going Meta: A Roundtable Discussion of Studying Appalachian Studies by Anna Creadick, Grace Toney Edwards, William Schumann, Pamela Twiss, and Randall Wilhelm ... 54

ARTICLES

• Quaring the Queer in Appalachia by stef m. shuster ... 72

• “This was a place for the lost”: Appalachian Noir in Ron Rash’s Raising the Dead and One Foot in Eden by Heidi Hanrahan ... 88

REVIEW ESSAY

• The Personal & Public Faces of Foster Care & Adoption in Appalachia: Review of Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia by Wendy Welch and Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond by Deborah Gold by Bethany Mannon ... 110

• Samuel J. Richards on Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold ... 120

• Meredith McCarroll on Weedeater : An Illustrated Novel by Robert Gipe ... 123

• Donna Meredith on Eyes Glowing At the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia edited by Laura Long & Doug Van Grundy ... 125

• Susan O’Dell Underwood on Dreadful Wind & Rain: A Lyric Narrative by Diane Gilliam ... 128

• Brandon Johnson on Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown ... 132

• John Lang on Season of the Second Thought by Lynn Powell ... 135

• Richard A. Straw on Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks by J. Blake Perkins ... 138

POETRY

• The Plank House by Hilda Downer | The Porch off the Plank House, photograph by Ken Ford ... 4-5
• Another Day by Susan J. Mitchell ... 9
• Marcescence in March by Gilbert Allen ... 51
• Potato Chip Lady on the Tonight Show by Hilda Downer | Ephemeral Heart, photograph by Ken Ford ... 52-53
• Instructions on How to Receive a Letter by Hilda Downer | Scrolls, photograph by Ken Ford ... 70-71
• Skipping Stones on the Cheat by Pamela Sinicrope ... 85
• Chains by Michael McFee ... 86
• Umbrella by Michael McFee ... 87
• Bloom for the Grave by Michael McFee ... 104
• Goozle by Michael McFee ... 105
• Clothespins by Hilda Downer | Tuppence, photograph by Ken Ford ... 106-107
• Buttons by Hilda Downer | Jar of Buttons, photograph by Ken Ford ... 108-109
• Blood Brothers by Hilda Downer | Blood Berries, photograph by Ken Ford ... 116-117
• Distant Roads by Hilda Downer | Little Switzerland, NC, Albany, NY, photographs by Ken Ford ... 118-119
• Bloodlines by Holly Day ... 140
• The Home I Could Give a Tree by Holly Day ... 141
• Because This is All I Have by Hilda Downer | What is out there, photograph by Ken Ford ... 150-151

CHRONICLE ... 142    
  
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 152

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