Appalachian Journal

Volume 51 Numbers 3-4 ● SPRING / SUMMER 2024  | GURNEY NORMAN Special Edition

“Astronomers Looking For Space Gas Accidentally Find 49 New Galaxies” by George Ella Lyon poetry ... 159

SIGNS OF THE TIMES, with illustrations by Annie Greenwood... 160

THE POETS... 180

Pastoral by Michael McFee poetry... 181

INTRODUCTION
A Practical Matter: The Roots of Gurney Fest and a Welcome to the Issue at Hand by Robert Gipe... 182
Revisiting Gurney Fest: What’s Here and What’s Not by Sandy Ballard... 184

DOCUMENTARY FILM
Gurney Norman: A Work To Do, documentary short film by Sean Anderson, commissioned for Gurney Fest... 186

LITERATURE
Living with Kinfolks: Gurney Norman as a Master of the Short Story by Morris Grubbs... 194

When My Family Still Made Apple Butter by Annie Woodford poetry... 203

LEARNING COMMUNITY
On Teaching Gurney Norman’s Work
by Erik Reece, Morris Grubbs, Chris Green, Leatha Kendrick, Theresa Burriss, with audience participation, moderated by Robert Gipe... 204

FILM & FICTION
On Filming Gurney Norman’s Fiction: The Wilgus Stories
by Andrew Garrison, Jerry Johnson, William Johnson, Robin Mullins, and Frank Hoyt Taylor... 220

Jack’s House by Annie Woodford poetry... 231

DOCUMENTARY FILM AND AFFRILACHIAN POETS
Coal Black Voices: A Discussion by Frank X Walker, Theresa Burriss, Jean Donohue, Fred Johnson, and Crystal Wilkinson... 232

Praisepoem for the Storyteller by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. poetry... 245

COMMUNITY LEARNING
Gurney Norman’s Writing Community
by Sharon Hatfield, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maurice Manning, Chris Holbrook, George Ella Lyon, and Robert Gipe... 246
Lows & Highs in the Writing Trade by Jonathan Greene...263
The Genesis of Kinfolks by Jonathan Greene... 264

Mercy by Leatha Kendrick poetry... 267

COMMUNITY BUILDING
Gurney’s Homefolks
by Dee Davis, Pam Meade, Mandi Fugate Sheffel, Nick Smith, Jack Wright, and Robert Gipe... 268
Granny & Gurney by Angelyn DeBord... 282

TRIBUTES: GRAND FINALE TO GURNEY FEST
Gifts from Gurney Norman by Silas House...286
Thanks to Gurney Norman by Jim Minick... 288
My Conversation with Gurney Norman by Wendell Berry... 288
Brother of the Back Way by Nikky Finney... 290

2024 APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Writing Of, In, and For Place: A Blood Memory
by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, with Introduction by Ron Rash...292

LITERATURE
The Gumption of Susan O’Dell Underwood and the Legacy of Fred Chappell
by J.W. Williamson...300

REVIEW ESSAY
Sure Landings: Robert Morgan’s In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories
by Robert West... 316

Might Could by Michael McFee poetry... 321

BOOK REVIEWS
Laurel Sanders on Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well Being in Southern Appalachia by Lisa J. Lefler and Thomas N. Belt... 322
Jessica Cory on Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle... 324
John Lang on The Intimacy of Spoons by Jim Minick... 327

CHRONICLE ... 330

ILLUSTRATION by Annie Greenwood... 334

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 336

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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