Appalachian Journal

Volume 50 Numbers 3-4 ● 2023

SIGNS OF THE TIMES   
    with illustrations by Annie Greenwood                                                                          

THE POETS 

POEMS

• Whirligig by Brian Beatty  
• Blessings by Caleb Johnson
• Considering a House Wren on the Back Deck by Caleb Johnson  
• False Spring by Caleb Johnson  
• Pileated Woodpecker by Caleb Johnson
• An Appalachian in-migrant tale of sorts by Gene Hyde  
• Congregants at Stony Fork  by Gene Hyde
• Suburban Blue Ridge Blues by Gene Hyde
• Loss up late by Kari Gunter-Seymour
• Next time someone asks by Kari Gunter-Seymour
• Mountaintop Removal by Rania Zuri

ARTICLES

History
Black in Appalachia by Enkeshi El-Amin and William Isom II

History | Herstory
Lula Owl Gloyne: The First Cherokee Field Nurse, and Public Health in Native Appalachia by Laurel Sanders

History
Telling Stories: What Oral Histories Reveal About Mountain People and Mountain Lives by Elizabeth McRae and Alexander Macaulay

Literature
Kentucky Writer Silas House Builds a Reputation and a Fan-Base by Jerry W. Williamson

Music Review 
Tyler Childers’ “In Your Love”: A New Look at Appalachia by Chelsea Brislin and Revell Carr

Review Essay
Defined Attention: Robert Morgan’s “Oratorio” by Robert West

BOOK REVIEWS

• Rachael Fortune on Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia by Emily Hilliard
• G. Samantha Rosenthal on Tar Hollow Trans: Essays by Stacy Jane Grover
• Lana Whited on Fairytales of Appalachia edited by Stacy Sivinski
• Sammy Osmond on A Year Without Months by Charles Dodd White
• Catherine Pritchard Childress on With Access to Tools by Dana Wildsmith
• Ernest Lee on Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place by Jesse Graves
• Thomas Alan Holmes on Summer Words: New & Selected Poems by David Salner 

CHRONICLE 

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS 

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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