Appalachian Journal

VOLUME 41, NOS. 1 & 2 (Fall 2013-Winter 2014) $20.00

SIGNS OF THE TIMES … 6

THE POETS … 24

Articles

• Roundtable Discussion of Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia by Meredith McCarroll, Mary Anglin, Guy Larry Osborne, Beth Vanlandingham, Theresa L. Burriss, Rebecca R. Scott, Drew A. Swanson, and Chad Berry … 26
• Letters from Home: The Literate Lives of Central Appalachian Women by Amy D. Clark … 54
• From Documentary Films to YouTube & Folkstreams: An Interview with Tom Davenport by Kehren Barbour, G. Marc Bentley, Cary Curlee, Kathryn Engle, Kristin M. Hyle, Victoria Krueger, Jordan Laney, William Lindley, and Joshua Roe, with Lynn Moss Sanders … 78
• Commemorating vs. Commodifying: Ron Rash and the Search for an Appalachian Literary Identity by Zackary Vernon … 104
• Witch Mountains and Forgotten Doors: Place, Apocalypse, and Wilderness in the Works of Appalachian Writer Alexander Key by Ron Roach …126

Poetry

• Late in February by Mark DeFoe … 5
• The Farm by R.M. Kinder … 5
• Dinosaurs by David Holt … 25
• Dayspring by Emily Hancock … 51
• The Stradivarius of Washboards by David Holt … 52
• First Christmas by Rita Quillen … 53
• Sunday With You by Emily Hancock … 77
• Freight Train by John York … 102
• Sparky by John York … 102
• Escape Route by Robert Morgan … 124
• Gesture of Trees by Emily Hancock … 125
• Metal Bed Flower Garden Yard Art by Hilda Downer … 170
• Advent 2.0 by Gilbert Allen … 177
• Castor by R.M. Kinder … 177
• High Horse by Robert Morgan … 179

Reviews

• Susan E. Keefe on Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift … 148
• Meredith A. Bocian on Watauga County, North Carolina in the Civil War by Michael C. Hardy … 150
• Rachel Ellen Simon on Stand Up That Mountain... by Jay Leutze … 152
• Gary Walker on Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians by Karl B. McKnight, et al. … 154
• John Lang on Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers by Frank X Walker … 155
• Jordan Laney on Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy Cline edited by Warren R. Hofstra … 158
• Bill Hardwig on Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia by Gabe Rikard … 159
• Thomas A. McGowan on Ray Hicks and Other Beech Mountain Folks (DVD) produced by John Fleenor … 162
• Gilbert Allen on Many-Storied House: Poems by George Ella Lyon … 165
• Jim Minick on Blacksnake at the Family Reunion: Poems by David Huddle … 167

CHRONICLE … 172

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS … 180