Volume 49 Numbers 1-2 ● 2022
Restoration by Doug Van Gundy poetry ... 5
SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 6
THE POETS ... 22
Roaring Creek by Doug Van Gundy poetry ... 23
RESEARCH
#The Struggle to Stay by Rachel Terman and Brandi Slider ... 24
The Creek by Patsy Kinser poetry ... 53
RESEARCH
Residual Economics and Working-Class Resistance in Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker
by Adam Heidebrink-Bruno ... 54
INTERVIEW
Growing Up with Appalachian Studies: A Conversation with Meredith McCarroll
by Krystal Brooke Carter and Meredith McCarroll ... 74
Lumens by Sam Barbee poetry ... 91
REVIEW ESSAY
Crisis Response: “I’m Afraid of That Water” [review of I’m Afraid of That Water: A
Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis by Luke Eric Lassiter,
Brian A. Hoey, and Elizabeth Campbell] by Megan E. Hall ... 92
Observe by Patsy Kisner poetry ... 95
REVIEW ESSAY
Social Media Research: A Review of In the House of the Serpent Handler
[review of In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame
in the Age of Social Media by Julia Duin] by Jesse Barber ... 96
Revival by Doug Van Gundy poetry ... 101
BOOK REVIEWS
Iulia Salca on Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United
Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley... 102
Thomas Alan Holmes on How Fire Runs by Charles Dodd White ... 104
Z. Zane McNeill on Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the
Unspeakable Other edited by Hillery Glasby, Sherrie Gradin, and Rachael Ryerson ... 107
Natalya Zoe Weinstein on Unlikely Angel:The Songs of Dolly Parton by Lydia R. Hamessley ... 110
Dale Neal on Woodsmoke by Wayne Caldwell ... 112
Richard Hague on Heartbreak Tree by Pauletta Hansel ... 113
John Lang on My Surly Heart by David Huddle ... 116
Elaine Fowler Palencia on The Girl Singer by Marianne Worthington ...120
Against February by Gerry LaFemina poetry ... 122
Shotgun by Doug Van Gundy poetry ... 123
CHRONICLE ... 124
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 136
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