Volume 47 Numbers 1-2 ● Fall 2019 - Winter 2020
LETTER TO THE EDITOR & RESPONSE ... 6
SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 10
THE POETS ... 24
In Memoriam: Michael B. Montgomery by Paul E. Reed … 26
In Memoriam: Richard Drake by Mark T. Banker … 32
In Memoriam: Robert Clinton Parker by Fred J. Hay … 36
INTERVIEW
- Saving Ourselves: A Conversation with Beth Macy by Lana Whited … 38
ARTICLES
- Saving Ourselves: A Symposium on the Opioid Epidemic by Sharon Buckman, Stacy Gill, Martha Haley-Bowling, Carolyn Hauck, Beth Macy, Bill Overton, Debbie Powell, Pam Rickard, Jennie West, with Lana Whited … 54
- Double Vision Through the Binocular Lenses of Appalachia and Academia by Ann Pancake … 80
- Virtual Appalachia: Video Game Representations of the Region by Christopher Ryan McCloud … 110
FIRST-PERSON ESSAY
- My Father, J.D. Vance, and Me by Pauletta Hansel … 96
REVIEWS
- Forrest Gray Yerman on Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community by John Coggeshall … 128
- W. Paul Williamson on Religion of Fear: The True Story of the Church of God of the Union Assembly by David Cady … 130
- Anna Rachel Terman on The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission: A History, 1943-2013 by Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner … 132
- Amanda E. Hayes on Appalachian North: A Memoir by Matthew Ferrence … 135
- Elaine Fowler Palencia on Sergeant Sandlin: Kentucky’s Forgotten Hero by James M. Gifford … 137
- Samuel J. Richards on American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal ... 140
- Martha Haley-Bowling on Recovery Boys by Elaine McMillion Sheldon … 142
- Judy Jenks on Not Far From Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio edited by Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz … 144
- Sunshine Liberty Brosi on Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver … 148
- Rondalyn Whitney on Southernmost: A Novel by Silas House … 150
- Matt Wimberley on Bootleg by Annie Woodford … 153
- Kayla Rae Whitaker on Allegiance: Stories by Gurney Norman … 155
POETRY
- Settlers by Phillip Howerton … 5
- When I Asked Directions by George Ella Lyon … 9
- The Call by Phillip Howerton … 25
- The Last Mailbox on the Rural Route by Phillip Howerton … 31
- Sundial, West Virginia by Joseph Bathanti …78
- It’s Mina’s Mamaw’s Turn by George Ella Lyon … 93
- Ars Poetica by George Ella Lyon … 94
- Pitch by R.T. Smith … 126
- Wallpaper in an Abandoned House by Phillip Howerton … 127
- Making Do with the Resources at Hand by Stuart Gunter … 157
CHRONICLE ... 158
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 164
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