Volume 50 No. 3-4

Issue
Volume: 
50
Number: 
3-4
Issue: 
Spring-Summer
Year: 
2023
Price: 
$25 each
Contents

SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 174   
    with illustrations by Annie Greenwood                                                                          

THE POETS ... 190

ARTICLES

History
Black in Appalachia by Enkeshi El-Amin and William Isom II ... 192

History | Herstory
Lula Owl Gloyne: The First Cherokee Field Nurse, and Public Health in Native Appalachia by Laurel Sanders ... 212 

History
Telling Stories: What Oral Histories Reveal About Mountain People and Mountain Lives by Elizabeth McRae and Alexander Macaulay ... 236

Literature
Kentucky Writer Silas House Builds a Reputation and a Fan-Base by Jerry W. Williamson ... 258

Music Review 
Tyler Childers’ “In Your Love”: A New Look at Appalachia by Chelsea Brislin and Revell Carr ... 278

Review Essay
Defined Attention: Robert Morgan’s “Oratorio” by Robert West ... 284

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Rachael Fortune on Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia by Emily Hilliard ... 290
  • G. Samantha Rosenthal on Tar Hollow Trans: Essays by Stacy Jane Grover ... 293
  • Lana Whited on Fairytales of Appalachia edited by Stacy Sivinski ... 295
  • Sammy Osmond on A Year Without Months by Charles Dodd White ... 298
  • Catherine Pritchard Childress on With Access to Tools by Dana Wildsmith ... 299
  • Ernest Lee on Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place by Jesse Graves ... 301
  • Thomas Alan Holmes on Summer Words: New & Selected Poems by David Salner ... 303 

POEMS

  • Whirligigs by Brian Beatty ... 173
  • Blessings by Caleb Johnson ... 277
  • Considering a House Wren on the Back Deck by Caleb Johnson ... 235 
  • False Spring by Caleb Johnson ... 305
  • Pileated Woodpecker by Caleb Johnson ... 312
  • An Appalachian in-migrant tale of sorts by Gene Hyde ... 210  
  • Congregants at Stony Fork  by Gene Hyde ... 211
  • Suburban Blue Ridge Blues by Gene Hyde ... 257
  • Loss up late by Kari Gunter-Seymour ... 191
  • Next time someone asks by Kari Gunter-Seymour ... 233
  • Mountaintop Removal by Rania Zuri ... 234

CHRONICLE ... 306 

APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 314 

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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