Friday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. Billy Edd Wheeler, a Berea College alumnus of the Class of 1955 and the Featured Author, Artist, and Performer, for the Winter 2008 issue of Appalachian Heritage, will read in the Commons of the Woods-Penniman Building on the Berea College Campus in celebration of this issue. This event comes several months after the Winter issue has been printed so that it falls in conjunction with the Berea College Alumni Reunion weekend and also so that Billy Edd will have recovered from surgery on his vocal chords. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m. and the reading will begin at 8:00 p.m.
Friday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. Jeff Biggers, author of The United States of Appalachia and co-editor of No Lonesome Road: The Prose and Poetry of Don West, will read in the Commons of the Woods-Penniman Building on the Berea College Campus. This will be a celebration of the Fall 2008 issue of Appalachian Heritage, which features the late Don West as our Featured Author and his wife, the late Connie West, as the Featured Artist. Wess Harris will also present prints of Connie West’s art for sale, as well as presenting a display of coal mining memorabilia from Southern West Virginia. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m. and the reading will begin at 8:00 p.m.
TBA for Fall 2008. There will be a reading sometime during the Fall 2008 semester to celebrate the Summer 2008 issue of Appalachian Heritage, featuring African American Appalachian writers.
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