Fall 2008 Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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Table of Contents |
| Regular Features | |
| This Side of the Mountain | George Brosi |
| This Issue (Acrobat Format) | George Brosi |
| Contributors to This Issue | |
| Featured Author: Don West | |
| O Mountaineers! | Don West |
| The Pride and Prejudice of Don West | Jeff Biggers |
| Mountain Heritage | Don West |
| A Friendship between the Last American Cowboy and the Man in the Bushes | Carol Boggess |
| There's Anger in the Land | Don West |
| Jesse Stuart and Don West James M. Gifford and Erin R. Kazee | James M. Gifford and Erin R. Kazee |
| My Folks | Don West |
| Don West's Undergraduate Days at Lincoln Memorial University: The Record vs. The Myth | Elizabeth Lamont |
| Ballad Singer | Don West |
| Truth, Poetry, and Don West | Chris Green |
| Life? | Don West |
| Articles | |
| A Tribute to George Garrett | George Brosi |
| Tending Community: An Interview with Steven Hopp; | Jim Minick |
| Fiction | |
| Today, I Will Be a Nice Guy | Paul Prather |
| Psychological Bridges and a Christmas Jam Cake | Sidney Saylor |
| Poetry | |
| A Little Night Music | George Garrett |
| Black Lung Office | James Owens |
| Ruie Ledbetter on Two-Owl Stew | R. T. Smith |
| Barren | Julia Nunnally Duncan |
| Appalachian Death Mantra | Eagle Valiant Brosi |
| Bringing My Brother Home | Cheryl Lewis |
| Under Bridges We Cross | Melanie Williams |
| Review Essay | |
| A Death in the Family by James Agee | Thomas Douglass |
| Book Reviews | |
| Wendell Berry’s Andy Catlett:Early Travels | Reviewed by William Jolliff |
| Rita Riddle’s All There Is To Keep | Reviewed by Parks Lanier |
| New Appalachian Books | |
| New Book Notes | George Brosi |
| Art for This Issue | |
| Don West | Front Cover |
| Vivian Vest | 4 |
| John Jones, Southern Mountaineer | 6 |
| Connie and Don West | 9 |
| Jeff Biggers, Coauthor of No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems of Don West | 19 |
| Good Friend of Don, not yet identified | 30 |
| Don West’s Maternal Grandmother, Mrs. Kim Mulkey | 39 |
| Johnny Cash (1932–2003) | 49 |
| Willard Uphaus (1890–1983), Early “Social Gospel” Activist and Theologian, Friend and Mentor to Don West | 50 |
| Unidentified Mother and Child | 61 |
| Hedy West (1938–2005), Daughter of Don and Connie | 64 |
| Unidentified Coalminer | 75 |
| Unidentified Elderly Man, an Early Work of Connie West | 85 |
| Lily West, Don West’s Mother | 89 |
| Anne Romaine (1942–1995) | 100 |
| Unidentified Woman Reading | 107 |
| Charlie West, Don’s Brother | 109 |
| Fiddlin’ Leo Herron (1924–1998) of Barbour County, W. Va. | 120 |
| Ann West Williams, Daughter of Don and Connie | Back Cover |