Spring 2004
Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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Table of Contents |
| Regular Items | |
| The Photos for this Issue | |
| This Sid of the Mountain | |
| News of the Appalachian Literary Arts | George Brosi |
| Upcoming Regional Literary Events | |
| Contributors to this Issue | |
| Featured Author - Silas House | |
| A Voice for Country Working People | George Brosi |
| Stick-Shift, Bluegills and Dancing | Teresa House |
| Fascinated by the World | Terry Hoskins |
| Born to Write | Sandra Stidham |
| Living to the Creed | Brooke Calton |
The Coal Tattoo |
Silas House |
| A Hopeful Coming of Age | Gretchen Moran Laskas |
| Fiction | |
| Trying to Figure It All Out | Glade Brosi |
| Death Bell | Katherine Stripling Byer |
| Rolling Salvation | Jimmy Carl Harris |
| Essay | |
| Ray Hicks: The Mysterious Healer | Nan Chase |
| Memoir | |
| Spring Delicacies | Vernon F. Reed |
| Wild Greens | Sidney Saylor Farr |
| Poetry | |
| Ancestral Home | Jane Hicks |
| Get A Job | Charles Wright |
| Night River | Billy C. Clark |
| Preparation | Sam L. Martin |
| Wildflower Walk, East Tennessee | Liz McGeachy |
| On Anselm's Trail at Daybreak | Katherine Stripling Byer |
| Uncovering Spring Violets Before Their Time | Billy C. Clark |
| Unalloyed | T. Paige Dalporto |
| The Hummingbird | Elaine Stoltzfus |
| Sherman | Noel Smith |
| Jeremiah Puckett | Billy C. Clark |
| New Appalachian Books: Reviews | |
| Cratis D. Williams' Tales from Sacred Wind | Grace Toney Edwards |
| Nancy Dillingham's First Light: Poems | Celia Miles |
| Katerina Prajznerová’s Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia | Shawn Holliday |
| Victor Depta's Mountains and Clouds: Four Comedies | Edwina Pendarvis |
| Tom Andrews' Random Symmetries | Michael Shannon Friedman |
| New Appalachian Books | |
| Write-ups | George Brosi |
| Photography | |
| Church at Vardy | front cover |
| Vardy Church in 1916 Without Choir Room | inside front |
| Preacher Jimmie Williams, 1911 | 5 |
| Our Log House in Southern Mountain, 1912 with Edith Stow, Cly | 15 |
| Hewing Puncheons for the Floor | 19 |
| Miss Rankin's Beginners Class | 21 |
| Two Graduates from Home School | 27 |
| Riving Boards for Shingles from White Oak Logs | 36 |
| Aunt Cynthia's Washing | 45 |
| Making Apple Butter | 46 |
| A Lonely Burying Ground | 51 |
| Girls Baptizing their Dolls | 52 |
| Docia, Dolly, Miser, and Children Bringing in Huckleberries | 55 |
| Mandy Gibson Threshing with a Flail | 57 |
| Laying the Threshing Floor | 60 |
| Joe Stewart, Sr., Ready to Bottom Chairs | 69 |
| Josephine Leonard When She First Came to Vardy | 70 |
| Cecil Miser | 74 |
| FIrst Schoolhouse, 1902 | 77 |
| Mandy Gibson at Spinning Wheel | 85 |
| An Ash Hooper for Making Soap | 89 |
| Cynthia Collins Getting Ready to Wash | 92 |
| Vardy Community School | inside back |
| Aunt Cynthia Collins | back cover |

