Spring 2004 Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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

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Our Log House in Southern Mountain, 1912 with Edith Stow, Cly 15
Hewing Puncheons for the Floor

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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
Appalachian Heritage is part of the Appalachian Center of Berea College.
Header photo by Dean Hill.
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