Spring 2012 Issue of Appalachian Heritage

Table of Contents

   
Regular Features
This Magazine  
Mike Mullins: A Tribute  George Brosi
The 2011 Denny C. Plattner Awards  
This Issue George Brosi
New Book Notes George Brosi
Pat Arnow: Featured Photographer Carolyn Romano
Contributors to This Issue  
 
Featured Author: Harriette Simpson Arnow
Crazy Blanket   Harriette Simpson Arnow
Harriette Simpson Arnow: A Biographical Sketch  Sandra L. Ballard
Arriving in Keno Sandra L. Ballard
Homegrown Tomatoes Thomas L. Arnow
Hard Edges   Herb E. Smith
Why College Students Should Read Harriette Simpson Arnow Carol Boggess
On Teaching Harriette Simpson Arnow Erica Abrams Locklear
Why the America of Mattie Ross Needs to Read Harriette Simpson Arnow Amy Tipton Cortner
The Harriette Simpson Arnow Conference at Somerset Community College Lynn Crabtree
Through the Eye of the Needle   Amber Surface
Harriette Simpson Arnow Papers   Kate Black
Harriette Simpson Arnow: Out of the Shadows Sharon Faye Whitehead
On Reading The Dollmaker in the Twenty-First Century John Lang
Harriette Simpson Arnow’s First Novel: A New Look at Mountain Path Martha M. Billips
Harriette Simpson Arnow: A Remembrance George Brosi
   
Poetry
The Manner of Your Leaving Jane Sasser
Walking the Dam at Nightfall   Janice Townley Moore
Winter Into Spring Marc Harshman
Silvermine Arch Lori Beth De Hertogh
Corn Mash David Wayne Hampton
Quilting Through the Generations Grayson Jones
Ground Truth Jeff DeBellis
Evening Fire Eric Trethewey
 
Fiction
Steel Bridge Stolen in Mason County North Carolina Adam Padgett
 
Conversation
A Conversation with bell hooks   George Brosi
 
Memoir
Sunday Afternoons Patti Capel Swartz
 
Book Reviews
Review of Burning Bright by Ron Rash   Carmen Rueda-Ramos
 
Illustrations
Photographs by Pat Arnow  
Harriette Arnow, Ann Arbor, 1972, in her gardening hat Front Cover
Sunset on the Cumberland River near Burnside, Ky., April 2010 2
Meigs County in Southeast Ohio, 1980 7
Farm in Keno, Ky., about 1910 (Photo courtesy of Wanda Worley) 12
Sandy Ballard in the doorway of the schoolhouse where Harriette Arno taught near the farm in Keno, Ky. 23
Thomas L. Arnow at the Appalachian Writers’ Workship, Hindman, Ky. 2008 36
Herb E. Smith visiting the Arnow farm, March 2011 46

Grave of the first Arnow baby in the cemetery on their farm in Keno, near   Burnside, Ky

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The abandoned Arnow farmhouse as it appeared in the 1990s 59
Sandra L. Ballard speaking about Harriette Simpson Arnow at the Hindman Settlement 62
Harriette Arnow rests during a trip to Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park in East Tennessee, summer 1984 (Photo by Steve Giles)   66
Harriette  Arnow at home in Ann Arbor, Mi., 1972 73
Harriette Arnow and  the family dog, Sin, making their way from the garden to the house in Ann Arbor 89
White flowers, fringed phacelia, carpet the forest floor in mid-May along the Appalachian Trail near Sam’s Gap between N.C. and Tenn. 100
Wildflowers bloom all over the Arnow farm, now grown up into forest    112
Limestone and lush vegetation at the Arnow farm near Burnside, Ky. 130
Margaret and Neal’s shed, Hillsboro, W.Va., 2010 135
Pat Arnow on the Big Butt section of the Appalachian Trail in N.C. 1986  (Photo by Steve Giles) 138
Harold and Harriette Arnow at Sycamore Shoals State Park in East  Tennessee, 1984 (Photo by Steve Giles) Back Cover
 
Appalachian Heritage is part of the Appalachian Center of Berea College.
Header photo by Dean Hill.
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