Spring 2012 Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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Table of Contents
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| 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 |

