Summer
2008 Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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Table of Contents
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| Regular Items | |
| This Issue | Chad Berry |
| This Side of the Mountain | William H. Turner |
| Contributors to this Issue | |
| Articles | |
| Berea College Commencement Address | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Free Spirits: A Legacy of Wildness | bell hooks |
| Nikki Giovanni’s Appalachian Ties | Virginia C. Fowler |
| Carter G. Woodson: The West Virginia Connection | Ancella R. Bickley |
| Bessie Woodson Yancey, African-American Poet and Social Critic | Katharine Capshaw Smith |
| Effie Waller Smith: African-American Appalachian Poetry from the Breaks | Elizabeth Englehardt |
| The Preacher’s in the Pulpit: Old-Time African-American Preacher Tales | James “Sparky” Rucker |
| Poetry | |
| Terrain | Crystal Wilkinson |
| Route 44 to Route 52 | Alena Hairston |
| Up Bolt Mountain | Alena Hairston |
| True Black | Frank X Walker |
| Step(Fathering) on Eggshells | Frank X Walker |
| Protection | Frank X Walker |
| Spell #13: Spell to Eradicate Racism | Frank X Walker |
| Valley Girl (A Poem for Pia) | Crystal Good |
| Weeny (wiener) soup | doris davenport |
| Red Dirt Blues | doris davenport |
| Another Tangent | doris davenport |
| “…can’t go no further / cause you got me / chained and bound” | doris davenport |
| Cousin Dolly | Gloria Burgess |
| Among the “Breaks” of Big Sandy River | Effie Waller Smith |
| A Mountain Graveyard | Effie Waller Smith |
| I Got It | Carolyn Sundy |
| Witness (For Ron Davis) | Crystal Wilkinson |
| Texture | Bianca Springs |
| A Life Waiting to Be Lived | Emily Jones Hudson |
| Mountain Girls Play Jazz | Glenda Bailey-Mershon |
| Many Streams | Glenda Bailey-Mershon |
| Footnotes | Glennis Redmon |
| Fiction | |
| Third Sunday Dinner on the Grounds, July 1976 | Crystal Wilkinson |
| Book Reviews | |
| Alena Hairston, The Logan Topographies | Warren J. Carson |
| Bibliography of African-American Appalachian Books | George Brosi |
| Art for the Issue | |
| Desmond Johnson Slammin’ at the Base of Black Mountain | William H. Turner Front Cover |
| Homer Walker, Ed Cabbell, and Sparky Rucker at a 1970s Smithsonian Festival | Carl Fleischhauer |
| A Black Mountain Outing, near Appalachia, Virginia, 1941 | Collection of William H. Turner |
| Earl Gilmore and the Writing on the Wall | Wilburn Hayden |
| Clinchco, Virginia, Main Road | Wilburn Hayden |
| Two Boys with Bike | Wilburn Hayden |
| Child Standing with Mother | Wilburn Hayden |
| Retired Man Sitting | Wilburn Hayden |
| Young Boy Holding a Child on the Porch of a Derby Resident | Wilburn Hayden |
| Home from Church, Cumberland, Kentucky | Collection of William H. Turner |
| Woman in a Field | Wilburn Hayden |
| Carter G. Woodson at Institute | Miriam Hamblin Collection |
| Bessie Woodson Yancey | Belva Clark Collection |
| Religious Service | Wilburn Hayden |
| Clinchco Bridge between Black & White Residents | Wilburn Hayden |
| Rufus Glen | Collection of Appalachian African-American Cultural & Community Development Center, Pennington |
| Child and Woman Sitting in Background | Wilburn Hayden |
| Boys in a Field | Wilburn Hayden |
| Children in Porch Swing | Wilburn Hayden |
| Mountaintop Hair Removal by A.J. Cockrell | William H. Turner Back Cover |