Summer 2011 Issue of Appalachian Heritage

Table of Contents

   
Regular Features
This Magazine  
Contents  
In Memoriam - Sidney Saylor Farr George Brosi
This Issue George Brosi
New Book Notes George Brosi
Featured Artist: Paul Brett Johnson George Brosi
Contributors to This Issue  
   
Featured Author: Lee Maynard
Lee Maynard: An Executive and Writer with an Outlaw Edge George Brosi
The Man Who Would be Soldier Lee Maynard
Interview with Lee Maynard Lynn D. Schwabe
Flights Lee Maynard
   
Poetry
I Have a Memory of Blossoms Sidney Saylor Farr
The Last Hymn of the Ghost of Hank William Shorty Chuck Kinder
Yellow Eye Beans Jeff Mann
Black Lung R. T. Smith
Epitaph Wendell Berry
Wolf and Crow Lucien Darjeun Meadows
My Grandmother's Housecoat Linda Parsons Marion
Memorial Daze Bob Henry Baber
Visitin' Charleston (for a poetry reading) Kirk Judd
New Covenant Samantha Lynn Cole
   
Articles
Cherokee Ceremonial Life Leonard Carson Lambert, Jr. as told to Michael Lambert
The "Elephant" and the "Chicks": How Rural Appalachia's First Writer-in-Residence Came and Went Elizabeth Lamont
Esau in the Coal Fields: Owing Our Souls to the Company Store Michael Kline
What if We Really Won the Battle of Blair Mountain? Wess Harris
   
Book Reviews
Review of When Miners March by William C. Blizzard Theresa L. Burriss
Review of Burning Bright by Ron Rash Viki Dasher Rouse
Review of Lambs of Men by Charles Dodd White Warren J. Carson
   
Illustrations
Art by featured artist, the late Paul Brett Johnson  
Up on Troublesome    Front Cover
Rebud Morning   10
Shift's End 18
Out Back 32
Loadout 37
Scale House 48
In the Pit 65
Morning Shift 107
Creek Crossing 123
Remembering BACK COVER
Photographs from the Collection of the late William C. Blizzard, courtesy of Wess Harris  
Peter Seger at Don West's Appalachian South Folklife Center in Pipestem, WV 7
Raymond Lewis, John L. Lewis's brother, Charley Payne, former vice president of UMW District 17, and Bill Blizzard 86
Right to Left: Bill Blizzard, his parents, and his brother, Frank, at Eskdale in the Early 1940s 94
Blizzard Holiday Gathering around the table - Bill Blizzard in the center rear holding the baby 95
Bill Blizzard's children, William C. Blizzard standing and Margie sitting down 96
Bill Blizzard, pointing, at the gorundbreaking for a United Mine Workers Union Hospital 97
Bill Blizzard catching a fish 98
Bill Blizzard testifying at his last trial where he was acquitted of charges leveled against him in the 1950s by the coal company during a strike at Widen when he was President of District 17 99
Mike Seeger performing on stage at Pipestem 116
Photograph by Ruth and Bob Baker  
The Whipple Company Store 68
   
Appalachian Heritage is part of the Appalachian Center of Berea College.
Header photo by Dean Hill.
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