Summer 2011 Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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Table of Contents
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| 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 |

