Summer 2012 Issue of Appalachian Heritage

Table of Contents

   
Regular Features
This Magazine  
Helen Mathews Lewis George Brosi
This Issue George Brosi
New Book Notes George Brosi
Featured Photographers: Jim and Phyllis Wilson Moore WC Kilby
Grace Toney Edwards Guest Editor of the Pancake Section George Brosi
Contributors to This Issue  

Featured Author: Breece D'J Pancake Guest Editor: Gracey Toney Edwards

Breece D'J Pancake: A Life Too Short Grace Toney Edwards
The Poems of Breece D'J Pancake Lee Johnson
The Carver Breece D'J Pancake
Standing Plan Breece D'J Pancake
Pursuit of a Dream Breece D'J Pancake
A Grim Wind Breece D'J Pancake
A Loss of Tone Breece D'J Pancake
Many Moons Poet Sirrah
Autumnal Breece D'J Pancake
He'll Always Be a Part of Us: Folklore in the Stories of Breece D'J Pancake B.R. Seybert
Angus McGregor B.D. Pancake
Oral Narrative/Folklore Essay Breece D'J Pancake
Masculine (Dis)Order: Malignant Discrimination in the Stories of Breece D’J Pancake David "Woody" Wilson
Breece D’J Pancake: Appalachian Writer Who “Gets it Right” Donna Ogle
Winter Green Breece D'J Pancake
Re-reading the Stories of Breece D'J Pancake Thomas E. Douglas
Brush Breaker Ann Pancake
Phoenix II Poet Sirrah
 
Poetry
Haunted Charles A. Swanson
Bo Comes Back for the Gun He Shot to Save a Fox: A Tribute to the Short Story “Fox Hunters” Charles A. Swanson
Second Sight: Honoring "The Honored Dead" Charles A. Swanson
1953 Dodge Coronet David Huddle
With You Hadley Hury
Calling Jesus Home Kathy Whitson
Designated Driver Amy Partin-Elliott
Beholden R. T. Smith
 
Fiction
The Reunion Robert Morgan
 
Book Reviews
Review of Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia, edited by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith Tricia Shapiro
 

Illustrations
Photography By Jim and Phyllis Wilson Moore, John C. Nemeth, and courtesy of the West Virginia Collection (WVC) at West Virginia University and Thomas E. Douglass

Respite Courtesy of WVC Front Cover
Flowers   Photo by Jim Moore 2
John Henry, West Virginia’s famous folk hero 7

Breece Pancake, his father C. R. Pancake, and his mother Helen Frazier Pancake   Courtesy of WVC

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Self-Potrait, Breece Pancake, age 15 Courtesy of WVC 18
Woods—Breece's refuge as both boy and man Photo by John C. Nemeth 25

Rotunda and Lawn, University of Virginia, where Breece honed his writing skills Photo by John C. Nemeth

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The Old Bank Steps, Milton, WV, where Breece listened to the yarns of the “walking encyclopedias” (his term for the elderly) Photo by Jim Moore

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Female cadets on the grounds of the former Staunton Military Academy, where Breece taught English in 1975–1976 Photo by John C. Nemeth

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Nature—always a solace for Breece   Photo by John C. Nemeth 42

Breece with his cat Papa in Charlottesville, early Spring 1979 Photo by Emily Miller, courtesy of WVC

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Breece with his “Virginia mother,” Mrs. Sarah Nutt Courtesy of Thomas E. Douglass

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Breece’s gravestone in the Milton Cemetery Photo by Jim Moore 70

Breece Pancake, Charlottesville, previously published in UVA’s Declaration December 1977

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Pancake family marker in background, Milton Cemetery Photo by Jim Moore

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324 East Beverly Street, Staunton, Va., home of Mrs. Sarah Nutt in 1975–1976 when Breece lived there Photo by John C. Nemeth

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Signs of then and now, the old and the new Photo by Jim Moore 107
Almost Heaven   Photo by Phyllis Wilson Moore 120

Breece in Charlottesville, Winter 1979 Photo by Emily Miller, courtesy of Thomas E. Douglass

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Header photo by Dean Hill.
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