Winter
2006 Issue of Appalachian Heritage
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Table of Contents |
| Regular Items | |
| This Side of the Mountain | |
| News of the Appalachian Literary Arts | |
| Upcoming Regional Literary Events | George Brosi |
| Contributors to this Issue | |
| Featured Author – Mary Lee Settle (1918-2005) | |
| A Student and Advocate for Freedom | Brian Rosenberg |
| Cedar Grove | Chuck Kinder |
| My Literary Mother | Denise Giardina |
| The Mother Jones of W. V. Literature | Phyllis Wilson Moore |
| “Is This Heaven?” | George Garrett |
| Mary Lee Settle: A Biographical Overview | |
| The Life of a Literary Freedom Seeker | George Brosi |
| Remembrances of Mary Lee Settle | |
| “She’s High-Strung, You Know” | Patty Tompkins |
| “I Simply Know Things” | Katherine Neville |
| That Flocoe Floor | Ron Day |
| “The Highest Mount” | Gretchen Moran Laskas |
| Full Immersion at the Rivanna | Justin A. Sarafin |
| In the Literary Trenches | Starling Lawrence |
| Excerpt from Learning to Fly: A Memoir | |
| Barter | Mary Lee Settle |
| The First Lady of PEN/Faulkner | |
| Absorbing the Past and Enriching the Future | Thomas Caplan |
| “Darling …” | Susan Richards Shreve |
| Celebrating American Writers | Janice Delaney |
| Mary Lee Settle’s Literary Legacy | |
| A Powerful Shock of Recognition | Keith Maillard |
| All The Brave Promises | Nancy Carol Joyner |
| The Clam Shell | Meredith Sue Willis |
| The Scapegoat | Thomas E. Douglass |
| Mary Lee Settle Interviews | |
| “Roger Mary Lee Williams” | Kate Long |
| The Paris Review Years | Matthew J. Bruccoli |
| “Die of Sheer Joy" | Matthew J. Bruccoli |
| A Mary Lee Settle Bibliography | |
| Gordon Simmons | |
| Poetry | |
| Don’t Call Her Punkin | Mary Silver |
| Past Presence | Fred Chappell |
| The Deserted Altar | Fred Chappell |
| The Small End of Nothing Sharpened | James B. Goode |
| Recipes and Reflections | |
| Traditional Life on Straight Creek | Sidney Saylor Farr |
| New Appalachian Books | |
| Write-ups | George Brosi |
| Photography | |
| Jubel in the '60s | a family collection |
| The Shadwell Site | Justin A. Sarafin |
| Relaxing at a party in recent years | Steve Denton |
| Addie's Home at Cedar Grove | Phyllis Wilson Moore |
| Roger Tompkins and cousin-Suez Canal | Patty Tompkins |
| Desmond, the dog, and friend | a family collection |
| That Flocoe Floor, Pineville, KY | Ron Day |
| Mary Lee Settle Laughing | a family collection |
| Relaxing After the Book Is Finished | Steve Denton |
| The Wedding Party with Widdy | a family collection |
| Setting Sail on her Wedding Day | a family collection |
| How's this Hat? | a family collection |
| Mary Lee Settle, the Model | a family collection |
| Another Model Shot | a family collection |
| The Roosevelt Cottage, Monticello | Justin A. Sarafin |
| The Shadwell Site | |
| Peter Hatch & Kathryn Knisley | Justin A. Sarafin |
| Jefferson Library, Monticello | Justin A. Sarafin |
| Mary Lee, 13, in hat, performs The Charleston Gazette | |
| Pineville and Flocoe Drugs | Pineville Library collection |
| Mary Lee and Widdy on the Nile | a family collection |
| Cedar Grove, West Virginia | Phyllis Wilson Moore |
| The Shadwell Site | Justin A. Sarafin |
| At the Rivanna River | Justin A. Sarafin |
Many people contributed way beyond what shows in this issue, especially a close family member who wishes to remain anonymous, Justin A. Sarafin, George Garrett, Starling Lawrence, Michael Carlisle, Gordon Simmons, Janice Delaney, Katherine Neville, Gretchen Laskas, and Richard Currey

