November 2005
New Books Received

Amanda Adams, Docia Adams, Byrd Adams, Jr. Stories of a Kentucky Mountain Family: As Told by Two Sisters and a Brother. North Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2005. 326 pages with maps and photos. Trade paperback. $23.99.

Hassan Amjad. Life & Times of an Appalachian Herbalist. Place of publication unstated but known to be Beckley, WV: self-published, date unstated but known to be 2005. 75 pages with photographs. Trade paperback. $12.00.

Katharine L. Brown and Mary Baldwin College Historic Preservation Students. Staunton’s Newtown: Portrait of a Historic District. Staunton, VA: Lot’s Wife Publishing, 2005. 317 pages with photos, illustrations, maps, charts, appendices and index. Trade paperback. $30.00.

Hassan and Lolita Amjad. Wildflowers of West Virginia. Place of publication unstated but known to be Beckley, WV: self-published, date unstated but known to be 2005. 87 pages with color photographs. Trade paperback. $29.50.

John E. Fleming. A Summer Remembered. Yellow Springs, OH: Silver Maple Publications, 2005. 193 pages with photographs. Hardback in dust jacket. $24.95.

Frances H. Casstevens. Ghosts and Their Haunts: The Legends and Lore of the Yadkin River Valley. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2005. 158 pages with photographs, endnotes and bibliography. Trade paperback. $14.95.

Julia Nunnally Duncan. Drops of the Night. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2005. 171 pages. Trade paperback. $19.95.

Cynthia Burton. Jefferson Vindicated: Fallacies, Omissions, and Contradictions in the Hemings Genealogical Search. Keswick, VA: self-published, 2005. 194 pages with index, illustrations and charts, notes and foreword by James A. Bear, Jr. Oversized trade paperback. $37.95.

Jean Gillespie. A Death on Faculty Row. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2005. 169 pages. Trade paperback. $19.95.

Burl H. Gillum. The Life of a Farm Boy During the Great Depression. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 264 pages with photos, references and poetry. Hardback in dust jacket. $23.00.

Reprints

Hugh Maxwell. The History of Randolph County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, a 2005 reprint of a 1898 release. 531 pages with illustrations, list of subscribers, notes, charts, maps, photos and index. Hardback. $45.00.

Appalachian Heritage is part of the Appalachian Center of Berea College.
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