Publications
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An Appalachian Symposium
(1977)
Published in 1977, this collection of essays was published to honor Cratis D. Williams upon his retirement from Appalachian State University. Williams was an influential scholar, folklorist, teacher, and administrator who ...
Liza's Monday and Other Poems
(1986)
Published in 1986, Bettie Sellers's book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing in a narrative and lyrical style, Sellers brings life to new stories and ...
The Sword of Lord and Gideon
(1980)
This catalogue of objects related to the Battle of King's Mountain was published as a way to commemorate the battle's bicentenary. The objects included in the catalogue belong to various individuals and institutions; in ...
Mountains of Experience
(1989)
This volume of the Journal of Appalachian Studies Association includes contributions from various disciplines by Parks Lanier, Jr.; Marilou Awiakta; C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.; Ricky L. Cox; Betty Smith; James E. Byer; Edgar ...
Thomas Wolfe
(1999)
The first novelist from North Carolina to become an influential voice in American literature, Thomas Wolfe was an imaginative and persuasive fictional writer. Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe is best ...
The Mountains Have Come Closer
(1980)
Mountains Have Come Closer is a collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller was awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award for the book in 1980.
Bits of Mountain Speech
(1974)
Paul Fink’s Bits of Mountain Speech is a dictionary of “folk speech.” In this work Fink has provided a glossary of terms that are often considered the language of the less educated people of the mountains of Western North ...
Only When They're Little
(1985)
A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day’s family life ...
Archives in Appalachia
(1985)
Archives in Appalachia: A Directory consists of entries describing 181 repositories in 195 counties in the South-Central Appalachia region which hold historical records documenting the political, social, cultural, and ...
Appalachia / America
(1981)
This volume of the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1981, offers a collection of some of the more important papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include labor and the economy; ...
Artisans/Appalachia/USA
(1977)
This is the documentation of an Appalachian Consortium traveling exhibition of Appalachian Art produced in the 1970s. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Paul Green's Wordbook
(1990)
Paul Green’s Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence, the culmination of more than sixty years of observing and collecting superstitions, customs, cures, riddles, games, stories, songs, and beliefs, was published in 1990. A ...
Bibliography of Southern Appalachia
(1976)
This monograph represents a massive effort to assemble printed works of regional materials held by Appalachian Consortium members at various institutions in the Appalachia region during the mid-1970s. The five libraries ...
Recollections of the Catawba Valley
(1983)
Published in 1983, Recollections of the Catawba Valley is a selection of family stories, local history, and mountain folklore chosen by Alexander Mull and Gordon Boger who were longtime citizens of the valley in North ...
The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia
(1986)
This volume of the Proceedings of the 8th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1986 in Berea, Kentucky, offers a sampling of papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include religion; government and ...
Promoting Student Investigation of Local Environmental Issues through the Southern Highlands Environmental Project
(1993)
Originally published in 1993, this report is a compilation of a survey evaluating issues with the local environment in the Southern Highlands. The report is based on a five-day teacher institute and a 1988-89 school year ...
The Good Life Almanac
(1975)
Published in 1975, this is an almanac of stories gathered from the Solway, Tennessee community as a microcosm of the Appalachian region during a period of transition. Written to showcase the stories and folklore passed on ...
Critical Essays in Appalachian Life & Culture
(1982)
The proceedings from the 1982 Appalachian Studies Conference, edited by Rick Simon, Grace Edwards, Ron Eller, Joan Moser, and Barry M. Buxton, includes contributions by Rick Simon; Ronald D. Eller; Deborah Morentz Markley ...
Life in the Stage Coach Days at Historic Sherrill's Inn
(1977)
This is a section from a larger work titled "Western North Carolina to 1880: Its Mountains and Its People." This part focuses on paintings by Elizabeth Cramer McClure that hang on the walls of a room in the original Historic ...
The Brindle Mule
(1983)
Written in Robert Leeper’s student days at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later at Columbia University, The Brindle Mule is a book of stories and poems emphasizing a childhood spent in the mountain ...
The Many Faces of Appalachia
(1985)
This volume of the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1985 at Unicoi State Park in Helen, Georgia, offers a look at diversity and Appalachian identity.
Blue Ridge Heritage Corridor
(1997)
The Seventh Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Lake Junaluska Assembly, North Carolina, on September 11-13, 1997. Contributors to the proceedings are Kathleen L. Kadlec; Bill Carson; Bill Carson and Judith Francis; ...
Appalachian Curriculum
(1998)
An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long symposium workshop held at Radford University In June 1998. The purpose of the workshop was to create materials that allowed children from the Southern Appalachian ...
Partnerships and Sustainability
(1995)
The Sixth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 9-11, 1995. Contributors to the proceedings are Steven Elkinton; Christopher D. Jones and William E. Hammitt; Philip A. Grant Jr.; ...
Appalachian Curriculum
(1995)
An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long teacher workshop held on the campus of Appalachian State University in June, 1995. The purpose of the workshop was to allow children of the Southern Appalachian region ...
Cratis Williams Chronicles
(1999)
Following his retirement in 1976 from a distinguished career as a teacher and administrator at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, Cratis Williams wrote these memoirs of his life odyssey from a log cabin ...
The Barter Theatre Story
(1982)
Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colorful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by native Virginian Robert Porterfield in 1933, the Barter Theatre offered the ...
Village Tapestry
(1989)
Born in the Wallingford Clinic in 1949, Barry Buxton called the town of Blowing Rock home during his childhood. The youngest of seven children, he grew up in the mountains attending Blowing Rock elementary school and looked ...
Laurel Leaves: Special Edition
(1978)
Published in 1979, this publication was written to help combat the misinformation, myth, and stereotypes of the Appalachian region. Miller’s intention was to publish an intuitive guide for teachers highlighting new literature ...
Symposium on Trout Habitat, Research, and Management
(1975)
Published in 1974, these symposia proceedings examine the management of trout habitat in mountain streams. Conservation organizations, researchers, and land managers, discussed trout habitat management programs and policies. ...
" . . . A Right Good People"
(1974)
A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in "... A Right Good People" were originally ...
Mountains Have Come Closer
(1980)
Mountains Have Come Closer is a collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller was awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award for the book in 1980.
The Summer People
(1989)
In the summer of 1974, twenty-four year old Anna DeVoss finds herself widowed and alone in the unfamiliar country of the North Carolina mountains. The body of her husband, a navy pilot missing in action for six years, has ...
The Cherokee Perspective
(1981)
In 1973, Cherokee students at the Qualla Boundary started a student organization with the intention of improving the educational prospects among Native Americans attending non-Indian colleges and universities. Under the ...
We Plow God's Fields
(1991)
This biography explores the life of James G. K. McClure, Jr., and his vision for a better life in the mountains of North Carolina. At his prompting, and under his leadership, The Farmers Federation was founded in Fairview, ...
Transformation of Life & Labor in Appalachia
(1990)
This volume of the Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association includes a collection of essays exploring the industrialization of the Appalachians and the effect on the economy.
Western North Carolina Since the Civil War
(1973)
No region has undergone more dramatic changes in the last century than Western North Carolina. Published in 1973, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War takes a look at mountain people in Western North Carolina and ...
Toward 1984
(1975)
Though titled the Proceedings of the 1st Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, this volume contains the speeches and papers of the Southern Appalachian Regional Conference held May 13-16, 1974 at the Center for Continuing ...
The Great Forest
(1985)
The very ancient Eastern forest of North America is characterized by an extraordinary variety of plants, animals, and human communities. Published in 1985 and edited by Barry M. Buxton (1st edition) and Sam Gray (2nd ...
The Examined Life
(1989)
Concerned with the 50% dropout rate for public high school students in the Southern Highlands, Jim Wayne Miller published this book in 1989 to ensure that young people had access to published works and other text that ...
Too Few Tomorrows
(1987)
Between the 1940s and 1970s, approxiately three million people left the Appalachian mountains in search of jobs in Midwest urban areas, such as Cincinnati, Chicago, and Detroit. Unfortunately, about a third of these people ...
Western North Carolina
(1977)
Published in 1977, Western North Carolina is a narrative history of the Southern Appalachian Mountains up to 1880. Ora Blackmun depicts the stories of native Cherokee and Sequoyah people and pioneers such as William Bartram, ...
The Gratis Williams Chronicles
(1999)
Following his retirement in 1976 from a distinguished career as a teacher and administrator at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, Cratis Williams wrote these memoirs of his life odyssey from a log cabin ...