Thirty-Fifth Annual Appalachian Studies Conference Friday, March 23 – Sunday, March 25, 2012 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, Pennsylvania The Wide Reach of Appalachia CONFERENCE PROGRAM

2012 ASA Conference Sponsors WELCOME! Indiana University of Pennsylvania: • African American Cultural Center Welcome to IUP and to Indiana, Pennsylvania, the • Academic Affairs Division hometown of Edward Abbey and Jimmy Stewart. We hope • Association of the Pennsylvania State College and you enjoy the conference, our campus, and the downtown University Faculties (IUP-APSCUF) community. • Center for Northern Appalachian Studies • College of Humanities and Social Sciences We would like to extend a special thanks to Dr. Robert • College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics • GLBT Commission Camp, Dean of the Eberly College of Business and • Eberly College of Business Information Technology, for the use of Eberly Hall as our • English Department primary conference site; to Dr. Yaw Asamoah, Dean of the • Geography and Regional Planning Department College of Humanities and Social Sciences, for financial • Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism and organizational support; and to Dr. Cornelius Wooten, • History Department IUP Vice President for Administration and Finance, for • Native American Awareness Council assistance in helping us secure additional IUP funding for • Religious Studies Department hosting the conference. Many others also supported and • School of Graduate Studies and Research helped us in crucial ways and are acknowledged below. • Sociology Department • Student Environmental Group: ECO Jim Dougherty, ASA Conference Director • Women’s Studies Program Jim Cahalan, ASA Program Chair Indiana-Armstrong-Clarion Central Labor Council Carl Rahkonen, Conference Musical Events Coordinator Appalachian Regional Commission Marshall University Mary Kay Thomas, ASA Executive Director Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky Katherine Ledford, ASA President, 2012-2013 Silent Auction Sinclair Community College ASA MISSION STATEMENT Marshall University Graduate Humanities Program Center for Appalachian Studies, Eastern Kentucky The mission of the Appalachian Studies Association University East Tennessee State University is to promote and engage dialogue, research, Stuart Davidson, Attorney and Negotiator for the scholarship, education, creative expression, and Pennsylvania statewide APSCUF faculty union action among scholars, educators, practitioners, Marilyn Thornton Schraff, Author, Artist, and Publisher grassroots activists, students, individuals, groups and University of Illinois Press University Press of Kentucky institutions. Our mission is driven by our commitment University of Tennessee Press to foster quality of life, democratic participation and www.appalachianstudies.org appreciation of Appalachian experiences regionally, nationally and internationally.

1 PROGRAM CONTENTS • R. Scott Moore, Chairperson, History Department Conference Welcome...... 1 • Joe Morgan, Literature and Criticism doctoral student and Conference Sponsors...... 1 graduate assistant ASA Mission Statement...... 1 • Gian Pagnucci, Chairperson, English Department Acknowledgments...... 2 • Peter Shoop, Assistant Director of Fitness and Recreation Conference Music...... 2 • Deanne Snavely, Dean, College of Natural Sciences and History of ASA Conferences...... 3 Mathematics Journal of Appalachian Studies...... 4 • David Stein, Treasurer, IUP-APSCUF ASA Steering Committee...... 5 • David Surtasky, Director of Production for the Lively Arts at IUP List of Exhibitors/Advertisers...... 6 • Jac White, Event Manager of the Kovalchick Convention and Howard Dorgan Silent Auction...... 7 Athletic Complex ASA Conference Locations...... 7 • Cornelius Wooten, Vice-President for Administration and Exhibit Hall...... 7 Finance Email and Technology Information...... 7 Cal Cecconi, President, Indiana-Armstrong-Clarion Central Labor ASA Committee Meetings...... 7 Council Conference Map...... 8 Schedule at a Glance...... 9 Conference Music Featured Person: Si Kahn...... 10 Joe’s Legacy is an Indiana County string band specializing in the Detailed Conference Program...... 10 old-time music of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It is named Preconference Activities, Posters, Art...... 10 in memory of “Fiddlin” Joe Yesolivich, an old-time fiddler from Preconference Receptions...... 10 Creekside, PA, who performed in and around Indiana County Keynote Address...... 16 for more than 70 years. Members include Joe’s widow, Helen Si Kahn Workshop (1st offering)...... 17 Yesolivich of Creekside, on guitar, and their daughter Helen Jo McDowell of Indiana on fiddle. Deborah White of Homer Plenary Panel...... 20 City (originally from Spars Creek, WV) plays fiddle and Carl Si Kahn Workshop (2nd offering)...... 21 Rahkonen of Indiana plays bass. The band performs a repertory Si Kahn Concert...... 24 of traditional tunes from Northern Appalachia. Index...... 29 Ads...... 32 Mark Tamsula is an award-winning fiddler and banjoist originally from Blairsville, PA. Today he lives and works in Pittsburgh. He specializes in the Appalachian music of Southwestern ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pennsylvania. His newest CD Up in the Batten House was done Indiana University of Pennsylvania: with master banjoist Richard Withers. It features Pennsylvania • Yaw Asamoah, Dean, College of Humanities and Social old-time music collected and transcribed by Samuel Bayard. Sciences More information on Mark and his recordings may be found on • Jennifer Matos Ayala, Literature and Criticism doctoral student his web site: http://www.appalachianmusic.net/. and graduate assistant • Sam Barker, Director of Program Services, Student Cooperative Dearest Home, a group specializing in ballad singing from Association Pennsylvania, made up mostly of the Folkemer family from • John Benhart, Chairperson, Geography and Regional Planning Gettysburg, PA. The band includes Stephen Folkemer on Department concertina, keyboard and vocals. Since 1979 he has served • Amanda Benigni, Literature and Criticism doctoral student and as the music director at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, where he is Associate Professor of Church Music. teaching associate Beth Folkemer sings and plays guitar and mountain dulcimer. • Robert C. Camp, Dean, Eberly College of Business She has studied the Samuel Bayard Pennsylvania folk song • Stuart Chandler, Chairperson, Religious Studies Department collection at Penn State University, becoming an expert on • Chauna Craig, Director, Women’s Studies Program Pennsylvania song traditions. Margaret Folkemer studies voice • Hilliary Creely, Assistant Dean of Research, School of Graduate at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Studies and Research • David B. Downing, Director, Graduate Program in Literature Keystone Rebels is a string band specializing in traditional old- and Criticism time music from Pennsylvania. Members include Todd Clewell • Susan Drummond, President, IUP-APSCUF Faculty Union (York, PA) on fiddle, guitar, and mandolin; Henry Koretzky • Michelle Fryling, Director, Media Relations (Harrisburg) on guitar and mandolin; Mark Tamsula (Pittsburgh/ • Alex Heckert, Chairperson, Sociology Department Blairsville) on fiddle and banjo; and Carl Rahkonen (Indiana) on bass. • Gerald Intemann, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs Grist for the Mill is a blues band from Indiana County, PA. • Julie Rachel Knepp, Literature and Criticism doctoral student Members include David Loomis (Indiana, PA) blues guitar; • Ron Mabon, Director, Design Studio Robert Bonnet (Ambrose, PA) harmonica and rhythm guitar; and • Tim Mack, Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research Patti Holmes (Indiana, PA) vocalist. ABOUT THE APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION: 1987 – 2012

DATE PRESIDENT LOCATION PROGRAM CHAIR 2011 – 2012 Katherine Ledford, President Jim Dougherty, Conference Chair Indiana University of Pennsylvania Jim Cahalan The Wide Reach of Appalachia Indiana, Pennsylvania

2010 – 2011 Alan Banks Eastern Kentucky University Anne Blakeney & Rob Weise River of Earth: Action, Scholarship, Reflection, and Renewal Richmond, Kentucky

2009 – 2010 Alice Sampson North Georgia College & State University, Cassie M. Robinson Engaging Communities Dahlonega, Georgia

2008 – 2009 Carol Baugh Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH Deanna Tribe Connecting Appalachia and the World through Traditional and Contemporary Arts, Crafts, and Music

2007 - 2008 Shaunna Scott Marshall University, Huntington, WV Chris Green The Road Ahead: The Next Thirty Years of Appalachian Studies

2006 - 2007 Chad Berry Maryville College, Maryville, TN Kathie Shiba Celebrating an Organization and a Region: Piecing the Appalachian Experience (The 30th Anniversary of ASA)

2005 - 2006 Phillip Obermiller Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH Thomas Wagner Both Ends of the Road: Making the Appalachian Connection

2004 - 2005 Melinda B. Wagner Radford University, Radford, VA Parks Lanier Vital Words and Vital Actions: Partnerships to Build a Healthy Place

2003 - 2004 Thomas S. Plaut Cherokee High School, Cherokee, NC Carol Boggess Building A Healthy Region: From Historical Trauma to Hope and Healing

2002 - 2003 Gordon McKinney Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY Alan Banks Building a Healthy Region: Environment, Culture, Community

2001 - 2002 Helen M. Lewis Unicoi State Park, Helen, GA Patricia Beaver Voices from the Margins—Living on the Fringe

2000 - 2001 Sally Ward Maggard Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Pocahontas County, WV Sandra Barney Standing on a Mountain: Looking to the Future

1999 - 2000 James B. Lloyd University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Jane Woodside Regional Stewardship for a Millennium: Integrating Cultural, Social, and Scientific Development in Appalachia

1998 - 1999 Stephen L. Fisher Southwest Virginia Center for Higher Education, Abingdon, VA Tal Stanley The Power of Place and the Struggle for Justice: Appalachia at Century’s Turn

1997 - 1998 Howard Dorgan Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Susan Keefe Building Sustainable Mountain Communities: Tradition and Change

1996 - 1997 Dwight B. Billings Ft. Mitchell, KY Kate Black & Shaunna Scott Urban Appalachia

1995 - 1996 John C. Inscoe Unicoi State Park, Helen, GA Curtis Wood Appalachia at the Crossroads: Looking Outward, Looking Inward

1994 - 1995 Ronald L. Lewis West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Ken Sullivan City, Town, and Countryside: Appalachian Community in Change

1993 - 1994 Alice Brown Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Elizabeth Fine Appalachia and the Politics of Culture

1992 - 1993 Rebecca Hancock Johnson City, TN Norma Myers Appalachian Adaptations to a Changing World

1991 - 1992 Roberta T. Herrin Asheville, NC Tyler Blethen Diversity in Appalachia: Images and Realities

1990 - 1991 Wilburn Hayden Berea College, Berea, KY Garry Barker Environmental Voices: Cultural, Social, Physical, and Natural

1989 - 1990 Doyle Bickers Unicoi State Park, Helen, GA John Inscoe Southern Appalachia and the South: A Region within a Region 3 ABOUT THE APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION: 1987 – 2012

DATE PRESIDENT LOCATION PROGRAM CHAIR

1988 - 1989 Loyal Jones West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Ronald Lewis Transformation of Life and Labor in Appalachia

1987 - 1988 Grace Toney Edwards Radford University, Radford, VA Parks Lanier, Jr. Mountains of Experience: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, International

APPALACHIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSONS AND LOCATIONS: 1977 – 1987

DATE CONFERENCE CHAIR LOCATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR

1986 - 1987 Jean Haskell Speer East Tennessee State University Parks Lanier, Jr. Remembrance, Union, and Revival: Celebrating a Decade of Appalachian Studies

1985 - 1986 Ronald D. Eller Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Carl Ross Contemporary Appalachia: In Search of a Useable Past

1984 - 1985 Richard Drake Berea College, Berea, KY Anne Campbell The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia

1983 - 1984 Charlotte Ross Unicoi State Park, Helen, GA Sam Gray The Many Faces of Appalachia, Exploring a Region’s Diversity

1982 - 1983 Jim Wayne Miller Pipestem Resort State Park, WV (none) Continuity and Change

1981 - 1982 Patricia D. Beaver Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Richard M. Simon Appalachia Futures, Past and Present

1980 - 1981 John Stephenson Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, NC Cliff Lovin Open Theme

1979 - 1980 Joan Moser Johnson City, TN Martha McKinney Appalachia / America: Land, Labor, Urban Life, Education and Culture

1978 - 1979 Sharon Lord Jackson’s Mill State 4-H Camp, WV Dennis Lindberg Land

1977 - 1978 Richard Drake Berea, KY, First Conference Stephen L. Fisher Appalachian Studies: Where Do We Go from Here?

1977 Founding Meeting of ASA Conference, Berea, KY

Journal of Appalachian Studies Submissions Presenters are encouraged to submit papers to the Journal of Appalachian Studies. Please send an electronic copy including a 200-word abstract in a Word file to [email protected]. Please note that submissions should conform to JAS guidelines for published conference papers. They should not exceed 5,000 words and should use the appropriate JAS citation format. Be sure to include your and your co-authors’ names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. Please follow the manuscript instructions on our website. Deadline for post-conference submission is April 30, 2012.

Conveners of panels may submit papers from the panel following the instructions above and including a cover letter indicating that you are submitting the papers on behalf of the entire panel. Please include the names, addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers of all panelists.

4 ASA STEERING COMMITTEE 2011-2012 Evelyn Knight The Steering Committee is made up of all elected and appointed Katherine Ledford officers, the immediate past president, six elected at large members, Sylvia Shurbutt and ex officio officers. In addition to officers and members of the Thomas Wagner steering committee, the chairs and members of standing and ad hoc committees are also listed. Finance and Development Committee Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Chair Elected Officers Katherine Ledford, President Katherine Ledford, President Linda Spatig, Vice President/President Elect Alan Banks, Immediate Past President Chad Berry Jim Dougherty, Conference Chair Mary Jo Graham, Marshall University Liaison Officer Linda Spatig, Vice President and President Elect Roger Guy, Scholarship Chair Meredith Doster, Secretary (2011 – 2014) Ted Olson Kristin Kant-Byers, Treasurer (2011 – 2014) Kristin Kant-Byers, Treasurer Jim Cahalan, Program Chair John Nemeth Kathy H. Olson, Vice Chair/Program Chair Elect Phillip Obermiller Carol Baugh, Historian (2008 – 2013) Mary Thomas, Executive Director, ex officio

At Large Members, Elected, Class of 2010 – 2013 Membership Committee Susan Spalding Penne Lane, Chair Roger Guy, Scholarship Chair, ex officio At Large Members, Elected, Class of 2011 – 2014 Renee Scott Theresa “Tess” Lloyd Mary Thomas, Executive Director, ex officio Billy Schumann Pamela Twiss

At Large Member, Appointed, 2010 - 2012 Nomination Committee Joette Morris Gates Linda Spatig, Vice President/President Elect, Chair Katherine Ledford, President At Large Member, Appointed, 2011 – 2012 Theresa Burchett Judy Byers Amelia Kirby

At Large Member, Appointed, 2011 - 2013 Scholarship Committee Eryn Roles Roger Guy, Chair Carol Baugh, Silent Auction Organizer, ex officio Appointed Officers Chad Berry Mary Jo Graham, Marshall University Liaison Officer Donna Sue Groves Ted Olson, Journal Editor Fred Hay Roger Guy, Website Chair Cassie M. Robinson Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Finance and Development Committee Chair Linda Spatig, Vice President/President Elect, ex officio Roger Guy, Scholarship Committee Chair Mary Thomas, Executive Director, ex officio Mary Thomas, Executive Director, ex officio Shannon Wilson, Archivist Website Committee Roger Guy, Chair 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Boyd Shearer, ex officio Jim Cahalan, Program Chair Rebecca Adkins Bailey Carl Rahkonen Jason Burns Theresa McDevitt Cara Hamilin Derek Mullins Past Program Co-Committee Chairs Alice Sampson Anne Blakeney Emily Satterwhite Rob Weise Eryn Roles, Appalink Editor, ex officio Yoshiko Guy, ex officio STANDING COMMITTEES Ted Olson, JAS Editor, ex officio Communications Committee Mary Thomas, Executive Director, ex officio Kathy Hayes, Chair Joette Morris Gates AD HOC COMMITTEES Mary Jo Graham ASA-Black Belt Committee Roger Guy Sokoya Finch, Chair Boyd Shearer G. Frank Bills Steve Fisher Education Committee Rosalind Harris Carol Baugh, Chair Theresa Burriss 5 Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Fellowship Committee Fiction Linda Spatig, Chair Berea College Committee Members: Rosalind Harris George Brosi, Chair Eddy Pendarvis Warren J. Carson Marianne Worthington AWARDS COMMITTEES ASA Committee Members: Chad Berry, Chair Sandra Ballard Emily Satterwhite, Chair Grace Edwards Gordon Simmons Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award Joette Morris Gates, Chair Poetry Berea College Committee Members: Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award Silas House, Chair Emily Satterwhite, Chair Marianne Worthington ASA Committee Members: Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award Mark Powell Patricia Beaver, Chair Jeff Mann Amy Greene e-Appalachia Award Roger Guy, Chair HOWARD DORGAN SILENT AUCTION Proceeds benefit the ASA Scholarship Fund. Jake Spadaro Documentary Award Philis Alvic, Co-chair Jack Wright, Chair Carol Baugh, Co-chair Kathy Hayes EDITORIAL STAFF: Joette Morris Gates JOURNAL OF APPALACHIAN STUDIES Donna Sue Groves Ted Olson, Editor Deanna Tribe Martha Billips, Assistant Editor Peg Wimmer Alan Holmes, Assistant Editor Wendy Welch, Assistant Editor ASA ENDOWMENT CONTRIBUTIONS Linda Spatig, Associate Editor In Honor of Professor Tate Eddy Pendarvis, Interim Associate Editor In Memory of Danny Miller Mary Thomas, Managing Editor In Memory of Dr. Heather Murray Elkins Jo. B. Brown, Bibliographer In Memory of Don West Katherine Ledford, Book Review Editor In Memory of Judy Bonds Nyoka Hawkins, Book Review Editor In Honor of Phillip Obermiller Catherine Moore, Media Review Editor Kris Clifford, Copyeditor 2012 ASA CONFERENCE ADVERTISERS Suzanna Stephens, Production Consultant Agee Films Alcalines ASA NEWSLETTER, APPALINK Appalachian Community Fund Eryn Roles, Editor Appalachian Journal, Appalachian State University Mary Thomas, Managing Editor Appalachian Studies, Appalachian State University Aurora Lights ASA HEADQUARTERS, MARSHALL UNIVERSITY Blair Mountain Press Mary Thomas, Executive Director Bottom Dog Press Cara Hamlin and Mary Zeng, Office Assistants Center for Appalachian Studies & Services, East Tennessee Mary Zeng, Graduate Assistant State University Hayes Strader, Intern Center for Appalachian Studies, Eastern Kentucky University Gregory Tolliver, Intern Department of Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Marshall University COLLABORATIONS Emory & Henry College Berea College/ASA Weatherford Award Gabor WV Folklife Center Non-fiction Jesse Stuart Foundation Berea College Committee Members: Kathy Sohn, (Individual Author) Chad Berry, Chair Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College Dykeman Stokely Margaret Edds (Individual Author) Susan Weatherford Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies, East Tennessee State University ASA Committee Members: Ohio University Press Shaunna Scott Radford University Rob Weise SUNY-Empire State College John Alexander Williams The Iron Mountain Review

6 2012 ASA CONFERENCE ADVERTISERS food only at the tables in the lobby and outside the building. Thanks University of Illinois Press for your cooperation! University of Tennessee Press Ohio Room in HUB (student union)—Conference meals. University Press of Kentucky Cogswell Hall—Music and dance session at dinnertime Saturday. West Virginia Humanities Council Fisher Auditorium—Si Kahn’s featured concert, Saturday 8 PM. West Virginia University Press Numerous parking lots and streets for this concert highlighted on map. WriteBrain Films EXHIBIT HALL 2012 ASA CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS Please make several visits to the exhibit area, in Zink Hall Gym B, where Agee Films publishers will display recent Appalachian books and other writings. Appalachian Community Fund A variety of programs and organizations will have displays and Appalachian Journal, Appalachian State University information available about their activities and services. Appalachian Mountain Books Aurora Lights Email and Technology Information Beehive Design Collective All IUP classrooms are fully equipped with a computer station that Bottom Dog Press uses Windows 7 as its operating system (with Microsoft Power Point, Byron Herbert Reece Society Word, Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player, Microsoft Picture Center for Appalachian Studies/Appalachian State University Manager Etc.). In addition it includes DVD and VHS video players, Center for Appalachian Studies & Services, East Tennessee State a CD player in the computer, ceiling mounted projectors that are University connected to the computer, and screens at the front of the classroom, Gabor WV Folklife Center internet access, USB latch-ups for external drives and laptops, wireless Indiana Tourist Board accessibility throughout campus including all conference buildings, IUP Appalachian Center plus access to desktop computer stations at the primary meeting site, Little Creek Books Eberly Hall. Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea College Margaret Edds, Individual Author The computer center we will be using is located in room 110 Eberly Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies, East Tennessee State University Hall. It has 73 computers that are equipped with the same operating Northern Appalachian Network, California University of Pennsylvania system found in the classroom computers along with internet access Ohio University Press and a central computer lab printer. Radford University Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative In addition, we will have a technical services person available Tamra Wilson, Writer throughout the conference for addressing any technology problems The Alliance for Appalachia that may occur. The Co-op Store Ukraine For more information on IUP’s classroom technology capabilities go to: University of Illinois Press http://www.iup.edu/itsupportcenter/mmc/default.aspx. University of Tennessee Press University Press of Kentucky MEAL KEY West Virginia University Press Blue Ticket - Friday Banquet Yellow Ticket - Saturday Lunch SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS – 15TH ANNUAL HOWARD DORGAN Red Ticket - Sunday Brunch SILENT AUCTION Wanted—bidders and buyers! Have some fun, find a treasure, and help ASA COMMITTEE MEETINGS (all in the Oak Room, Foster Hall) support ASA’s scholarship program through the 15th annual Howard 2011-2012 ASA Old Steering Committee, Friday, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM, Dorgan Silent Auction. The Silent Auction is located in the Zink Oak Room A. Hall Gym B. Winning bidders should pick up and pay for their items 2012-2013 ASA New Steering Committee, Sunday, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, immediately after the Silent Auction closes at 6:15 PM on Saturday. Oak Room A. We thank the many participants and exhibitors who donated items to Education Committee, Friday, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Oak Room B. help make scholarships available. Finance Committee, Friday, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Oak Room A. WHERE ASA ACTIVITIES WILL OCCUR ON CAMPUS Website and Communication Committees Joint Meeting, Friday, 10:30 See the campus map next page, on which each of the following AM - 11:30 AM, Oak Room C. places is highlighted. Editorial Board, Saturday, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Oak Room A. Kovalchick Complex—Friday parking will be in the Kovalchick Membership Committee, Saturday, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Oak Room B. Complex lot. There will be a welcome room just inside the front entrance to the Kovalchick Complex. 2013 Program Committee, Saturday, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Oak Room C. Oak Room in Foster Hall—Committee Meetings. OTHER MEETINGS (all in the Oak Room, Foster Hall) Zink Hall Gym B—Registration, Silent Auction, and Exhibits. New West Virginia Land Ownership Study Informational Meeting, Eberly Hall—Main conference building. Featured and concurrent Sunday, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Eberly Lobby. sessions and posters and exhibits. Park here on Saturday and Sunday. Note: Campus rules do not permit taking beverages and food into the Appalachian Teaching Project Faculty Directors Meeting, Friday, 12:00 - meeting rooms in this classroom building. Please enjoy beverages and 1:00 PM, Oak Room B. 7 8 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Friday, March 23 Saturday, March 24 8:30 AM-9:30 AM ASA Old Steering Committee breakfast meeting Parking: Eberly lot (see map) 9:00 AM-5:30 PM Parking in Kovalchick Complex lot (see map), 7:30 AM-8:30 AM ASA Committee Breakfast Meetings (see pg. 7) welcome in meeting room at the front of the 8:00 AM Registration, Silent Auction, Book Exhibits, Kovalchick Complex building, and registration in Posters, and Photo Exhibits, open Zink Hall Gym B. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Concurrent Sessions IV 9:00 AM-10:00 AM ARC Grant and Information Workshop, in 8:30 AM-9:45 AM Si Kahn Organizing Workshop (1st offering) that same meeting room at the front of the Kovalchick Complex building. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM Concurrent Sessions V 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Walking field trip, leaving from just outside the 10:15-10:45 AM Reception in honor of Gurney Norman, Kovalchick Complex meeting room, ending at sponsored by the IUP English Department and the Jimmy Stewart Museum Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism 9:00 AM-5:45 PM Registration, information sharing table, and 10:45 AM-11:15 AM Reception sponsored by the IUP Native message board in Zink Hall Gym B. American Awareness Council, music by Keystone Rebels 10:00 AM-5:00 PM Conference Greeting and Orientation Room, at the front of the Kovalchick Complex facing the 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions VI road 12:15 PM-1:30 PM Conference Luncheon and ASA Business 10:30 AM-11:30 AM ASA Committee Lunch Meetings (see pg. 7) Meeting, Ohio Room, music by Keystone Rebels 11:00 AM-5:45 PM Silent Auction, Book Exhibits, Posters, and Photo Exhibits open 1:45 PM-3:15 PM Marcellus Shale Plenary Panel 11:00 AM-11:30 AM Camp Happy Appalachee Reception, sponsored 3:30 PM-4:45 PM Si Kahn Organizing Workshop (2nd offering) by the IUP GLBT Commission, music by Joe’s 3:30 PM-4:45 PM Concurrent Sessions VII Legacy 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Concurrent Sessions VIII 11:30 AM-12:00 PM Reception sponsored by IUP’s Student 6:00 PM-7:00 PM Publishers’ Welcome and Book Signing Environmental Group: ECO, music by Joe’s Reception, music by Dearest Home Legacy 6:00 PM-7:45 PM Dinner on your own 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Lunch on your own 6:15 PM Bids close for the Silent Auction; Poster Sessions 12 PM-1:15 PM Concurrent Sessions I close 1:30 PM-2:45 PM Concurrent Sessions II 6:30 PM-7:30 PM Music and Dance in Cogswell Hall, dancers and 2:50 PM-4:40 PM Showing of Gasland film musicians from Elkins, WV 3:00 PM-4:15 PM Concurrent Sessions III 7:00 PM Registration and Book Exhibits close 4:15 PM-4:45 PM Reception sponsored by the IUP African Parking: Keith lot or anywhere else on campus (see map) American Cultural Center, music by Grist for the Mill 8:00 PM-? Si Kahn concert, Fisher Auditorium 4:45 PM-5:45 PM Si Kahn keynote address 5:45 PM Registration, Silent Auction, Book Exhibits, and Poster Sessions close Sunday, March 25 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Banquet and Awards Ceremony in the Ohio Parking: Eberly lot Room (see map), music by Mark Tamsula and 7:30 AM-8:30 AM ASA New Steering Committee Breakfast Meeting Dearest Home 8:15 AM-11:00 AM Registration and Book Exhibits, Zink Hall Gym B 8:00 PM Traditional music in the Orendorff Commons, Room 101, Cogswell Hall, with Mark Tamsula, 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Concurrent Sessions IX Richard Withers, and friends. Jam session to 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions X follow. 11:00 AM-1:00 PM Conference Brunch and Invitation to 2013 8:00 PM-11:00? Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative Conference, Ohio Room Hootenanny with poetry and music, Heritage 1:00 PM Safe journey home! House, 209 South 6th St. (at School St.). 8:30 PM-? Jam Sessions and Scheduled Music at the Coney Island Restaurant and Bar, 624 Philadelphia Street.

9 FEATURED CONFERENCE KEYNOTER, WORKSHOP 10:00 AM-5:00 PM. Conference Greeting and Orientation Room, LEADER, AND SINGER at the front of the Kovalchick Complex facing the road Si Kahn, the celebrated organizer and singer-songwriter (http:// sikahn.com), grew up in State College, Pennsylvania, before 10:30 AM-11:30 AM. ASA Committee Lunch Meetings, Oak Rooms moving to southern Appalachia to work in the civil rights and labor A, B, and C, Foster Hall (see pg. 7). movements (he can be spotted at one point in the 1976 Oscar- winning film Harlan County, USA). Si’s Friday keynote address will 11:00 AM. Silent Auction and Exhibit Hall (Zink Hall Gym B) focus on community and labor organizing in Appalachia during the past half-century, the period of his involvement. Saturday he RECEPTION, CAMP HAPPY APPALACHEE, sponsored by IUP GLBT will lead an organizing workshop. Honored by the Folk Alliance as Commission (http://www.iup.edu/glbt/default.aspx), 11:00 AM-11:30 2010’s number one folk artist as based on statistics compiled by the AM, Zink Hall Gym B, music provided by Joe’s Legacy. Folk DJ Chart for airplay by DJs around the world, Si Kahn will give a featured concert Saturday evening at discounted prices of $10/$8 for RECEPTION sponsored by ECO, IUP’s Student students. Si has released many albums during the past forty years, Environmental Group And The Indiana Coalition for most recently Courage, with Kathy Mattea. He ran the non-profit a Healthy County (http://coalitionforahealthycounty.wordpress. Grassroots Leadership organization for many years. A graduate of com/). Those interested in environmental issues are encouraged to Harvard and the Union Institute, Si holds a Ph.D. in American studies attend. 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, Zink Hall Gym B, music by Joe’s Legacy. and is the author of several books, ranging from his early pamphlet “Who Speaks for Appalachia?” (1972) and his first book, The Forest 12:00-1:00 PM. Appalachian Teaching Project Faculty Directors Service and Appalachia (1974), to his most recent one, Creative Meeting, Oak Room B. Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice (2010). CONCURRENT SESSIONS I, FRIDAY 12:00 PM-1:15 PM

FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 1. Eberly Auditorium. Featured DETAILED CONFERENCE PROGRAM Presentation. Convener: Jim Cahalan ([email protected]), IUP John A. Williams ([email protected]), Appalachian State U. and Following are activities, programs, and events taking place at the author of Appalachia: a History, “Pennsylvania as Greater Appalachia: Conference. Check http://www.appalachianstudies.org/conference/ Historical Perspectives” for updates and brief abstracts describing concurrent session presentations. FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 2. Room 410. Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel: a Literary Journal with Grit. Conveners: Pauletta Hansel FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 ([email protected]) and Michael Henson, (michaelhenson642@ PARKING: KOVALCHICK COMPLEX LOT gmail.com), co-editors of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel PRESENTERS: Pauletta Hansel and Michael Henson; Jim Webb 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. ASA Old Steering Committee breakfast ([email protected]), founding editor of Pine Mountain Sand meeting, Oak Room A, Foster Hall. and Gravel; Frankie Finley ([email protected]), Scott Goebel ([email protected]), and Richard Hague ([email protected]), POSTERS AND EXHIBITS, 11:00 AM-5: 45 PM, in the Lobby and editors emeriti of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel; George Ella Lyon Second-floor Annex of Eberly Hall. Be sure to visit these during the ([email protected]), author; Jim Minick (jminick@radford. conference. On Friday, during Concurrent Session III, Session 29, 3:00 edu), Radford U.; Sherry Stanforth (Sherry.Stanforth@Thomasmore. PM to 4:15 PM, presenters will describe their posters and exhibits. edu),Thomas More Coll.; and Dana Wildsmith (dswildsmith@ earthlink.net), author. 9:00 AM-10:00 AM. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Grant Workshop, led by Jim Dougherty ([email protected]). In the FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 3. Room 412. Expanding the Boundaries meeting room at the front of the Kovalchick Complex building. of Region and Identity: GLBTQ Studies in Appalachia. Convener: Richard Parmer ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky PRESENTERS: Molly Theobald, Director, Program Operations; Al Richard Parmer, U. of Kentucky, “Queer Ecology in Appalachia” Feldstein, Maryland State Director; and Neil Fowler, Pennsylvania State Director—all of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Tyler Chadwell ([email protected]), Fairmont State U., “From Promiscuity to Pride: an Appalachian Annotated Bibliography of 9:00 AM-10:00 AM. Free walking field trip, beginning from just Same-Sex Desire” outside that same meeting room at the front of the Kovalchick Complex, including a look at coal culture in the Center for Northern Heather McIntyre ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, Appalachian Studies and the IUP Special Collections and University “Exploring Intersections of Sexual Identity and Religion in Archives (with archivist Harrison Wick); continuing with a walk to Appalachian Discourse” Edward Abbey and Jimmy Stewart sites on Philadephia Street, and ending at the Jimmy Stewart Museum ($7; students, $6; admission Timi Reedy ([email protected]), independent scholar, “Appalachian only for the museum) which opens at 10 AM. Led by Jim Cahalan Ecofeminist Lesbian Homesteading” ([email protected]), IUP. FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 4. Room 309. Shall We Gather at the 9:00 AM. Registration opens. Zink Hall Gym B. River I: Confluence or Divergence at the Community / Expert Interface. (See Concurrent Sessions III, panel 34, and Concurrent

10 Sessions IV, panel 49.) Convener: Alice Jones ([email protected]), FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 8. Room 220. Sustainable Living: The Eastern Kentucky U. Key to Educating Our Youth about Nutrition and Healthy Living. Convener: Jan Rezek ([email protected]), WVU-Tech Ted Withrow ([email protected]), retired from the Kentucky Division of Water, “Iron and Manganese: Emerging Issues In Jan Rezek, WVU-Tech, “Why Does Rural Appalachia Need Programs Appalachia’s Drinking Water” that Promote Healthy Lifestyles and Sustainable Living?”

Benjamin M. Stout, III ([email protected]), Wheeling Jesuit U.; Zackary Kaitlyn Carreau ([email protected]), VISTA, “Interactive Ways Birchard ([email protected]), Wheeling Jesuit U.; and to Address Good Nutrition and Healthy Foods to Youth” Scott Simonton, ([email protected]), Marshall U., “Coal Slurry and Rural Well Water Quality in Southern West Virginia” John Flack ([email protected]), VISTA, Southern Appalachian Labor School, “Youth Being Actively Involved in Their Physical Well-Being” Andrew J. Wigginton, Morehead State U., and Stephanie McSpirit, ([email protected]), Eastern Kentucky U., “Results of an Lorien MacAuley ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Putting a NSF-EPSCoR-Funded Program Using Two Methods to Assess Water Healthy Living Program for Young People Together: How Does it All Quality in Coal Producing Areas of Appalachia” Fit In?”

Alice Jones, Eastern Kentucky U., “The Conductivity Controversy: FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 9. Room 213. North Carolina Mountain Comparing Measures of Stream Health in Coal Country Watersheds” Apprenticeships and Face-to-Face Transmission and Exchanges. Convener: Cece Conway ([email protected]), Appalachian FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 5. Room 210. Religious Themes in State U. Literature, Music, and Psychology. Convener: Ron Roach (rroach@ yhc.edu), Young Harris Coll. Donna Corriher ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “Superstition or Biblical Instruction: Grandma Had It All Figured Out” Bill Jolliff ([email protected]), George Fox U., “The Wide Reach of Salvation: Christian Universalism in the Novels of Denise Giardina” Lisa Baldwin ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “Amy Michels: Continuing the Western North Carolina Traditions Stephen Folkemer, ([email protected]), Lutheran Theological Learned from the Hicks Family and Other Friends” Seminary at Gettysburg, and Beth Bergeron Folkemer, (bfolkemer@ centurylink.net), Pastoral Staff of Christ Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Brandon Johnson ([email protected]), Appalachian Pa., “Traditional Appalachian Music as Bearer of Tradition and Values State U., “Transmissions on Banjo Branch: Roger Howell and Western in the Faith Community” North Carolina Fiddle-Tune Tradition”

Ron Roach, Young Harris Coll., “Carlton Haney’s ‘The Story of Trevor McKenzie ([email protected]), Appalachian Bluegrass’ as Redemptive Drama and Metaphor” State U., “Traditional Songs from Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina—including Otto Wood the Bandit” James Houck ([email protected]), Neumann U., “Finding a Voice: Affirming Religious Coping as a Strength Among Cece Conway, Appalachian State U., “Black Banjo Gathering Disenfranchised Appalachians” Reunion—Farthing Concert 2010 (Video) and Presentation”

FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 6. Room 321. Tobaccolachia: a Film FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 10. Room 313. Diverse Musical Genres. about Tobacco Culture and Health. Convener: Ann Andaloro Convener: Christine Anderson ([email protected]), Xavier U. ([email protected]), Morehead State U. Christine Anderson, Xavier U., “‘Hillbilly Boogie’: King Records, Music Sharon A. Denham ([email protected]), Ohio U., “Tobacco and from the Appalachian Diaspora and the Birth of Rock-n-Roll” Health” Lee Bidgood ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U., Ann Andaloro, Morehead State U., “Tobacco and Culture” “Learning the Lay of the Czech Bluegrass Landscape“

Steven Middleton ([email protected]), Morehead Shannon Perry ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., State U., “Public Service Campaign” “An Historical Overview of Appalachian Identity in American Indie Music, mid-1970s-Present” FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 7. Room 212. Regional Facets: Appalachian Culture in the New River Valley. Convener: Katy Sharon Brescoach ([email protected]), Fairmont State Pettit ([email protected]), Radford U. U., “Talkin’ Hip-Hop in the Dub Vee (WV)”

PRESENTERS: Katy Pettit, Brenna Ishler ([email protected]), Eric FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 11. Room 408. Literature about Coal Piddock ([email protected]), Ethan Taylor (etaylor44@radford. Mining. Convener: Michelle M. Tokarczyk ([email protected]), edu), Ryan Woodson ([email protected]), Brianna Kirker Goucher Coll. ([email protected]), Erin O’Neil ([email protected]), Sarah Wood ([email protected]), and Melinda Bollar Wagner (mwagner@ Jade Bolling McDaniel ([email protected]), Wright State U., radford.edu)—all of Radford U. “An Appalachian Pilgrimage Toward National Identity: Cinematic Narrative in Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Book of the Dead’” 11 Julie Rachel Knepp ([email protected]), IUP, “Kettle Bottom by Diane Fri. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 14a. Room 218. Gift Planning 101. Gilliam Fisher: Unearthing the Traumas Common to Coalmining” Convener: Ed A. Zimmerman, Marshall University Foundation, Inc.

Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Goucher Coll., “Imagined Communities: Diane Presenters: Ed A. Zimmerman ([email protected]), Gilliam Fisher’s Kettle Bottom” Director of Planned Giving and Beverly Crabtree (crabtreeb@marshall. edu), Associate Director of Planned Giving, both of Marshall University Paul Haspel ([email protected]), Penn State U., “Coal Runs and Mine Foundation, Inc. Fires in Tawni O’Dell” CONCURRENT SESSIONS II, FRIDAY 1:30 PM-2:45 PM FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 12. Room 310. Comparative Educational Perspectives: Outdoors and Abroad. Convener: Kelli Jo Kerry- FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 15. Eberly Auditorium. Featured Moran ([email protected]), IUP Presentation. Convener: John Nemeth ([email protected]), CGJC Enterprises for Research and Education Consulting Katanya Cathcart ([email protected]), Geneva Coll., and Brad Frey ([email protected]), Geneva Coll., “When the Friday Night Lights Robert F. Cahalan ([email protected]), NASA, and member of the Go Out: Post-Secondary Aspirations of the Appalachian Athlete” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore, “Appalachian Impacts of Global Sarah A. Watson ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Tie-dying Warming: Reasons for Hope” with Acid Mine Drainage: Environmental Education in Post-Mining Appalachian Ohio” FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 16. Room 209. The Anthology of Appalachian Writers: Readings from across the Wide Mountains. Yasong Wang ([email protected]), IUP, “Experiential Learning Convener: Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt ([email protected]), Outcomes: A Case Study of an Appalachian Outdoor Education Shepherd U. Program” PRESENTERS: Silas House ([email protected]), Berea Coll.; Roman Poznaskyy ([email protected]), Precarpathian Llewellyn McKernan, ([email protected]), Barboursville, WV; National U., “Comparative Analysis of Educational Systems in the and Jesse Graves ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U. Ukrainian Carpathians and Appalachia” FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 17. Room 121. Effie Walker Smith, FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 13. Room 209. Religion, Culture, and “Appalachia’s Black Diamond”—from Three Angles. Convener: History. Convener: Paul Zbiek ([email protected]), King’s Coll., William Turner ([email protected]), Berea Coll. “The Diasporas that Came to the Pennsylvania Mountains” PRESENTERS: William David Deskins ([email protected]), Mary Beth Leidman ([email protected]), IUP, and David P. Keppel independent scholar; Chris Green ([email protected]), Marshall ([email protected]), IUP; “The Vanishing Voice of Jewish Culture and U.; and William Turner, Berea Coll. Heritage in Northern Appalachia” FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 18. Room 321. Appalachia and the World: Mike Feely ([email protected]), U. of Tennessee-Chattanooga and Comparative Cultural Studies and the Fulbright Experience. Chattanooga State Community Coll., “Hidden Histories of Appalachia: Convener: Ted Olson ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U. a Look at the Early Methodist Deaconess Movement and the Settlement House Movement in Appalachia” Donald Edward Davis ([email protected]), independent scholar, Washington, DC, “From Appalachia to Carpathia: Researching Kathy Whitson ([email protected]), Eureka Coll., “A Preliminary Mountain Communities in the Age of Globalization” Analysis of the Dynamics of an Appalachian Church Community” Christopher Miller ([email protected]), Berea Coll., “Exploring the FRI. 12:00 PM-1:15 PM. 14. Room 121. Appalachian Englishes: Role of Material Culture in Constructing and Portraying Highlander Voices and Varieties. Convener: Nancy Hayward (nhayward@ Identity” auxmail.iup.edu), IUP Hugo A. Freund ([email protected]), Union Coll., “Appalachian Anita Puckett ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Language and Power” Boundaries: Expanding the Dimensions of the Region”

Silas House ([email protected]), Berea Coll., “In My Own Country” Ted Olson, East Tennessee State U., “Sacrificing Nationhood: Appalachia and Catalonia” Amy Clark ([email protected]), U. of Virginia’s Coll. at Wise, “Voice in the Appalachian Classroom” FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 19. Room 310. Community and Hard Times in Northern Appalachia: Norvelt, Pennsylvania, the Great Nancy Hayward, IUP, “Think Locally: Language as a Community of Depression, and the New Deal in 1930s America. Convener: Practice” Joanna Moyar ([email protected]), Westmoreland Co. Historical Society Kathy Sohn ([email protected]), Pikeville Coll., “Silence, Voice and Identity Among Appalachian Women” Timothy Kelly ([email protected]), Saint Vincent Coll., “Building a Better Life: Domestic Architecture in Norvelt, Pennsylvania, 1934- 1941” 12 Michael Cary ([email protected]), Seton Hill U., “Norvelt’s New Deal Jennifer Howard ([email protected]), North Carolina State for the Miner: a Promise Fulfilled” U., “Exploring the Silencing of African Americans in Southern Appalachian Folk Music” Margaret Power ([email protected]), Illinois Institute of Technology, “Race and Gender in the Mining (Patch) Communities of Western Aaron Lefkovitz ([email protected]), U. at Buffalo, Pennsylvania, 1880-1930” “Appalachian Musical Cultures: Studies in Contrasts, Traditions, and Modernities” FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 20. Room 408. Urban Appalachia and Current Issues. Convener: Phillip J. Obermiller ([email protected]), U. FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 24. Room 212. Ann Pancake, of Cincinnati and U. of Kentucky Mountaintop Removal, and Environmental Justice Critiques of the Crisis. Convener: David von Schlichten (d.vonschlichten@iup. Pamela Twiss ([email protected]), California U. of Pennsylvania, Phillip J. edu), IUP Obermiller, U. of Cincinnati and U. of Kentucky, “World War II in Urban Appalachia: The Impact of Wartime Development on Blue-Collar Mindy Boffemmyer ([email protected]), Duquesne U., Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati” “’[T]he only language they can hear’: Ann Pancake’s Environmental Justice Poetics” Thomas Wagner ([email protected]), U. of Cincinnati, and Carol Baugh ([email protected]) Sinclair Coll., “Urban David von Schlichten, IUP, “Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Appalachian Organizations: Then and Now” Has Been and Teaching Undergraduates about Appalachia and Mountaintop Removal” Richard Mulcahy ([email protected]), Saint Vincent Coll.; Phillip J. Obermiller, U. of Cincinnati; and Robert L. Ludke Joseph Witt ([email protected]), Mississippi State U., “Religion, ([email protected]), U. of Cincinnati, “The Impact of the Obama Class, and Environmental Concern: Lessons from Appalachia” Health Plan on Appalachia: Policy Issues and Possible Solutions” Scott McDaniel ([email protected]), U. of Dayton, “The FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 21. Room 410. Building Political Bio-Power of Mountaintop Removal and the Globalized Reach of Leadership for a Healthy and Prosperous Future. Convener: Katey Appalachia” Lauer ([email protected]), The Alliance for Appalachia FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 25. Room 220. Coal History. Convener: Thomas Mackaman ([email protected]), King’s Coll. PRESENTERS: Teri Blanto ([email protected]), Kentuckians for the Commonwealth; Kate Rooth ([email protected]), Appalachian David A. Latzko ([email protected]), Penn State York, “Coal Mining and Voices; Bill Price ([email protected]), Sierra Club Environmental Regional Economic Development in Pennsylvania, 1810-1980” Justice; Laura Miller ([email protected]), Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards; and Katey Lauer, The Alliance for Michael N. Kline ([email protected]), Elkins, WV, “Esau in the Coal Appalachia Fields: Owing Our Souls to the Company Store”

FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 22. Room 309. The Social and Historical Thomas Mackaman, King’s Coll., “The United Mine Workers and the Contexts of the March on Blair Mountain. Convener: Lou Martin Political Economy of Appalachian Coal in the 1920s” ([email protected]), Chatham U. Jacob White ([email protected]), U. of Rio Grande, Ohio, and Doug Lou Martin, Chatham U., “Job Loss in the Coalfields and Resistance to Sturgeon ([email protected]). Shawnee State U., “Miner’s Pay the Anti-Mountaintop-Removal Movement” and Job Responsibilities in the Great Depression”

John Hennen ([email protected]), Morehead State U., FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 26. Room 213. Place and Displacement “Appalachia Rising and the Militant Mobilizations of the 1930s” in Virginia’s Rock Castle Gorge, Blue Ridge Parkway. Convener: Anita Puckett ([email protected]), Virginia Tech Ryan Thomson ([email protected]), North Carolina State U., “Blair Mountain at the Grassroots: an Environmental and Labor Phillip Prince ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Rock Castle Gorge, Movement” Patrick County, Virginia: a Case Study of the Role of Ancient Landscape Process in the Development of an Appalachian Dan Escher ([email protected]), U. of Notre Dame, “Deeper Meanings Community” in the Debate over Mountaintop Removal” Leslie Shelor Allen ([email protected]), independent FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 23. Room 210. Music, Race, and Culture. scholar, “A Sense of Place: One Family’s Connection to a Vanished Convener: Jerry Zolten ([email protected]), Penn State Altoona Community”

Deborah Thompson ([email protected]), Berea U., Ralph H. Lutts ([email protected]), Goddard Coll., “A Century of “Who Gets to Be an Appalachian Musician? Race and Gender, Space Change: The Blue Ridge Heritage Visitor Center” and Place” Anita Puckett, Virginia Tech, “Place Despite Displacement: a Counter- Jerry Zolten, Penn State Altoona, “Movin’ the Mountains: An Balance to Super-Scenic Motorway—a Blue Ridge Parkway History” Overview of Rhythm and Blues in Appalachia” 13 FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 27. Room 218. Documentary Film. Skaggs ([email protected]), Morehead State U.; Joy Gritton Convener and Presenter: Molly Merryman (mmerryma@kent.edu), ([email protected]), Morehead State U.; and Rhonda Kent State U., “Country Crush: A Documentary Film About Combine Logan-Kemp ([email protected]), Rowan Co. Arts Demolition Derby” Center

FRI. 1:30 PM-2:45 PM. 28. Room 313. Dance, Folklore, and “Does A Spoonful of Compliments Help the Stereotypes Go Down?,” Community. Convener: Rosann Kent ([email protected]), Christopher LeGrow, ([email protected]); Marshall U., and Britni North Georgia Coll. and State U. Ross ([email protected]), Marshall U. Rebecca Hill ([email protected]), Augusta Heritage Center, “Mountain Dance Trail” “The New River’s North Fork: Voices from the Headwaters,” Jonathan Buchanan ([email protected]), Cary Curlee Susan Spalding ([email protected]), Berea Coll., “Old Time ([email protected]), Kathryn Engle (engleks@appstate. Dancing in Northeast Tennessee: Traditional Values in an Industrial edu), David Funderburk ([email protected]), William Region” Lindley ([email protected]), Joshua Roe ([email protected]. edu), Mary Rachel Taylor ([email protected]), Shawn Terrell David Funderburk ([email protected]), Appalachian ([email protected]), Anne Elizabeth Walker (walkerae1@email. State U., “Community Performance and Community Space in the appstate.edu), and Benjamin Yoder ([email protected])— Jonesborough Yarn Exchange” all of Appalachian State U.

Rosann Kent, North Georgia Coll. and State U., “This Land, These “Bullying Behavior in Appalachia: a Call for Research,” Claire People: Creating Community through the Power of Shared Story” Carpenter Phillips ([email protected]), Jennifer D. Tiano ([email protected]), Jackson P. Newsome (j.newsome@live. FRI. 2:50 PM-4:40 PM. Eberly Auditorium. SHOWING OF JOSH marshall.edu), Britani S. Black ([email protected]), and Samuel FOX’S FILM GASLAND ABOUT MARCELLUS SHALE FRACKING Peer ([email protected])—all of Marshall U.

“Where There are Mountains,” Hannah Furgiuele (hfurgiuele@ CONCURRENT SESSIONS III, FRIDAY 3:00 PM-4:15 PM mhc.edu), Ericka Hincke, ([email protected]), Ashley Spears ([email protected]), Rebekah Musselwhite (s000183115@ FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 29. Room 312. Poster and Exhibit mhc.edu), Laura Rice ([email protected]), Alex Van Dusen Sessions. Convener: Hannah Furgiuele ([email protected]), Mars ([email protected]), and Kendra Reid ([email protected])— Hill Coll. all of Mars Hill Coll.

“Off Road: Landscapes of Northern Appalachia,” Greta Brubaker “Reducing Treatment Barriers for Appalachian Families by Shortening ([email protected]), Lafayette Coll., Muhlenberg Coll., and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to Mastery of Praise,” Jennifer Penn State U. Lehigh Valley Lucas ([email protected]), Jennie Mancuso (mancuso5@ marshall.edu), Julia Vahlsing ([email protected]), and Jennifer “Common Ground: Affrilachia! Where I’m From: a Showcase of Visual Tiano ([email protected])—all of Marshall U. Artists,” Marie T. Cochran ([email protected]), Affrilachian Artist Project, Cullowhee, NC “Adolescent Behavioral Autonomy from Parents in Appalachian Families,” Gary W. Peterson ([email protected]), Miami U. of “Racist Sundown Towns in Appalachia” James Loewen (jloewen@ Ohio; Charles B. Hennon ([email protected]), Miami U. of uvm.edu), Catholic U. Ohio; and Jessi J. Kempf ([email protected]), independent scholar “Celebrating the Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer: Reflections on Its Influence throughout the United States and Beyond,” John T. Trokan “Media and Body Image in Appalachian Youth: A Call for Research,” ([email protected]), Coll. of Mount Saint Joseph, and Nancy Jennifer Tiano ([email protected]), Adrienne M. Fitzsimmons, and A. Trokan ([email protected]), Christ Coll. Megan Samples ([email protected])—all of Marshall U. of Nursing and Health Sciences “Parent Training: Cost-Effective, Culture-Appropriate Adaptations in “Momma has Cabin Fever: Multigenerational Travel in a Northern Appalachia,” Samuel Peer ([email protected]), Marshall U., and Appalachian Family,” Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran ([email protected]), IUP, Jennifer Tiano ([email protected]), Marshall U. and Mary Ann Morocco-Perry ([email protected]), IUP “Travelling 219: A Trip Through History - a multimedia project “Eastern Kentucky Music: Providing Accessibility Through the Web,” bringing the Federal Writers Project back to life on a trip through Travis Hall, ([email protected]), Morehead State U., and time and across West Virginia,” Bill Yahner, ([email protected]), Kayla Sheppard ([email protected]), Morehead State U. California U. of Pennsylvania (emeritus); Gibbs Kinderman (gkamr@ frontiernet.net), Pocahontas Communications Cooperative; Emily “Education or Contact? Reducing Mental Health Stigma in Newton([email protected]), AmeriCorps volunteers; Roxy Appalachia,” Adrienne M. Fitzsimmons ([email protected]), Todd ([email protected]), AmeriCorps volunteers; and Marshall U., and Jennifer D. Tiano ([email protected]), Marshall U. Jason Howard ([email protected]), West Virginia U.

“Prescription Panes” (art and poetry), Bonita Skaggs-Parsons FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 30. Room 218. Reading: Poetry and ([email protected]), independent scholar; Misty Fiction about Central and Southern Appalachia. Convener: Ted Olson ([email protected]), East Tennessee U. 14 PRESENTERS: Mark DeFoe ([email protected]), West Virginia McSpirit ([email protected]), Eastern Kentucky U., “A Wesleyan Coll.; Jason Douglas Long ([email protected]), IUP; Jim Blessing in Disguise? Reform of Public Water Management in Post- Minick ([email protected]), Radford U.; and Ted Olson, East Disaster Martin County, Kentucky” Tennessee U. L. Delta Merner ([email protected]), U. of Maryland, Baltimore FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 31. Room 209. Appalachia / Hillbilly County, “Perceptions of Flood Events in Southern West Virginia” Queer. Convener: Silas House ([email protected]), Berea Coll. L. Delta Merner and Beverly Walkup ([email protected]), Carrie Nobel Kline ([email protected]), Elkins, WV, “Pushing independent scholar, “Assessing Community-Based Water-Quality On: First-Hand Accounts of Surviving and Thriving as Queer in Perceptions in Southern West Virginia” Appalachia” Jenrose Fitzgerald ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, Ethan Hamblin ([email protected]), Berea Coll., “The Fight “Citizens, Experts, and Water: Assessing the Implications of Carbon for Fairness: an Appalachian Town Confronts Discrimination” Capture and Storage for Appalachia”

Megan Jones ([email protected]), Berea Coll., “God Has FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 35. Room 408. Public Health in Central Made Of One Blood All Peoples of the Earth” Appalachia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Convener: Thomas Linz ([email protected]), Marshall U. Sam Gleaves ([email protected]), Berea Coll., “‘Ain’t We All Brothers’: Gay Appalachian Identity” Pallavi Podapati ([email protected]), U. of Pennsylvania, “Contemporary Health Policy in Central Appalachia: Assessment and FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 32. Room 321. Rhetorical Analyses of Prescription” Reactions to Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Historical Events: Strikes, Mine Disasters, Black Lung, and ARC Merlin Chowkwanyun ([email protected]), U. of Pennsylvania, Development. Convener: Jennifer M. DePompei (jdepompei@ “The War on Poverty and Public Health in Central Appalachia, 1960- brownmackie.edu), Brown Mackie Coll. of Cincinnati 1975”

Marie Tedesco ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U., Michelle Caldwell ([email protected]), Radford U.; Judith “On the Fringes of Appalachia: Documenting and Remembering Gullion ([email protected]), Radford U.; and Max Schaffer the Danville Mills Strike of 1930” ([email protected]), Radford U.; “Substance Abuse and Treatment in Pulaski,Virginia” Ryan McCullough ([email protected]), West Liberty U., and Aron Massey, ([email protected]), West Liberty U., Thomas Linz, Marshall U., “Head Injury in Rural Children and “Expressions of Regret in Appalachia: A Geographic and Rhetorical Adolescents” Study of Memorials Devoted to the Sago Mining Disaster” FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 36. Room 410. The Sociological Jennifer M. DePompei, Brown Mackie Coll. of Cincinnati, “Ken Imagination in Northern Appalachia. Convener: Jim Dougherty Hechler’s Letters: Black Lung Rhetoric, Literacy, and Silence” ([email protected]), IUP

Phillip A. Grant, Jr. ([email protected]), Pace U., “The Rob Moore ([email protected]), Saint Joseph’s U., “The Sociological Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation and the Appalachian Imagination: One Person’s Story of The Intersection of History and Regional Development Act Of 1965” Autobiography in Northern Appalachia”

FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 33. Room 411. Food as Critical Jim Dougherty, IUP, “An Excerpt from my Documentary Film The Engagement: Trash Talk, Table Talk, and Garden Voices. Struggle for an American Way of Life: Coal Miners and Operators in Convener: Nyoka Hawkins ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky Central Pennsylvania, 1919-1933”

Kate Black ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Kentucky Garden FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 37. Room 310. Interdisciplinary Stories” Approaches to Race. Convener: Tammy Stachowicz (tstachowicz@ davenport.edu), Davenport U. Nyoka Hawkins, U. of Kentucky, “White Trash Food” Tammy Stachowicz, Davenport U., “Melungeons: Politics of Race and Gurney Norman ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Sunday Identity” Dinner” Stephen Pearson ([email protected]), Ohio U., “Appalachian FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 34. Room 309. Shall We Gather at the River Identity and the Erasure of American Indians” II: Confluence or Divergence at the Community/ Expert Interface. (See Concurrent Sessions I, panel 4, and Concurrent Sessions IV, panel Colin E. Reynolds ([email protected]), Emory U., “Twilight in the 49.) Convener: Alice Jones ([email protected]), Eastern Kentucky U. Free State of McDowell: Labor, Economics, and West Virginia’s Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics, 1921-1957” Shaunna Scott ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky; Britteny M. Howell, ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky; and Stephanie

15 Anna Rachel Terman ([email protected]), Penn State U., “College- FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 41. Room 121. Dealing with Appalachian Educated Young Adults and Sense of Place: Gender, Race, Sexuality, Stereotypes. Convener: Matthew Ferrence (mferrence@allegheny. and Being a ‘West Virginian’” edu), Allegheny Coll.

FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 38. Room 210. The Post Office Project: Matthew Ferrence, Allegheny Coll., “Too Far North, Too Much Collective Documentation in Appalachian Kentucky. Convener: Redneck” Ann Kingsolver ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky Christina Fisanick ([email protected]), California U. of Pennsylvania, Ann Kingsolver, U. of Kentucky, “Making the Rounds in the Post Office “‘You’re not from around here, are ya?’: A Northern West Virginia Girl Project” Seeks Her Place in Appalachia”

Charlene Powell, U. of Kentucky, and Jeff Spradling ([email protected]), Jennifer S. Cramer ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “What U. of Kentucky, “Federal Policy and the Closing of Rural Post Offices in and Where is Appalachian English? The Perceptions of Outsiders” Appalachian Kentucky: Economic and Social Impacts” Rodger Cunningham ([email protected]), Alice Lloyd Coll., Lisa Conley ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “‘Neither rain, sleet, “The Valley So Low: Kristeva, Freud, Mori, and Appalachian snow, or hail’: a Case Study of the Rogers, Kentucky Post Office” Uncanniness” Megan Henderson ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “A Post Office Sampler” FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 42. Room 213. Women’s Experiences. Convener: Roberta Campbell ([email protected]) Adanma Onyedike Barton ([email protected]), Berea Coll., and Shane Barton, ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Going Dana Cochran ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Boarding Houses, Postal: Devised Performance for Community Development and Hotels and Mansions: Appalachian Women as Property Owners in Social Awareness” Turn-of-the-Century Bramwell, West Virginia”

FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 39. Room 212. Globalization and LeAnne Arbor Olson ([email protected]), Marshall U. and Appalachia. Convener: William Schumann ([email protected]), U. of Linda Spatig ([email protected]), Marshall U., “‘A Big Smack in the Pittsburgh at Bradford Face’: College Experiences of Girls from Rural West Virginia”

William Schumann, U. of Pittsburgh at Bradford, “Neoliberalism and Lonnie Helton ([email protected]), Cleveland State U., “Oral Appalachia” Histories of Older Women of Appalachian Heritage: Stories of Urban versus Rural Life” Jessica Blackburn ([email protected]), U. of Pittsburgh at Bradford, “Digital Appalachia: Rural Ethos, Online Discourse, and Cyber Olivia Hunt ([email protected]), Shippensberg U., “Single Mothers Frontiers” Staring Down Stereotypes”

Rebecca Fletcher ([email protected]), Ohio U. Southern, “The Many FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 43. Room 313. Community Revitalization Faces of Resistance: Global Threads of Appalachian Grassroots and in Pennsylvania and beyond with AmeriCorps/VISTA. Convener: Union Activism” Katie Coulter ([email protected]), Appalachian Coal Country Team (ACCT) Kristin Kant-Byers ([email protected]), Rochester Institute of Technology, “Global Pilgrimage in Northern Appalachia: Making PRESENTERS: Katie Coulter, ACCT; Megan Sheesley (americorps@ Meaning through Tourism and the Priesthood in the New York barcpa.org), Brownsville Area Revitalization Corporation; Mike Southern Tier” Bloom ([email protected]), Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor; Megan Baskerville ([email protected]), FRI. 3:00 PM-4:15 PM. 40. Room 409. Pennsylvanian Literature. Crooked Creek Watershed Association and Evergreen Conservancy; Convener: Chris Green ([email protected]), Marshall U. and Von Holguin ([email protected]), Clearfield Co. Conservation District Chris Green, Marshall U., “Rooting Pennsylvania in (Colonial and Antebellum) Appalachian Literature” RECEPTION SPONSORED BY THE IUP AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER (http://www.iup.edu/aacc/default.aspx), for Virginia P. Dow ([email protected]), IUP, “Philosopher, Preacher, James Loewen and those interested in African American Studies. 4:15 Fornicater, and ‘Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool’: George Washington Harris’s PM-4:45 PM, Eberly Hall Lobby, music by Grist for the Mill Infamous Sut Lovingood” FRI. 4:45-5:45 PM. 44. Eberly Auditorium. Keynote Address John K. Hicks ([email protected]), Slippery Rock U., and Mark Mraz by Si Kahn. “Organizing, Culture, and Resistance in Appalachia: ([email protected]), Slippery Rock U., “Working Class Heroes: The Past, Present and Future.” Convener: Jim Cahalan (jcahalan@iup. Appalachian Spirit in Pennsylvanian Literature and History” edu), IUP

Nathan Anderson ([email protected]), Marietta Coll., “When the 5:45 PM. Registration, Silent Auction, Book Exhibits, and Poster Water Isn’t So Sweet: Dams, Identity, and Displacement in Christopher Sessions close Howell’s Sweet Afton”

16 PRESENTERS: Mary Ellen Cassidy ([email protected]), Wheeling 6:00 PM-8:00 PM. FRIDAY BANQUET AND AWARDS CEREMONY, Jesuit U.; Alice Jones, Eastern Kentucky U.; and Benjamin M. Stout, III Ohio Room, Hadley Union Building, music by Mark Tamsula and ([email protected]), Wheeling Jesuit U. Dearest Home SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 50. Room 411. Planning for Our Future: 8:00 PM. Music in the Orendorff Commons. Free concert in Linking Appalachian Communities via Linear Parks. Convener: Cogswell Hall, Room 101, with Mark Tamsula, Richard Withers, and Joshua Roe ([email protected]), Appalachian State U. friends. Jam session to follow. Anne Elizabeth Walker ([email protected]), Appalachian 8:00pm-11:00? 7th annual Southern Appalachian Writers State U., “Planning in Appalachia: Linking Communities for a Cooperative (SAWC) Hootenanny. Heritage House, 209 South Sustainable Future” 6th St. (at School St.). An evening alternating poetry and music: 15-minute readings followed by music with plenty of time to socialize William Lindley ([email protected]), Appalachian State with the poets and pickers. Musical guests Michael & Carrie Kline, Sherry U., “Participating in Appalachia: Travel Writing and the Under- Stanforth & Tellico, and Rich Kirby. BYOB. Construction of the Great Eastern Trail Footpath”

8:30 PM-? Jam Sessions and Scheduled Music at the Coney Island Joshua Roe, Appalachian State U., “Cycling Culture, Tourism, and Restaurant and Bar, 624 Philadelphia Street. Efforts of Sustainability in Appalachia”

SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012 SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 51. Room 211. Power and Place: Land Parking: Eberly lot and Peoples in Appalachia—Reflections on a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Experience. 7:30 AM-8:30 AM ASA Committee breakfast meetings, Oak Rooms Convener: Erica Abrams Locklear ([email protected]), U. of North A, B, & C, Foster Hall (see pg. 7). Carolina at Asheville

8:00 AM Registration, Silent Auction and Book Exhibits (Zink Hall Daniel Pierce ([email protected]), U. of North Carolina at Asheville, Gym B) open and Posters and Photo Exhibits (Eberly Lobby and “Taking Appalachian History and Culture to a National Audience” second-floor annex) open. Jamie Ross ([email protected]), filmmaker and writer, “Expanding SI KAHN ORGANIZING WORKSHOP (1st offering), SATURDAY 8:30 the Narrative through Film, Audience, and Interdisciplinary Learning” AM-9:45 PM. 45. Eberly Auditorium. Erica Abrams Locklear, U. of North Carolina at Asheville, “Mountain CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV, SATURDAY 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Explorations: Experiential Learning for Teachers”

SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 46. Room 121. Razing Appalachia film SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 52. Room 218. Edward Abbey I (for about mountaintop-removal mining. Edward Abbey II, see Concurrent Sessions VIII, panel 112). Convener: John K. Hicks ([email protected]), Slippery Rock U. SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 47. Room 312. Reading: Poetry and Fiction about Northern Appalachia. Convener: Karen J. Weyant John Hicks, Slippery Rock U., “Running the Bases: The Baseball Motif ([email protected]), Jamestown Community Coll. in Edward Abbey’s The Fool’s Progress: An Honest Novel”

PRESENTERS: Paula Bohince ([email protected]), Plum, David Pozza ([email protected]), Pennsylvania State U. at Altoona, Pennsylvania; Frederick Waage ([email protected]), East Tennessee “Edward Abbey (Re)writes Home: Abbey’s Appalachian ‘Fiction’” State U.; and Karen J. Weyant, Jamestown Community Coll. Stacey L. Wicker ([email protected]), IUP, “Home Anywhere is Home SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 48. Room 311. Writing into the Nowhere: the Central Place of Home in the Geographic Imagination Forbidden: Women from Appalachia on Cultivating the Courage of Edward Abbey” to Speak—part 1 (for part 2, see Concurrent Sessions VIII, panel 108). Convener: Karen Salyer McElmurray ([email protected]), SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 53. Room 209. Children’s and Young Georgia Coll. and State U. and Murray State U. Adult Literature. Convener: Michael Cornelius (michael.cornelius@ wilson.edu), Wilson Coll. PRESENTERS: Adrian Blevins ([email protected]), Colby Coll.; and Karen Salyer McElmurray, Georgia Coll. and State U. and Murray State Alyssa Bach-Enz ([email protected]), Ohio State U., and District U. Librarian at Northwest Local Schools in Scioto County, “Through the Eyes of a Child: Cultural Awareness via Appalachian Literature” SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 49. Room 309. Shall We Gather at the River III: Appalachian Community and Ecosystems Health—a Lee McClain ([email protected]), Seton Hill U., “Representations of Roundtable Conversation about Closing Gaps in Our Current Appalachia in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games” Understanding. (See Concurrent Sessions I, panel 4, and Concurrent Sessions III, panel 34.) Convener: Alice Jones ([email protected]), Michael Cornelius, Wilson Coll., “Anti-‘Primitivism’ and the Girl Sleuth: Eastern Kentucky U. Nancy Drew in Appalachia”

17 SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 54. Room 321. Irish and Scottish CONCURRENT SESSIONS V, SATURDAY 9:45 AM-10:45 AM Connections to Appalachia. Convener: Caitlin McAteer (caitlin. [email protected]), Shepherd U. SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 59. Room 121. Featured Presentation. Convener: Katherine E. Ledford ([email protected]), Appalachian Caitlin McAteer, Shepherd U., “Speaking the Language of the State U. Mountains: Robert C. Byrd and the Rhetoric of Appalachia” Susan M. Taffe Reed ([email protected]), U. of North Carolina— Jane Blair MacMorran ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U., Chapel Hill, of Delaware Indian ancestry and from the Endless “There and Back Again: Connecting Cultures” Mountains region of Appalachia—“The Significance of Powwows to Native Americans in Pennsylvania’s Appalachia” Christina Wilson ([email protected]), U. of Connecticut, “Staging the Scots-Irish” SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 60. Room 312. Two Pittsburgh Poets Reading. Convener: Peter Oresick ([email protected]), SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 55. Room 310. Media Images. Convener: Chatham U. Nate McGee ([email protected]), Kenton Co. (KY) Public Library PRESENTERS: Lori Jakiela ([email protected]), U. of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and Chatham U., and Peter Oresick, Chatham U. Nate McGee, Kenton Co. (KY) Public Library, “Mountains on the Radio: Early Twentieth-Century Broadcasting and Appalachian Migration” SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 61. Room 311. Your Land, My Land: The Border-Crossing, Kin-Catching Nature of Jam Sessions in Sylvia Ryerson ([email protected]), WMMT Mountain Community Appalachian Old-Time Music Culture. Convener: Sherry Cook- Radio, “Prison Progress? A Radio Investigation of Prison Growth in the Stanforth ([email protected]), Thomas More Coll. Appalachian Coalfields” PRESENTERS: Sherry Cook-Stanforth,Thomas More Coll.; John T. Eagle Brosi ([email protected]), Appalachian Media Institute, Trokan ([email protected]), Coll. of Mt. St. Joseph; and Jim “Appalachian Youth Creating Media” Cook ([email protected]), musician

SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 56. Room 408. Talking about Coal. SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 62. Room 409. Women’s Literature. Convener: Jane Jensen ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky Convener: Viki Dasher Rouse ([email protected]), Walters State Community Coll. Miranda Brown ([email protected]), independent scholar, “Boom, Bust, and Then What? Voices of Economic and Marc Bentley ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “‘The Cultural Transition in the West Virginia Coalfields” Days of Man’: Depictions of Community in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven and Menna Gallie’s Strike for a Kingdom” Jane Jensen, U. of Kentucky, “‘Training for What?’ Human Capital Development in the Coal Fields of Kentucky and Atlantic Canada” Laura Patterson ([email protected]), Seton Hill U., “‘You have even been to lady school’: Pierre Bourdieu, Lee Smith, and an Amy Salsgiver ([email protected]), IUP, “Coal Culture: Appalachian Education” Discovering Heritage through Ethnography and Archaeology” Viki Dasher Rouse, Walters State Community Coll., “Wilma Dykeman’s SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 57. Room 410. Reading. Convener and Wide Reach and Imperative Vision” Presenter: Talmage A. Stanley ([email protected]), Emory and Henry Coll., The Poco Field: An American Story of Place SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 63. Room 411. Environmental Issues Here in Indiana County. Convener: Gerald Smith (g.e.smith@gmail. SAT. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 58. Room 412. Environmental Issues and com), Coalition for a Healthy County Themes. Convener: Clarissa Confer ([email protected]), California U. of Pennsylvania PRESENTERS: Gerald Smith, organizer; Ken Sherwood (Kenneth. [email protected]), IUP; and Brian D. Cope ([email protected]), IUP Michael Martin ([email protected]), U. of Charleston, “‘The wilderness was growing wilder’: The Limits of Cartographic SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 64. Room 211. Workers Education: Knowledge in Philip Pendleton Kennedy’s The Blackwater Chronicle District 2 of the United Mine Workers of America, 1924-1926 and and David Hunter Strother’s The Virginia Canaan” its Legacy. Convener: Elizabeth Ricketts (Elizabeth.Ricketts@iup. edu), IUP Julia Saintz ([email protected]), Shippensburg U., “Ethical Consumerism in Appalachia” PRESENTERS: Elizabeth Ricketts, IUP; Irwin Marcus, IUP; and Jim Watta ([email protected]), IUP

SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 65. Room 218. The Portrayal of Appalachian Culture in Folklore and Picture Books. Convener: Anne Drolett Creany ([email protected]), IUP

PRESENTERS: Anne Drolett Creany, IUP; Kathleen Beining ([email protected]), IUP; and Jennifer Michelli (j.l.michelli@iup. 18 edu), IUP SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 66. Room 209. “‘Tis a Gift to be Simple’? Cary Curlee, Appalachian State U., “Home Guard Commander” Revisiting Appalachian Spring. Convener: Elizabeth Aldrich (eald@ (excerpt from a historical novel) loc.gov), Library of Congress Clint Keller ([email protected]), Carson-Newman Coll., Mad Dog (film) Elizabeth Aldrich, Library of Congress, “Disappointments, Delays, and War: The Commissioning of Appalachian Spring” SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 71. Room 412. Cross-Pollinating the Americas with The True Cost of Coal Illustration: a Report back Loras John Schissel ([email protected]), Library of Congress, “Music and from the Global Grassroots and Discussion Questions for the Dance: a Dialogue Between Creators” Path Ahead. Convener: Emily Bee ([email protected]), The Beehive Design Collective. Victoria Phillips Geduld ([email protected]), Columbia U., “Performing Politics: Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring and the PRESENTERS: Emily Bee and other members of The Beehive Design State Department Tour of 1955-56” Collective

SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 67. Room 321. The Free Blue Mountain SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 72. Room 309. Comparing the Ukrainian Air: The Struggle Against Slavery in Indiana County. Convener: Carpathians and Appalachia: Ethnography, Geography, Tourism, Catherine C. Catalfamo ([email protected]), Historical and and Education. Convener: Christopher Miller (Chris_Miller@berea. Genealogical Society of Indiana County edu), Berea Coll.

Catherine C. Catalfamo, Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana Andriy Chervinsky ([email protected]), Ivano-Frankivsk State Coll., Co., “An Overview of the Anti-Slavery Movement and Underground Ukraine, “Ethnographic and Geographic Features of the Carpathian Railroad in Indiana County” Region with Comparisons to Appalachia”

Nicolene Cravotta ([email protected]), historian and retired Sofia Tomenchuk, Ivano-Frankivsk State Coll., Ukraine, “Tourist teacher, “Storming Babylon: Civil War Soldiers of African Descent in Education as an Element Of Sustainable Development in the Indiana County” Carpathian Region”

Denise Jennings-Doyle, ([email protected]), Homer- Borys Petrovich Savchyk,Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National U., Center Historical Society, “Exhibit: a Day in The Life of an Enslaved Ukraine, “Ethnic, Cultural Tourism in the Ukrainian Carpathians: Child” Problems of Theory, Methodology, and Practice.”

SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 68. Room 310. Interdisciplinary Jaroslav Nykorak, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National U., “Distance Perspectives on Mountaintop Removal. Convener: Janice Pope Learning in a Mountain Environment” ([email protected]), Appalachian State U. RECEPTION IN HONOR OF GURNEY NORMAN, sponsored by the IUP Paige Cordial ([email protected]), Radford U., “The Effects of English Department and Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism, Mountaintop Removal on the Mental Health of Central Appalachians 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Eberly Hall Second Floor Annex Living Near Surface Mines” RECEPTION sponsored by the IUP Native American John P. David ([email protected]), West Virginia U. Institute Awareness Council (http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=77307), of Technology, “The Quest for Safe and Healthy Water versus for Susan M. Taffe Reed and those interested in Native American Mountaintop Removal: A Case Study of the Page-Kincaid Public Studies, 10:45 AM-11:15 AM, Eberly Hall Lobby, music by Keystone Rebels Service District in Fayette County, West Virginia” CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI, SATURDAY 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Janice Pope, Appalachian State U., “Mining the Issues of Coal for General Education” SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 73. Room 312. Featured Presentation. Convener: Jim Dougherty ([email protected]), IUP SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 69. Room 408. Appalachian Images in Film. Convener: Amanda M. Benigni ([email protected]), IUP Chad Montrie ([email protected]), U. of Massachusetts— Lowell, and author of To Save the Land and People: a History of Thomas Slater ([email protected]), IUP, “Heart ‘O the Hills as Novel and Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia and A People’s Film: Important Texts for Our Time” History of Environmentalism in the United States—“Two Countries, One Struggle: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia and Lisa Haven ([email protected]), Ohio U. at Zanesville, “Keaton, Kith and Northern Colombia” Kin: a Revision of the Appalachian Feud Stereotype in Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality (1923)” SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 74. Room 121. Two West Virginia Poets Reading. Convener: Peter Oresick ([email protected]), Emily Satterwhite ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Hillbilly Horror Chatham U. Movies, or, What Happens When Suburban Whites Take a Wrong Turn?” PRESENTERS: Maggie Anderson ([email protected]), Kent State U.; Marc Harshman ([email protected]), author and teacher SAT. 9:45 AM-10:45 AM. 70. Room 410. Some Fiction and a Film. Convener: Cary Curlee ([email protected]), Appalachian State U. 19 SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 75. Room 311. Same Old Story Anew: Carolyn Chesarino ([email protected]), U. of North a Multi-Genre Performance in the Arts for Land’s Sake. Convener: Carolina at Chapel Hill, “‘Poor Boy, You’re Bound to Die’: How Thomas Karl Zuelke ([email protected]), Coll. of Mount St. Joseph Dula, Hardened Assassin, Morphed into Tom Dooley, Folk Hero” PRESENTERS: Karl Zuelke, Coll. of Mount St. Joseph; Michael Henson ([email protected]), author and activist; and Sherry Terri M. Bailey ([email protected]), Millersville U., Cook-Stanforth, ([email protected]), Thomas More “Another Adirondack Hermit: The Story of Jimmy James Jackson” Coll. SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 82. Room 310. Research Workshop. SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 76. Room 409. Re-Reedy: Appalachian Convener and Presenter: Elizabeth M. Williams (willamsem@appstate. Music, Migration, and Memory Revisited. Convener: Tammy edu), Appalachian State U., “Information Literacy for Appalachian Clemons ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky Studies”

PRESENTERS: Tammy Clemons, U. of Kentucky, and Timi Reedy SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 83. Room 408. Serpent-Handling. ([email protected]), independent scholar Co-Conveners and Presenters: Lauren Pond (thephotopond@gmail. com), freelance photojournalist, and Julia C. Duin (julia.c.duin@gmail. SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 77. Room 411. Thinking Visually in com), author and editor, “Serpent-Handling in Appalachia: A Story of Appalachia: Three Stories in Words and Pictures. Convener: Death, Rebirth, and Propagation” Nyoka Hawkins ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 84. Room 410. “Education is the Robert Gipe ([email protected]), Southeast Kentucky key to everything”: Origin Stories and Educational Missions Community and Technical Coll., “Art and Community” in Progressive-Era Appalachia. Convener: Penny Messinger ([email protected]), Daemen Coll. Nyoka Hawkins, U. of Kentucky, “Picturing History” Shannon H. Wilson ([email protected]), Berea Coll., Pamela Oldfield Meade ([email protected]), artist, “The “Building A New England College? Educating Appalachia in History Inner Eye” and Memory at Berea College” SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 78. Room 211. Understanding the Growing Misunderstood: the Adult Learner, the Collegiate Penny Messinger, Daemen Coll., “Dawn Comes to the Mountains Athlete, and the Returning Veteran. Convener: Alice B. Royer as Former Feudist Turns Educator: James Anderson Burns, John C. ([email protected]), Penn State Mont Alto Campbell, and the Russell Sage Foundation”

PRESENTERS: Alice B. Royer, Penn State Mont Alto; Margot Royer- Philis Alvic ([email protected]), independent scholar, “Appalachian Johnson ([email protected]), Providence Coll.; and Jeffery C. Independent Schools of the Early Twentieth Century: Mission and Johnson, ([email protected]), U. of Rhode Island Practice”

SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 79. Room 218. Publishing in SAT. 11:00-12:00 PM. 85 Room 412. Health Care Issues. Appalachian Studies. Convener of Community Conversation: Ted Convener: Thomas McGraw ([email protected]), West Olson ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U. Virginia U. Institute of Technology

SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 80. Room 209. Digital Appalachia. Kelly A. Dorgan ([email protected]), Kathryn L. Duvall (Duvall@ Convener: Carletta Bush ([email protected]), West Virginia etsu.edu), Sadie P. Hutson ([email protected]), and Amber E. Kinser U. ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U., “Surviving Cancer and Mothering in Appalachia” Rachel Wise ([email protected]), U. of Texas at Austin, “‘Mappalachia’: The Region’s Digital Reach” Heather Haught ([email protected]), U. of Toledo, “Rethinking Acculturation Models: Effects of Acculturation and Carletta Bush, West Virginia U., “Teaching Appalachian Studies in the Prejudice on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in Rural Latino Digital Age” Immigrants”

Marion R. Smeltzer ([email protected]), IUP, “Reconstructing the Thomas McGraw, West Virginia U. Institute of Technology, “Winning Inaccessible Past through Virtual World Platforms” Hearts and Minds of West Virginia: Economic, Social and Cultural Considerations Impacting Health Care Reform” Julie Elizabeth Haymond ([email protected]), Morehead State U., “Helping Eastern Kentucky Art Teachers Build an SAT. 12:15 PM-1:30 PM. CONFERENCE LUNCHEON AND ASA Online Community” BUSINESS MEETING, Ohio Room, music by Keystone Rebels

SAT. 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. 81. Room 321. Appalachian Men: The SAT. 1:45 PM-3:15 PM. MARCELLUS SHALE PLENARY PANEL. 86. Legendary and the Unknown. Convener: Grace Toney Edwards Eberly Auditorium. Convener: Jim Dougherty ([email protected]), IUP ([email protected]), Radford U. Participants: Myron Arnowitt ([email protected]), State Justin Mando ([email protected]), Carnegie Mellon U., Director, Pennsylvania Clean Water Action; Ronald Bishop (bishopre@ “Mythologizing the Past: Johnny Appleseed and the Role of Truth in oneonta.edu), chemist and biochemist, SUNY-Oneonta; David Lampe Constitutive Rhetoric” ([email protected]), biologist, Duquesne U., and hunter and fisherman; 20 Brian Okey ([email protected]), environmental geographer, IUP; and Tom SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 91. Room 409. Women Miners and the Wilber ([email protected]), journalist and author of Under the Coal Employment Project: Activism in Appalachia and Beyond. Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale Convener: Marie Tedesco ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U. SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. SI KAHN ORGANIZING WORKSHOP (2nd offering). 87. Eberly Auditorium. PRESENTERS: Marie Tedesco, East Tennessee State U.; Betty Jean Hall ([email protected]), attorney and judge; Marat Moore CONCURRENT SESSIONS VII, SATURDAY 3:30 PM-4:45 PM ([email protected]), author; Kipp Dawson (kippmdawson@ yahoo.com), activist and former coal miner; Carol Davis Jones SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 88. Room 121. The Wide Reach and ([email protected]), labor organizer; and Libby Lindsay Sharing the Word: Appalachian Studies Programs Far and Wide, ([email protected]), former coal miner Large and Small, Networking and Starting Up. Convener: Carol Baugh ([email protected]), Sinclair Community Coll. SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 92. Room 411. Northernmost Appalachia. Convener: Ian Marshall ([email protected]), Penn State Altoona Timothy Leonard ([email protected]), Shepherd U., and Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt ([email protected]), Shepherd U., “Getting Alex Peimer ([email protected]), Kent State U., “Discourse, Politics, Started and Gearing Up: Shepherd University’s New Appalachian and Scale: Hydrofracking in New York State” Studies Program” Melissa Boehm ([email protected]), Frostburg State U., “The Rana Peake ([email protected]), Sinclair Community Framing of Appalachia in the New York Times from 1985 to 2010” Coll., “Reaching Out into the Community: a Community-Based Appalachian Studies Program” Ian Marshall, Penn State Altoona, “Border Crossings: Walking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail” Katherine E. Ledford ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “The Wide Reach of the First Appalachian Studies Program: Thirty- Frederick Waage ([email protected]), East Tennessee State U., Three Years of Teaching, Learning, and Community Engagement at “Farthest North Appalachia: Women, Nature, and Community in Appalachian State University” Donna Morrissey’s Kit’s Law and Downhill Chance”

Chris Green ([email protected]), Marshall U., “A Force for Change, SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 93. Room 211. Women’s History. A Center for Learning: Marshall University’s Graduate Humanities Convener: Deborah L. Blackwell ([email protected]), Texas A&M Appalachian Studies Program” International U.

Sat. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 89. Room 312. Appalachia Inside and Out Pamela Edwards ([email protected]), Shepherd U., “Home in Literature. Convener: Caroline Hamilton ([email protected]), U. of Economists and Extension Services in West Virginia: Professional Pittsburgh Women Working and Living in Rural Appalachia, 1880-1945”

Caroline Hamilton, U. of Pittsburgh, “Huck Finn, John Fox’s The Little Deborah L. Blackwell, Texas A&M International U., “Exploring the Shepherd of Kingdom Come, and the Canon” Notion of the Female ‘Secular Missionary’ in Appalachian Kentucky, 1890-1920” Matt Wanat ([email protected]), “Wendell Berry’s ‘Membership,’ Cormac McCarthy’s Stonemasonry” Carrie Streeter ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “Making Psychiatry Visible: The Role of Hospital Nurses in Western Elliott Dobson ([email protected]), Coll. of Charleston, “The North Carolina, 1880-1907” Appalachian Pedagogy of Janisse Ray’s Cracker Childhood” Jenny Nickeson ([email protected]), U. at Buffalo, “Mothering SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 90. Room 311. Two Key Musical Voices: Appalachia: Women’s Experiences of Motherhood, 1900-1950” Florence Reece and the Stanley Brothers. Convener: Nicholas J. Coles ([email protected]), U. of Pittsburgh SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 94. Room 218. Place and Displacement, Environment and Alienation in Poetry and Fiction. Convener: George Ella Lyon ([email protected]), Lexington, “’Which Elisabeth C. Aiken ([email protected]), Saint Leo U. and IUP Side Are You On?’ The Story of a Song” Alana Sherrill ([email protected]), Johnson and Wales U., “Tokens Nicholas J. Coles, U. of Pittsburgh, “How an Appalachian Labor Song of Smoke: Poetry of Displacement from the Great Smoky Mountains Travels: Florence Reece’s ‘Which Side Are You on?’” National Park”

David W. Johnson ([email protected]), IUP, “Real Country: Scott Hanna ([email protected]), West Liberty U., “‘Down Influences on the Music of the Stanley Brothers” Along the Ohio Shore’: Cultural Landscape As Metaphor in James Wright’s Ohio Valley Poems” Curtis W. Ellison ([email protected]), Miami U. at Hamilton, “A Voice of the Appalachian Diaspora: Ralph Stanley and ‘Old Mountain Elisabeth C. Aiken, Saint Leo U. and IUP, “‘Lost in the river’s vast and Music’” generous unremembering’: The Role of Rivers in Ron Rash’s One Foot in Eden and Saints at the River”

21 Henry C. Stewart ([email protected]), IUP, “Appalachian Denial and Dave Wood ([email protected]), Brown U., “Music Cognition Disorientation in Abbey, Kingsolver, and Smith” and the Old-Time Music Revival: Implications for Appalachian Cultural Heritage” SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 95. Room 209. Fracking up Pennsylvania. Convener: Simona Perry ([email protected]), Susan Krakoff ([email protected]), Davis and Elkins Coll., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “The Appalachian Ballad as a Literary Form”

Jason Espino ([email protected]), IUP, “The Effects of Natural Gas Lukas Murphy ([email protected]), Eastern Kentucky U., “Music Exploitation on Archaeological Heritage: a View from Washington Migration from Eastern Kentucky to Southwestern Ohio” County, Pennsylvania” Carl Rahkonen, IUP, “The Northern Appalachian Fiddling of Western Simona Perry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CASE (Community Pennsylvania” Awareness and Solutions for Empowerment), “‘A Home Worth Fighting For’: The Marcellus Shale Gas Boom in the Endless SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 99. Room 410. Parks and Recreation. Mountains of Pennsylvania” Convener: Tim Catalano ([email protected]), Marietta Coll.

Brian S. Reinking ([email protected]), IUP, “Fracking up Edward S. Slavishak ([email protected]), Susquehanna U., “Control Pennsylvania’s Pine Creek Valley: An Interview with Lycoming County of the Approach: Hiking and Belonging” Writer and Dissident David Ira Kagan” Rachel Lanier Roberts ([email protected]), Appalachian Brian D. Cope ([email protected]), IUP, “Fracking Appalachia: a State U., “The Walker Sisters: Women, Nature, and the Great Smoky Shadow Reality of Green-Washed Images” Mountains National Park”

SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 96. Room 321. From the Vaults: Moving Joseph R. Skeen ([email protected]), Oklahoma School for Images of Appalachia. Convener: Chad Hunter (homemovie@ Science and Mathematics, “State and Federal Parks: Oasis of the Hills” gmail.com), Appalshop Archive Tim Catalano, Marietta Coll., “The Appalachian Voice of Kayaker William Richard Fauss ([email protected]), West Virginia State Archives, Nealy” “Films from the West Virginia State Archives” SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 100. Room 412. Developmental Jack Wright ([email protected]), Ohio U. School of Film, and “Millfield Education in High Schools and Community Colleges. Convener: J. Mine Disaster Footage” Michael King ([email protected]), U. of Pikeville

Kenneth Thigpen ([email protected]), Penn State Lehigh Valley, “Excerpts Zetta Nicely ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Appalachian Girls’ from My Northern Appalachian Films Rattlesnakes: A Festival at Cross College Preparedness: A Comparison of Intervention Programs” Forks, PA (1992) and Buck Season at Bear Meadow Sunset (1984)” Delilah Ryan ([email protected]), West Virginia Northern Community Chad Hunter, Appalshop Archive, “Chester Cornett Footage from the Coll., “West Virginia Northern Community College’s Attempts at Appalshop Archive” Workforce Development in the 1970s and 1980s”

SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 97. Room 310. Agricultural Issues and Katrina Thacker ([email protected]), Big Sandy Themes. Convener: John Sherwood Lewis ([email protected]), East Community and Technical Coll., “A Narrative after Tutoring in Tennessee State U. Humanities at a Community College in Eastern Kentucky”

Jason Hauser ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 101. Room 309. Controversies and “Digging Soil: Agriculture and Placer Mining in North Carolina, 1799- Challenges in Public Health. Convener: Patricia Jacobs (patrj59@ 1835” vt.edu), Virginia Tech

John Sherwood Lewis, East Tennessee State U., “Back to the Future: Patricia Jacobs, Virginia Tech, “When Being Appalachian Was A Rethinking the Legacy of Appalachian Agriculture” Disease”

Sarah Simpson ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Our Jacob Spraker ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Ghost Most Worthy Responsibility: Sustainable Agriculture in Appalachia” Town Tension: Post-War Public Health and Commerce in an Acute Appalachian Polio Epidemic” Jonathan Buchanan ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “Burley Tobacco Farming in Bethel, Watauga Sharon A. Denham ([email protected]), Ohio U. School of Nursing, County, North Carolina: Past, Present, and Future” “Building Capacity of Rural Counties to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes”

SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 98. Room 408. Traditional Music. Britteny M. Howell ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky; Convener: Carl Rahkonen ([email protected]), IUP Nancy E. Schoenberg ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky; Scott Strath ([email protected]), U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Christina Studts ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Measurement of Physical Activity Among Rural Appalachian Residents” 22 SAT. 3:30 PM-4:45 PM. 102. Room 210. Environmental History. ([email protected]), U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga Convener: John Nemeth ([email protected]), CGJC Enterprises for Research and Education Consulting PRESENTERS: Valerie Radu, U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Landon Howard ([email protected]), Chattanooga John R. Henris ([email protected]), Kent State U., “Mastering Quaker Organized for Action Bottom: Southern Agro-Ecology and Northern Conservation Ethic in Ohio’s Hanging Rock Iron District, 1845–1860” SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 108. Room 311. Writing into the Forbidden: Women from Appalachia on Cultivating the Courage William Simson ([email protected]), Georgia Perimeter Coll., to Speak—part 2 (for part 1, see Concurrent Sessions IV, panel 48). “The Benevolent Barons of Smelter Hill: Samuel A. Lewisohn and Convener: Karen Salyer McElmurray ([email protected]) J. N. Houser’s Progressive Management of the Tennessee Copper Company through World War II” PRESENTERS: Lisa Lewis ([email protected]), Oklahoma State U.; and Crystal Wilkinson ([email protected]), Morehead State U. Jacqueline Yahn ([email protected]), Ohio U. and Lancaster City Schools, “Whose Woods These Are: An Investigation of the Utilization SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 109. Room 211. Creative Expressions of and Exploitation of Dysart Woods” Sacred Space in Appalachia. Convener: Ernest D. Lee ([email protected]), Carson-Newman Coll. Harold Aurand ([email protected]), Penn State-Schuylkill Campus, Daniel H. Vice, ([email protected]), Penn State-Hazleton Campus, Melissa Ernest D. Lee “Seeking Sacred Space: Notes from the Blue Ridge” Nolter Barnes, ([email protected]), independent scholar, “Community Response to Anthracite Mine Fires: Centralia to the Guy Larry Osborne, ([email protected]), Carson-Newman Coll., Present” “Nature’s Lamentation: Singing Sorrow and Hope for Appalachia’s Sacred Spaces” CONCURRENT SESSIONS VIII, SATURDAY 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Jeremy J. Buckner ([email protected]), Carson-Newman Coll., “Creating SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 103. Eberly Auditorium. Featured Sacred Space through Song” Presentation. Convener: Barry Whittemore (btwhittemore@ northgeorgia.edu), North Georgia College SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 110. Room 209. Mental Health in Appalachia. Convener: Jennifer D. Tiano ([email protected]), James Loewen ([email protected]), Catholic U. and author of Marshall U. Sundown Towns: a Hidden Dimension of American Racism and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Adrienne M. Fitzsimmons ([email protected]), Marshall U., Wrong, “Uncovering Racist Sundown Towns in Appalachia and “Stigma as a Barrier to Treatment in Appalachia” Beyond” Claire Carpenter Phillips ([email protected]), Marshall U., SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 104. Room 312. Appalachia in Time and “Barriers to Treatment in Rural Appalachia” Place: Author Fiction Reading. Convener: Larry Smith, professor emeritus, Bowling Green State U., Firelands Coll., and Director, R. Anna Taubenheim ([email protected]), Marshall U., Bottom Dog Press ([email protected]) “Cultural Adaptations to Parent Training for Appalachians”

PRESENTERS: Larry Smith; Charles Dodd White (ltmarlborough@ SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 111. Room 321. If You Killed The Sun, How hotmail.com), South Coll., Asheville; and Richard Hague (haguekort@ Would The Sky Feel? a Literary Light In Appalachia. Convener: fuse.net), Purcell Marian High School, Cincinnati Brent House ([email protected]), Shorter U. and The Tusculum Review

SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 105. Room 121. The Demography of PRESENTERS: Wayne Thomas ([email protected]), Tusculum Black Appalachia. Convener: William Turner ([email protected]), Coll.; Heather Patterson ([email protected]), Tusculum Coll.; Berea Coll. and Brent House, Shorter U.—all of The Tusculum Review

PRESENTERS: William Turner, Berea Coll., and Melissa Fry Konty SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 112. Room 218. Edward Abbey II (for ([email protected]), Indiana U. Southeast Edward Abbey I, see Concurrent Sessions IV, panel 52). Convener and presenter: Jim Cahalan ([email protected]), IUP, “Indiana, Pa. SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 106. Room 309. Mildred Haun’s Cocke Appalachian Native Edward Abbey, turned Southwestern Author and County Ballads and Songs and the Wide Reach of Feminine Radical Environmentalist: a Multi-Media Presentation” Empowerment in Appalachia. CONVENER: Viki Dasher Rouse (viki. [email protected]), Walters State Community Coll. SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 113. Room 310. What Art Reflects about Appalachia. Convener: Joy Leane Gritton (j.gritton@moreheadstate. PRESENTERS: Viki Dasher Rouse, Roy Andrade ([email protected]), edu), Morehead State U. East Tennessee State U., and Katie Hoffman ([email protected]), Virginia Commonwealth U. Stewart Plein ([email protected]), West Virginia U. Coll. of Law, “The Three Graces: Appalachian Women on the Covers of Local SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 107. Room 411. Common Ground Color Literature” Free Store and Market: Using Radical Hospitality to Create Community in Southeastern Tennessee. Convener: Valerie Radu 23 Emily Jo Jackson ([email protected]), Morehead State Bryan T. McNeil, Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in U., “Young Artists’ Identity and Involvement in Eastern Kentucky the Fight against Big Coal Communities” Brooks Blevins, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland Joy Leane Gritton, Morehead State U., “Allen Eaton’s ‘Exhibition of South Rural Arts’ After 75 Years: A Dream for Country Life and Crafts” University of Tennessee Press SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 114. Room 408. Antebellum and Civil War Gerry Milnes, Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore Appalachia. Convener: Peter Gilmore (pgilmore.gilmore@gmail. com), Carlow U. University Press of Kentucky Robert L. Ludke and Phillip J. Obermiller, Appalachian Health and Peter Gilmore, Carlow U., “Presbyterians and Temperance in Well-Being Antebellum Western Pennsylvania: Market Revolution, Cultural Revolution, and Hegemony” Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still Randall Gooden ([email protected]), Clayton State U., “‘Persons of Known Disloyal Sentiments’: West Virginia’s Civil War Emily Satterwhite, Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Hostages” Fiction since 1878

Kaytlin Sumner ([email protected]), Johnstown Area Heritage Helen M. Lewis, Patricia D. Beaver, and Judith Jennings, Helen Association, “The Laurel Hill Settlement and Pennsylvania’s Hallowed Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia Grounds Initiative” SAT. 6:00 PM-7:45 PM. DINNER ON YOUR OWN SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 115. Room 410. Activism and Social Work. Convener: Maureen Mullinax ([email protected]), Xavier 6:15 PM. Bids close for Silent Auction; Poster Sessions close U. SAT. 6:30 PM-7:30 PM. 117. Cogswell Hall, Room 126 (enter Maureen Mullinax, Xavier U., and Rosalind Harris ([email protected]), U. front lobby). MUSIC AND DANCE. Convener: Carl Rahkonen of Kentucky, “Pulling Threads: Insights from Appalachian Studies for ([email protected]), IUP. Rural Scholarship and Activism” “Roots and Branches: Dances of Appalachia” (accompanied Ed Stancombe ([email protected]), Indiana County by traditional musicians), by the Davis and Elkins College Dance Children and Youth Services, “A Social Work Perspective: The Past, Collective: Matthew Kupstas ([email protected]), Present and our Future” Gerald Milnes, Rebecca Hill, Susan Krakoff, Bob Fellenstein, Conner Berkey, Emilee Goodman, Beth White, and Casey Day Jason Howard ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Activism in Appalachia: Fairness” SAT. 7 PM. Registration and Exhibit Hall closes

SAT. 5:00 PM-6:00 PM. 116. Room 412. Home/Place: a Film. SAT. 8:00 PM-? 118. Fisher Auditorium. Featured Concert Convener and Presenter: Natalie Baxter ([email protected]), by singer-songwriter Si Kahn. Honored by the Folk Alliance U. of Kentucky as 2010’s #1 folk artist, Si Kahn has released sixteen albums during the past forty years. A celebrated songwriter, his song “Aragon SAT. 6:00 PM-7:00 PM. PUBLISHERS’ WELCOME AND BOOK Mill” has been covered by over 30 other musicians, and his music SIGNING RECEPTION, sponsored by artist, author, and publisher covers a wide range of topics including civil rights, women’s rights, Marilyn Thornton Schraff, University of Illinois Press, University of labor and race relations, community organizing, war and peace, the Tennessee Press, and University Press of Kentucky, music by Dearest environment, politics, and his own experiences. Home, Zink Hall Gym B featuring: SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Author Parking: Eberly lot Marilyn Thornton Schraff, Appalachian Childhood: Memories of Growing Up in Rural Southern Ohio During the Mid 20th Century and 7:30 AM-8:30 AM. ASA New Steering Committee Breakfast Moonshine: Illicit Spirits in the Appalachian Hills of Rural Southern Ohio Meeting, Oak Room A, Foster Hall

University of Illinois Press 7:30 AM-8:30 AM. New West Virginia Land Ownership Study Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith eds., Phillip Obermiller, Informational Meeting, Eberly Lobby. Convener, Lou Martin, Dwight Billings, Maureen Mullinax, Chad Montrie, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Chatham U. Betsy Taylor, Jill Kriesky, Tom Wagner, Mary Hufford, Walter Davis, and Betty Fine Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia 8:15 AM-11:00 AM. Registration and Book Exhibits, Zink Hall Gym B

Talmage A. Stanley, The Poco Field: An American Story of Place

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World 24 CONCURRENT SESSIONS IX, SUNDAY 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Sister Joanne Gonter ([email protected]), Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and Monastery, “The Closing of Mount de Chantal SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 119. Eberly Auditorium. Film: Deep Visitation Academy, Current Locations of 1848-2008 Records, and Down: a Story from the Heart of Coal Country. Continuance of the Academy’s Alumnae Association” SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 120. Room 409. Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) Reading. (See Concurrent Sessions X, SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 125. Room 218. The Evolving panel 134.) Convener: Jim Minick ([email protected]), Radford U. Appalachian Identity. Convener: Peggy Henderson Murphy, IUP

PRESENTERS: Bob Henry Baber ([email protected]), Glenville PRESENTERS: Peggy Henderson Murphy (p.hendersonmurphy@iup. State Coll.; Jim Webb ([email protected]), Bad Branch Institute; edu), IUP; Amanda Flora ([email protected]), Cabell County, and Pauletta Hansel, ([email protected]), Grailville Retreat and West Virginia, elementary teacher; and Megan Leighty (Megan. Program Center [email protected]), Symmes Valley High School teacher, Lawrence Co., Ohio SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 121. Room 312. Songs and Ballads from the Samuel P. Bayard Folk Song Collection. Co-Conveners and SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 126. Room 411. The Frontier Nursing Presenters: Beth Bergeron Folkemer, ([email protected]), Service. Convener: Laurence Kruckman ([email protected]), independent scholar, and Stephen Folkemer ([email protected]), IUP Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg Edie West ([email protected]), IUP, “History, Organization, and SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 122. Room 311. Living off the the Changing Culture of Care: a Historical Analysis of the Frontier Land, Living with the Land: Ecocritical Readings of Place Nursing Service” in Appalachian Literature. Convener: Richard Parmer Anne Cockerham ([email protected]), Frontier Nursing ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky U., “Rooted in the Mountains, Reaching to the World: Nursing and Midwifery at Kentucky’s Frontier School and Beyond” Richard Parmer, U. of Kentucky, “Separation Anxiety: Environmental and Social Injustice in Appalachian Literature” Laurence Kruckman, IUP, and Carolyn White ([email protected]), Meriter Hospital, Madison, WI, “‘My leaders are black’ and Other Folk Heather McIntyre ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “When Expressions: Understanding Folk Terms in Rural Appalachian Health Mountains Attack: The Consequences of Anthropomorphizing Care Delivery” Nature” SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 127. Room 321. Art and Architecture. Melissa Wiser ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Mother Nature Convener: Sean M. Derry ([email protected]), IUP and the Nature of Mothers: An Ecological Perspective on Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer” Travis Hall ([email protected]), Morehead State U., “Appalachian Art on the Airwaves” SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 123. Room 121. Engaging Rural and Urban Appalachians in Community-Based Participatory Research Gregory Galford ([email protected]), Chatham U., “Other Forms to Improve Health. Co-Conveners: Robert L. Ludke (robert.ludke@ of Housing in Appalachia: The Prison and Asylum in West Virginia” uc.edu), U. of Cincinnati, and Laureen Smith ([email protected]), Ohio State U. Sean M. Derry, IUP, “FancyLand: an Ethereal Exploration of Place”

Laureen Smith, “Engaging Rural Appalachia Teens to Reduce Daily SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 128. Room 310. Interdisciplinary Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Community-Based Perspectives on Food. Convener: Theresa Lloyd ([email protected]), Participatory Research Project” East Tennessee State U.

Robert L. Ludke, “The Lower Price Hill Diabetes Initiative: a Rebekah Epling ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “The Community-Based, Participatory Research Project” Recipes are in My Head: Changing Appalachian Foodways”

SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 124. Room 211. The Wide Reach of a Lucy M. Long ([email protected]), Center for Food and Cloistered Order from 1848 to 2008: The Sisters of the Visitation Culture, Bowling Green, Ohio, “Cultural versus Environmental of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wheeling. Convener: Joseph G. Sustainability in Appalachian Culinary Tourism” Mannard ([email protected]), IUP Theresa Lloyd, East Tennessee State U., “Gay Radical Homemaking Joseph G. Mannard, IUP, “‘Wheeling has improved vastly since we are in the Writings of Barbara Kingsolver and Jeff Mann: Food and here’: Impressions of Antebellum Western Virginia by the Sisters of Community” the Visitation” SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 129. Room 410. Appalachian History Barbara J. Howe ([email protected]), West Virginia U., “The Just East of IUP: Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and Beyond. Sisters of the Visitation Reach Out from Wheeling to Appalachia— Convener: Jennifer Egolf ([email protected]), IUP and Beyond in the 1860s” John-Paul Cain ([email protected]), Penn State Altoona, “The Story of Jacob Green and the Hollidaysburg Tunnels of the Underground Railroad” 25 Ryan Bixby ([email protected]), U. of Akron, “The Impact SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 135. Room 311. Race and Literature. of the American Civil War on the Appalachian Border Regions of Convener: John Widner ([email protected]), Edinboro U. of Pennsylvania and West Virginia” Pennsylvania

Jennifer Egolf, IUP, “Making Heroes Outsiders: A Northern Anissa Wardi ([email protected]), Chatham U., “The Placing of Appalachian Response to the Bonus Marchers” Appalachia in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle”

SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 130. Room 412. Minding Your Place: William Kelley Woolfitt ([email protected]), Pennsylvania State U., The Appalachia Film Series and Place-Based Classrooms. “Ethnic Diversity and Interdependence in the Other Appalachias Convener: Tim Thomas ([email protected]), James Madison U. of Betsey Chamberlain, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Paul Laurence Dunbar” PRESENTERS: Jamie Ross ([email protected]), Agee Films; Tim Thomas, James Madison U.; and Jane Eller ([email protected]), John Widner, Edinboro U. of Pennsylvania, “Begging Every Dog’s retired educator Pardon: Robert Mallard, Byron Herbert Reece, and Reece’s novel The Hawk and the Sun” SUN. 8:30 AM-9:30 AM. 131. Room 309. Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First-Century Modern and Contemporary Issues Rooted Angie LaGrotteria ([email protected]), Emory U., “‘That Little River in History. Convener: George F. Bills ([email protected]), U. of Town in Ohio’: Toni Morrison’s Sula as an Appalachian Novel” Kentucky SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 136. Room 411. This Is My Heart For William Hal Gorby ([email protected]), West Virginia U., You: Creating an Appalachian Play. Conveners and presenters: “Contesting Loyalty: Political Surveillance and Immigrant Working- Adanma Barton ([email protected]), Berea Coll., and Silas Class Solidarity in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1918-1921” House ([email protected]), Berea Coll.

Benjamin Yoder ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 137. Room 312. Mountaintop Removal “A Region Haunted by Ghosts: Elementary School Closings in Former and Fracking: an Appalachian Energy Debate on the National Coal Towns of Northern Appalachia” Stage. Convener: Melissa Waage ([email protected]), Campaign Director, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) George F. Bills, U. of Kentucky, “‘Sensitive Issues’ in Local Health Care Social Circles in Harlan County” PRESENTERS: Melissa Waage, NRDC; Allen Hershkowitz ([email protected]), NRDC; Amy Mall ([email protected]), NRDC; CONCURRENT SESSIONS X, SUNDAY 9:45 AM-11:00 AM Donna Lisenby ([email protected]), Appalachian Voices; and Thomas Au ([email protected]), Pennsylvania Chapter of the SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 132. Eberly Auditorium. Film: Black Sierra Club Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice. SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 138. Room 211. Inside and Outside: Bluegrass Music in the Academy. Convener: Dave Haney SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 133. Room 121. Red Holler: Voices of ([email protected]), Appalachian State U. Contemporary Appalachian Writers. Convener: John E. Branscum ([email protected]), IUP Dave Haney, Appalachian State U., “Teaching and Learning Bluegrass at Appalachian State: Practical and Theoretical Issues” PRESENTERS: John E. Branscum, IUP; Desirae Matherly (dmatherly@ tusculum.edu), Tusculum Coll.; Sara Pritchard (pritchard.sara@gmail. Kathryn Engle ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., com), Wilkes U.; Wayne Thomas ([email protected]), Tusculum “Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Garrard County, Kentucky” Coll.; and Charles Dodd White ([email protected]), Southern Coll. Jordan Laney ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., “George Shuffler and Herb Lambert: Bluegrass Innovation and Education in SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 134. Room 409. Contextualizing Western North Carolina” Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) Writers Jim Webb, Pauletta Hansel, and Bob Henry Baber. (See Concurrent Skye McFarland ([email protected]), Appalachian Sessions IX, panel 120.) Convener: Scott Goebel (badbranch3@ State U., “Watermelon Park Festival: History and Stories” gmail.com), Bad Branch Institute. Trevor McKenzie ([email protected]), Appalachian State U., PRESENTERS: Scott Goebel, Bad Branch Institute; Chris Green “Bluegrass and ‘Bad Men’” ([email protected]), Marshall U.; Dana Wildsmith (dswildsmith@ earthlink.net), Lanier Technical Coll.; John Lang ([email protected]), SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 139. Room 218. The Global and Emory and Henry Coll.; George Ella Lyon (allwrite@georgeellalyon. National Reach of “Going Local”: Politics, Imagination, and Hope com), freelance writer and teacher; Sherry Cook Stanforth (sherry. in the Rebuilding of a Sustainable Regional Economy in Central [email protected]), Thomas More Coll.; Marianne Appalachia. Convener: Betsy Taylor ([email protected]), Worthington ([email protected]), U. of the Virginia Tech Cumberlands; and Michael Henson ([email protected]), author and activist Barbara Ellen Smith ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, “Spatial Dispossessions and Place-Based Strategies of Resistance” 26 Mary Hufford ([email protected]), U. of Pennsylvania, Jinny Turman-Deal ([email protected]), West Virginia U., “Breaking the Neoliberal Spell: The Narrative Ecology of Citizen ““Marijuana Merchants in the Hills”: An Exploration of Attitudes Science” Toward Marijuana Production in Two Appalachian Counties”

Amanda Fickey ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Fostering SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 144. Room 410. Southern Appalachian a Language of Economic Diversity and a Politics of Hope in Eastern Literature. Convener: Leigh Walters ([email protected]), Kentucky” Appalachian State U.

Betsy Taylor, Virginia Tech, “‘In the same boat’: New Links between Tamra Wilson ([email protected]), Catawba County Library Coal Activists in India and Southern West Virginia” System, “The Regional Voice: What Makes a Southern Story ‘Southern’?” SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 140. Room 209. Appalachia Online: an Emerging Public Sphere. Convener: Niki King (thehillville@gmail. Anita Turpin ([email protected]), Roanoke Coll., “Percy MacKaye’s com), The HillVille: Online Magazine of Urban Appalachia Kentucky Mountain Fantasies”

PRESENTERS: Niki King, The HillVille; Beth Newberry (thehillville@ Leigh Walters, Appalachian State U., “The Mountaineer and His Mutt: gmail.com), The HillVille; Jason Howard ([email protected]), Expanding Kinship Ties to Appalachian Animals in Appalachian U. of Kentucky and Still: The Journal; Benji Burrell (benji@appvoices. Literature” org), Appalachian Voices; and Kara Rogers Thomas (krogersthomas@ appindie.org), Frostburg State U. and the Appalachian Independent Shawn Smolen-Morton ([email protected]), Francis Marion U., “The Political Functions of Magic Realism in Recent SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 141. Room 321. Appalshop Media in Appalachian Novels: Clay’s Quilt and Serena” Times of Transition: Documenting the Moment and Engaging Residents in Conversations for the Future. Convener: Beth SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 145. Room 412. International Bingman ([email protected]), Appalshop Connections to Economic and Environmental Catastrophes and “Othering.” Convener: Todd Nesbitt ([email protected]), Lock PRESENTERS: Mimi Pickering ([email protected]), Herb E. Haven U. of Pennsylvania Smith ([email protected]), Tom Hansell ([email protected]), Rich Kirby ([email protected]), Beth Bingman, and Sylvia Ryerson Todd Nesbitt, Lock Haven U. of Pennsylvania, “West Virginia and the ([email protected])—all of Appalshop Global Economy: Globalization, Development, and Micro Lending in Appalachia’s Poorest State” SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 142. Room 310. Approaches to Teaching Appalachian Studies. Convener: Margaret S. Marangione Annalisa Raymer ([email protected]), Emory and Henry Coll., “The ([email protected]), Blue Ridge Community Coll. Wide Reach of Climate Change: Inupiats of Kivalina, Alaska, Fight Energy Giants in Virginia” Amanda Hayes ([email protected]), Ohio U., “Op’nin’ the Door to Appalachia in the Southeastern Ohio College Classroom” Lindsey A. Freeman ([email protected]), New School for Social Research, “The Nuclear Prophecy: Appalachia and the Historic- Diane Barnes ([email protected]), Youngstown State U., “‘We Are Future Atomic City” Appalachian?’: Teaching Regional History in Northern Appalachia” Amber Zambelli ([email protected]), independent scholar, Ricky L. Cox ([email protected]), Radford U., “Fred Chappell’s I Am One “The Other in the Mirror: The Persistence of Alterity in Appalachian of You Forever for Literary Analysis by College Freshmen” and Near Eastern Social Imaginaries”

Margaret S. Marangione, Blue Ridge Community Coll., “Taking the SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 146. Room 309. Folklore in Students to the Mountain: The Appalachian Environmental Learning Pennsylvania and Southern Appalachia. Convener: Kevin Cordi Community at Blue Ridge Community College” ([email protected]), Ohio Dominican U.

SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 143. Room 408. Moonshine and PRESENTERS: Gerald Milnes ([email protected]), Davis and Elkins Marijuana. Convener: Charles Thompson ([email protected]), Coll., “The German Elements of Appalachian Folkways” Duke U. Fred E. Will ([email protected]), Historic and Genealogical Charles Thompson, Duke U., “Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Society of Somerset Co., “The Pennsylvania German-Decorated Barn” Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World” Jim Minick ([email protected]), Radford U., “Powwowing: Aaron Lancaster ([email protected]), Appalachian Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Healing in Our Mountains” State U., “The Moonshine Culture of Wilkes County in the 1950s” Kevin Cordi, Ohio Dominican U., “Searching for My Appalachia: Talk Serena Frost ([email protected]), Virginia Tech, and John Langley, Back with Appalachian Writers and Storytellers” Virginia Tech ([email protected]), “The Politics of Moonshine: A Modern-Day Victory in Tennessee”

27 SUN. 9:45 AM-11:00 AM. 147. Room 210. Analytic Approaches in the Social Sciences. Convener: Wilburn Hayden (whayden@ yorku.ca), York U.

Stephanie M. Barker ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, and Sara Compion ([email protected]), U. of Kentucky, “Linking ‘Content’and ‘Context’: A Qualitative Geographic Information Systems Approach to Understanding Economic Development Organization in Appalachian Kentucky”

Wilburn Hayden, York U., “A Demographic Examination of African Americans in Northern Appalachia”

Brian J. Farester ([email protected]), IUP, “Growing Up Working Class in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: A Review of Research in Progress”

Susanna Donaldson ([email protected]), U. of Iowa, “Tobacco Baskets: The Embodiment of Cultural Memory” 11:00. Registration and Book exhibits close, Zink Hall Gym B

11:00 AM-1:00 PM. CONFERENCE BRUNCH AND INVITATION TO 2013 CONFERENCE (see pg 47 for more information), Ohio Room

1:00 PM. Safe journey home!

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28 INDEX: PARTICIPANTS BY SESSION AND PANEL NUMBERS

Session Times:

I FRI. 12:00-1:15 VI SAT. 11:00-12:00 II FRI. 1:30-2:45 VII SAT. 3:30-4:45 III FRI. 3:00-4:15 VIII SAT. 5:00-6:00 IV SAT. 8:30-9:30 IX SUN. 8:30-9:30 V SAT. 9:45-10:45 X SUN. 9:45-11:00

Aiken, Elisabeth C.: VII.94 Carpenter Phillips, Claire: III.29, VIII.110 Escher, Dan: II.22 Aldrich, Elizabeth: V.66 Carreau, Kaitlyn: I.8 Espino, Jason: VII.95 Allen, Leslie Shellor: II.26 Cary, Michael: II.19 Farester, Brian J.: X.147 Alvic, Philis: VI.84 Cassidy, Mary Ellen: IV.49 Fauss, Richard: VII.96 Andaloro, Ann: I.6 Catalano, Tim: VII.99 Feely, Mike: I.13 Anderson, Christine: I.10 Catalfamo, Catherine C.: V.67 Feldstein, Al: ARC Grant Workshop Anderson, Maggie: VI.74 Cathcart, Katanya: I.12 Fellenstein, Bob: Dance.117 Anderson, Nathan: III.40 Chadwell, Tyler: I.3 Ferrence, Matthew: III.41 Andrade, Roy: VIII.106 Chervinsky, Andriy: V.72 Fickey, Amanda: X.139 Arnowitt, Myron: Plenary.86 Chesarino, Carolyn: VI.81 Finley, Frankie: I.2 Au, Thomas: X.137 Chowkwanyun, Merlin: III.35 Fisanick, Christina: III.41 Aurand, Harold: VII.102 Clark, Amy: I.14 Fitzgerald, Jenrose: III.34 Baber, Bob Henry: IX.120 Clemons, Tammy: VI.76 Fitzsimmons, Adrienne M.: III.29, VIII.110 Bach-Enz, Alyssa: IV.53 Cochran, Dana: III.42 Flack, John: I.8 Bailey, Terri M.: VI.81 Cochran, Marie T.: III.29 Fletcher, Rebecca: III.39 Baldwin, Lisa: I.9 Cockerham, Anne: IX.126 Flora, Amanda: IX.125 Barker, Stephanie M.: X.147 Coles, Nicholas J.: VII.90 Folkemer, Beth Bergeron: I.5, IX.121 Barnes, Diane: X.142 Compion, Sara: X.147 Folkemer, Stephen: I.5, IX.121 Barnes, Melissa Nolter: VII.102 Confer, Clarissa: IV.58 Fowler, Neil: ARC Grant Workshop Barton, Shane: III.38 Conley, Lisa: III.38 Freeman, Lindsey A.: X.145 Barton, Adanma Onyedike: III.38, X.136 Conway, Cece: I.9 Freund, Hugo A.: II.18 Baskerville, Megan: III.43 Cook, Jim: V.61 Frey, Brad: I.12 Baugh, Carol: II.20, VII.88 Cook-Stanforth, Sherry: V.61, VI.75, X.134 Frost, Serena: X.143 Baxter, Natalie: VIII.116 Cope, Brian D.: V.63, VII.95 Funderburk, David: II.28, III. 29 Bee, Emily: V.71 Cordi, Kevin: X.146 Furgiuele, Hannah: III.29 Beining, Kathleen: V.65 Cordial, Paige: V.68 Galford, Gregory: IX.127 Benigni, Amanda M.: V.69 Cornelius, Michael: IV.53 Geduld, Victoria Phillips: V.66 Bentley, Marc: V.62 Corriher, Donna: I.9 Gilmore, Peter: VIII.114 Berkey, Conner: Dance.117 Coulter, Katie: III.43 Gipe, Robert: VI.77 Bidgood, Lee: I.10 Cox, Ricky L.: X.142 Gleaves, Samuel: III.31 Bills, George F.: IX.131 Crabtree, Beverly: I.14a Goebel, Scott: I.2, X.134 Bingman, Beth: X.141 Cramer, Jennifer S.: III.41 Gonter, Joanne: IX.124 Birchard, Zackary: I.4 Cravotta, Nicolene: V.67 Gooden, Randall: VIII.114 Bishop, Ronald: Plenary.86 Creany, Anne Drolett: V.65 Goodman, Emilee: Dance.117 Bixby, Ryan: IX.129 Cunningham, Rodger: III.41 Gorby, William Hal: IX.131 Black, Britani S.: III.29 Curlee, Cary: III.29, V.70 Grant, Phillip A., Jr.: III.32 Black, Kate: III.33 David, John P.: V.68 Graves, Jesse: II.16 Blackburn, Jessica: III.39 Davis, Donald Edward: II.18 Green, Chris: II.17, III.40, VII.88, X.134 Blackwell, Deborah L.: VII.93 Davis Jones, Carol: VII.91 Gritton, Joy L.: III.29, VIII.113 Blanto, Teri: II.21 Dawson, Kipp: VII.91 Gullion, Judith: III.35 Blevins, Adrian: IV.48 Day, Casey: Dance.117 Hague, Richard: I.2, VIII.104 Bloom, Mike: III.43 Defoe, Mark: III.30 Hall, Travis: III.29, IX.127 Boehm, Melissa: VII.92 Denham, Sharon A.: I.6, VII.101 Hall, Betty Jean: VII.91 Boffemmyer, Mindy: II.24 DePompei, Jennifer M.: III.32 Hamblin, Ethan: III.31 Bohince, Paula: IV.47 Deskins, William David: II.17 Hamilton, Caroline: VII.89 Branscum, John E.: X.133 Derry, Sean M.: IX.127 Haney, Dave: X.138 Brescoach, Sharon: I.10 Dobson, Elliott: VII.89 Hanna, Scott: VII.94 Brosi, Eagle: IV.55 Donaldson, Susanna: X.147 Hansel, Pauletta: I.2, IX.120 Brown, Miranda: IV.56 Dorgan, Kelly A.: VI.85 Hansell, Tom: X.141 Brubaker, Greta: III.29 Dougherty, Jim: Plenary.86, III.36, VI.73 Harris, Rosalind: VIII.115 Buchanan, Jonathan: III.29, VII.97 Dow, Virginia P.: III.40 Harshman, Marc: VI.74 Buckner, Jeremy J.: VIII.109 Duin, Julia C.: VI.83 Haspel, Paul: I.11 Burke, Mikey: IV.55 Duvall, Kathryn L.: VI.85 Haught, Heather: VI.85 Burrell, Benji: X.140 Edwards, Grace Toney: VI.81 Hauser, Jason: VII.97 Bush, Carletta: VI.80 Edwards, Pamela: VII.93 Haven, Lisa: V.69 Cahalan, Jim: I.1, Keynote.44, VIII.112 Egolf, Jennifer: IX.129 Hawkins, Nyoka: III.33, VI.77 Cahalan, Robert F.: II.15 Eller, Jane: IX.130 Hayden, Wilburn: X.147 Cain, John-Paul: IX.129 Ellison, Curtis W.: VII.90 Hayes, Amanda: X.142 Caldwell, Michelle: III.35 Engle, Kathryn: III.29, X.138 Haymond, Julie Elizabeth: VI.80 Campbell, Roberta: III.42 Epling, Rebekah: IX.128 Hayward, Nancy: I.14

29 Helton, Lonnie: III.42 Leidman, Mary Beth: I.13 Nicely, Zetta: VII.100 Henderson, Megan: III.38 Leighty, Megan: IX.125 Nickeson, Jenny: VII.93 Hennen, John: II.22 Leonard, Timothy: VII.88 Norman, Gurney: III.33 Hennon, Charles B.: III.29 Lewis, John Sherwood: VII.97 Nykorak, Jaroslav: V.72 Henris, John R.: VII.102 Lewis, Lisa: VIII.108 Obermiller, Phillip J.: II.20 Henson, Michael: I.2, VI.75, X.134 Lindley, William: III.29, IV.50 Okey, Brian: Plenary.86 Hershkowitz, Allen: X.137 Lindsay, Libby: VII.91 Oldfield Meade, Pamela: VI.77 Hicks, John K.: III.40, IV.52 Linz, Thomas: III.35 Olson, Ted: II.18, III.30, VI.79 Hill, Rebecca: II.28, Dance.117 Lisenby, Donna: X.137 Olson, LeAnne Arbor: III.42 Hincke, Ericka: III.29 Lloyd, Theresa: IX.128 O’Neil, Erin: I.7 Hoffman, Katie: VIII.106 Locklear, Erica Abrams: IV.51 Oresick, Peter: V.60, VI.74 Holguin, Von: III.43 Loewen, James: III.29, VIII.103 Osborne, Guy Larry: VIII.109 Houck, James: I.5 Logan-Kemp, Rhonda: III.29 Parmer, Richard: I.3, IX.122 House, Brent: VIII.111 Long, Jason Douglas: III.30 Patterson, Laura: V.62 House, Silas: I.14, II.16, III.31, X.136 Long, Lucy M.: IX.128 Patterson, Heather: VIII.111 Howard, Jason: III.29; VIII.115; X.140 Lucas, Jennifer: III.29 Peake, Rana: VII.88 Howard, Jennifer: II.23 Ludke, Robert L.: II.20, IX.123 Pearson, Stephen: III.37 Howard, Landon: VIII.107 Lutts, Ralph H.: II.26 Peer, Samuel: III.29 Howe, Barbara J.: IX.124 Lyon, George Ella: I.2, VII.90, X.134 Peimer, Alex: VII.92 Howell, Britteny M.: III.34, VII.101 MacAuley, Lorien: I.8 Perry, Shannon: I.10 Hufford, Mary: X.139 Mackaman, Thomas: II.25 Perry, Simona: VII.95 Hunt, Olivia: III.42 MacMorran, Jane Blair: IV.54 Peterson, Gary W.: III.29 Hunter, Chad: VII.96 Mall, Amy: X.137 Pettit, Katy: I.7 Hutson, Sadie P.: VI.85 Mancuso, Jennie: III.29 Pickering, Mimi: X.141 Ishler, Brenna: I.7 Mando, Justin: VI.81 Piddock, Eric: I.7 Jackiela, Lori: V.60 Mannard, Joseph G.: IX.124 Pierce, Daniel: IV.51 Jackson, Emily Jo: VIII.113 Marangione, Margaret S.: X.142 Plein, Stewart: VIII.113 Jacobs, Patricia: VII.101 Marcus, Irwin: V.64 Podapati, Pallavi: III.35 Jennings-Doyle, Denise: V.67 Marshall, Ian: VII.92 Pond, Lauren: VI.83 Jensen, Jane: IV.56 Martin, Lou: II.22 Pope, Janice: V.68 Johnson, Brandon: I.9 Martin, Michael: IV.58 Powell, Charlene: III.38 Johnson, David W.: VII.90 Massey, Aron: III.32 Power, Margaret: II.19 Johnson, Jeffery C.: VI.78 Matherly, Desirae: X.133 Poznaskyy, Roman: I.12 Jolliff, Bill: I.5 McAteer, Caitlin: IV.54 Pozza, David: IV.52 Jones, Alice: I.4, III.34, IV.49 McClain, Lee: IV.53 Price, Bill: II.21 Jones, Megan: III.31 McCullough, Ryan.: III.32 Prince, Phillip: II.26 Kahn, Si: Keynote.44, Organizing Workshop.45 and McDaniel, Jade Bolling: I.11 Pritchard, Sara: X.133 .87, and Concert.118 McDaniel, Scott: II.24 Puckett, Anita: I.14, II.26 Kant-Byers, Kristin: III.39 McElmurray, Karen Salyer: IV.48, VIII.108 Radu, Valerie: VIII.107 Keller, Clint: V.70 McFarland, Skye: X.138 Rahkonen, Carl: VII.98, Music.117 Kelly, Timothy: II.19 McGee, Nate: IV.55 Raymer, Annalisa: X.145 Kempf, Jessi J.: III.29 McGraw, Thomas: VI.85 Reedy, Timi: I.3, VI.76 Kent, Rosann: II.28 McIntyre, Heather: I.3, IX.122 Reid, Kendra: III.29 Keppel, David P.: I.13 McKenzie, Trevor: I.9, X.138 Reinking, Brian S.: VII.95 Kerry-Moran, Kelli Jo: I.12, III.29 McKernan, Llewellyn: II.16 Reynolds, Colin E.: III.37 Kinderman, Gibbs: III.29 McSpirit, Stephanie: I.4, III.34 Rezek, Jan: I.8 King, J. Michael: VII.100 Merner, L. Delta: III.34 Rice, Laura: III.29 King, Niki: X.140 Merryman, Molly: II.27 Ricketts, Elizabeth: V.64 Kingsolver, Ann: III.38 Messinger, Penny: VI.84 Roach, Ron: I.5 Kinser, Amber E.: VI.85 Michelli, Jennifer: V.65 Roberts, Rachel Lanier: VII.99 Kirby, Rich: X.141 Middleton, Steven: I.6 Roe, Joshua A.: III.29, IV.50 Kirker, Brianna: I.7 Miller, Christopher: II.18, V.72 Rogers Thomas, Kara: X.140 Kline, Carrie Nobel: III.31 Miller, Laura: II.21 Rooth, Kate: II.21 Kline, Michael N.: II.25 Milnes, Gerald: Dance.117, X.146 Ross, Britni: III.29 Knepp, Julie Rachel: I.11 Minick, Jim: I.2, III.30, IX.120, X.146 Ross, Jamie: IV.51, IX.130 Konty, Melissa Fry: VIII.105 Montrie, Chad: VI.73 Rouse, Viki Dasher: V.62, VIII.106 Krakoff, Susan: VII.98, Dance.117 Moore, Rob: III.36 Royer, Alice B.: VI.78 Kruckman, Laurence: IX.126 Moore, Marat: VII.91 Royer-Johnson, Margot: VI.78 Kupstas, Matthew: Dance.117 Morocco-Perry, Mary Ann: III.29 Ryan, Delilah: VII.100 LaGrotteria, Angie: X.135 Moyar, Joanna: II.19 Ryerson, Sylvia: IV.55, X.141 Lampe, David: Plenary.86 Mraz, Mark: III.40 Saintz, Julia: IV.58 Lancaster, Aaron: X.143 Mulcahy, Richard: II.20 Salsgiver, Amy: IV.56 Laney, Jordan: X.138 Mullinax, Maureen: VIII.115 Samples, Megan: III.29 Lang, John: X.134 Murphy, Lukas: VII.98 Satterwhite, Emily: V.69 Langley, John: X.143 Murphy, Peggy Henderson: IX.125 Savchyk, Borys Petrovich: V.72 Latzko, David A.: II.25 Musselwhite, Rebekah: III.29 Schaffer, Max: III.35 Lauer, Katey: II.21 Nemeth, John: II.15, VII.102 Schissel, Loras John: V.66 Ledford, Katherine E.: V.59, VII.88 Nesbitt, Todd: X.145 Schoenberg, Nancy E.: VII.101 Lee, Ernest D.: VIII.109 Newberry, Beth: X.140 Schumann, William: III.39 Lefkovitz, Aaron: II.23 Newsome, Jackson P.: III.29 Scott, Shaunna: III.34 LeGrow, Christopher: III.29 Newton, Emily: III.29 Sheesley, Megan: III.43 30 Sheppard, Kayla: III.29 Taylor, Mary Rachel: III.29 West, Edie: IX.126 Sherrill, Alana: VII.94 Tedesco, Marie.: III.32, VII.91 Weyant, Karen J.: IV.47 Sherwood, Ken: V.63 Terman, Anna Rachel: III.37 White, Beth: Dance.117 Shurbutt, Sylvia Bailey: II.16, VII.88 Terrell, Shawn: III.29 White, Carolyn: IX.126 Simonton, Scott: I.4 Thacker, Katrina: VII.100 White, Jacob: II.25 Simpson, Sarah: VII.97 Theobald, Molly: ARC Grant Workshop White, Charles Dodd: VIII.104, X.133 Simson, William: VII.102 Thigpen, Kenneth: VII.96 Whitson, Kathy: I.13 Skaggs, Misty: III.29 Thomas, Tim: IX.130 Whittemore, Barry: VIII.103 Skaggs-Parsons, Bonita: III.29 Thomas, Wayne: VIII.111, X.133 Wicker, Stacey L.: IV.52 Skeen, Joseph R.: VII.99 Thompson, Charles: X.143 Widner, John: X.135 Slater, Thomas: V.69 Thompson, Deborah: II.23 Wigginton, Andrew J.: I.4 Slavishak, Edward S.: VII.99 Thomson, Ryan: II.22 Wilber, Tom: Plenary.86 Smeltzer, Marion R.: VI.80 Tiano, Jennifer D.: III.29, VIII.110 Wildsmith, Dana: I.2, X.134 Smith, Barbara Ellen: X.139 Todd, Roxy: III.29 Wilkinson, Crystal: VIII.108 Smith, Herb E.: X.141 Tokarczyk, Michelle M.: I.11 Will, Fred E.: X.146 Smith, Gerald: V.63 Tomenchuk, Sofia: V.72 Williams, John A.: I.1 Smith, Larry: VIII.104 Trokan, John T.: III.29, V.61 Williams, Elizabeth M.: VI.82 Smith, Laureen: IX.123 Trokan, Nancy A.: III.29 Wilson, Christina: IV.54 Smolen-Morton, Shawn: X.144 Turman-Deal, Jinny: X.143 Wilson, Shannon H.: VI.84 Sohn, Kathy: I.14 Turner, William: II.17, VIII.105 Wilson, Tamra: X.144 Spalding, Susan: II.28 Turpin, Anita: X.144 Wise, Rachel: VI.80 Spears, Ashley: III.29 Twiss, Pamela: II.20 Wiser, Melissa: IX.122 Spradling, Jeff: III.37 Vahlsing, Julia: III.29 Withrow, Ted: I.4 Spraker, Jacob: VII.101 Van Dusen, Alex: III.29 Witt, Joseph: II.24 Stachowicz, Tammy: III.37 Vice, Daniel H.: VII.102 Wood, Dave: VII.98 Stancombe, Ed: VIII.115 von Schlichten, David: II.24 Wood, Sarah: I.7 Stanforth, Sherry: I.2, X.135 Waage, Frederick: IV.47, VII.92 Woodson, Ryan: I.7 Stanley, Talmage A.: IV.57 Waage, Melissa: X.137 Woolfitt, William Kelley: X.135 Stewart, Henry C.: VII.94 Wagner, Melinda Bollar: I.7 Worthington, Marianne: X.134 Stout, Benjamin M.: I.4, IV.49 Wagner, Thomas: II.20 Wright, Jack: VII.96 Strath, Scott: VII.101 Walker, Anne Elizabeth: III.29, IV.50 Yahn, Jacqueline: VII.102 Streeter, Carrie: VII.93 Walkup, Beverly: III.34 Yoder, Benjamin: III.29, IX.131 Studts, Cristina: VII.101 Walters, Leigh: X.144 Zambelli, Amber: X.145 Sturgeon, Doug: II.25 Wanat, Matt: VII.89 Zbiek, Paul: I.13 Sumner, Kaytlin: VIII.114 Wang, Yasong: I.12 Zimmerman, Ed A.: I.14a Taffe Reed, Susan M.: V.59 Wardi, Anissa: X.135 Zolten, Jerry: II.23 Taubenheim, R. Anna: VIII.110 Watta, Jim: V.64 Zuelke, Karl: VI.75 Taylor, Betsy: X.139 Watson, Sarah A.: I.12 Taylor, Ethan: I.7 Webb, Jim: I.2, IX.120

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Academic Programs Folklore Studies: A 19 hour interdisciplinary academic minor, through Fairmont State University, can be attached to most liberal arts majors. A folklore The Frank & Janestudies specialization Gabor poises students for graduate studies and professional involvement in such areas as preservation, archiving, teaching, curating, historical parks and museums management, entertainment, and storytelling. Museum Studies: Pierpont Community & Technical College, in association with the Frank and Jane Gabor WV Folklife Center, has developed a Liberal Studies Associate of Arts with a folklife concentration in Museum Studies, along with a Certificate in Museum Studies Skill Set.

Publications Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness • Hillchild • In the Mountain State, Cultural Curriculum • The West Virginia Literary Map • The Dulcimer Man: The Russell Fluharty Story

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The Brushy Fork Institute Developing leaders, organizations, and communities Appalachian Studies Building understanding of the Region among students This view from the East Pinnacle of Indian Fort mountain provides a view of the many acres of mountain forest Celebration of Traditional Music owned by Berea College just outside the town of Berea, Exploring the diversity of Regional music and Kentucky, which is beloved by our faculty, staff, and dance students as our “spiritual campus.” Photo by Silas House

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at the Appalachian Studies Association Reception & Booksigning, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Look for a list of fi nal attendees and times Meet the Authors in the fi nal conference program, or visit our tables in the exhibit hall.

The Poco Field Spirits of Just Men Transforming Places Combating Ghost of the Ozarks An American Story of Place Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, Lessons from Appalachia Mountaintop Murder and Memory in the TALMAGE A. STANLEY and Lawmen in the Moon- Edited by STEPHEN L. FISHER Removal Upland South “A terrifi c contribution to shine Capital of the World and BARBARA ELLEN SMITH New Directions in the Fight BROOKS BLEVINS an understudied topic in CHARLES D. THOMPSON JR. This collection of seventeen against Big Coal “Brooks Blevins does an out- Appalachian studies: middle- “A fabulous and thorough original essays by scholars BRYAN T. McNEIL standing job of retelling the ins class culture, society, and and activists from a variety and outs of this fantastic and collection of stories, facts, Draws on powerful personal politics.”—Mary Hufford, of backgrounds explores this entertaining story—the sen- drama, character portraits, and testimonies of the hazards editor of Conserving Culture: wide range of oppositional sationalism of the press, the court proceedings, including a of mountaintop removal in A New Discourse on Heritage politics, querying its successes, charges of rape, peonage, and chronicle of the Great Moon- Boone County, West Virginia, limitations, and impacts. privilege, the dramatic trial, 256 pp. 6 x 9. 33 b & w photos, shine Conspiracy Trial of 1935. to show how Appalachian These works illuminate widely and even the reappearance of 1 map, 1 table. 2012. . . . It reads smoothly and community coalitions have *Cloth $75.00; Paper $28.00 relevant lessons about building the murder victim.”—Michael cleanly, like a tightly woven fostered important connec- coalitions and movements with Pierce, associate editor, novel. And it’s about far more tions in their opposition than bootlegging, as Moby- suffi cient strength to challenge Arkansas Historical Quarterly corporate-driven globalization. to coal mining practices. Dick is about far more than 280 pp. 6 x 9. 2011. 216 pp. 6 x 9. 3 b & w photos, whaling.”—Garden & Gun 336 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. *Cloth $75.00; Paper $27.00 1 map, 2 charts, 2 tables. 2011. 12 b & w photos. 2012. The Working Class in American 304 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. Cloth $45.00 29 b & w photos, 1 map. 2011. *Cloth $85.00; Paper $30.00 History *Cloth $75.00; Paper $23.95

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Archie Green The Gospel of the Squeeze This! Child’s Unfi nished The Making of a Working-Class Working Class A Cultural History of the Accordion Masterpiece Hero Labor’s Southern Prophets in in America The English and Scottish Popular SEAN BURNS New Deal America MARION JACOBSON Ballads Foreword by David Roediger. With a fi nal ERIK S. GELLMAN and JAROD ROLL The fi rst history of the piano accordion MARY ELLEN BROWN interview conducted by Nick Spitzer In this exceptional dual biography and the fi rst book-length study of the Brown draws on his extensive cor- Capturing the many dimensions of and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman accordion as a uniquely American respondence with collaborators Green’s remarkably infl uential life and Jarod Roll trace the infl uence of musical and cultural phenomenon. to trace the production of Child’s and work, Sean Burns draws on two southern activist preachers, one 304 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 34 color photos, monumental work from conception extensive interviews with Green and black and one white, who used their 34 b & w photos, and selection through organiza- his many collaborators to exam- ministry to organize the working class 1 line drawing, 3 tables. 2012. Cloth $29.95 tion and collation of the ballads. ine the intersections of radicalism, Publication of this book is supported in the 1930s and 1940s across lines 296 pp. 6 x 9. 2 line drawings. 2011. folklore, labor history, and worker by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon of gender, race, and geography. Cloth $45.00 culture with Green’s work. Foundation 248 pp. 6 x 9. 13 b & w photos, 1 map. Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World 232 pp. 6 x 9. 16 b & w photos. 2011. 2011. *Cloth $75.00; Paper $30.00 Paper $25.00 The Working Class in American History Publication of this book was supported by *Unjacketed a grant from the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS www.press.uillinois.edu

Thirty-Sixth Annual Appalachian Studies Conference March 29 – 31, 2013

Communities in Action, Landscapes in Change Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina

Katherine Ledford, Conference Chair and past President [email protected]

Kathy Olson, Program Chair [email protected]

Sonja Long, Local Arrangements [email protected]

“Best Video of the Year” Booklist, 2010

Appalachia: A Film Series for PBS by Jamie Ross and Ross Spears

Winners of the Mountain Institute’s Mountain Hero Award

Special Conference Price with resources for educators www.appalachiafilm.org

...could be the beginning of a cure for society’s malignant attitude about the region... Pittsburg Post-Gazette The ASA thanks Marshall University for its ongoing support of the Association and its mission.

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