Appalachian Studies Bibliography Cumulation 2013-June 2016 _____________________ CONTENTS Agriculture and Land Use ................................................................................................................3 Appalachian Studies.........................................................................................................................8 Archaeology and Physical Anthropology ......................................................................................14 Architecture, Historic Buildings, Historic Sites ............................................................................18 Arts and Crafts ..............................................................................................................................21 Biography .......................................................................................................................................27 Civil War, Military.........................................................................................................................29 Coal, Industry, Labor, Railroads, Transportation ..........................................................................37 Description and Travel, Recreation and Sports .............................................................................63 Economic Conditions, Economic Development, Economic Policy, Poverty ................................71 Education .......................................................................................................................................82 Environment, Geology, Natural History, Rivers, Parks.................................................................87 Ethnicity and Race, African Americans, Immigrants, Native Americans .....................................94 Folklore ........................................................................................................................................111 Frontier and Pioneer Life, Pre-Industrial Appalachia ..................................................................113 Health and Medicine ....................................................................................................................118 Literature, Language, Dialect ......................................................................................................125 Mass Media, Stereotypes ............................................................................................................174 Migration, Population, Urban Appalachians ...............................................................................181 Music and Dance..........................................................................................................................185 Politics and Government ..............................................................................................................207 Religion ........................................................................................................................................210 Social Conditions, Social Life and Customs................................................................................213 Women and Gender Studies.........................................................................................................238 Dissertations .................................................................................................................................250 AGRICULTURE and LAND USE Mountain farms, gardening, ginseng, absentee landowners Addis, Jimmy. 2015. “The Hive and the Honeybee.” Interview by Corey Lovell. Foxfire Magazine 49, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter): 56-74. Details of beekeeping in Rabun County, Ga. Bennett, David. 2015. “Moving Pawpaws into the Mainstream: Neal Peterson Has Been At It for Decades.” Delta Farm Press, 13 March. 1,894 words. Decades of domesticating and selectively cultivating; and world markets potential. http://deltafarmpress.com/orchard- crops/moving-pawpaws-mainstream. Berry, Wendell. 2013. “Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity.” Interview by Bill Moyers. Segment from full TV show, “Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet,” Moyers & Company, 4 September, 39:39 min. With links to the transcript (4,950 words), plus “Wendell Berry’s 2012 Jefferson Lecture,” and “The Berry Center.” http://billmoyers.com/segment/wendell-berry-on- his-hopes-for-humanity/. Also accessible at Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/76120469. Best, Billy F. 2013. Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia. Athens: Ohio University Press. 200 pp. Contents: Heritage fruit and heirloom seeds: Beans | Tomatoes | Heritage apples | Corn | Candy roasters | Cucumbers; Seed savers: Seeds, family, community, and traditions | Keepers and distributors of the seeds. Bettencourt, Denice. 2015. “Raising Free-Range Chickens.” Interview by Logan Bettencourt. Foxfire Magazine 49, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer): 57-61. Black, Katherine J. 2015. Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners. Athens, Oh.: Swallow Press. 221 pp. “Oral history interviews with 40 vegetable gardeners across the state, with a wide variety of backgrounds, result in a “powerful compilation of testimonies on the connections between land, people, culture, and home.” Buchanan, Jonathan. 2013. “Bethel: Mountain Tobacco Farming in Western North Carolina” [Watauga Co.; history]. Appalachian Journal 40, no. 3-4 (Spring-Summer): 232-265. Maps, charts, photos. Connor, Edith, Sue Patton, and Sandra Watson. 2013. “A Look at Canning” [Rabun Co.,Ga.]. Student interview by Hannah Watson. Foxfire Magazine 47, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer): 36-41. Brief oral history on canning vegetables. Dockery, Chris. 2014. “Heirloom Seed and Story Keepers: Arts-Based Research as Community Discourse in Southern Appalachia.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 20, no. 2 (Fall): 207-223. University of North Georgia, Appalachian Studies Center’s “Saving Appalachian Gardens and Stories” annual demonstration garden. Ellifritt, Duane. 2013. “Puttin’ Up Hay in Doddridge County.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 39, no. 2 (Summer): 52-57. Memories of cutting and stacking. “The standard wage for hired hayfield hands in those days was three dollars a day and dinner.” Appalachian Studies Bibliography 2013-June 2016 Page 3 Agriculture and Land Use Farmer, James Robert, and Megan Betz. 2016. “Rebuilding Local Foods in Appalachia: Variables Affecting Distribution Methods of West Virginia Farms” [survey]. Journal of Rural Studies 45 (May): 34-42. Feather, Carl E. 2013. “The Buckwheat Stops Here: Preston County’s Hazelton Mill.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 39, no. 3 (Fall): 58-65. Perhaps the last mill in the state devoted entirely to grinding buckwheat flour. Feather, Carl E. 2013. “Everbreeze: Life at an Ohio County Landmark.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 39, no. 3 (Fall): 52-57. Everbreeze is one of the oldest working farms in Ohio County, run for five generations by the same family. Fieselman, Laura. 2015. “Holler: Reflections on the Roots of the Contemporary Homestead” (Madison Co.; photo essay). North Carolina Folklore Journal 62, no. 1 (Winter-Spring): 36-42. “After a decade of informal study, my recent master’s thesis, Homestead: A Regional Moment in an American Movement (2014), explored the backyard and small-scale farms of five families across the Carolinas.” Fletchall, Ann. 2013. “Making Sense of the Strip: The Postmodern Pastiche of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.” Southeastern Geographer 53, no. 1 (Spring): 102-22. Comparison to Las Vegas; “...themes of Appalachia, the South, Country, Fifties, and Mountains are identified through the content analysis, and all are found to play, broadly, to tourists’ nostalgic desires.” Gibson, Sarah. 2014. “The Apple Search.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 61, no. 1-2 (Winter-Spring & Summer-Fall): 52-62. “Tom Brown has driven over 250,000 miles and talked to thousands of people to identify and sometimes save from extinction over 1,000 varieties of heritage apples from North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.” Gilbert, Richard. 2014. Shepherd: A Memoir. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 323 pp. Gilbert and his family leave their professional lives, move to Appalachian Ohio, and struggle to become sheep farmers and adapt to an agrarian lifestyle. Gustafson, Seth, Nik Heynen, Jennifer L. Rice, Ted Gragson, J. Marshall Shepherd, and Christopher Strother. 2014. “Megapolitan Political Ecology and Urban Metabolism in Southern Appalachia.” Professional Geographer 66, no. 4 (October): 664-675. Rapidly urbanizing Piedmont megapolitan region. Holland, Joseph “Jody.” 2016. “Examining Capacity within the Local Food Economy: Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Region in Mississippi.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 22, no. 1 (Spring): 31-44. Table; county outline map. This essay appears in the first of three special issues on sustainable development. Hu, Elise. 2013. “Enter the Quiet Zone: Where Cell Service, Wi-Fi Are Banned” [W. Va.]. Morning Edition, 8 October. NPR radio. Transcript, 1,086 words; podcast, 5:25 min. National Radio Quiet Zone, Pocahontas Co., W. Va.; 13,000 square mile area. http://n.pr/19jdI4v. Appalachian Studies Bibliography 2013-June 2016 Page 4 Agriculture and Land Use James, Anna Dickson. 2016. “Fair Minded.” Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 42, no. 2 (Summer): 39-43. A visit to the state fair in Lewisburg. Jost, Scott. 2013. Shenandoah Valley Apples [pictorial; oral histories]. Chicago: Columbia College Chicago Press. 125 pp. “Between 1977 and 2005, apple acreage in Virginia decreased