www.appalachianstudies.org Appalachian Studies Association Twenty-Fifth Annual Appalachian Studies Conference Unicoi State Park Helen, Georgia Voices from the Margins –Living on the Fringe March 15 Ð 17, 2002 Unicoi State Park Helen, Georgia March 15 Ð 17, 2002 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL APPALACHIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Voices from the Margins Ð Living on the Fringe Preliminary Program and Pre-Registration Preliminary Program and Pre-Registration Form Conference Registration (All Presenters Must Register.)

Deadline for Conference Registration: February 25, 2002 REGULAR PRE-PAID REGISTRATION AT $100 office for more information and rates: email at Deadline to Guarantee Conference Room Rates: February 13, 2002 includes a one-year ASA membership and subscription [email protected]; phone at (304) 696-2904. to the Journal of Appalachian Studies, two issues of Deadline to Cancel Lodge Reservations for Refund: February 13, 2002 Appalink, and participation in all conference activities This year’s theme, Voices from the Margins—Living including Friday night banquet and luncheon on Saturday. on the Fringe, features voices from the margins: www.unicoilodge.com Late/on-site registration at the conference site at $105 Appalachians in north Georgia, north Alabama, the South 1-800/573-9659 includes all activities except meals. You must pre-register Carolina hill country, the northern Appalachian urban to qualify for meals served at the conference. Only pre- fringe, as well as the new Latino Appalachians, African- paid registrants may attend conference meals. Americans, Cherokees, women and girls, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, prisoners, and others STUDENT PRE-PAID REGISTRATION IS $45. Full- from the outskirts or the margins of Appalachia. The 2002 time high school or college students get all the above at a conference in Unicoi will include art, books, dancing, Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage reduced rate. Student registration forms must be co- food, music, panels, papers, photographs, plays, poetry, PAID signed by an advisor or department head to verify posters, roundtables, stories, and videos. Huntington, WV “student” status. Late/on-site registration fee for students www.marshall.edu Permit No. 206 at $50 includes all activities except meals. Suzanne Pharr, Director of Highlander Research and Appalachian Studies Association Education Center, will give the keynote address on the One John Marshall Drive Scholarships topic of “Democracy Under Construction.” A plenary will Huntington, West Virginia 25755- 2195-93 To apply for scholarships, use the form at the end of this focus on “Latinos in a Global Appalachia: Prospects for program. Deadline: January 28, 2002. The purpose of Social Justice Collaborations.” Contemporary poets will the form is to: (1) help the Appalachian Studies honor the memory of north Georgia native Don West: Association use its limited scholarship money to help preacher, poet, organizer, activist, co-founder of the largest possible number of conference attendees and Highlander Folk School and founder of Pipestem Folklife (2) help applicants explain exactly what they need in Center in West Virginia. support from the ASA so that the ASA Scholarship Committee can make prudent decisions. Primary criteria The Appalachian Studies Association Conference is held in decision making are financial need of the applicants annually on a rotating basis at sites in Georgia, Kentucky, and the ASA’s need to increase access to the conference North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, for grassroots community people, students, persons of and has several purposes: to share work in progress, to color, and any people for whom conference attendance foster cooperation between disciplines, and to stimulate is blocked by financial barriers. new work of significance. It also provides a forum for dialogue and action by a coalition of academic, grassroots Exhibitors, Vendors and Groups are invited to exhibit community, and activists in the region. at the conference. Contact Mary Thomas at the ASA INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM

Your registration form and payment must be postmarked on or before February 25, 2002. Conference registration includes: (1) the 2002 ASA membership fee and (2) fees entitling participation in all 2002 conference activities, IMPORTANT CONFERENCE NOTE! including meals (Friday banquet & Saturday luncheon) served at the conference center. Only pre-paid registrants may attend the meals. Late/on-site registration fee is $105 / students $50. For persons who have registered and then find themselves unable to participate, refunds will be given if you notify the ASA office in Huntington (see address SUBMISSION OF PAPERS TO THE Journal of Appalachian Studies below) before February 25. No conference fees can be refunded after February 25, 2002. We encourage you to submit your paper for consideration for the “Selected” Papers from the ASA Conference” section of the Journal of Appalachian Studies (Fall 2002 Please print legibly or type your name and address the way you wish it to appear on a mailing label. issue). Please bring your paper to the registration table. MAKE SURE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, EMAIL ADDRESS, AND PHONE NUMBER ARE ATTACHED. Name______

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Detach and return to: Appalachian Studies Association Marshall University One John Marshall Drive Unicoi State Park Huntington, WV 25755 Helen, Georgia ******************************************************************************************** March 15 Ð 17, 2002 www.appalachianstudies.org Check all that apply to you: Silent Auction Donations PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Undergraduate student Non-white This year marks the fifth annual Silent Auction, Conference Sessions begin which supports the ASA Scholarship Fund. Friday at 11:45 a.m., and conclude at Graduate Student Unemployed Since this is the twenty-fifth year of the 12:00 noon on Sunday Appalachian Studies Association, consider College faculty Unaffiliated with a college or university contributing those old silver wedding presents, silver jewelry you don’t wear anymore, that FRIDAY, MARCH 15 K-12 student Presenting at conference odd silver spoon or fork. Traditional items are Registration 8:30 Ð 5:00 always welcome: crafts, quilts, memorabilia, Exhibits 11:45 Ð 5:00 K-12 teacher Representing a grassroots group at conference special foods, tickets to events, music, art, a Silent Auction 11:45 Ð 6:00 weekend get-away, a rafting trip, a fine meal, 2001-2002 Steering Committee 8:30 Ð 10:00 Professional artist your autographed book, videotapes, antiques, ARC Teaching Project 8:30 Ð 10:00 oddities, office treasures, performances, guest Folk Art Exhibit 1:30 Ð 5:30 lectures, etc. Contributions should be sent to: If you are part of a group that has other scholarship applicants, please provide contact information: Howard Dorgan, 747 Stadium Drive, Boone, CONCURRENT SESSIONS I NC 28607, (or call 828-264-4361 to ask FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 11:45 Ð 1:15 Name of group: ______Howard about specifics) or bring items to the auction at the conference. 1. The Bitter Berry: The Life and Works of Byron Group coordinator: ______Herbert Reece Bettie M. Sellers, Documentary film maker Coordinator’s email and/or phone number: ______**************************************** 2. Chicken Capital, Chicken Labor: Pre-Conference Activity: Northeast Georgia Poultry Industry Please indicate below the type of support you are requesting (check all that apply): Visit the John C. Campbell Convener: Carl Weinberg, North Georgia College and State University Folk School Registration fee waiver Reimbursement for mileage The John C. Campbell Folk School was co- Processing Southern Corn and Poverty: Jessie D. founded by Olive Dame Campbell, Marguerite Jewell and the Rise of the Southern Poultry Hotel room Friday night Per diem for Friday night Butler, and the people of Brasstown, North Industry in North Georgia Carolina, in 1925. Located on a 374-acre Wallace H. Warren, Other (describe below) Reimbursement for airline ticket campus, the Folk School has some twenty-five Cornelia-Habersham County Library buildings dating from the 1920s, and the entire Chicken Growing for the Contract Farmer in Hotel room Saturday night Per diem for Saturday night campus is listed on the National Registry as a Northeast Georgia: Lumpkin County’s Second Historic Site. A Craft Shop features the work of Gold Rush? local/regional artisans, a History Center Chris Parker, If you are requesting a room, check all that apply: documents the community and campus life, and North Georgia College and State University myriad classes teach folk arts, crafts, music, I am already sharing a room with ______and dance. Persons who wish to view the The Ties that Bind Mexican Immigrants: campus may enter classrooms and observe. It is Government and Big Poultry in Northeast Georgia I am willing to share a room with another conferee of the same gender as me if they are (check all that apply) : about a 30 to 45 minute drive from Unicoi to Francisco Barreto, the Folk School and visitors are welcome. North Georgia College and State University a smoker While in this region of Appalachia we 3. Examining Motives for Scholarship and encourage you to view a school which has Activism in Contemporary Appalachia: a non-smoker enriched and enlivened mountain life in Conversations with Marie Cirillo, Mary Herr, western North Carolina since 1925. The John Joyce Dugan, and Dwight Billings other (please specify): C. Campbell Folk School is located in a scenic Convener: Amy Sparrow, Appalachian State University mountain valley seven miles east of Murphy, Amy Sparrow, Sarah Poteete, Caroline Knight, Check this box if there is other information the committee needs to know written on the back of North Carolina. For complete directions visit their website: Jessica C. Wrye, Appalachian State University (or attached to) this form. www.folkschool.com. 4. Authorship, Identity and Power: Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad Novels and Talking Women’s Voices and Appalachian Poetry from the Fringe SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST FORM Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd College Convener: Marianne Worthington, th Cumberland College 25 Annual Appalachian Studies Conference Denise Giardina’s Mining of the Past: Appalachian Horrifying, Brave and Beautiful: Poetic Realism Connections to European History and Appalachian Outmigration in the Poetry of Sherry Robinson, Eastern Kentucky University Unicoi State Park Jeanne Bryner Helen, Georgia Joyce Compton Brown, Gardner-Webb University Identity Through Selp-Expression: Gertie Nevels and Ivy Rowe March 15 Ð 17, 2002 Nothing Must Be Lost: Regional Identity and Kathy Combiths, Radford University Dialogue in the Works of Two West Virginia Poets Application Deadline: Postmark Monday January 28, 2002 Marianne Worthington, Cumberland College Beyond Regional Borders: Gender and Region in The purpose of this form is to: (1) help the Appalachian Studies Association use its limited scholarship Appalachian Literature money to help the largest possible number of conference attendees and (2) help applicants explain exactly Approaching the Altar: Aesthetic Homecoming Tanya Mitchell, JFK Institute at the Free University of Berlin, Germany what they need in support from the ASA so that the ASA Scholarship committee can make prudent in the Poetry of Linda Parsons Marion and decisions. Primary criteria in decision making are financial need of the applicants and the ASA’s need to Lynn Powell increase access to the conference for grassroots community people, students, persons of color, and any Gina Herring, Cumberland College 7. Cherokee Storytelling Freeman Owle, Cherokee storyteller people for whom conference attendance is blocked by financial barriers. 5. POSTER SESSION 1 (11:45 Ð 4:30) (Presenters should indicate on their poster the 8. Identifying Needs and Issues Facing African Please note: Persons applying for scholarships for a group of people, such as a student group, should fill out a times when they will be available to discuss their American and Hispanic Populations separate form for each person for whom a scholarship is requested. posters) Convener: Thomas Plaut, Mars Hill College Please email completed forms to [email protected] or mail completed forms to Robert Gipe, Appalachian Health Disparities in an Appalachian County Housing Problems and Race in Pennsylvania’s Program, Southeast Community College, 700 College Road, Cumberland, KY 40823. Phone: 606 589-2145 x 2047 Thomas Plaut, Mars Hill College Appalachian Southwest Fax: 606 589-2275 Pamela C. Twiss, California University of Pennsylvania Thomas House, An Unmarked Trail: Stories of African Americans Mountain Area Health Education Center th in Buncombe County from 1850-1900 All Scholarship applicants will be notified by February 11 , 2002. Dee James, Torie Leslie, UNC-Asheville Hola! From the Hollows: Identifying and Addressing Issues Faced by Hispanic Populations Applicant Name: ______Deborah Miles, Center for Diversity Education in East Tennessee JoyceTroxler, Mary Kay Anderson, Pamela Zahorik, East Tennessee State University The Social, Economic, and Market Dynamics of Work address Home Address Ramps (Allium triccocum) from the Southern Appalachian Forests 9. Participatory Change: An Integrative Approach Jim Chamberlain, U.S. Forest Service to Building Community in Appalachia Employer Address 1 Paul Castelloe, Thomas Watson, Craig White, ARC Collaborative Research and Teaching Project Center for Participatory Change Job Title Address 2 Patricia D. Beaver, Sarah Post Calhoun, Sara Harris, Jon Hill, Vanessa Hill, Suzanne Savell, 10. Appalachian Studies: Expansion and Decline Address 1 City Bricca Sweet, Appalachian State University Convener: Carol Boggess, Mars Hill College Address 2 State Grace Toney Edwards, Ann Moser, Bernadette Teaching from the Margins: Examining the Role of the Community College Classroom Altizer, Maria Davis, Donia Eley, Susan Hill, City Zip Hilary Hunt, Kelly Snead, Jessica Wilkerson, Jessica Blackburn, Santa Fe Community College Radford University Expanding Horizons: A College Rethinks State Phone Cherokee Photographic Exhibit - Regionalism “All My Relations” by Shan Goshorn Carol Boggess, Mars Hill College Zip Email Barbara R. Duncan, Museum of the Cherokee Indian Berea’s Appalachian Renaissance 1944-1994 Phone Fax Bill Best, Berea College 6. Women Writers Thinking Outside the Region mail Fax Convener: Sandra Ballard, Appalachian State University What’s in a Song? An Analysis of Bluegrass CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS Directions to Unicoi CONCURRENT SESSIONS II Song Lyrics FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1:30 Ð 3:00 Patricia L. Kilby, Appalachian State University Appalachian State University, College of Arts and From Atlanta: Approximately 85 miles N.E. (travel time 1- Follow Me Back to the Fold: Place and Pilgrimage Sciences and The Center for Appalachian Studies 1/4 hours) I-85N to I-985. Highway 985 ends just North of 11. Globalization from a Working-Class Perspective in Bluegrass and Old-Time Music at the Carter Appalachian Center at Berea College Gainesville, but 365 continues North. Continue on 365 Ð discussion of the Appalshop video Morristown nd Family Fold John C. Campbell Folk School approximately 20 miles to 2 traffic light, which is highway Anne Lewis, Appalshop, Inc. Jessica Anderson Turner, Indiana University Eastern Kentucky University 384 (Duncan Bridge Road), turn left and go approximately Fran Ansley, University of Tennessee The Georgia Arts Project, Georgia Heritage Center 13.5 miles to GA 75. Continue through Helen, about 2 miles 16. Images, Stereotypes, Representations Highlander Research and Education Center north of Helen, you will come to Hwy 356. Turning right, you 12. Community Panel: Preserving Cherokee Convener: Douglas R. Powell, Duke University Center for Regional History and Culture and continueup the road about 2 miles to the park. After you cross Culture in the 21st Century College of Humanities and Social Sciences the dam the first road to the right will bring you to the Lodge Convener: Barbara Duncan, Depression-Era Images from the Coalfields: A at Kennesaw State University & Cabin registration area. Museum of the Cherokee Indian Study in Contrasts Mars Hill College Geoffrey L. Buckley, Ohio University Southern Regional Council From I-400: Take 19/400 North until it ends. This road Panelists: Garfield Long, Jr., continues on as Long Branch Rd. Stay on Long Branch for Cultural Resources Office of the Eastern Band of Hillbilly or Redneck? The Boundary Conditions for Accommodations at Unicoi: lodge and cabins. approximately 4-5 miles. Turn right at the next stop light onto Cherokee Indians Crossing Borders Groups who wish cabins should make early Hwy. 115. This will bring you into Cleveland. At the first traffic Carmelita Monteith, John Lee Howie, Pikeville College reservations. light turn left, going around the old courthouse, onto 129 North. North American Indian Women’s Association Unicoi State Park, P.O. Box 849, Helen, GA 30545 At the next traffic light you will turn right onto GA Hwy 75. Deliverance from Evil: Looking at non-negative (800) 573-9659 Approximately 9 miles into Helen. Continue through Helen Marie Junaluska, Tribal Council Member, stereotypes in The Andy Griffith Show: Positive on 75. Approximately 2 miles north of Helen, you will come Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians images or reinforcement of paternal mythology? Room Rates Double Occupancy (Lodge) $69.00 to Hwy 356. Turning right, you continue up the road about 2 Shelly M. Ferraraccio, New River Community College One Bedroom Cottage/$89 miles to the park. After you cross the dam the first road on the 13. Dynamics of African American Communities Two Bedroom Cottage/$109 right will bring you to the Lodge & Cabin registration area. Convener: Wilburn Hayden, Jr., Re-examining the Negative Appalachian Three Bedroom Cottage/$119 California University of PA Stereotypes in the Southern Highlands: Evelyn Additional per Person Charge/$10 From Greenville SC (or any part of SC): South to Lavonia, Scott’s Witch Perkins: A Story of the Kentucky Hills exit #58. Travel West to Toccoa. Turn left onto the Hwy 17 Voices from Black Appalachia: A Comparative Tammy Horn, Eastern Kentucky University Options in Helen, Georgia (approximately 3 Ð 4 by-pass to Hwy 365S. Stay on Hwy 365S to Cornelia. At Examination of African American Appalachians miles from Unicoi State Park): Cornelia, exit and turn left (Hwy 441 North for 1 mile, turning Living in Small Towns and Cities Within the Region A Recycled View of The Kentucky Cycle left onto Hwy 105). Travel about 12 miles to GA Hwy 75. Wilburn Hayden, Jr., California University of PA Anita J. Turpin, Roanoke College Comfort Inn Turn right onto 75 and go approximately 3 miles to Helen. Singles/Doubles $42 Continue through Helen, about 2 miles north of Helen, you An African American Neighborhood’s Struggle for (706) 878-8000 or (800) 443-6988 will come to Hwy 356. Turning right, you continue up the Survival in a Small Appalachian Town 17. The Atlas of Appalachia road about 2 miles to the park. After you cross the dam the Margaret D. Foraker, University of Tennessee Convener: David R. Rudy, Morehead State University Country Inn and Suites first road to the right will bring you to the Lodge & Cabin Suites only/$89 and $99 registration area. African American Miners and Migrants: Ron Mitchelsen, East Carolina University (706) 878-9000 The Eastern Kentucky Social Club From Tennessee or any point North: Take I-75 to Dalton, Thomas E. Wagner, Phillip J. Obermiller, Steven Parkansky, Morehead State University Hampton Inn GA. Take Hwy 76 to Ellijay. From there go South on Hwy 52 University of Cincinnati Single $50/Double $55 to Dahlonega. At Dahlonega continue on Hwy 52/115 to 18. Moonshiners, Mormons, and Mountain Violence (706) 878-3310 Cleveland. This will bring you into Cleveland. At the first traffic 14. READINGS: in Post-Civil War Appalachia light turn left, going around the old courthouse, onto 129 North. Flora’s Last Stand Convener: Gordon B. McKinney, Berea College Hofbrau Riverfront Hotel At the next traffic light turn right onto GA Hwy 75. Sharon Hatfield, Writer Single $49/Double $59 Approximately 9 miles into Helen. Continue through Helen, The Hour Approacheth: Klan Violence and (706) 878-2248 about 2 miles north of Helen, you will come to Hwy 356. Divining Moonshining in Western North Carolina, Turning right, you continue up the road about 2 miles to the Pauletta Hansel, Writer and Poet 1868-1872 Ramada Ltd. park. After you cross the dam the first road to the right will Bruce E. Stewart, University of Georgia Singles/Doubles $40 bring you to the Lodge & Cabin registration area. 15. Place, Pilgrimage and Values in Appalachian Music (706) 878-1451 Convener: Richard Blaustein, One Trade, Two Worlds: Moonshining in Upstate East Tennessee State University South Carolina and the North Georgia Mountains, 1895-1896 Hot-Bed of Musicians: Music of the Whitetop/New Michael Buseman, University of Georgia River Area of Virginia-North Carolina Paula H. Anderson-Green, Kennesaw State University Praying With One Eye Open: The 1879 Murder of Mormon Joseph Standing Mary Ella Engel, University of Georgia 19. Songs of Resistance A participatory Economic and Social Conditions in the New River 80. Religious Traditions Diane Price, Thomas R. Whyte, singing session Valley and Their Impact on Low-Income Housing Convener: C. Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University Conveners: Guy and Candie Carawan, in the New River Valley Appalachian State University Highlander Research and Education Center Nelda Pearson, Beans and Rice, Inc. Cherokee Medicine Woman: Nancy George, From Salvation to Boys to Treats: Activities in the Representative of a Previous Age of Feminine Coal Camp Church Joyce Brookshire, Cabbagetown, Atlanta, Georgia Being With: A Strategy for Building Community Equity and Strength Dannah Card, John Verburg, Susan Vaske, Miranda Cook, Lynn Carpenter-Keeter, Gardner-Webb University Georgetown College Elise Witt, EMWorld Records, Pine Lake, Georgia Willow Woods Community Learning Center Plants and the Cherokee Fundamental Taboos and Women Serpent Jack Wright, Ohio University Working in Community and Non-Community Nancy Easterling, Settings Handling Believers’ Rights of Individual UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Botanical Garden Self-Expression Rich Kirby, Appalshop, Inc. Janie Justice McClanahan, Fairfax Village Community Learning Center Scott W. Schwartz, Anne H.Lindsey, Laurel Hill Press National Museum of American History Ed Cabbell, John Henry Memorial Foundation, Inc. Youth Leadership Development 83. Labor Marginalization and Resistance A Longitudinal Study of Appalachian Christian George Reynolds, Knoxville, Tennessee A representative from the Youth Leadership Convener: Emily Satterwhite, Emory University Program Serpent Handlers: Narratives before and after Being Bit and Dying Day Laboring in Atlanta’s Construction Industry Elaine Purkey, West Virginia Organizing Project 23. Men’s Stories from the Region W. Paul Williamson, Sterling College Terry Easton, Emory University Convener: Steve Mooney, CONCURRENT SESSIONS III Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ralph W. Hood, History of Kingsport Press, Inc. Strike, 1963-1967 FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 3:15 Ð 4:30 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Martha A. Egan, Archivist The Fisher King on the Edge of Appalachia: David Bottoms and the Reconfiguration of Eliot’s 81. Language and Dialect in Appalachia - At the Worker Retraining and the Marginalization of 20. Documenting Appalachia: 100 Years of Waste Land Core and on the Fringe Appalachian Women Moving Images Jane Hill, State University of West Georgia Convener: Beverly Olson Flanigan, Ohio University Donna J. Hall, Florida State University Convener: Jack Wright, Ohio University Center and Margin in Chris Offutt’s Out of the The Innovativeness of Appalachian English Tony Boyle Versus The Miners for Democracy: The Picture Man: Shelby Lee Adams Woods Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina A Reassessment Jack Wright, Ohio University Louis H. Palmer, Castleton State College Richard P. Mulcahy, It’s a Southern Thing: “Ma’am” and “Sir” in University of Pittsburgh at Titusville Coal Black Voices Halfway Plowed Under: From Oral History to Appalachia and the South Jean Donohue, Fred Johnson, Media Working Group Science Fiction in Fred Chappell’s Double Ellen Johnson, Berry College Tetralogy Signs, Cures, & Witchery Eric A. Weil, Shaw University How Far North is South? Evidence of the Southern SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 11:00 Ð 12:00 Gerald Milnes, Augusta Heritage Center Shift in Kentucky Speech 24. Panel: Appalachia, Undergraduates, and Terry Irons, Morehead State University Gospel Sing 21. Panel: Partnerships for Change in African- Interdisciplinary Learning American Communities in Appalachia Convener: Peter Crow, Ferrum College Evaluating an Appalachian Dialect Awareness David Brose, John C. Campbell Folk School Convener: Janice Morrissey, Curriculum Community Research for a Better Community Susan V. Mead, Tina Hanlon, R. Rex Stephenson, Thomas Berenato, Clare J. Dannenberg, Jerry and Evelyn Hiatt, White, Georgia, gospel singers George Loveland, Ferrum College Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Rita Jones, South Rome Community Association SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 12:00 Ð 1:00 Linguistic Ideology and the Construction of 25. Politics and Human Development Luncheon Meetings and departure Julie Johnson-Pynn, Berry College Convener: Charles Moore, Appalachian Identities East Tennessee State University Anita Puckett, Ann Woodford, One Dozen Who Care (ODWC) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Georgia Congressional Delegation and The Patricia Hall, Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 82. Reinterpreting Native Appalachia: Siouan Pre- Revitalize, Educate, Energize and Prepare (REEP) Philip A. Grant, Jr., Pace University History and Cherokee Culture Convener: Diane Price, Appalachian State University 22. Creating Community: Community Work in The Educare Initiative: Collaboratively Meeting Low-Income Housing - Beans and Rice, Inc. the Needs of West Virginia Children and Families History Unraveled: Moving Toward Siouan Convener: Nelda Pearson, Beans and Rice, Inc. Kathy Seelinger, Marshall University Occupation of Prehistoric and Early Historic Northwestern North Carolina Changing Fabrications: Lives of Appalachian and “I never planned to get pregnant:” Appalachian Developing Human Capital in Appalachia: Social Latina Textile Mill Workers in Southern Appalachia Women Speak Out Service Agencies’ Participation in Economic CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV Rosemarie Mincey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Anne B. Blakeney, Eastern Kentucky University Development FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 4:30 Ð 5:30 Judith Stafford, Morehead State University Women in West Virginia Politics: Listening Across the Ages: Disciplining Traditions 29. Films: Sketches of Shane: Living with laughter, History from Herstory and the Voices of Young People 26. Roundtable: Murfree, Travel Writing, and the alcoholism and Appalachia Sharon Wills Brescoach, Marshall University Rachel Eldridge, Matt McCourt, “Translocal”: Revisiting National Images of Justin Choma Zimmerman, Ohio University University of Kentucky Southern Appalachia from the 19th Century Women Are Fighters Too! (You are invited to read the papers prior to the session, Jesus Loves You Where You Are: 3 Generations of Roberta M. Campbell, University of Cincinnati Early Dating and Sexual Behavior among posted on www.etsu.edu/writing/apptravel) Pentecostal Women Appalachian Youth Convener: Kevin O’Donnell, Lisa Varner, Clinical Psychologist “I Got the Coal Black Blues:” Voices of African- Ashley Cochrane, Gary L. Hansen, Christi Sporl East Tennessee State University American Women in Appalachian Labor Conflicts Massey, Rachel Swan, University of Kentucky Richard Ondrovic, Software Engineer Karaleah Reichart, Marshall University Developing Nature: Travel, Ecology, and Mary 75. Panel: Appalachian Coalition for Just and Murfree’s “His Vanished Star” Patricia Smith Jones, Wright State University, retired 71. Panel: The Influence of Elder Shubal Stearns on Sustainable Communities Elizabeth Engelhardt, West Virginia University Appalachian Religion Convener: Jefferson Boyer, 30. Latino Appalachians John Sparks, Author Appalachian State University Nation and Reconciliation: Mass Markets and Convener: Lori Briscoe, Berea College Images of Appalachia in the Mid 19th Century Loyal Jones, Berea College C. Howard Dorgan, Stephen Fisher, Emory & Henry College Kevin O’Donnell, East Tennessee State University Nuevos Hermanos y Hermanas En La Esperanza: Appalachian State University Hispanic and Appalachian Connections in a From Cultural Backwater to Cultural Brokerage: CONCURRENT SESSIONS IX Global-Regional Perspective Elder Jim Francis Mountaineers, Translocal Elites, and the Lori Briscoe, Donavan Cain, Berea College SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 10:00 Ð 11:15 Constructed Authority of Mary Noailles Murfree 72. Forests: Sustainable Uses/Exploitation Emily Satterwhite, Emory University Spanish/Hispanic/Latino Appalachia: Who, Where, Convener: David Cozzo, University of Georgia 76. Media Presentation: Museum of the Cherokee and How Many? Indian Virtual Tour 27. Gay and Lesbian Voices Charles Moore, East Tennessee State University Beyond Tall Tales: Ray Hicks and Mountain James Bo Taylor, Convener: Kate Black, University of Kentucky Herbalism Archivist at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian 31. Industrial Development on the Margins David Cozzo, University of Georgia Longing for her... home: Convener: Randall L. Patton, 77. Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth Century Lesbians in Appalachian Literature Kennesaw State University Collecting Non-Timber Products from Appalachian Convener: John Inscoe, Joy Hayes, University of Kentucky Forests: A Way of Life University of Georgia From Cabin Craft to Carpet Capital: The Jim Chamberlain, U.S. Forest Service Men Loving Mountains, Men Loving Men: A Transformation of an Appalachian Craft Slavery and Agriculture in the Upper Ohio Valley Poetry and Fiction Reading Randall L. Patton, What’s in a Name? Regulatory Reform and Karen N. Cartwright-Nance, Jeff Mann, Kennesaw State University Methodological Changes in Environmental Risk Marshall University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Assessment The Old Red Scar and the Smelter Hill Barony: Elgin Mannion, University of Kentucky Black Charlestonians in the Mountains: African- Herstories: Lesbian Experiences in the Appalachian Earnest efforts to establish distinctions among the American Community Building in Post-Civil War Region industrial classes in the East Tennessee Copper Green Lumber, Green Profits: Sustainable Forestry Flat Rock, North Carolina Jennifer E. Stertzer, University of Virginia Basin, 1910s-1960s in Appalachia Linda Parramore Culpepper, William R. Simson, Georgia State University Jim Minick, Radford University Western Carolina University 28. “We’re Just Trying to Save Your Earth, Lord:” Grassroots Activists in the Appalachian South 32. Two Poets Laureate of Georgia: Poems and 73. Panel: Objects Informing History: Katherine An Antebellum White Mother and Her African- Convener: Suzanne Marshall, Other Words Pettit and her Coverlets American Sons: One Story in Broader Context Jacksonville State University Convener: Robert W. Hill, Kennesaw State University Convener: Blair H.White, Carroll Reece Museum, Susanne Mosteller Rolland, East Tennessee State University Morehead State University Brent Martin, Angela Faye Martin, David Bottoms, Poet Laureate of Georgia Georgia Forest Watch Carol Baugh, Sinclair Community College 78. Panel: Just Connections Bettie M. Sellers, Poet Laureate of Georgia Susan Ambler, Franki Patton Rutherford, Tommy Touchstone, Judy Touchstone, Philis Alvic, Artist/Writer Big Creek People in Action Armuchee Alliance 33. Teen Girls Tackle Community Problems: What We Learned and Where We Hope To 74. Coming of Age 79. Bound for Shady Grove: Music and Readings Michael Smith, Friends of Terrapin Creek Go From Here Convener: Jessica C. Wrye, Steven Harvey, Young Harris College Convener: Linda Spatig, Marshall University Appalachian State University Jennifer Stanley, Shanda Fry, Elizabeth Terry, Entertainment The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Girls’ Resiliency Program Alegre Band (mariachi) Rockefeller General Education Board’s Craft Education Program SUNDAY, MARCH 17 Shelley Gaines, “Fiddlin’ Howard Cunningham and the Appalachian Joy L. Gritton, Morehead State University, Exhibits 8:30 Ð 12:00 Appalachian Women’s Leadership Project Tunesmiths” Gypsy Hollingsworth and the Northwest North 34. Discussions of Appalachian Literature T-shirt Fashion Show, Carolina Crafts Revival, 1960-1980 SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 7:00 Ð 8:15 Convener: Ben Jennings, featuring the 2002 Appalachian Heroes and Heroines Tess Lloyd, East Tennessee State University JAS Editorial Board Meeting Virginia Highlands Community College FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 8:30 until Fetching Critters in the Great Smoky Mountains: 66. Breakfast Roundtable: Promoting The Defining Appalachian Novel of the New Oral Narratives about Animals and Hunting from Opportunities for Regional Writers: Putting Millenium: Barbara Kingsolver’s the Joseph S. Hall Collection Together Workshops for Writers (breakfast on Music and Dancing with Phil Jamison, caller, Prodigal Summer Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University your own) Howard Cunningham and the Appalachian Ben Jennings, Virginia Highlands Community College Tim Dunn, Scott Lucero, Jenny Williams, Tunesmiths, and the Bailey Mountain Cloggers Hazard Community College of Mars Hill SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 5:30 Ð 6:30 Swimming in the Soup: a panel discussion Reception and Book Signing 67. Breakfast Roundtable: Challenges of Museum Loyal Jones, Berea College Film Showings (6:45 - 8:00): Silent Auction Ð LAST BIDS! and Historic Site Interpretation in Appalachian “People of the Cumberland,” Georgia (breakfast on your own) David Whisnant, Frontier Films, 1937. A look at the Highlander 65. Film Showing: Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell Convener: Rebecca Bailey, University of North Carolina, retired Center and union organizing during the depression the Singer from the Song State University of West Georgia with Miles Horton. Assistant director Elia Kazan. Mimi Pickering, John O’Brien, Writer Appalshop, Inc. Susan Asbury, “On Our Own Land,” Appalshop Films, 1988. A look The Oak Hill and The Martha Berry Museum 35. READINGS: at the broadform deed and the struggles against it. The Birth Spoon: An Appalachian Tragedy SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 6:00 Ð 8:00 Benita Greene, Fred Waage, Joyce Brookshire, Elise Witt and friends, and 2002-2003 Steering Committee Meeting Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park East Tennessee State University open mike musical performances Poetry Slam (sign up during the day)

Unheard Voices from the Fringes Film Showing (6:45-8:00) Carey Tilley, Chieftains Museum Edgar H. Thompson, SATURDAY, MARCH 16 The early films of John Cohen: Emory & Henry College Registration 8:00 Ð11:30 “The High Lonesome Sound,” the story of Roscoe CONCURRENT SESSIONS VIII Holcomb. Silent Auction 8:30 Ð 6:00 SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 8:30 Ð 9:45 FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 5:30 Ð 6:30 Exhibits 8:30 Ð 6:00 Folk Art Exhibits 2:15 Ð 6:00 “The End of an Old Song,” filmed in the mountains Reception, honoring the folk art of around Asheville, North Carolina, a moving portrait of 68. Film: Coal Bucket Outlaw Howard Finster, commentary by Art Rosenbaum, Dillard Chandler, ballad singer. Tom Hansell, Appalshop, Inc. University of Georgia SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 7:00 Ð 8:15 Website Committee meeting “Sara and Maybelle, “ rare footage of Sara and 69. Panel: Dalton, Georgia: Bordertown Appalachia Booksignings Maybelle Carter performing, and a tour of A.P. Carter’s Convener: David Boyle, Dalton State College 36. Breakfast Roundtable: (breakfast on your own) store in Hilton, Virginia. Racism in Appalachia: Looking at Community, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 6:30 Ð 8:30 Northwest Georgia: An Economic and Ethnic History Education, and Scholarship SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 8:00 Ð 9:00 David Boyle, Dalton State College Banquet Convener: Lynda Ann Ewen, Marshall University The Georgia Project: Teaching Teachers, Trading William H. Turner, Turner and Associates REVELATIONS: A Staged Reading on Songs of Beginnings Cultures Appalachian Resiliency in Gay, Lesbian, Jo-Ann Schick, Dalton, Georgia Joyce Brookshire, Cabbagetown, Atlanta, Georgia Bisexual and Transgendered People by Carrie SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 8:15 Ð 10:00 Nobel Kline Elise Witt, ENWorld Records, Pine Lake, Georgia Public School Responses to Latino Migration Ken Ellinger, Dalton State College 37. Plenary Panel: Latinos in a Global Appalachia: Follow-up Discussion 9:00 Ð 10:00 Edward Cabbell, Prospects for Social Justice Collaborations Facilitator: Judi Jennings, Kentucky Foundation John Henry Memorial Foundation, Inc. Voices from La Frontera Nueva (The New Frontier) Moderator: Ellen Spears, for Women Donald E. Davis, Dalton State College Emory University Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts Keynote Address: “Democracy Under SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 8:00 until 70. Strong Voices, Tough Jobs: New Perspectives on Construction” Barbara Ellen Smith, Director, Suzanne Pharr, Director of Highlander Research Open Mike Music and Dancing Gender and Ethnicity in Appalachia and Education Center Karaleah Reichart, Marshall University The Marginal but Integral Italian Identity of 60. Celebrating Mountain Women: Appalachian Center for Research on Women (CROW), Gurney Norman, University of Kentucky Marion County, West Virginia, 1900-1930 ideas and experiences for Kathmandu 2002 University of Memphis William B. Klaus, West Virginia University Elizabeth Byers, The Mountain Institute Michael E. Maloney, Urban Appalachian Council Teodoro Maus, former Consul General of Mexico From Appalachia to Afghanistan: Giving Voice to 61. Talking the Talk: Language and Storytelling Stephen Fisher, Emory & Henry College Global Sisters in a War-Torn Country Convener: Anita Puckett, Wendy S. Johnson, Richard Straw, Radford University Diane Price, Appalachian State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Executive Director, Southern Regional Council Sharon Hatfield, Writer Appalachia’s Celtic Ethnicity in a Multi-Cultural Lexical Variation Among East Tennessee High Blanca Rojas, former coordinator of Migrant Head Start Society School Students for Telamon, Johnson City, Tennessee 40. Panel: The Eastern Cherokees: Yesterday, Barry A.Vann, Cleveland State Community College Yousif Elhindi, Hillary Hester, Kalina Lima, Today and Tomorrow Edward Milhourn, Debbie Peters, Greg Bautista, El Puente, Gainesville, Georgia Convener: Mary A. Herr, Regional Faith Formation 58. Practicing Environmental History in Appalachia East Tennessee State University Consultant/Catholic Church Convener: Donald Davis, Dalton State College Memory Jugs Workshop Storytelling As Understood by One Who Tells Stories Bob Henry Baber Patricia Grant, Drug and Alcohol Counselor Evaluating the Relic Landscapes of Charcoal Iron Susan Brown, Whitney Dannenfelser, Cheryl Production in Appalachian Ohio Using Landsat TM+ I Jackson, Stephanie Riddley, Georgetown College An inter-generational, participatory story telling Amy Walker, Bureau of Indian Affairs Social Services magery and visual arts workshop for “children of all ages.” Timothy G. Anderson, Ohio University 62. Community Study and Collaboration Attendees will share personal stories from trinkets Freeman Owle, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Convener: Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University they select and will create their own “memory Shadows of the Past: The Legacy of Landscape Change pieces” to take home. Under five years old Ð ` Joyce Dugan, Former Principal Chief of in Today’s Forests Community Collaboration: Radford University and supervision required. All volunteers welcomed. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Scott Pearson, Mars Hill College Floyd County Virginia Melinda Bollar Wagner, Rebecca S. Arthur, Becky SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 10:00 Ð 10:30 41. Plenary Session Follow-up Discussion Chestnut Memories: Collaborating to Remake the Lynette Minter, J. Adam Sowder, Radford University Convener: Ellen Spears, Region Morning break and book signings Southern Regional Council Kathryn Newfont, Mars Hill College Up Against a Wall: Breaking Down Cultural Barriers in a North Carolina Community 42. Hillchild: A Voice for Appalachian Children Local Environmental Knowledge: Reshaping the Organization CONCURRENT SESSIONS V Convener: Judy P. Byers, West Virginia Folklife Center Landscape of Modernization in the Appalachian Casey Reid, Southwest Missouri State University SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 10:30 Ð 11:45 at Fairmont State College Margins Ellen Spears, Southern Regional Council Recovering Local History: Towns County, 38. Prisons: Inside and Out Noel W. Tenney, Georgia’s Tramontane County Convener: Nick Szuberla, Appalshop, Inc. West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State College 59. Appalachian Schools: Crime, Poverty and Michael D. Rice, Western Carolina University Religion From the Holler to the Hood: Stories from the 43. From the Margins of the Margin: The Convener: Steven Parkansky, A Letter From Home: An Insight into the Wartime American Prison Industry Contested Terrain of Community Definition and Morehead State University Life of a Typical West Virginia Community Nick Szuberla, Amelia Kirby, Appalshop, Inc. Identity Thomas W. Riley, University of Kentucky Convener: Rebecca Bailey, Community, Opportunity, and Crime on School Resistance to Prisons in Appalachia: The Battle of State University of West Georgia Property: An Appalachian Case Study 63. Readings: Contemporary Poets of Mountain Earth Morristown Robert Bickel, Roxane Dufrene, Marshall University Ron Rash, Author/Poet Chris Baker, Walters State Community College Gender, Sexuality, Class, and the Rome Council on Human Relations Poor Rural Neighborhoods and Early School Jeff Daniel Marion, Carson-Newman College We Owe Our Children Heroes: Sports and youthful Laura Caldwell Anderson, Achievement in Two West Virginia Counties offenders in a North Georgia prison State University of West Georgia Robert Bickel, Teresa Hardman Eagle, Linda Parsons Marion, Poetry Editor, Now and Then Mary E. Lynn Drew, Writer and Playwright Cynthia Smith, Marshall University Everybody’s Listening to the Radio: WLBB, Jim Clark, Writer-in Residence, Barton College 39. Panel: Canon or Cannon Fodder?: Reflections Carrollton, Georgia, 1947-1962 Riverside Christian Academy: Reaching Out and on Compiling Appalachian Anthologies Mick Buck, State University of West Georgia Drawing Students In 64. Appalachian Folklore and Craft Cultures Convener: Phillip J. Obermiller Rebecca Bailey, Jessica Sasser, Georgetown College Convener: Norma Myers, Danny Miller, Northern Kentucky University I Wasn’t Born on Hazel Creek, But I Got There as East Tennessee State University Fast as I Could! Linking Educational Attainment to Economic Tyler Blethen, Western Carolina University Trevor Lanier, State University of West Georgia Development in Three Eastern Kentucky Counties International Analogies of the Hillbilly Joke Holly Barcus, Josh Adkins, Allyson SuAnn Evans, Richard Blaustein, East Tennessee State University Barbara Ellen Smith, University of Memphis Lives in Their Hands: The Textile Mill Community Robbie Johnson, Jessica Lynn McCarty, Sylvia of Banning, Georgia Prater, Becky Veirs, Morehead State University Arden Williams, State University of West Georgia 44. Spirituality and Poetic Tradition in Appalachian Visioning the Future: Photographing the Mountains: This is My Real Appalachian Performance Poetry Alive and Strong Literature Judi Jennings, Kentucky Foundation for Women Appalachia, This is My Imagined Appalachia Doris Diosa Davenport, Livingstone College Convener: Cecelia Conway, Kristen Kant, University of Kentucky Appalachian State University Jim Webb, Appalshop, Inc. CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI 50. Panel: Integrating Health Services within a Mountain Writer Robert Morgan’s Echoes of Carl SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2:15 Ð 3:45 Primary Care Center in a Rural Setting Bob Henry Baber, “Poetry in Schools” Ohio (including video clips) Convener: Richelle R. Batson, Cecelia Conway, Appalachian State University 47. DER EWIGE HILLBILLY: A short film and California University of PA Jeff Biggers, Public Radio International facilitated discussion of pernicious Appalachian A Journey Through the Raveled Edges of the Fringe stereotypes Dana M. Bauer, Wilburn Hayden, Jr., CONCURRENT SESSIONS VII California University of PA Ashley Adams Icard, Appalachian State University Convener: John Howie, Pikeville College SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 4:00 Ð 5:30 Unconventional Spirituality in the Novels of Lee Smith Darrell Riffe, Mandy Fleming, Tara McKenzie, Mona N. Counts, Sarah Neal, Adrienne Butts, Tom Perry, Joshua Salyers, Karen Wallen, Peggy Primary Care Center Executive Director 54. Film: Seven Sisters Appalachian State University Davis, John Howie, Daniel Schnopp-Wyatt, Patrick Donohew, Producer/Director Pikeville College 51. Poverty, Communities, and Homelessness in 45. Heroes and Poets Fact and Fiction 55. Mixed Race, Melungeons and Redbones in Fact Convener: Edwina Pendarvis, Marshall University 48. Heritage Tourism Convener: Jana Carp, Appalachian State University and Fiction Convener: Tyler Blethen, Western Carolina University Convener: Katie Hoffman Doman, Tusculum College Working Truth Inside and Out: Don West’s Clods Heritage Tourism in Appalachia in a Comparative The Impact of Homeownership on the Self-Concept of Southern Earth and Muriel Rukeyser’s “Book of Context of Poor, Rural People in Appalachia Fleshing Out Mahala: The Facts About a the Dead” John Alexander Williams, Appalachian State University Nicole Breazeale, University of Kentucky Legendary Melungeon Matriarch and Her Chris Green, University of Kentucky Community Elaine Carmichael, Economic Stewardship Homelessness in Appalachian Kentucky Katie Hoffman Doman, Tusculum College Albert Stewart: Poet-Hero of Yellow Mountain Robert A. Bylund, Steven Parkansky, Barbara Smith, Alderson-Broaddus College David Reynolds, Appalshop, Inc. David R. Rudy, Morehead State University Melungeons: Appalachia’s Trope of Marginalized America Why Don West Should Be a Household Name in Cultural Heritage Tourism: An AnthropologicalCritique From Appalachian to African American: Media David C. Barnette, University of South Alabama Appalachia Kristin Kant, University of Kentucky Images of the Poor in the Poverty Wars Jeff Biggers, Writer and Radio Correspondent, Tammy Marvin Werner, University of Kentucky Gravehouses: Providing Necroethnic Clues for Public Radio International 49. POSTER SESSION 2 (2:15-5:30) Cultural Continuity among Mixed Racial (Presenters should indicate on their poster the times Controlling the Middle, Co-opting the Margins: Populations in Appalachia 46. Panel on when they will be available to discuss their posters) Lessons from a “Community Character” April Mullins Meta, Randolph Macon Woman’s College Grasping at Independence by Robert Weise Photography Project Convener: Paul Salstrom, Teaching Appalachian Literature Jana Carp, Appalachian State University Redbones: The Appalachian Connection St. Marys in the Woods College Tina Hanlon, Ferrum College Scott Withrow, North Greenville College 52. Panel & Poster: Community-Based & Participatory Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky Students for Appalachia, Berea College: Building Research as Undergraduate Education: Assessing 56. A Study of Grassroots African American Community at the Edge of Appalachia the Impacts of the Martin Co. Coal Waste Spill Women’s Leadership in the Newtown Florist Club Mary Beth Pudup, University of California, Santa Cruz Ashley Small, Meta Mendel-Reyes, Betty Hibler, Convener: Shaunna L. Scott, University of Kentucky Convener: Susan M. Perz, Donovan Cain, Berea College Claremont School of Theology Altina Waller, University of Connecticut Stephanie McSpirit, Robert Welch, Sharon Urban and Rural Appalachian Initiatives in Ohio Hardesty, and undergraduate students, Faye Bush, President of the Newtown Florist Club Robert S.Weise, Eastern Kentucky University Carol Baugh, Miami University in Ohio Eastern Kentucky University Charlie Saboor, Michael Maloney, Urban Appalachian Council 53. The Appalachian Legacy of Don West: Feeling Asia Ivory, Leadership Development Program for Girls SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 12:00 Ð 2:00 Ways, Lasting Ties ASA LUNCHEON, AWARDS, JustUs Convener: Joyce Compton Brown, 57. International Commonalities AND CELEBRATION OF 25 YEARS JustUsPerformance Poets Gardner-Webb University Convener: William Schumann, University of Florida Camille Carter, CONTACT Council Annual Business Meeting: Don West: Glimpses into a Poet’s Heart Marginality and Identity: Comparisons of Political Helen Lewis, President, Appalachian Studie Association Deborah Bahr, Cherokee Health Systems George Brosi, Appalachian Mountain Books Economy and Identity Variability in Wales and Appalachia Reflections on the Beginnings: Leslie M. LaChance, The Voice of Don West: Readings Carwyn Fowler, University of Wales-Cardiff John Gaventa, International Development Studies, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Warren Doyle, The Mountain Institute University of Sussex, UK William Schumann, University of Florida