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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 313 197 RC 017 334 AUTHOR Arnow, Pat, Ed. TITLE Insiders/Outsiders. INSTITUTION East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City. Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. PUB DATE 88 NOTE 41p. AVAILABLE FROMNow and Then, CASS, Box 19180A, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614-0002 ($2.50). PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022)* -- Creative Works (Literature,Drama,Fine Arts) (030) JOURNAL CIT Now and Then; v5 n2 Sum 1988 EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Cultural Images; *Cultural Pluralism; Cultural Traits; Essays; Geographic Regions; Personal Narratives; Poetry; *Regional Characteristics; Short Stories; *Stereotypes IDENTIFIERS *Appalachia; Appalachian People ABSTRACT This journal issue focuses on insiders and outsiders in Appalachia, the mixing of cultures, and the diversity of the region. The lead article mixes memoir with analysis of the importance of home and homeplace to people from the Appalachians, many of whom are forced to leave permanently in search of work. A second article considers the strange contrast betwecl outsiders' fascination with things Appalachian and some nativesdesire to get rid of their country accent and country ways, pointing out the difficulty for some insiders to feel comfortable inside. Contradicting the stereotype of the Appalachian hillbilly, there are profiles of Appalachian residents of Italian, Jewish, Chinese, and Filipino descent who maintained their native traditions. Other articles include selections from a new novel by Gurney Norman and from the journals of novelist Harriet Simpson Arnow, and memories of a city boy who felt superior to his country cousins. There ale also reviews of two novels about Appalachia for children, a colle7.tion of essays about urban Appalachians, Appalachian poetry, Baptist worship practices, and reviews of films about migration into and out of Appalachia and a rural North Carolina autobiography. (DHP) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** . :: %. : Center for Appalachian Studies and Services/Institute for Appalachian Affairs East Tennessee State University Philip Almazan. Greeneville, Tenn., and Betty Childress. Bristol. Tenn.. perform a traditional Filipino don( at the Phil-4 /11(luh Christrnw, 1).ortt. /ohris4m (its Inn U 111. DEPARTMENT OF E:tUCATION "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS Office ot Educational Research and Improvement MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC] Pal. A rhoLc) A.,This document has been reproduced as" eceived !tom the person or otganaatron onginahng .1. Cl Minor chanpls have been made to improve reproduction Quality Points of wawa °protons stated.n this docu- TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ment do not necessarily represent official INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." OERI positron or policy INSIDERSe S2 50 4 14 -t19.11Pr-, .1,..*** *' ,17.k: s -0- rY 1.. O .4% 8 A girl and boy say goodbye at the Knoxville bus station, Knoxville, Tenn., September. 1943. Photo by Esther Bubley for the U.S. Office of War Information. What California Means To Me Part 34 Somewhere about half way between Maryville and Sacramento in my teens I heard Bob Wills play. Wayne Hogan Now and Then Contents COLUMNS 2-4 POETRY Editorial Board What California Means Bert Allen, Ed Cabbell, Pauline Cheek, to rae ifc Mary Chiltoskey, Robert J. Higgs, ESSAYS Wayne Hogan Marat Moore, Rita Quillen, and The Ideal Home 5Kevin 4 Fred Waage Dot Jackson Judy Odom Barnett. 9 I= I= I= Inside, Looking Out 7 Amy Tipton Gray Gary Carden The Disappeared .17 Staff Slaying the Mythical Ann Kilkelly Director - Richard Blaustein Large Mouth 23 Editor - Pat Amow Kingdom 9 Bonny Stanley Robert Bess Poetry Editor - Jo Carson Transplanted 23 Music Editor - Ed Snodderly Outsider/Insider 26 Gretchen McCroskey Associate Editor - Jane Woodside George Ella Lyon Subscriptions - Ruth Hausman From Away 23 Support Staff - Carolyn Cerrito, You Know You're an Glenn McKee Margaret Liu, Kathy M. Smith, Insider When... 36Cold Mountain 25 Cathy Whaley Martha Whaley A Roadside Stand 25 Thanks - Charles Moore, Larry Smith Bill Wood ©Copyright by the Center for Appc chian PROFILES Waiting for Studies and Services. 1988. Flying Saucers 36 SBR No. 260-063-87 Sylvia Attilli Basconi 10 Felicia Mitchell Mary Alice Basconi First -Love Summer 37 Mary Ernestine ODeli Volume 5, Number 2 Ida Ginsburg 12 The Last Family Reunion. .37 Summer, 1988 A Kosher Household 12 Bob Henry Baber I= I= =I Pat Amow REVIEWS Tom Huang 14Borrowed Children Richard Blaustein by George Ella Lyon. .. 26 Nc-nv and Then Magazine Roberta Herrin Now and Thenhas been published three The Phil-Am Club 16 times a year since 1984 by the Center for Mary Alice Basconi A Regular Rolling Noah Appalachian Studies and Services at East by George Ella Lyon.. 27 Tennessee State University. Subscriptions are $7.50 per year, $10.00 for institutions and DIARY Sarah K. Davis libraries. Too Few Tomorrows ISSN No. 0896-2693 Submissions of poetry, fiction, articles, Early Days at Keno 33 by Phillip J. Obermiller & personal essays, graphics and photographs Harriette Amow William W. Philliber. .28 concerned with Appalachian life past and Richard Blaustein present are welcomed if accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope. MUSIC Long Journey Home Address correspondence to: Editor, Now directed by and Then, Box 19180A, ETSU, Johnson Subways Rumbling Elizabeth Barret 28 City, TN 37614-0002. Phillip J. Obermiller East Tennessee State University is fully in in My Mind 34 accord with the belief that educational and Being a Joines employment opportunities should be available Richard Blaustein to all eligible persons without regard to age, directed by sex, race, religion, national origin or handicap. Waitin' for the Sunrise....35 Tom Davenport 29 Ed Snodderly Jane H. Woodside The views expressed in these pages are those of the authors and do not necessarily Zone 3 represent opinions of East Tennessee State STORIES edited v Malcolm Glass & University or o the State Board of Regents. David Till 30 Meeting of Minds 20 Jo Carson Gurney Norman Giving Glory to God = I= I= in Appalachia The Incredible by Howard Dorgan 31 Expanding Sentence. ..21 R. Chesla Sharp Wayne Hogan is a freelance writer and illustrator Lance Olsen Dear Flora Mae & from Cookeville. Tenn. Ills poems have Other Stories appeared in MSS, Cotton Boll the Young Republican 24 by Patricia Shirley 32 MacGuffin. Crab Creek Review and Randy Oakes elsewhere. Ed Davfc Now and Then/1 From the Director From the Editor This issue of Nowand Thenis the sort of magazine we When I was growing up in Chicago, I lived in a were hoping to produce when the Center for Appalachian neighborhood that most families were interested in getting Studies and Services was established in 1984. From the out of. The goal was the suburbs. We worked to remove very beginning, we were seeking to avoid stereotyped the accents tl-slt exposed us as working class children or approaches to Appalachian Studies and also to break grandchildren of immigrants. Religion and customs became down barriers between professional scholars and the diluted to a more bland mix, one that would be acceptable general public. We carefully examined the publications outside the neighborhood, one that would not draw being produced by our colleagues in this field and decided attention or ridicule anywhere in the country. that we wanted a magazine with its own distinct We succeeded. We went out in mainstream America, personality, one which could not be easily pigeonholed as and no one stared at our odd ethnic ways because we just another little literary review or academic journal. didn't display odd ethnic ways. Back in my old Striking out in a new dire;:tion is never the easiest path neighborhood, I now feel like a tourist. I am charmed by to take, but the warm respcmse thatNow and Thenhas the accents and fascinated by the shops that I used to received from scholars, writers and subscribers in the consider the most mundane places in the world. Appalachian region and elsewhere tells us that our efforts In fact, I feel like a tourist about anywhere I go. I don't are being appreciated by the kind of people we want to belong anywhere, everywhere I am an observer. reach. Except here. I have found a home. I know the names of In this Insiders/Outsiders edition ofNow andThen, our the mountains, I can find morel mushrooms and pink intent is to illuminate the cultural complexity and social lady's slippers. I've learned that, unlike Chicago, you can diversity of a region which has often been dismissed as look righi at strangers' faces and even say hello as you homogenous, rural and isolated. In actuality, Appalachia is walk down the street or grocery aisles. I've found that if I becoming more cosmopolitan with every passing day. step into any place with more than 20 people in it, I'm Southern mountain people who have migrated out of the likely to know at least one person. region must cope with the same problems of balancing the Yet, I'm still an outsider. I have envied those who have a preservation of ethnic identity against pressures towards heritage here to fall back on, a place to come to. assimilation into the dominant society which face members Storyteller and dancer Anndrena Belcher grew up not of minority groups who have recently moved into three miles from me in Chicago, she went to the next high Appalachia. This in turn reflects broader issues which school over. But when she moved to this part of the affect people caught between traditionalism and country. she was making a circle, coming home. Her story modernization throughout the contemporary world. is featured in the film LongJourneyHome, reviewed in By the time you read this latest issue of Nowand Then, this issue on sage 28.