The Road Ahead the Next Thirty Years of Appalachian Studies Marshall University | Huntington, West Virginia | March 28-30, 2008

The Road Ahead The Next Thirty Years of Appalachian Studies Marshall University | Huntington, West Virginia | March 28-30, 2008 http://www.appalachianstudies.org

CONFERENCE SPONSORS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS • A Town Meeting Planning ASA’s Future • Keynote address by Silas House LEAD SPONSORS • Taking the High Road: Plenary Session & Marshall University Dialogue about MTR & Sustainable Development • Fiddle, Banjo, & Dulcimer playing by some of the University of Kentucky, Appalachian Center best traditional mountain musicians West Virginia Humanities Council • Tunes by an Eastern Kentucky db punk band Appalachian Regional Commission • Youth Speak: The future of the mountains via The Presler Family the media and voices of the youth Marshall University, English Department • 117 topical and interdisciplinary sessions plumbing the very boundaries of Appalachia University of Kentucky, Appalachian Studies Program PROGRAM CONTENTS Welcome to Marshall from Dr. Kopp ...... 2 ASA Committees ...... 3 Major Sponsors History of ASA Conferences ...... 4-5 Exhibitors ...... 5 Berea College, Appalachian Center Program Advertisers ...... 5 Marshall University Library Association Howard Dorgan Silent Auction ...... 6 Marshall University Center for International Exhibitions & Books ...... 6 Programs Where Things Are Located ...... 6 Preconference Activities ...... 6 Lincoln Memorial University Conference Overview...... 7 Michael Perry and Heritage Farm ASA Committee Meetings ...... 7 Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College Journal of Appalachian Studies ...... 7 Conference Events and Gatherings ...... 8 Posters & Art ...... 8 Sponsors Keynote Speaker...... 8 Appalachian Regional Studies Center, Radford Receptions ...... 8 University ASA Business Meeting ...... 8 Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University Town Hall Meeting ...... 8 Plenary Session ...... 8 Graduate Curriculum in Appalachian Studies, Youth Speak ...... 8 East Tennessee State University Book Signings ...... 8 Sinclair Community College Entertainment ...... 8 Appalachian Journal, Appalachian State University Concurrent Sessions ...... 9-20 Maps ...... 21-23 East Tennessee State University, Appalachian Center Advertisers ...... 24-45 Appalachian Center, Eastern Kentucky University Index of Presenters and Conveners ...... 46-47

Graduate Humanities Program, Marshall University Special Thanks to all the units at Marshall who University Press of Kentucky give year-in and year-out to the support of ASA! University of Tennessee Press MU President’s Office University of Illinois Press MU Academic Affairs MU College of Education and Human Services West Virginia University Press MU Libraries University of Kentucky, Anthropology Department MU Graduate School University of Kentucky, Sociology Department MU Graduate School of Education and College of Liberal Arts, Marshall University Professional Development MU College of Liberal Arts

ASA STEERING COMMITTEE 2007-2008

The Steering Committee is made up of all elected and appointed officers, the immediate past president, six elected at large members, and ex officio officers. In addition to officers and members of the steering committee, the chairs and members of standing and ad hoc committees are also listed.

Elected Officers Appointed Officers Shaunna Scott, President Howard Dorgan, Historian (2003 – 2008) Chad Berry, Immediate Past President Mary Jo Graham, Marshall University Liaison Officer Carol Baugh, Vice President and President Elect Sandra Hayslette, Journal Editor, ex officio Mary Jo Graham, Secretary & Appalink Editor (2006 – Gene Hyde, Website Chair 2008) Kristin Kant, Finance and Development Committee Chair Stephanie Keener, Treasurer (2005 – 2008) Cassie Robinson, Scholarship Committee Chair Chris Green, Program Chairperson Mary Thomas, Executive Director, ex officio Lawrence Dukes, Vice Chair/Program Chair Elect Shannon Wilson, Archivist, ex officio

At Large Members, Elected, Class of 2006 – 2008 At Large Members, Elected, Class of 2007 – 2009 Anthony Harkins Amelia Kirby Renee Scott Pamela Twiss Deanna Tribe Veronica Womack

2008 PROGRAM Donna Sue Groves e-Appalachia Award ASA HEADQUARTERS, COMMITTEE Fred Hay Gene Hyde, Chair MARSHALL Chris Green, Program Chair Terry Kessinger UNIVERSITY Daniel Holbrook, Local Shaunna Scott, ex officio Jake Spadaro Mary Thomas, Executive Arrangements Chair Mary Thomas, ex officio Documentary Award Director Shirley Stewart Burns Jack Wright, Chair Fei Wang, Assistant John Richards Website Committee Yuxing Cao, GA Lora Smith Gene Hyde, Chair Long-Range Planning Thanh Nguyen, GA Jason Burns Committee Tung Nguyen, GA Past Program Committee Mary Jo Graham, ex officio Roberta Herrin, Co-chair Natalie Adkins, Intern Chair Derek Mullins Deanna Tribe, Co-chair Kathie Shiba Phil Obermiller Chad Berry, ex officio COLLABORATIONS Boyd Shearer, Website Marie Cirillo Berea College/ASA Manager Ashley Cochrane Weatherford Award STANDING Linda Spatig, ex officio Steve Fisher Non-fiction: COMMITTEES Mary Thomas, ex officio Nina Gregg, Facilitator Berea College Committee Wilburn Hayden Members: Finance and Sandra Hayslette Dykeman Stokely Development Committee AD HOC Phil Obermiller Susan Weatherford Kristin Kant, Chair COMMITTEES Erik Tuttle ASA Committee Members: Becky Bailey Shaunna Scott, ex officio John Alexander Williams, Chad Berry ASA-Black Belt Chair Sandra Hayslette Committee Richard Couto EDITORIAL STAFF: Stephanie Keener Sokoya Finch, Chair David Whisnant JOURNAL OF Terry Kessinger G. Frank Bills APPALACHIAN STUDIES John Nemeth Steve Fisher Fiction and Poetry Philip Obermiller Rosalind Harris Sandra Hayslette, Editor Berea College Committee Edwina Pendarvis Veronica Womack Linda Spatig, Associate Members: Cassie Robinson Editor George Brosi, Chair Mary Thomas, ex officio AWARDS COMMITTEE Mary Thomas, Executive Warren J. Carson William Schumann, Chair Director (Managing Marianne Worthington Membership Committee Editor) ASA Committee Members: Ann Rathbun, Chair Carl A. Ross Student Katherine Ledford, Book Sandra Ballard Cassie Robinson Paper Award Review Editor Renee Scott William Schumann, Chair Jo. B. Brown, Bibliographer HOWARD DORGAN Pamela Twiss Kris Clifford, Copyeditor SILENT AUCTION Cratis D. Williams/James Suzanna Stephens, Layout Proceeds benefit the ASA Nomination Committee S. Brown Service Award Editor Scholarship Fund. Carol Baugh, Chair Emily Satterwhite, Chair Ryan Sarver, Intern Carol Baugh, Chair Theresa Burchett Philis Alvic Amelia Kirby Helen M. Lewis ASA NEWSLETTER: Donna Sue Groves Community Service APPALINK Deanna Tribe Scholarship Committee Award Mary Jo Graham, Editor Grace Edwards Cassie Robinson, Chair Patricia Beaver, Chair Mary Thomas, Managing Gordon Simmons Carol Baugh, ex officio Editor Chad Berry

ABOUT THE APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION: 1987 – 2008

DATE PRESIDENT LOCATION PROGRAM CHAIR 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, Tal Stanley Abingdon, VA 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 & Urban Appalachia Shaunna Scott

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

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

2008 ASA CONFERENCE ADVERTISERS Appalachian Regional Studies Center, Radford University Appalachian Center, Berea College Appalachian Service Project Appalachian Center, Eastern Kentucky University Appalachian Women’s Alliance Appalachian Center for Community Service, Emory & Henry Appalshop College Area Agency on Aging, District 7, Inc. Ohio Appalachian Journal, Appalachian State University Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College Appalachian Regional Studies Center, Radford University Beehive Design Collective Appalachian Studies Center, North Georgia College and State Blair Mountain Press University Center for Appalachian Studies, Appalachian State University Appalachian Studies Program, University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Studies & Services, East Tennessee State U Blair Mountain Press Chestnut Hill Publishing LLC Center for Appalachian Studies, Appalachian State University Chicory Cottage Weavers Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, East Tennessee State Clinch Mountain Press University Episcopal Appalachian Ministries Center for Strong Communities, Maryville College FirstOhio.com Communication Resources Goldenseal Magazine, West Virginia Division of Culture & History Graduate Curriculum in Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee Graduate Curriculum in Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University State University Historical Publication Section, North Carolina Office of Archives Highlander Center and History Iron Mountain Review, Emory and Henry College Jeff Biggers James Agee Film Project Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) Marshall University Marshall University – Advance Marshall University Graduate Humanities Program Marshall University – Academic Affairs & Recruitment McFarland Publishing Company Marshall University – College of Liberal Arts Ohio University Press Marshall University – College of Education and Human Services Sinclair Community College Marshall University – Libraries The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at McFarland Publishing Company Fairmont State University Mud River Pottery The University Press of Kentucky Ohio University Press University of Illinois Press Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) University of North Carolina Press Pocahontas Press University of Tennessee Press Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center in Berea, Kentucky West Virginia Humanities Council The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at West Virginia University Press Fairmont State University The University Press of Kentucky 2008 ASA CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS University of Illinois Press ABZ Press University of North Carolina Press Appalachian Center, Berea College University of Tennessee Press Appalachian Community Services West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies, Frostburg State U West Virginia Humanities Council Appalachian Mountain Books West Virginia University Press Appalachian Native Plants

SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS: 11TH-ANNUAL NON-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES IN HOWARD DORGAN SILENT AUCTION THE HUNTINGTON REGION

Help those with financial needs to participate in ASA conferences! Last year the auction raised $2,694, Green Bottom Tour which was used to help defray travel expenses. So Green Bottom, located on Route 2, sixteen miles please search your heart/attic and contribute to ASA’s north of Huntington, is an 1100-acre wildlife annual silent auction either donating or bidding on management area with some of the largest wetlands on items. Proceeds go to the ASA scholarship committee. the upper Ohio River.1 The area includes the National Register General Albert Gallatin Jenkins House (1835 & Located in the basement of the Memorial Student the largest slave plantation in WV) & the Protohistoric Center in Marcos, the Silent Auction will be open Clover Archeological Site (1600), a National Historic Friday, March 28, 11:00 – 5:45, and Saturday, March Landmark. The Jenkins House is operated as the 29, 8:00 a.m. until bids for the Silent Auction end at Jenkins Plantation Museum by the Division of Culture & 5:45 p.m. History.2 The film Ghosts of Green Bottom, covering the archeology & history of the Jenkins Plantation, can be viewed on the Archaeology Channel.3 EXHIBITIONS & BOOKS

Take time to visit the exhibition and book room where Heritage Farm publishers, artists, educators and others will be (www.heritagefarmmuseum.com) sharing their most recent materials. These 17 restored buildings highlight the evolution of material culture in Appalachia from the 1800s to the The exhibition & book room is located in the basement 1930s. Of particular interest are the museums of of the Memorial Student Center. Friday 11:00 – 5:45; transportation, home progress, & industry. Admission Saturday 8:00 – 5:45; Sunday 8:30 – 11:00. for a two-hour tour is $8 per adult. Located just 2.6 miles from Huntington, here’s how to get there: (1) From WHERE THINGS ARE LOCATED ON CAMPUS I-64, take Exit 8 (5th Street Exit) of Huntington, WV; (2) Turn onto the I-64 Westbound access road; (3) Travel one On the campus map (p. 21): MSC (Memorial Student block to Johnstown Road & turn right onto Johnstown Center) = #28; Corbly Hall = #30; Drinko Library = Road; (4) Follow Johnstown Road approximately one #24; Smith Music Hall = #14. See also p. 22 & 23. mile until you come to a stop sign; (5) At the sign, turn • Art & Posters: Drinko Library, 3rd Floor left & go across the bridge onto Harvey Road; (6) Follow • ASA Meals: Don Morris Room, 2nd floor of MSC Harvey Road approximately 1.7 miles to the marked entrance to Heritage Farm Museum & Village. • Computers & Internet Access: Basement of

MSC and the third floor of Drinko Library. Jesse Stuart Foundation • Entertainment & Music: Evelyn Smith Recital (www.jsfbooks.com) Hall in Smith Music Hall The JSF is devoted to preserving the human & literary • Exhibits (books, crafts, organizations, etc) will be legacy of Jesse Stuart & other Kentucky & Appalachian in the basement of the MSC. writers. The JSF has reprinted many of Stuart's books along with others that focus on Kentucky & Appalachia, • Food near Campus: The MSC cafeteria will be & has evolved into a significant regional press & open on Friday 10:30– 2:00 and MSC Sweet bookseller. The Foundation also promotes cultural & Sensations will be open 8:00 – 4:00 Friday; educational programs that encourage the study of Jesse Husson’s Pizza and Java Joint just across Hal Stuart's works & the history, culture, & literature of Greer between 4th and 3rd Avenue; Hillbilly Kentucky & Appalachia. Visit them in Ashland, KY, at Hotdogs 1501 3rd Ave; Chili Willi’s (Mexican) 1315 1645 Winchester Avenue.

4th Ave. • Howard Dorgan Silent Auction: Basement of Huntington Museum of Art MSC (www.hmoa.org) HMOA is defined by bringing the world of art to the • Parking will be available on campus. We people of West Virginia & the Tri-State region. That recommend parking either in the “F” lots vision has led to the creation of a truly distinguished described in the directions above or where Hal museum, the finest in the state & the largest between Greer (16th Street) T’s into 3rd Avenue Cincinnati, Pittsburgh & Richmond. • Plenary Sessions: Evelyn Smith Recital Hall in Smith Music Hall • Posters and Art: Drinko Library 3rd Floor • Receptions: Memorial Student Center Lobby 1 http://www.wvdnr.org/Wildlife/Magazine/Archive/03Spring/ • Registration: Basement MSC field_trip_Green_Bottom.shtm 2 http://www.wvculture.org/sites/jenkins.html. 3 http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/videoguide.asp.

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW 8:00 Mountain Roots in the Big Sandy: Music by Bernard Cyrus and Tim & Dave Bing Friday 10:00 Jamming at the Java Joint 9:00 Registration opens in the exhibit space in the basement of the Memorial Student Center; Sunday Green Bottom Tour leaves from MSC 8:30 Exhibit & Book Room Opens 11:00 Concurrent Session I; exhibit & book room & 8:30 Concurrent Session VIII silent auction opens 9:45 Concurrent Session IX 12:30 Concurrent Session II 11:00 Exhibits close 2:00 Concurrent Session III 11:00 Youth Speak about the Future of the 3:30 ASA 2008 Business Meeting (all invited!) Mountains. Farewell brunch with prizes! (blue 4:00 Town Hall Meeting on the Future of ASA dot[s] on name tag & filled out conference evaluation form grants entrance) 5:00 Reception of Welcome, Sponsored by the West Virginia Humanities Foundation ASA COMMITTEE MEETINGS 5:45 Exhibition, Registration, and Auction close. • Current Steering Committee: Thursday, 7:00 p.m., 6:00 Banquet: Keynote Speaker, Silas House (blue John Spotts Room, MSC dot[s] on name tag grants entrance) • New Program Committee: Saturday, 7:30 a.m., 7:30 Reception of Inter-Generational Mixing John Spotts Room, MSC sponsored by U of Kentucky’s Appalachian Studies Program • Editorial Board: Saturday, 7:30 a.m., 2E10, MSC 8:00 Fighting for Tradition: Music by Dave Haas & • Website Committee: Saturday, 8:30 a.m., 2W10, Katie Stricker, Killer Panther, & Public MSC Outrage • Membership Committee: Saturday, 8:30 a.m., 10:00 Jamming at the Java Joint 2E10, MSC FOR EVENT DETAILS, SEE NEXT PAGE! • Awards Committee: Saturday, 4:00 p. m. John Spotts Room, MSC Saturday • Finance Committee: Saturday, 5:30 p.m., John 8:00 Registration, Exhibits, and Silent Auction Spotts Room, MSC open in Basement of the Memorial Student Center • Ad Hoc Communication Committee: Saturday, 5:30 p.m., 2E10, MSC 8:00 Concurrent Session IV • New Steering Committee: Sunday, 7:00 a.m., John 9:30 Concurrent Session V Spotts Room, MSC 11:00 Taking the High Road Plenary Session:

Sustainable Development & MTR Journal of Appalachian Studies: Submissions 12:30 Lunch & Awards (blue dot[s] on name tag

grants entrance) You are encouraged to submit your paper to the 1:30 Book Signings with U of Tennessee Press, Journal of Appalachian Studies. Bring a blind copy of Appalachian Journal (Appalachian State U), your paper to the registration table. Include your West Virginia U Press, U of Illinois Press, & name, address, email address, and telephone number U Press of Kentucky on a separate piece of paper, a brief bio, and a two hundred word abstract. If you do not have a clean 2:30 Concurrent Session VI copy, please email the same to [email protected]. 4:00 Concurrent Session VII Please follow the manuscript instructions available online at www.appalachianstudies.org. Deadline for 5:30 Reception & Music Jam sponsored by Berea post-conference submission is April 18, 2008. College’s Appalachian Center & East Conveners of panels may submit papers from the Tennessee State U’s Graduate Curriculum in panel. Bring them to the registration table with a Appalachian Studies note indicating that you are submitting them for the 5:45 Exhibition, Registration, and Auction close. entire panel. Please follow the instructions above and send in information on all panelists.

BEING TOGETHER: ART, PLENARY SESSIONS, MEALS, RECEPTIONS, AND ENTERTAINMENT

Posters and Art Jamming at the Java Joint, Fri, 10:00 p.m. – ? Drinko Library, Friday – Saturday 3rd Avenue, across from Smith Music Hall We invite attendees to visit the materials listed below that will be located in the Drinko Library. If you’d like to meet Taking the High Road, A Plenary Session with the poster designers (session 77.5) or the Cabin Creek MTR & Sustainable Development Women (session 66), they will be at their posters & art to Saturday, 11:00 a.m., Smith Music Recital Hall talk with you at 2:30 on Saturday during Concurrent Judy Bonds (from Coal River Mountain Watch) will speak Session VI. about ongoing realities of MTR (www.crmw.net). Martin 1. Cabin Creek Women Photovoice Exhibit (80+ items Richards (from the High Road Initiative) will speak about primarily on 2nd and 3rd floors) sustainable economic development options for the coalfields 2. Outsider art works throughout the building (www.highroadinitiative.org).

3. ASA participant poster sessions on tables/easels (3rd Lunch and Awards! floor Right Outside Atrium) 4. Highlander Center 75th-Anniversary Time Line (Alumni 12:30, MSC, Don Morris Room Lounge—glassed in room on second floor of MSC foyer) [Blue dot[s] on name tag grants entrance] Comments on Higher Education in Appalachia ASA Business Meeting by Sarah Denman, Provost, Marshall University Friday, 3:30 – 4:00 in the Smith Music Recital Hall ASA Steering Committee will conduct the Association's Book Signings Annual Business Meeting: everyone is encouraged to attend! 1:30 Saturday, MSC Lobby • The Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian The Road Ahead: A Town Hall Meeting State U: Eds. Sandra Ballard & Leila Weinstein & Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 in the Smith Music Recital Hall contributor Patricia Beaver sign Neighbor to Neighbor: ASA's Long Range Planning Committee will convene a town A Memoir of Family, Community, and Civil War in hall meeting wherein participants will learn about the Long Appalachian North Carolina. Range Plan and share ideas about how to advance ASA's • U Press of Kentucky: Penny Loeb signs Moving goals. Mountains: How One Woman & Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal and John Hennen signs Harlan Welcome to WV Reception! Miners Speak Sponsor: West Virginia Humanities Council • U of Illinois Press: James Lorence signs Hard Journey: 5:00, Friday, Lobby, MSC The Life of Don West. Banquet with Key Note Speaker, Silas House • U of Tennessee Press: Assorted Authors. • West Virginia U Press: Shirley Stewart Burns signs 6:00 Friday, Don Morris Room, MSC Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of [Blue dot[s] on name tag grants entrance] Mountaintop Removal on Southern WV Communities & Welcome by President Stephen Kopp, Marshall University Judy Byers signs Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore Author Silas House (http://silashouse.com) will give the of the Southern Appalachians by Patrick Ward Gainer; keynote talk at our banquet on Friday night. “Silas House 2nd ed. with introduction and appendix by Byers. is the author of the novels Clay’s Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2002), The Coal Tattoo (2004), and the play The Saturday Reception and Jam Hurting Part (2005). His writing has been widely acclaimed Saturday, MSC Lobby, 5:30 and is known for its keen insights into the natural world Berea and ETSU will host an-into-the evening reception and and human nature. He serves as writer-in-resident at jam in the Student Center lobby. Bring your instruments!

Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, Mountain Roots in the Big Sandy where he also directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Saturday Night Music 8:00, Smith Music Recital Hall Festival. House was recently chosen to edit the posthumous Music by Bernard Cyrus (old time Banjo/Fiddle) and Tim manuscript of beloved Appalachian writer James Still and is and Dave Bing (fiddle and banjo). MC Gerry Milnes, also co-editing Something’s Rising, a collection of oral Augusta Heritage Center. histories on mountaintop removal mining. House is also a member of the band Public Outcry, a group of writers and Jamming at the Java Joint, Sat, 10:00 p.m. – ? activists who visit universities to educate people about 3rd Avenue, across from Smith Music Hall mountaintop removal mining.” Youth Voice & Farewell Brunch Reception of Inter-Generational Mixing Sunday, 11:00, Don Morris Room MSC Sponsor: U of KY Appalachian Studies Program [blue dot[s] on name tag & filled out conference Friday, 7:30, MSC Lobby evaluation form grant entrance] Fighting (with Music) for Tradition Gather in thanks, give farewells, & listen to Machlyn Blair & other mountain youth speak about the future through the Friday, 8:00 in Smith Recital Hall media that they have created. Door Prizes! Music by Dave Haas and Katie Stricker (two of West Virginia’s outstanding dulcimer players), Killer Panther (a db crust punk band out of Whitesburg, Kentucky), and Public Outrage.

Mountain Stage SECONDARY CATEGORY Sunday Evening, Paramount Theatre, Ashland, KY Activism & Community 4, 11,13, 24, 52, 54, 69, Sunday at 7:00 p.m., Mountain Stage will be putting on a Organizing 72, 77 show dedicated to the music of coal, featuring Kathy Arts (By and About) 6, 16, 33, 71, 75 Mattea. For info see: www.mountainstage.org (Note: this event is not sponsored by ASA). Crossing-Cultures & Regions 64, 83, 113 12, 28, 46, 50, 79, 85, Coal & MTR 98, 101 29, 45, 76, 88, CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS Diversity 99,102,107 7, 12, 15, 27, 36 , 39, 48, Economy & Power We have worked to coordinate the concurrent sessions 52.5, 57, 60, 87 by assigning each panel a main and secondary Education/Youth 26, 41, 49, 65, 90,105 category. Our goal is to allow people to follow a Film 67, 67.5 particular track through the conference; nevertheless, 9, 10, 25, 31, 35, 58, 66, App Studies / App Identity there is (as there should be with our interdisciplinary 73, 81, 84, 89, 92, 111 approach) some inevitable overlap. In using this 40, 59, 68, 74, 78, 86, Higher Education approach, we ask for everyone’s understanding: we 93,104, 110 know that each panel could be in multiple categories Health & Mental Wellbeing 19, 22, 32, 82 and that you might not agree with where we put it, History 3, 5, 17, 18, 43, 53, 105 but decisions were often made based on pragmatics. Literature 30, 34, 38, 79, 91 The list of primary and secondary categories & panels Representations 95 therein appears below. Note: Some sessions were listed only in the primary

category table. Session I Fri. 11-12:15 1-13

Session II Fri. 12:30-1:45 14-26 Session III Fri. 2:00-3:15 27-38 Concurrent Session I Friday 11:00-12:15 Session IV Sat. 8:00-9:15 39-51 Session V Sat. 9:30-10:45 52-64 1. Grass-Roots Organizing in Appalachia: What Session VI Sat. 2:30-3:45 65-77.5 Works, What Doesn't (Activism/Organizing) Corbly 305 Session VII Sat. 4:00-5:15 78-91 Convener: Maura Conway, WV Grassroots Activist Session VIII Sun. 8:30-9:30 92-104 Steve Fisher, Emory & Henry College Session IX Sun. 9:45-10:45 105-115 Walter Davis, National Organizers Association Herb Reid, U of Kentucky Briana McElfish, Marshall U & Mountain Justice

PRIMARY CATEGORY 2. Appalachian Music (Arts) Corbly 105 Convener: Paul H. Rakes, WVU Institute of Technology Activism & Community 1, 14, 26, 27, 39, 52, 52.5, Where the Coal Trains Load: Recording World Music of Organizing 65, 78, 92, 105 Eastern Pennsylvania 2, 15, 28, 40, 53, 66, 67, Michael Kline & Carrie Nobel Kline, Talking Across Arts (By and About) 79, 94 the Lines Crossing-Cultures & Regions 3, 29, 41, 68, 80, 106 Music as the History of Miners 4, 16, 30, 42, 54, 67.5, 81, Chris Trembley, Marshall U Coal & MTR 93 Ballads, Wisdom, & Lessons Learned from Mary Jane 5, 17, 31, 43, 55, 69, 82, Queen, Bobby McMillon & Sheila Kay Adams Diversity 95, 107 Judy Ann Rhodes, East Tennessee State U Music City as an Appalachian Fictive Kinship System Economy & Power 6, 18, 44, 56, 83, 96 Rosemarie Mincey, Vanderbilt U 19, 32, 45, 57, 70, 84, 97 Education/Youth 109 3. Meeting Each Other, Learning Ourselves (Crossing Film 7, 33, 46, 58, 85, 98 Borders) Drinko 138 8, 20, 34, 47, 59, 71, 86, Convener: Madeline Flannery, Hazard CTC App Studies / App Identity 99, 110 A Unit Plan for Appalachian Youth: Postcolonial Culture, Poetry, & Latin America 9, 21, 35, 48, 60, 72, 87, Higher Education Beth Kennedy, Marshall U 100, 111 A Hot Ball Rolling: The Catholic Church's Main Street Bible Health & Mental Wellbeing 10, 22, 61, 73, 88, 101, 112 Center in Cincinnati, 1962-1972 11, 23, 34.5, 36, 49, 62, 74, History Thomas Wagner & Phillip J. Obermiller, both from the 89, 102, 113 U of Cincinnati 12, 24, 37, 50, 63, 75, 90, Literature Identity as Place Among Appalachians in Chicago 103, 114 Roger Guy, U of North Carolina at Pembroke 13, 25, 38, 51, 64, 76, 91, Representations Life Histories in the Urban Borders of Southwest Ohio: 104, 115 Appalachian, Latino, & Middle Class Intersections Miscellaneous 77, Posters 77.5 (!) Mary Spilman, Miami U – Hamilton campus

4. The Faith to Stop Moving Mountains (Coal & MTR) 10. Higher Justice: Social Justice Issues in Higher Ed Corbly 244 (Higher Ed) Drinko 349 Convener: Will Samson, U of Kentucky Convener: Sharon Wills Brescoach, St. Francis U Father John Rausch, Catholic Committee of Appalachia Robin Cadwallader, St. Francis U Sage Russo, Christians for the Mountains, Mountain Wess Craig, Appalachian Community Services Justice Summer Janet Dooley, Marshall U Lynda Ann Ewen, Marshall U 5. All-Terrain: A Sampling of Ethnic & Gender Sara King, St. Francis U Diversity in Appalachia (Diversity) Drinko 402 Convener & Presenter: Monica Brooks, Marshall U 11. Appalachian Oral History & Historical Analysis Teaching the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (History) MSC 2W22 Katharine Rodier, MU Dept. of English Convener: Carletta A. Bush, West Virginia U Knights in White Satin: Women in the Ku Klux Klan The People’s Memories vs. the Paradigm: the Retelling of the Kelli R. Kerbawy, MU Office of Admissions Matewan Massacre & Williamson-Thacker Strike Respecting an Artistic & Ethnic Past: La Carpa Garcia Rebecca Bailey, Northern Kentucky U Cultural & Familial Unity Through the Necessity of Art Voice of Labor: 1199 & the Language of Power Heather Brooks, MU Office of Admissions John Hennen, Morehead State U Applying Queer Theory to the Gay Youth Experience in Beyond Gut Feelings: Oral History & the Politics of Steel & Appalachia Pottery Workers in Northern West Virginia, 1945-1970 Todd Parks, MU COEHS HEART Tutoring Program Lou Martin, West Virginia U Double Outsiders: A Minority within a Minority Monica Brooks, MU Libraries 12. The Emasculation of Poverty: Gender, Class, & Criminal Justice in the Ballad Novels of Sharyn 6. Entrepreneurial Concepts in the Creative McCrumb (Literature) Corbly 354 Industries (Economics & Power) Corbly 211 Krystiane Evans Convener: Peter Hackbert, Berea College Annette McGrew Gary Mahoney, Professor, Technology & Industrial Kristi McGarey Arts, Berea College Tim Glotzbach, Director, Berea College Student Crafts 13. Citizens’ Journalism in Appalachia & Impacts on Berea College Students, Final Produce Design Team Community Organizing & Public Policy (Representation) MSC 2W16 7. Essence of Life (Film about the displaced population Convener: Mia Frederick, Appalshop – WMMT FM from the creation of Cave Run Lake) Corbly 104 Mimi Pickering, Appalshop Convener & Presenter: Nick Weeks, Morehead State U Maryanne Reed, U of West Virginia Andy Roberts, Morehead State U Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition Katie Gilbert, Morehead State U

8. Religion, Ritual, Witches, and Ghosts (App Studies & Concurrent Session II Identity) Corbly 117 Friday 12:30-1:45 Convener: Pamela Mulder, Marshall University

The Meaning of Witchcraft in Appalachia 14. Creating Change in the Coalfields: Community John Richards, West Virginia State U Organizing from the Coalfields to the Capital with Decoration Day in Appalachia Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) Christine Seger, Independent Scholar (Activism & Organizing) Corbly 244 "What's in a Name?, or Hiding in Plain Sight!": Social Convener: Teri Blanton, KFTC Change in Two Annual Religious Ceremonies Jeff Combs, KFTC member Karen Simpkins, Marshall U Ka'Seana Jones, KFTC member A Modern Appalachian Ghost Tale Carl Shoupe, KFTC member Patricia Jacobs, Radford U

15. The Economy of Mountain Arts & Crafts (Arts) 9. Psychological & Behavioral Health Issues in Corbly 104 Appalachia (Health) MSC 2W37 Convener: Roger Guy, U of NC at Pembroke Convener & Presenter: Marty Amerikaner, Marshall U Painting the Mountains: Strategies Employed by Artists to Facilitating Intervention Programs with Batterers in West Minimize Economic Risk Virginia Kristin Kant, U of Kentucky Dorothy Boston, Marshall U Highland Handcrafters Problem Gambling in West Virginia: Prevalence & Co- Michael Joslin, Lees-McRae College Existing Problems Minimum Wage Laws & Mountain Crafts Tammie Smith, Marshall U Philis Alvic, Independent Scholar, Artist, & Writer Supportive & Restraining Factors in Life Satisfaction in The Impact of the Back-to-the-land Movement on the Culture Two Rural Areas of West Virginia Massimo Bardi, Marshall U Carter Seaton, Author Protecting the Public: Data Based Issues in the Licensing of

Psychologists in West Virginia Marty Amerikaner & Ida Hatcher, Marshall U

16. Creative Resistance To Mountain Top Removal 20. Mapping Appalachia & the Heavens (App Studies & Through Artistic Expression (Coal & MTR) Corbly 105 Identity) Drinko 402 Convener: Randal Pfleger, Mountain Justice Summer Convener: Robert Douglas, Gustavus Adolphus College Matt Landon, Mountain Justice Summer Blackbird: A Poetry Sequence about Running the Ridges of Michelle Mockbee, Mountain Justice Summer Identity Willie Dotson, Mountain Justice Summer Amanda Warren, Western Michigan U Dave Cooper, Mountain Justice Summer Defining Appalachia: Economics, Politics, & ARC's Creation Doc Hyena, Mountain Justice Summer of an American Region Claire Floote, Mountain Justice Summer Joshua Hagen & James Leonard, both from Marshall U Astronomical Research in the Appalachians 17. African-Americans & Appalachia (Diversity) Timothy Hamilton, Shawnee State U Corbly 117 A Trail Atlas for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Convener: Elizabeth C. Fine, Virginia Tech A Mountain of Place Names Appalachian Racism: Still the Challenge for the Next Three Boyd Shearer, outrageGIS mapping Decades Wilburn Hayden, York U 21. College Student Attrition in Appalachia: Factors Discursive Constructions of "Place" in Two Northwest & Strategies Impacting Higher Education (Higher Ed) Montgomery County, VA, Communities' Oral Histories Drinko 138 Anita Puckett, Virginia Tech Convener: Gregory Busch, West Virginia U at Wake Forest: Oral Histories of Church & Community Parkersburg Morgan Cain & Daniel Grim, both from Virginia Tech Mary Beth Busch, Interim Dean, West Virginia U at Parkersburg 18. Politics (Economics & Power) Corbly 211 Evelyn A Knight, Director, Appalachian Center, U of Convener: Sharon Wills Brescoach, St. Francis U Kentucky Congressional Committee Chairmen from Appalachia, 1951- Erica Abrams Locklear, Doctoral Candidate, English 2000 Dept., Louisiana State U Philip Grant, Pace U Looking Down The Road: Unanticipated Consequences Of 22. Health, Wellbeing, & Culture (Health) Corbly 305 Human Actions in Appalachia's Social Development Convener: Aminata Cairo, University of Kentucky Elena Ermolaeva, Marshall U Habermas Among the Hillbillies: Designing Participatory John Doyle, WV House of Delegates, District 57 Action Research to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening in Heidi Williams, MU-ADVANCE, Marshall U Eastern KY Terror in the Mountains: an Examination of Terrorist Acts Frank Bills, U of Kentucky in the Appalachian Mountains Discovering the Culture Care Meanings & Expressions of a Stevan Jackson, Virginia Tech Spinal Cord Injury in Men from WV Cicero & Davey Crockett: A Kinship of New Men Susan Imes, Marshall U E. Del Chrol, Marshall U Story Writing as a Tool in Health Education Jean Hill, Western Carolina U 19. Establishing A Road Map For After School Cultural Considerations in Healthcare Encounters Programs in Rural Appalachia (Education/Youth) Sharon Denham, Ohio U Corbly 354 Convener: Denise Shockley, Gallia-Vinton Educational 23. The Civil War (History) MU Special Collections4 Service Center (GVESC) Convener: Rev. Barry Whittemore, Outlaw's Bridge Blazing a Trail for After School Programs in Southeastern Universalist Church Ohio: Need, Vision, Funding, Management The Charleston Sharpshooters: Seeming Transient Loyalties Denise Shockley, GVESC in Charleston's Civil War Elementary School Program Models that Work in James Knight, Marshall U Appalachia Divided Loyalties in Scott County, Virginia, During the Fannie Metcalf, Gallia L.E.A.D.S. Consultant American Civil War High School Programming Generated By Appalachian Andrew Walters, Virginia Tech Students "Keeping the Temples of Justice Pure": The WV Supreme Emily Dailey, Gallia S.T.E.P.S. Consultant Court of Appeals & the Test Oath during Reconstruction Partnership Between Public Education & Faith Based Joshua Lynn, Marshall U Schools in Southeastern Ohio Family, Community, & Civil War in Appalachian North Larry Marr, P.R.A.I.S.E. Consultant Carolina Leveraging Higher Education Resources to Support Patricia Beaver, Appalachian State U Appalachian Community Needs Jake Bapst, Rio Grande Community College, Project CHAMP Sessions on this page occur during Concurrent Session II Friday 12:30-1:45

4 Special Collections is located in the Morrow Library (#10 on the map). Morrow is located across the quad from the MSC. Once at Morrow, follow signs to the proper room.

24. Writing & Activism (Literature) MSC 2W22 29. Learning From ASA: Establishing a Black Belt Convener: Dana Wildsmith, Lanier Technical College Community Action & Studies Association (Crossing "Appalachian plains": Literary Responses to Mountaintop Borders) Corbly 305 Removal Convener: Rosalind Harris, U of Kentucky Katherine Ledford, Appalachian State U Veronica Womack, Georgia College & State U Paving the Way for a New Generation through Diane Sokoya Finch, Florida Family Network Gilliam Fisher's Kettle Bottom Dreamal Worthen, Florida A&M U Shai Cullop, Radford U A Closer Look at Jim Webb’s “Get In, Jesus” 30. "Go Tell the Children the Mountain is Dead": Scott Goebel, Southern Appalachian Writers Literary Responses to Mountaintop Removal Mining Cooperative (Coal & MTR) MSC 2W16 A Tall Woman Casts a Long Shadow: Wilma Dykeman's Convener: Silas House, Lincoln Memorial U Ability to Inspire Stewardship of the Land When Music is the Messenger: Songwriting as Literary Haley Brock, Marshall U Activism Kate Larken, Motes Books 25. New Paradigms of Appalachian Research Something’s Rising: Appalachians Speak Out Against (Representation) Drinko 349 Mountaintop Removal Convener: Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech Jason Howard, Public Outcry Romancing the Region: Fan Mail, Best Sellers, & Readers’ “Hill-horizons cut clean & deft”: Emerging Literary Uses of Appalachia Responses to Mountaintop Removal Mining Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech Marianne Worthington, U of the Cumberlands Appalachia Upside Down: Cultural Studies of Real and Stripping a Picture: A Fouculdian Analysis of Stripmining Imaginary Geographies in Ann Pancake’s Strange as This Weather Has Been Doug Reichert Powell, Columbia College Chicago Jennifer DePompei, Marshall U

Contemporary Ancestors of Whom? Unraveling Celtic 31. Ethnographic Research: Locating Identity in Identity in Appalachia Cultural Borders (Diversity) Corbly 244 William R. Schumann, Arkansas Tech U Convener: Karen McComas, Marshall U Linda Spatig, Marshall U 26. Hanging in There: Intergenerational Partnerships Paula Flaherty, WV Service-Learning Institute in Organizations (Activism & Organizing) MSC 2W16 Tracy Wasinger, U of Charleston Elandria Williams, Highlander Research and Education Wayne Coombs, WV Prevention Resource Center Center Anne Swedberg, WV Prevention Resource Center Susan Williams, Highlander Research and Education Center 32. Educators, Poverty, and Children (Education/Youth) Drinko 138 Convener: Marty Amerikaner, Marshall U Home Visitation: A Means to Benefit Children Janet Dozier, Marshall U Concurrent Session III Effective Early Childhood Educators Friday 2:00-3:15 Suzette Cook, McDowell County Schools, & Bizunesh Wubie, Marshall U Graduate College 27. Fighting for the Land (Activism & Organizing) Predicting Developmental Paths of Low-SES Rural Corbly 211 Appalachian Children Convener: C. Edward Smith, Jr., WV Northern College Margaret Fish, Marshall U School of Medicine Halliburton on the Home Front: A Strategy for Fighting, When you have No Chance of Winning 33. Wild & Wonderful: West Virginia through the Eyes Rees Shearer, RAIL Solution of Emerging Filmmakers (Film) Corbly 105 Economic Development & the Environment Convener: Cigdem Slankard, West Virginia State U Greg Taylor, Upper Guyandotte Watershed Association WVSU Graduate Students The Role of Elk in West Virginia Place Identities 34. Verse & Validation for Appalachian Studies: James Barker, Kansas State U Critical Poems & Songs (App Studies & Identity) "They're not making any more of it": Land, Landscapes & Corbly 104 Local Power in WV Convener: Carol Mason, Oklahoma State U Katherine Roberts, U of North Carolina Rachel Jennings, UT San Antonio

Lisa Lewis, Oklahoma State U 28. The Music of Coal Mining (CD Set & Book) (Arts) Robert C. Merritt, Jr., Bluefield College Corbly 117 Mark Allen Roberts, Virginia Intermont College Convener: Jack Wright, Ohio U School of Film Jeff Biggers, Freelance writer 34.5 “If I Should Fall in Battle”: The Rosanna Blake Jack Spadaro, Activist Collection of Confederate History at Marshall Paul Kuzko, Lonesome Pine Office on Youth (History) MU Special Collections5: Tony Oppegard, Kentucky Attorney & Activist Jack Dickinson, Marshall U Kathyrn Shanks, Cultural Writer

5 Special Collections is located in the Morrow Library (#10 on the map). Morrow is located across the quad from the MSC. Once at Morrow, follow signs to the proper room.

35. Home and Higher Ed (Higher Ed) Drinko 402 40. "So Mote It Ever Be": Bringing Western North Convener: Sheila Mucklow, Marshall U Graduate Carolina's "Songcatchers" into 21st Century (Arts) College Corbly 104 The Bean Trees are Sprouting in West Virginia Convener: Paul Robertson, Appalachian State U Natalie Adkins, Marshall U & WVU "Down Out of the Far Past": I. G. Greer's Revisions of "Black The Road to College: Appalachian Students’ Negotiations of Jack Davey" & "Beaulampkins" Distance Travis Rountree, Appalachian State U Jane Jensen, U of Kentucky "Those Who Lived & Now Live within a Hundred Mile Educational Aspirations & Residential Mobility Among Radius": W. Amos "Doc" Abrams, Song Collector Central Appalachia College Graduates Fred Hay, Appalachian State U Christina Wright & Chris Stapel, U of Kentucky A Ballad Collection in the Making: One Student's Appalachia through Young Eyes: Mapping Home, 1948-1980 Contributions Chad Berry, Lindsey Martin, & Beth Bissmeyer, all Amanda Hedrick, Appalachian State U from Berea College "Whole Community Aroused": The Murder of Gladys Kincaid & the Hunt for Broadus Miller 36. Factory & Government Workers in Northern Kevin Young, Appalachian State U Appalachia, 1930-1970 (History) Drinko 349 Ballads & Bytes: Digitally Reproducing & Disseminating the Convener: John Hennen, Morehead State U I. G. Greer & W. Amos Abrams Folksong Collections “We Poke Around”: Conservatives Respond to the WPA Paul Robertson, Appalachian State U Workers & Their Demands in Somerset County, PA 41. Connections to Scotland & the Celts (Crossing Jennifer Egolf, West Virginia U Borders) MSC 2W37 “A Little Extra Persuasio”: Fostoria’s Female Glassworkers Convener: Grace Toney Edwards, Radford U & the American Flint Glass Workers Union, 1930-1950 Tracking Contemporary Appalachian Culture Back to Ginny Young, West Virginia U Scottish Roots “I Feel We Went Overboard for Them”: Female Pottery Grace Toney Edwards, Radford U Workers & Conservative Unionism, 1940-1970 Kathy M. Murphy, Radford U Lou Martin, West Virginia U Donia Eley, Independent Scholar

Appalachian / Celtic Connections for K-12 Classrooms 37. Poetry: How to Write Appalachian and Not Hate Tim Thomas, James Madison U Yourself in the Morning (Literature) Corbly 354 Jesse Wells, Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, Convener: Edwina Pendarvis, Marshall U Morehead State U How to Write like an Appalachian and Not Hate Yourself in the Morning: Anderson, Still, and Wright 42. Defanged: Eliminating the Sting from Coal Mining Amanda Warren, Western Michigan U Regulation & Enforcement (Coal & MTR) MSC 2W16 Route 60: Farmers, Kentucky (poetry reading) Convener: Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia U Philip St. Clair, Ashland CTC To Protect Ourselves: Early Twentieth Century Coal Primer for a Feudist's Daughter (poetry reading) Operators, Politics, and Mine Safety Enforcement Sara Pennington, Florida State U Paul Rakes, History Professor, WVU Institute of Louise McNeill: An Introduction to Paradox Hill Technology Art Stringer, Marshall U Sustained Outrage: The Media and Coal Mine Safety Ken Ward, Jr., Charleston Gazette Reporter 38. Ways of Using Appalachian Literature with MTR: Mine Health and Safety and the Braking of Federal Students from Appalachia (Representation) MSC 2W22 Enforcement Programs under the Bush Administration Convener: John Richards, West Virginia State U Jack Spadaro, Former MSHA official Sharyn McCrumb, Author Barbara Ladner, West Virginia State U 43. Fighting Back: Black West Virginians in the Age of Jane Hicks, Poet “Jim Crow” (Diversity) Corbly 244 Convener: L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State U Samuel W. Starks & the Rise of the Black Knights of Pythias Concurrent Session IV Connie Park Rice, West Virginia U Sat 8-9:15 The Black Response to the Construction of a "Colored" Huntington, WV in the Age of Jim Crow 39. Community, Development, Conflict (Activism & Cicero Fain, Marshall U Organizing) Corbly 211 African American Women's Activism in West Virginia Convener: Roger Guy, U of North Carolina at Pembroke Lois Lucas, West Virginia State U Rural Appalachian Economic Development: Putting the Commentator Community Back in Our Communities L. Diane Barnes, Youngstown State U Erika Adams, East Tennessee State U Helping Hands & Hard Work: Community Efforts to 44. Hard Work & Low Pay: Addressing the Problems Promote Economic Development in Northern Appalachia Plaguing Appalachian Low-Wage Workers (Econ & Jason Sides, Eastern Kentucky U Power) Drinko 138 Yankees & Floridiots: Development, Growth & Conflict in Convener: Wendy Williams, Marshall U Appalachian Communities George V. Davis, Marshall U Tim Ezzell, U of Tennessee Lisa Heinzeroth, Marshall U Fighting to Sustain Small Nonprofits in Appalachian Ohio Adrienne Brown, Marshall U Richard Greenlee, Ohio U Kala Melchiori, Marshall U Nicole Logan, Americorps VISTA

45. Growing up in 21st-Century Appalachia 50. Art & Ideology in the Literature of Coal (Education/Youth) Drinko 349 (Literature) Corbly 354 Convener: Aminata Cairo, University of Kentucky Convener: Tim Dunn, Hazard CTC Perceptions of Personal Autonomy & Parental Influence The Varied Functions of Biblical Allusions in Diane Gilliam Among Appalachian Adolescents Fisher's Kettle Bottom Linda Trollinger, Campbellsville U John Lang, Emory & Henry College Appalachian Gen-N's & Computer Use Coal, Commodification, & Character in Giardina's Storming Diane Downard, U of Rio Grande & Linda Palechar, Heaven WV Department of Education Sabrina Jones, Marshall U Queer Appalachian: Identity Development in Appalachian You'll Never Get Out Alive: Ideology & Oppression in Diane Gays, Lesbians, & Bisexuals Gilliam Fisher's Kettle Bottom Douglas Evans, Marshall U Allison Massey, Marshall U Rural Youth: Living with Physical Difference in Appalachia Unions, Miners, Owners, & Marxists: Four Perspectives on Christopher Worth, MU H.E.L.P. Program the 1920s Appalachian Coalfields Kelli Johnson, MU Library Associate Kelly Riddell, Marshall U

46. Wilma Dykeman Tribute (film & sharing) Corbly 105 51. Representations of Appalachian In & Of Convener: George Brosi, Berea College Appalachia (Representations) Corbly 305 Convener: Chelsie Guthrie, Marshall U 47. Appalachian Identity: Existence, History & Hillbilly: Controversy, Comradely, & the Influence of the Complications (App Studies & Identity) Corbly 117 Media Convener: Rodger Cunningham, Alice Lloyd College Janet Little, Radford U Identifying Appalachians: Perspectives from on the Ground Confronting The Past As We View The Road Ahead: Robert Ludke & Phil Obermiller, U of Cincinnati Television And Appalachia After the Move: Self-reported Appalachian Ancestry in the Jake Podber, Southern Illinois U Carbondale 2000 Census Appalachian Pseudo-Folklore as War Propaganda Trent Alexander, U of Minnesota & Chad Berry, Berea Rachel Jennings, U of Texas at San Antonio College Considering Perley Ayer: Institutionalizing Appalachian Identity in the 1950s Concurrent Session V Penny Messinger, Daemen College Sat 9:30-10:45 Acting Hillbilly, Sincerely: The Influence of Touristic

Stereotypes on Appalachian Identity Construction 52. The Waters of Life (Activism & Organizing) Mark Roberts, Virginia Intermont College Corbly 211 "Were they my people too?": Cultural Diaspora & Collectivity Convener: Greg Clary, Clarion University in Denise Giardina's Appalachian Fiction "The Big Dip": A Community-Based Assessment of Coal Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State U Country Headwater Stream Health Reflections on Identity & the Roots of Prejudice Alice Jones, Eastern Kentucky U & Reagan Weaver, EKU- Rodger Cunningham, Alice Lloyd College Environmental Research Institute

Water Over the Dam: Water Powered Grist Mills in Floyd 48. Research & Innovation in Appalachia: Higher County, VA, 1800-2000 Education in a High-Tech, Knowledge-Based Ricky Cox, Radford U Economy (Higher Ed) Drinko 402 Fish Springs/Little Milligan Water Project Paul Hill, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Angela Marson & Melissa Schrift, East TN State U Commission Recreating a Community: The Growth of Myth and Legend

Lynn Crabtree, Somerset Community College 49. Floyd County, Virginia Place-Based Education Project: A School & Community Partnership Exploring World War II (History) MSC 2W22 52.5 The Appalachian Action Coalition (AAC): Convener: Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford U Forming a Regional Coalition of Community Ashley Herwald, Radford U Development Organizations (Activism & Organizing) Joe Klein, New River Valley Community Services Corbly 106 Barry Hollandsworth, Floyd County High School Convener: Maureen Sullivan, Urban Appalachian Kathleen Ingoldsby, Floyd County Historical Society Council Catherine Pauley, Old Church Gallery Evelyn Dortch, Direct Action Welfare Group Radford U Anthropology Students: Brittony Fitzgerald, Gary Zuckett, Southern Appalachian Labor School Patricia Jacobs, Nicholas McComas, Adam Mike Maloney, AAC, Interim Executive Director of Richardson, Jeffrey Wood Episcopal Appalachian Ministries Floyd County High School Students: Kaylynn Brennan, Donald Broome, Molly Cox, Nathan Harrell, Dakota Jarrell, Michelle Smith, Angela Via, Idalina Walker

53. Art & Community in Eastern Kentucky (Arts) 60. AMSTEMM: Appalachian & Minority STEM Corbly 104 Convener: Christopher Worth, Marshall U (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Art & Community Dialogue: Documenting The Harlan Majors (Higher Ed) Drinko 402 County PACT Project Robert S. Tannenbaum, U of Kentucky Maureen Mullinax, U of Kentucky Theoretical Foundations of AMSTEMM A Survey of Arts Resources & Needs in Eastern Kentucky Joanna M. Badagliacco, U of Kentucky Joy Gritton, Morehead State U; Kendrick Holbrook, MSU; Travis Keene, MSU 61. Diabetes: A Growing Concern in the Appalachian Bringing Something Home: Arts Education in Eastern KY Region (Health) Corbly 305 Nathan Zamarron, Community Arts Manager, LexArts Convener: Sharon Denham, Ohio U Coal Camp Sustainability: Using Community Identity & Diabetes: A Family Affair Memory for Economic Development Sharon Denham, Ohio U Lisa Perry, Arkansas State U Cultural Appropriateness of Educational Information Ann Rathbun, Morehead U 54. NOT ABOUT COAL: A conversation among folks Diabetes Education in the Appalachian Region who live in the coal fields (Coal & MTR) MSC 2W16 Karen Remsberg, Ohio U Convener: Wess Harris, Appalachian Community Health Providers & Diabetes Services in the Appalachian Services, farmer & educator; former Union miner Region Julian Martin, WV Highlands Conservancy; Kanawha Larry Wood, Ohio U

State Forest Foundation; from a family of Union 62. Preserving the Past (History) MSC 2W22 miners—grandfather fought on Blair Mountain Convener: Tim Ezzell, U of Tennessee Bill Price, Sierra Club environmental justice organizer, What the Grave Creek Stone Does Not Say: An Epigraphic & coal field resident Philological Analysis Elaine Purkey, Wife of a Union Miner, Coal Field C. Edward Smith, Jr., West Virginia Northern College Activist La Riviere, Historic Preservation Project, Radford, Virginia: Phil Smith, Director of Communications, UMWA Preserving the Past to Look to the Future

55. Memoirs of the Marginalized (Diversity) Drinko 138 Julie Alexander, Fallon Park School, & Kerri Huff, Convener: Jeff Mann, Virginia Tech Radford U Edwina Pendarvis, Marshall U Digitizing Appalachian Music: Revisiting & Saving Early Cynthia Burack, Ohio State U Appalachian Radio Shows through Digitization Cathy Pleska, West Virginia State Keith Nunn, Radford U & Stevan R. Jackson, Virginia Tech Steven Salaita, Virginia Tech Woodrow Wilson Winchester III, Virginia Tech 63. Appalachian Novelists (Literature) MSC 2W37

Convener: Hugo Freund, Union College 56. Government Consolidation in Appalachia & Peripheral Vision in the Fiction of Robert Morgan: Living Sustainable Development (Economics & Power) Voices & Roads Well-Traveled Drinko 349 Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherd U Convener: Brooks McCabe, WV Senate A Deleted Manuscript, an Early Story, & a New Approach to Calvin A. Kent, Center for Business & Economic the Fiction of Lee Smith Research, Marshall U Martha Billips, Transylvania U Tom Witt, Bureau for Business & Economic Research, Four Pistols, Love & Jealousy, Two Cousins & Human WVU Blood in the Snow: Generational Identity in Clay’s Quilt Hugo Freund, Union College 57. The Glass Castle: How Teachers Help Aspiring Who We Are, Who We Have Always Been: Appalachian Appalachian Students to Succeed in School Identity in Silas House's Appalachian Trilogy (Education/Youth) Corbly 117 Donna Summerlin, Lee U Convener: Kevin Barksdale, Moderator, Marshall U Phyllis Owens, Bluefield College 64. Making a Home: Literacy, Class, Culture, and Laura Tracy Baisden, Logan High School Pedagogy (Representations) Corbly 354 Linda Spatig, Marshall U Convener: Thomas Wagner, U of Cincinnati Donna Sullivan, Marshall U Tell Them Thirty One Cents is Not a Tip: How Waiting Tables Changed the Way I Teach 58. Appalachian Documentaries & the Discourse of Mary Colleen Patterson, West Virginia U Regional Identity (Film) Corbly 105 Shaping Biscuit Dough & Rolling Out Steel: Responding to Joy M. Doss, Independent Scholar Literacy in The Dollmaker Barbara Ladner, West Virginia State U Erica Abrams Locklear, Louisiana State U

Teaching Thomas Wolfe's The Web of Earth in the 59. A Roundtable Discussion with Directors of Appalachian College Classroom Appalachian Centers (App Studies & Identity) Shawn Holliday, Alice Lloyd College Corbly 244 Language, Identity, & Power: Contemporary Composition Convener: Carol Baugh, Sinclair Community College Theory in the Appalachian College Classroom Alice Sampson, North Georgia College & State U Jessica Blackburn, Emory & Henry College Plus Other Directors…. West Virginia U's Center for Appalachian Studies & Development: What Happened to that Road Ahead? Sessions on this page occur during Barb Howe, West Virginia U Concurrent Session V Sat 9:30-10:45

Concurrent Session VI sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Jane's Stories Press Saturday 2:30-3:45 Foundation & Linda Mitchell, Jane’s Stories Author

Still Working Towards Whiteness? The Racial Identity of 65. The Educator Don West: Artist as Agitator Melungeons (Activism & Organizing) Corbly 354 Marie Tedesco, East Tennessee State U Convener: James Lorence, U of Wisconsin-Marathon Opo Yeye: Community Mental Well Being from a Non- County Western Cultural Perspective The Education of Don West: Shaping of an Agitator Aminata Cairo & Rosalind Harris, U of Kentucky Jim Lorence, U of Wisconsin-Marathon County The Educator Don West: Artist as Agitator 70. Public Schools, Young Voices, & Politics Joyce Stavick, North Georgia College & State U (Education/Youth) Corbly 211 The Artist as Agitator in the Appalachian South Convener: Roxanne Smith, Marshall U Amy Childers, North Georgia College & State U Professional, Union, & Non-Professional Coalitions: a Case The Art of Connie West: Mirror for Mountain Life Study of Public Schools & a WV Election Wess Harris, Appalachian Community Services Stephen Cook & David Comier, West Virginia U Commentary & Reaction Collaborative Ethnography: Student Voices in School Yvonne Farley, Activist & Student of Don West Consolidation & Youth Development

LeAnne Olson, Marshall U & Betty Sias, WV 66. The Cabin Creek Photovoice Project (Arts) Department of Education Drinko 349 Resistance to School Consolidation in a Rural Appalachian Convener: Shannon Elizabeth Bell, U of Oregon Community Genevieve Kitchen, former Cabin Creek Community Amanda Kelly, Virginia Tech Member Ann Boswell, Cabin Creek Community Member 71. The Times. . . They Are A’ Changing (App Studies & Kathy Stout, Cabin Creek Community Member Identity) Corbly 305 Loretta Watkins, Cabin Creek Community Member Convener: Amanda Warren, Western Michigan U

Central Appalachian Culture: The Times. . . They Are A’ 67. Traditional Folk Music of Beech Mountain (Arts) Changing Corbly 105 Janet Justice Crickmer, Emory & Henry College Susan Pepper, Appalachian State U Dinner on the Ground (Creative Non-fiction) Rick Ward, Beech Mountain Traditional Instrument Amanda Rogers, Big Sandy CTC Maker and Musician Three Ayrshire Cows (Fiction, Tucker County WV) 67.5 Mountain Top Removal (Documentary) Corbly 104 Erin Felton, Marshall U Michael O’Donnell, Haw River Films HIV/AIDS in Rural Appalachia: an Oral History Gabriella Williamson, Marshall U Graduate College 68. Internationalizing Appalachia: The Ukrainian Carpathians (Crossing Borders) Corbly 117 72. Service Learning & Participatory Research: The Convener: Donald Davis, Dalton State College Road Ahead (Higher Ed) MSC 2W22 State Education Policy in the Ukrainian Highlands Convener: Joy Gritton, Morehead State U Professor Bohdan Ostafiychuk, President, Tal Stanley, Emory & Henry College Precarpathian National U (PNU) Alan Banks, Eastern Kentucky U Teacher Training for Highland Schools: Expectations & Roy Silver, Southeast Community College Realities Ashley Cochrane, Berea College Professor Yuriy Moskalenko, Vice-President, PNU A Social & Ethnographic Overview of the Ukrainian 73. Addressing Rural Health Care Needs in West Carpathians Virginia (Health) Corbly 106 Roman Poznanskyy, (Panel Translator) Instructor of Jennifer Plymale, Assistant Dean, Joan C. Edwards Foreign Languages, PNU School of Medicine at Marshall U & Director of the Innovative Regional Projects of Investigation in the Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health at MU Ukrainian Highlands Deborah Curry, Southwestern WV Area Health Professor Vasyl Khrushch, Editor, Highland School of Education Center the Carpathians Mental Health & Highland School Children: Pedagogical 74. The Glenwood Estate: A New Approach to Techniques of Assessment Appalachian Studies (History) Drinko 138 Assistant Professor Olena Khrushch, Assistant Convener: Robert Maslowski, Marshall U Graduate Professor of Psychology, PNU College Demographic Processes in the Ukrainian Carpathians, 1990- Landscape Archeology & the Glenwood Estate 2010 Robert Maslowski, Marshall U Graduate College Professor Mykhaylo Romanuk, PNU An Analysis of Historic Materials Salvaged from the Glenwood Quarters 69. Who We Are (Diversity) MSC 2W16 William D. Updike, Cultural Resources Analysts Convener: Marianne Worthington, U of the Making it Her Own: Lucy Quarrier & the Craft Movement Cumberlands Jessica Potter, Marshall U Graduate College How Can We Know Who We Are? University The Peculiar Institution at Glenwood: Putting a Dana Wildsmith, Lanier Technical College Face on Slavery in the Kanawha Valley (session continued in next column Æ) Billy Joe Peyton, West Virginia State

75. Performing Appalachia (Literature) MSC 2W37 Sketching the Temperate Rainforest: The Verbal and Visual Convener: Anita Turpin, Roanoke College Arts of Emma Bell Miles and Emily Carr Teller Tales: The Latest in Jo Carson’s Storytelling Theatre Katerina Prajznerova, Masaryk University Anita Turpin, Roanoke College Paving the Appalachian Digital Highway: Creating Catherine Bush: Quilts & Murder Electronic Access to the WV and Regional History Katherine Weiss, East Tennessee State U Collection's Printed Ephemera Collection The Dancing Outlaw: The Appalachian Other & Anna M. Schein, WVU Libraries Intercultural Performativity Preserving Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions Carissa Massey, Adrian College John Trokan, College of Mount St. Joseph Roads That Take Us Home: Scot-Irish Roots in the Nancy Trokan, Christ College of Nursing & Health Mountain Speech & Storytelling Traditions of Appalachia Sciences Kaitlin Curry, Shepherd U Behavioral Nutrition Practices of Rural Appalachian Youth Kelli Williams, Marshall University 76. Media Makers (Representation) Drinko 402 Convener: Sharon Wills Brescoach, St. Francis U 84. Looking Down the Road: A Dialogue about the A Success Unexpected in Common Hours: Junius Griffin, an Critical Issues Facing Young Appalachians & the American-African-Appalachian Creative Ways They are Addressing Persistent Herb Thompson, Emory & Henry College Regional Issues (Education/Youth) Corbly 243 Jesse Stuart, Don West & the Construction of Appalachian Elandria Williams, Highlander Research and Education Identity Center Michael Frazier, Morehead State U Rebecca O'Doherty & Natsha Watts, both from Engaging & Encouraging Independent Filmmaking Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute M. Joseph Jarrett, Ohio U - Southern Campus Youth from across the Region The Promise of Process-Oriented Approaches to Creating and Maintaining Unity among Family Members in the Wake of Outmigration Concurrent Session VII Jason Combs, U of Dayton Sat 4:00-5:15 77. Engaging Community with Data: The U of Kentucky Appalachian Center & the Appalachian 78. Becoming an Active Citizen: First Year College Data Bank Project (Misc.) Corbly 244 Student Experiences of Appalachian Activism An Open Discussion, led by… (Activism & Organizing) Corbly 211 Jenrose Fitzgerald, U of Kentucky Appalachian Center Convener: Laurie Pedersen, Mars Hill College Sarah M. Frank, U of Kentucky Appalachian Center Holly Schaeffer, Mars Hill College, student Evelyn Knight, U of Kentucky Appalachian Center Sherwyn Nichols, Mars Hill College, student Cassie Robinson, Pine Mountain School rd BCPIA representative, Big Creek People in Action 77.5 (yes… 77.5) Poster Session Drinko 3 Floor Foyer 79. Readings from Coal: A Poetry Anthology (Arts) Spatial Analysis of the Influence of Climactic Factors on MSC Shawkey 2E28 Incidence of Disease in Kentucky Convener: Edwina Pendarvis, Marshall U Anielle Ahadi-Akhlaghi, Britney Huron, and Nick Rose, Poets: Paige Dalporto, Mark DeFoe, Victor Depta, all from Morehead State U (MSU) Harry Gieg, Sarah Hagen, Jane Hicks, Sandi Timothy S. Hare & Christine McMichael, Institute for Keaton-Wilson, Jeff Mann, Rob Merritt, Regional Analysis and Public Policy, MSU Llewllyn McKernan, Beth Wellington, Delilah A Multi-Institutional Approach To Integrating Cancer Care O’Haynes, David Salner, Jim Webb Competencies in the Curriculum Sheri Boyle, California U of Pennsylvania; Peg 80. Comparative Regional Studies: Appalachia & Christopher, CUP; JoAnn Raines, MU Medical School South Texas (Crossing Borders) Corbly 104 Community-based Research Education in Eastern Kentucky Convener: Peter Crow, Ferrum College (CREEK): Focus on Students Crossing Regional Borders: Explorations in Comparative Cynthia Cole, U of Kentucky Center for Rural Health Appalachian & South Texas Regional Studies Snapshots of the Hispanic Immigrant Community in Deborah Blackwell, Texas A&M International U Appalachia Mixing at the Margins: Cultural Heterogeneity in John Vivian Gonzales Gladson, East Tennessee State U Sayles’ Matewan & Lone Star Groundhog Hunting and Constructivist Practices in Sean Chadwell, Texas A&M International U Education Distortion & Resistance: Comparing Responses to Post- Claire Graybeal, U of Rio Grande & Justin Ray Morris, Disaster Development in Appalachia & South Texas Meigs Middle School Jaclyn Jeffrey, Texas A&M International U Illuminating Appalachian Arts and Studies in the Schools: Examples of the Semi-Periphery of the Wallerstein World Many Roads, One Appalachia Economy: Comparing the US-Mexico Border & Appalachia Julie Ilowiecki, Katelyn Gimbel, Betsy DiSalvo, Aysha Michael Yoder, Texas A&M International U Bodenhamer, all from Radford U Sludge Safety and Environmental Classism Brenda McCoy, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition Southern Appalachian History and Culture Fund at Mars Hill College Kathy Newfont, Mars Hill College

81. The Social Costs of Coal (Coal & MTR) Corbly 105 Plans for the Future at Mars Hill Convener: Wilburn Hayden, York University Carol Boggess, English faculty & instructor for the 2008 Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia: How Does it Affect the Regional Studies intro course Quality of Life Among Coalfield Residents? Illuminating Appalachian Arts & Studies in the Schools: Brad Woods, Penn State U Many Roads, One Appalachia Another Perspective on Mountaintop Removal: Ginseng JoAnn Asbury, Julie Ilowiecki, Katelyn Gimbel, Betsy Poaching from the Next Generation DiSalvo, Aysha Bodenhamer, all from Radford U Randi Pokladnik, Antioch U New England 87. Higher Education & Local Residents (Higher Ed) “There Ain’t No Bond in Town Like There Used to Be”: The Drinko 138 Social Costs of Coal in the West Virginia Coalfields Convener: Erica Locklear, Louisiana State U Shannon Elizabeth Bell, U of Oregon The Community College Movement in the Tri-State Area of Investigating the Impact of Coal Interest Groups on the West the Upper Ohio Valley from the 1960s to the Present Virginia Electoral Process Delilah Ryan, WV Northern Community College Nicholas Busch, Marietta College Quality & Access at Marshall U: Mission Alteration via 82. Women & Appalachia (Diversity) Drinko 402 Financial Autonomy from State Legislature Convener: Elena Ermolaeva, Marshall U Christine Soulas, U of Rennes 2, France Shimmying the Mountains: The Implications of Belly Dance Recognizing & Honoring the Prior Learning of Adult Culture in Appalachia Students in Higher Education Brandy Renee McCann, Virginia Tech Dale Whitt, Marshall U Graduate College Writ Large: Mapping the Heavy Female Body in “And Miles Should Go Before I Eat": Education & Appalachian Literature Capitalism in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven Jennifer Neff, Marshall U Christina Fisanick, Xavier U (Un)Changing Perceptions of Appalachian Women: Helping 88. Healing Incarcerated Women with Art (Health) to Reduce the Stigma of Being Appalachian & Female Drinko 349 April Dye, Miami U Convener: Amelia Kirby, Appalshop Envisioning Feminist Community Development in Thousand Kites Appalachia: The High Rocks Model Amelia Kirby, Appalshop Anna Rachel Terman, Appalachian State U Nick Szuberla, Appalshop

Voices of Recovery from the Letcher County Jail 83. Ephemeralachia: The 2nd Home Boom & Madeline Flannery, Hazard CTC Degradation in Southern Appalachia (Economics & Power) Corbly 244 89. Modernity & Southern Mountain People (History) Convener: Jeremy Locke, U of TN at Chattanooga MSC 2W22 Class War? : Economics, “Outsiders” & The Appalachian Convener: Susan E. Keefe, Appalachian State U Land Grab Theorizing Modernity in Appalachia Justin Lewis, U Tennessee at Chattanooga Susan E. Keefe, Appalachian State U “We must go more than half way to meet them": Tourism & Modernity with a Mountain Inflection Cultural Decay in North Georgia Elvin Hatch, U of California, Santa Barbara Jeremy Locke, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga Appalachian Family Farming & the 21st Century: Trout Limited: Water Pollution & the Second Home Boom in Traditional Survival Strategies, Adaptation, & North Georgia Accommodation Foy Tootle, Freelance Writer/Activist Mary LaLone, Radford U Urban Ways of Being Modern: Responses to Gentrification & 84. See final session in concurrent session VI on the Third Coming of a Working Class School previous page. Rhoda Halperin, Montclair State U Discussant: Mary Anglin, U of Kentucky 85. Conversations with Coal Miners & with Death (Montage/Documentary) Corbly 117 90. Children’s Literature (Literature) MSC 2W37 Brian Harnetty, Composer & Sound Artist Convener: Roberta Herrin, East Tennessee State U Tom Hansell, Appalshop The Future of Appalachian Biography for Children 86. Rethinking Regional Studies (App Studies & Roberta Herrin, East Tennessee State U Identity) MSC 2W16 Sheila Oliver, Broome High School, Spartanburg, South Convener: Carol Boggess, Mars Hill College Carolina Our Efforts to Rethink Regionalism at Mars Hill An Investigation of Authenticity & Accuracy in Children's Joanna Pierce, English faculty & Coordinator of Realistic Fiction Picture Books Set in Appalachia Valerie Valentine, U of Rio Grande Regional Studies An Earlier Version of Regional Studies at Mars Hill College 91. Are We Losing Literature in America?: Finding JoAnn Croom, Biology faculty Appalachia, Ourselves, & the Nation (Representation) Recent Reforms to Mars Hill’s Regional Studies Introductory Corbly 354 Course Julie Alexander, Radford U Kathy Newfont, History faculty & Director of the NEH Dana Cochran, Radford U Challenge Grant Donna Ogle, Radford U Regional Studies at Mars Hill from a Student's Perspective Sabrina Greene Hoglen, Student Sessions on this page occur during (continued next columnÆ) Concurrent Session VII Sat 4:00-5:15

Concurrent Session VIII 98. Devil's Oven: The Fire in the Heart of the Little Cities of Black Diamonds (Film) Corbly 105 Sun 8:30-9:30 Valda Lewis, Director & Producer

92. Lived Religion: Faith in Action for Social Justice 99. Food as Reality in Appalachia (App Studies & in Appalachia (Activism & Organizing) Corbly 243 Identity) Corbly 106 Convener: Jill A. Martin, U of Pittsburgh Convener: Lucy Long, Bowling Green State U When Doctrine & Economics Collide: The Church of God Moonshine, Opossum, & Cornbread: Othering Appalachia (Cleveland, TN) & the Labor Movement through its Food Carletta A. Bush, West Virginia U Lucy Long, Bowling Green State U Reverend Charlie Pratt & the Church of God Union Women Walking the Road Ahead: Bringing Ancient Ethnic Assembly Legacies into Modernity through the Art of Cooking Donald Davis, Dalton State U Les Brown, Gardner-Webb U Serving God in the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Women Walking the Road Ahead: The Role of Church, Whitney Kimball Coe, Appalachian State U Community & Scholarship in Recognizing Women as Artists Lived Religion in the Episcopal Church of an Ephemeral Medium Reverend Leonard Marr, United Methodist Minister Joyce Compton Brown, Gardner-Webb U

93. Healing Gaia with Higher Justice: Grass Roots 100. From Passion to Practice: Creating a Common Meets Academia to Explore the destruction of MTR & Reading Program to Unite Campus & Community Coal Alternatives (Coal & MTR) Corbly 117 (Higher Ed) Corbly 244 Convener: Jennifer Cohen-Jordan, Appalachian State U Convener: Jennifer Sias, Marshall U Joseph Mathis, Appalachian State U Christine Lewis, Marshall U Larry Bush, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards Sabrina Thomas, Marshall U

94. New Directions in the Visual Arts in Appalachia I 101. Health, Economics & Environment in (Arts) [NOTE: The second part of this session will take place Appalachian Coal Fields (Health) MSC 2W16 in concurrent session IX) Corbly 104 Convener: Michael Hendryx, WVU, Institute for Health Convener, Theresa Lloyd, ETSU Policy Research Gaining a New Vision of Appalachia through a Survey Ben Stout, Wheeling Jesuit U Course in its Visual Arts, Part I Scott Simonton, Marshall U Theresa Lloyd, East Tennessee State U Michael Hendryx, WVU, Institute for Health Policy Gaining a New Vision of Appalachia through a Survey Research Course in its Visual Arts, Part II Anita DeAngelis, East Tennessee State U 102. An Issue of Identity: Redefining Gender, Culture, & Status in West Virginia, 1861-1890 (History) Corbly 95. Exploring LGBT Identity in Appalachia (Diversity) 354 Corbly 305 Convener: Cicero Fain, Marshall U Convener: Okey Napier, Jr., Marshall U Allison Fredette, West Virginia U Loving Mountains, Loving Men Hannah Cole, West Virginia U Jeff Mann, Virginia Tech Revelations Revisited: Re-Voicing thoughts on Resiliency in 103. 19th & Early 20th Century Appalachian Authors Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered Appalachians (Literature) Corbly 333 Okey Napier, Jr., Marshall U Convener: Anita Turpin, Roanoke College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Identity in "They . . . Need Education" & "Bath-Tubs": A Cowboy Appalachia Experiences & Observes Appalachia Douglas Evans, Marshall U Ivan Tribe, U of Rio Grande An Accidental Tourist: The Ethnographic Encounter in John 96. Poverty: Media, Realities, & Solutions (Economics & Fox, Jr.’s Fiction Power) MSC 2W22 Lisa Stein, Ohio U, Zanesville Convener: Mary Spilman, Miami U – Hamilton campus Constance Fennimore Woolson's Gilded-Age Appalachia Media Portrayals of Causes of Poverty in Appalachia Kevin O'Donnell, East Tennessee State U Lawrence Wood & Melissa Hendricks, Ohio U Homeless Fathers in Appalachian Kentucky 104. Digital Archives in Appalachia (Representation) Joanna Badagliacco, U of Kentucky Corbly 211 Building Better Roads to the Material Culture of 97. Needs of Southern Ohio Alternatively Licensed Appalachia’s Dynamic Past Career & Technical Education Teachers Scott Schwartz, U of Illinois (Education/Youth) MSC 2W37 Convener: John Cannon, U of Rio Grande Douglas Sturgeon, U of Rio Grande Dennis Duncan, U of Georgia Ryan Anderson, Murray State U

Concurrent Session IX Teaching Appalachia: Encouraging Students to Continue the Study of Appalachia Sun 9:45-10:45 Serena Frost, Kathy Combiths, Alice Kinder, Jeff Mann, all from Virginia Tech 105. Appalachian Culture as Educational Action (Activism & Organizing) Corbly 305 111. Appalachian, Happily or Not: Choosing, Convener: Dale Whitt, Marshall U Graduate College Affirming, Rejecting, Assigning, & Complicating Coming Around the Mountain: A Story of Home-Grown Identity in the University (Higher Ed) MSC 2W22 Knowledge & Kinship Pedagogy Convener: Katherine Ledford, Appalachian State U Sherry Cook Stanforth, Thomas More College Rachael Woldoff, West Virginia U Kathryn Trauth, Thomas More College Melissa Latimer, West Virginia U The Legend of Mud Run School Anita Puckett, Virginia Tech Douglas Sturgeon, U of Rio Grande (research assisted by Jacob White and John Cannon) 112. Mapping Death in the Mountains (Health) Corbly 211 94. New Directions in the Visual Arts in Appalachia II Convener: Elena Ermolaeva, Marshall University (Arts) [NOTE: The first part of this session will take place Patterns of Substance Abuse in Appalachian Offenders in concurrent session VIII) Corbly 104 Mikki Woodward, Morehead State U, B.S.C.T.C., & Convener, Anita DeAngelis, East Tennessee State U Kentucky Department of Corrections The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwestern Virginia and The Heart of Appalachia: Cardiovascular Problems in White Northeastern Tennessee Appalachians in the Greater Cincinnati Area Betsy K. White, William King Regional Art Center Ann McCracken & E. Kelly Firesheets, Health Mentoring Appalachia’s Young Artists Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Theresa Burchett-Anderson, B. Carroll Reece Museum A Geographical Approach to the Differences in County-Level Mortality Rates & Related Factors for Females & Males across Central Appalachia 106. The Road Ahead in Ozarks Studies (Crossing Timothy Hare, Institute for Regional Analysis & Public Borders) MSC 2E10 Policy, Morehead State U Convener: Gene Hyde, Radford U Reinventing Ozarks Studies at Missouri State U 113. Appalachia as Borderland: A New Historical John A. Schmalzbauer, Missouri State U Perspective (History) Corbly 105 Another 'Black Gold': A Comparative Discussion of Current Convener: Gordon McKinney, Berea College Issues in the Culture of Lead Mining in the Missouri Ozarks 19th Century Matt Meacham, West Plains (MO) Council on the Arts Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia U “Beyond Hillbillies & Mountaineers: Ozarks Studies in the 17th & 18th Centuries 21st Century Kevin Barksdale, Marshall U Brooks Blevins, Lyon College 114. Cormac McCarthy v. Existence (Literature) 107. Open Forum on the Status of Women at Corbly 354 Appalachian Colleges & Universities (Diversity) Convener: Katherine Weiss, East Tennessee State U Corbly 117 McCarthy: Suttree & Joyce Convener: Marcia Harrison, Marshall U Thomas Holmes, East Tennessee State U Heidi Williams, MU-ADVANCE, Marshall U On the Road Again: Cormac McCarthy's The Road Elaine Baker, Center for the Advancement of Teaching Richard Jordan, Walters State Community College & Learning, Marshall U Never Die (A Short Story about Snake Handling & Existentialism) 108. Panel had to withdraw Lindsay Burton, Georgia State U

115. Appalachian Culture: Beyond the Beverly 109. The Pedagogy of Literacy: Teaching the Young to Hillbillies (Representation) Corbly 106 Read (Education/Youth) MSC 2W37 Convener: Ann Andaloro, Morehead State U Convener: Douglas Sturgeon, U of Rio Grande Three Generations of Appalachian Quilters An Analysis of Reading Instructional Strategies Used in a Summer Copley, Morehead State U University Summer Reading Camp for Children Reactions to American Hollow Christina Walton, Regina Sutton, & Pamela S. Dagnan Joel Brashear, Morehead State U Smith, all from Morehead State U Representations of Appalachians in Visual Art On the Road to Reading: What Have Education Graduate Braden Frieder, Morehead State U Students Learned? Appalachian Stereotypes in Media/Internet Terrence Stange, Marshall U Graduate College Chris Merrit & Chris Wisecup, Morehead State U

Marxist Critique of Appalachia Images 110. Appalachian Studies: Yesterday & Tomorrow Steven O. Middleton, Morehead State U (App Studies & Identity) MSC 2W16 Convener: Serena Frost, VA Tech Apples on the Flood, Two Decades Later Youth Voice & Farewell Brunch Rodger Cunningham, Alice Lloyd College Sunday, 11:00, Don Morris Room, MSC Must have blue dot[s] on name tag & (continued next columnÆ) a filled out conference evaluation form.

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