Traditio n. Diversity. Change.

Listening is the path to learning

e asked the writers of this It's my great honor to be associated W issue to write about "what with both of them. Chad has they've learned." They were established himself as one of the most given no other guidelines at all, so the active and devoted people in the field of subject was wide open for them. Appalachian Studies today. Needless to However, all the pieces are connected say, Loyal is one of the reasons by the fact that all of their lessons were Appalachian Studies exists and learned by listening. continues to bloom. When I took the job as Interim I would venture to say that Chad Director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian and Loyal have found their way by Center a couple months ago, I knew listening as well. There are lessons to be that the only way to figure out this new learned by listening to the writers in role was to listen, too. Luckily, I have this issue of our newsletter, so I hope two of the best people talking to me: you'll be able to be still, sit back, and Dr. Chad Berry, who held this position listen to them awhile, giving us their before me (and left to become our Dean stories and the lessons they've learned and Academic Vice President), and about this enigmatic country we call Loyal Jones, one of Appalachia's fiercest Appalachia. I'm certain you'll learn preservationists and our Center's something, too. :'( namesake. When Chad and Loyal talk, I listen. -Silas House, Interim Director

SUMMER 2011 6 UAC: By the Numbers 8 Gurney Norman: Communities of Memory ACZit:!tff::;:C~NTER Tradition. Diversity. Change. Absolutely nothing is impossible ~)

FaU 2011 en I attended Swarthmore College, following Volume 40· Number 1 W my high school graduation in 1931, I went from a high school rank of salutatorian in a 30 ILOYAIL JON ES member class to a struggling student among very smart APPAILACHIIAIIII CENTER STAFF classmates. This added to an inferiority complex which was Silas HOllse, Director, Appa lach ian only cured by the Chairman of the Political Science Center; Associate Professor of Appalachian I' Studies Department, Professor Robert C. Brooks who once George Bros!, Editor, Appalachian remarked that I was a "diamond in the rough" and only Heritage needed polishing .. . which he proceeded to do. Professor David Cooke, Program Coordinator, Brooks invited me to his home on the weekends, taught me Entrepreneurship for the Public Good and how to study and get better grades and restored my self­ Direc' or, Berea College Appalachian Fund confidence. His inspiration led me to become a teacher, and WHAT I'VE Beth Curlin-Weber, Administrative Assistant, Brushy Fork Institute taught me to encourage those of my students who seemed to Dr. Peter H. Hackbert, Moore Chair in be less intelligent than their brilliant colleagues. I discovered LEARNED Manageme t and Entrepreneurship, EPG that when I could see the successful results of inspiring less Jane Higgins, Program Associate, Brushy talented students it was the route to campus popularity. Fork I stitute At Swarthmore I learned about Civil Rights and Ken Peter Hille, Director, Brushy -ork Institute Women's Rights. I learned to appraise problems with a spirit Hechler bell hooks, Distinguished Professor in of independence, down playing political and economic esidence in Appalachian Studies pressures and "conventional wisdom." The Quaker influence at Swarthmore Sheila lyons, P ogram Associate included opening the Friends' Meeting House every morning for a class-free half­ Christopher Miller, College Curator and Associ a. e Di ector, Appalachian Center hour, a time for students to get their priorities in order with silent [.Iol1lna Morgan, Associate Directo r, contemplation. Swarthmore taught me to fight extra hard for the exploited. I ru shy For Institute learned that anything is worth trying and absolutely nothing is impossible. [ir. William Turner, Distinguished In my teaching at Columbia and Princeton, back in the day when all my P 0 essor of Appalachian Studies and classes were male, middle and upper-class, I brought many black lawyers, judges , egional Ambassador and politicians to my classes so my students would understand that not all blacks Please address all correspondence to: were in inferior occupations. In Congress, I learned to get along very well with Lo al Jones Appa lachian Center members of the Republican Party, which enhanced my ability to get bills Be ea College, CPO 2166 Be ea, . 40404 enacted. &59.9&5.3140 When I joined President Truman's White House staff in 1949, he explained: www.berea.edu/ac "The rich and powerful people in this country have their own lawyers, their own 3erea Coll ege and the Appalachian Center are cOllmite to the betterment of the peoples of accountants, and their own publicity staff. It's the job of the President and every Appa lac ia. The unique views and perspectives of public official to stand up and fight for all those who have no representation." individual authors in this Newsletter, however, do not necessarily represent the vi ews and policies of Also, unlike many politicians, Truman never took a poll, and never paid any Berea College. attention to any polls or issues before making decisions on issues. He used to tell us: "Polls are a temporary snapshot of possibly misinformed public opinion. But they don't tell you the difference between right and wrong, justice and injustice." That word "justice" was Truman's moral compass." MIX I also learned from Truman that whenever anybody downgrades you, just go Paper from out and work three times as hard to prove that they are wrong! :-: DFSC responsible sources wwwJsc.org FSC® C009785 Ken Hechler was a Us. Congressman for 18 years and has taught at Princeton, Columbia and Barnard. He served four terms as West Virginia Secretary ofStat e.

:2 LOYAL JONES A PPALACHIAN CE NTER NEWSLEITER I Appalachian lessons

en I first assumed my new of those travels I have confirmed what my WHAT l'VE W position as president of Berea first trip in 1994 impressed upon me, there College in July of 1994, my wife is not one Appalachia, but many; and there is LEARNED Nancy and I decided that we wanted to not one group ofpeople you can call travel to some part of Central Appalachia Appalachian, but many. Yes, it is true what from which Berea's students come. Loyal Loyal J ones says in his book, Appalachian Larry D. Jones and Helen Lewis helped organize the Values, that there are common threads that Shinn trip for us and even met us at several places in some sense distinguish the mountain along the way. From Hindman, Hyden, and culture we call "Appalachia." The loyalty to Whitesburg in Kentucky to the Highlander place, family, and local religion is strong in Center and Sneedville in Tennessee to the mountains. And the language, music, Ivanhoe and Wise in Virginia, we traveled dance and material culture from the British 902 miles in eight days. Isles and Europe have indeed helped create We sat around Mike and Frieda the "culture of the mountains." But so too Mullins' picnic tables in Hindman with have the songs and stories of the Mrican Appalachian authors AI Stewart and James American spiritual and slave traditions Still along with Grady Stumbo, the shaped this land. Last century's heyday of Chairman of the Democratic Party in coal mining in the mountains created one Kentucky. In Whitesburg, we were hosted in new coal town after another and the vibrant the Court House Cafe by Josephine black communities in Lynch and Benham, Richardson to meet local officials and then Kentucky are contemporary reminders of a were given a tour of Appalshop by its day when racially diverse communities were founder, Bill Richardson. These two common throughout the region. Likewise, Easterners came to Kentucky in the 1960s the writings of the Mfralachian poet, Frank and adopted Whitesburg as their home. I X Walker, or of our own academic was given a tour of Whitesburg by the colleague, Bill Turner, make clear their county Judge Executive, Carroll Smith, a claim on the mountains as "my home." Republican who was also a leader in the And who can deny the Cherokee's insistence UMW union. In Ivanhoe, Maxine Waller upon the mountains as their land too? talked about "out-migration" and what she So, while I have learned many lessons and her friends were trying to do to make over the years about Appalachia, none is Ivanhoe a place where young people could more salient that the appreciation of the learn their local history. In Wise we were diversity of people, langJIage, race, hosted by Jay and Marcia Lemons, the topography, and material culture that we so presidential couple at the recently re-named often give one name, "Appalachian." :'( University of Virginia at Wise (formerly Clinch Valley College) where we had lunch With roots on both sides ofhis family in with an Mrican American family whose son West Virginia, Larry Shinn grew up on a was coming to Berea College that fall. small farm in Ohio and has taught and During the past 17 years at Berea, I studied in the Middle East and India. After have traveled thousands of miles in the small 14 years as a professor at Oberlin College and towns and cities and the mountains and 10 years as a Dean and Academic Vice hollers of West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky President at Bucknell University, Dr. Shinn and Tennessee, Southeastern Virginia, has been president ofBerea College for the past Western North and South Carolinas. In all 17 years.

LOYAL JON ES APPALACH IAN CENTER NEWSLEITER 3 Lessons from a Igiraffe-makerl

ile a student at Berea College, I This year I turned 50 and have become W had occasion to have lunch with more reflective about the journey than usual. Jleanne Marie my mom and two of my sisters at What have I learned from my career as a Hibberd a Denny's Restaurant in Louisville. The giraffe-maker? While not exactly epiphanies, waitress gave my youngest sister, who was the following lessons are the ones that I have born while I was away at college, a kiddie internalized: menu. The menu included a cardboard • I learn more from people who disagree giraffe that you could punch-out and with me than from those who agree. assemble. When honest and civil, disagreements I had recently announced to my parents can bring about greater consciousness. that I was changing my major from home • Social change takes time. Don't give up, economics to philosophy. They seemed a bit don't become cynical and don't assume concerned about how I would find you can do it alone. employment with a degree in philosophy and • I have learned far more from my that was a recurring theme of our mistakes than from my successes. conversation that day. Practice and reflection are the best paths My sister, Crissy, who was in high school to understanding. at the time, tried first to assemble the giraffe, • We can't change others, only ourselves. to no avail. Then mom tried for a while. But others may respond differently to Finally, after some frustration, the task was the changes we make in ourselves. turned over to me, with the comment, • I am responsible for my own happiness. I "You're in college, let's see if you can figure may not be able to change a situation it out!" When I finished and handed the but I can change how I respond to it. giraffe to my smiling little sister, mom • As the aboriginal creation myth asserts, jokingly exclaimed, "Now I know what you we "sing the world into existence." Our can do with your philosophy degree, you can perceptions, choices and actions affect be a giraffe-maker!" reality in significant and often This story has been repeated through the irreversible ways. We bear incredible years by my parents as a way of describing responsibility to act wisely. my journey from college to productive • Ceding control and letting go can open adulthood. The liberal arts education I up many possibilities. But knowing received at Berea College has been when and how is difficult. tremendously useful in honing my giraffe­ • Never underestimate the importance of making skills. Since graduating I have humility, humor and kindness. As Kurt worked in the nonprofit and social change Vonnegut advises, "Damn it, you've got sectors, work that could aptly be described as to be kind." ~~ giraffe-making. We are presented with complex issues or projects and have to craft a Jeanne Marie Hibberd received her BA in path forward with no clear instructions. As Philosophy in 1984. She currently serves as M iles Horton would say, we make the road director ofdevelopment and communications at by walking. Hindman Settlement School.

4 LOYAL JONES APPA LACHIAN CENTE R NEWSLETTER s an international student, the term They always said "Good morning" and asked me A"Appalachia" did not mean anything to me how I was doing. We chatted about where we ntil I came to Berea. When people came from, talked about great ideas, studied the mention America, the typical picture that always leaves, exchanged some jokes, and even cut wood appeared in my head was New York or Los together, all of which made me feel less alienated Angeles. Rarely, if ever, would an area like and more welcome. Appalachia come to mind. My brief, yet wonderful 'summer experience in This past summer I interned at a small West Virginia has increased my eagerness to learn environmental organization in West Virginia, more about the region. It is the people's hospitality which turned out to be one of the most rewarding and warmness that has made me develop a greater experiences of my life, not only because I learned appreciation for the richness of Appalachian culture. so much about the organization's work and Overall, I equate getting acquainted with increased my skills, but more importantly because Appalachian culture to familiarizing myself with of what I encountered. Over the course of about my home. Being a student of Berea College means two months, I was exposed to the rich culture of being an Appalachian resident; hence this is where Appalachia, particularly of West Virginia. I call "home." I want my experience at Berea I went to the Appalachian String Band Music College not only to be about taking classes and Festival, better known as Clifftop. This week-long working, but also about learning and appreciating ' music and dance celebration was a new concept for the region I live in. me. It was amazing to see people from all over the Taking care of Appalachia is like taking care of world converge in this one place to play bluegrass my home. The one and only way to do that is by and old time tunes until dawn, dancing all night exposing myself to the culture, understanding, " long. In this era of individualism and hard times, appreciating its history, and really taking in the people gathering together, laughing, and having a vast richness of it all into my college education. St ~ good time was a sight for sore eyes. Ambrose once said, "When in Rome, do as the I was also able to go hiking in a peaceful and Romans do." For me, it is not just do as the calming forest, untouched by civilization. In that Appalachians do, but also experience, appreciate, small corner of West Virginia, far from the sounds and care about the Appalachian culture. :-: of machines and daily routine, I felt tranquil and in touch with the inhabitants of the forest. Ivan Titaley is a sophomore at Berea College, ' Perhaps the most memorable aspect was with plans to major in chemistry with a focus on getting to interact with the truly kind people there. environmental studies and renewable energy.

LOYAL JONES APPALACH IAN CENTER NEWSLETTER 5 I The Loyal Jones Appalachian ~J

38 $16.4 Total funding distributed Consecutive years of to non profits by the Berea the Celebration of MILLION College Appalachian Fund ___ 206 Traditional Music. since 1954. Berea College Students who had an encounter wi h art if acts f rom t he ppalachian Studies eaching Co llectio n in a 1-- $320,912 co urse during t he 201 0- APPALACHIAN HE RITAGE Federal funds distributed to economically 2011 academic year. distressed counties in Appalachia by ARC's Flex-E-Grant program, administered by Brushy Fork.

Printings of LJAC J;~ C c!. :i'(;-i1.Q.c.!f.-:' . ~~~~. ~~' f:/ Director Silas House's )4!0' ~;;,~~~ #-- 18 f irst novel, Clay's Quilt. Number of Pushcart Prize nominations from Appalachian Heritage. 6 Low-income residents of Eastern 190 Kentucky who received a scholarship to Berea College students join Leadership East Kentucky from ARC who completed an APS or Flex-E-Grants. APS-cross-listed course in 2010-2011. Number of times an artifact from 1 4,148 the Appalachian Studies Teaching Collection has been used in 9 courses since September 2000. Dinners on the Number of Facebook friends Grounds in 1, 113 for Appalachian Heritage. 2010-2011. 75 365 Preschool children 613,891 screened for dental 2010 page views on web site Number of days in 2010 an treatment in Knox --.. -.--- article from Appalachian County, Kentucky, -----"... -.---'''-- of Appalachian Heritage. Heritage was accessed on through an ARC Project Muse. Flex-E-Grant.

6 OVAL JON ES APPALACHIA N CE NTE R NEWSL E1TER ·enter: By the Numbers 185 Participants across Central Appalachia who attended 2010 Brushy Fork Annual Institute. 28 Berea College students in CSCfTEC 186P in Spring 2011 who learned $63,000 about community development and 220 created a web site for Brushy Fork. Fa milies assisted by Grow Appalachia to produce and ARC Funds distributed to EPG preserve t heir own food. to support "bridge and gap funding" for Berea College EPG students between Summer I and Summer II internships. 120,000 Multi-unit homes and municipal 5 0 building energy audits conducted by Pounds of food raised by 7 EPG student intern in preparation to Grow Appalachia in its start his commercial enterprise. first year.

East ern Kentucky nascent entrepreneurs coached by EPG students in EPG 7 Summer Institute. 46 Number of hillbilly stereotype artifacts 8 collected since 2004.

Proposa ls submitted by Appalachian 275 co lleges and univer­ sit ies for the facebook. Appalachian IDEAS Showcase Network, Community Partner Frets on the Homer Ledford led by EPG . "fans" on EPG Dulcimer in the Appalachian Facebook page. 14 Studies Teaching Collection.

LOYAL JONES APPALACHIAN CE NTER NEWSLETTER 7 Communities ofJ Norman's moving address a reminder

Editor's Note: The following by Gurney Norman Commencement Address was given by Special to the LJAC Newsletter Gurney Norman, one ojthe region s most beloved and respected writers. He is / en I was a the author oJKinfolks W boy, my sister and Divine Right's Gwynne and I Trip, as well as and our older brother being a celebrated Jerry lived with our teacher and grandparents on their mentor. On small hillside farm in May 8,2011, southwestern Virginia. Norman This was in the World received an War II years, a time honorary degree of great upheaval all oJDoctor oj over the world. Humane Letters Granddad was a coal from Berea miner most of his workinr College. life but he knew farming to So did Grandma, a strong, energetic woman with many skills who sometimes bottomed chairs with tree bark while she was resting. Neither of my grandparents had much formal education, but both of them were intelligent, generous, highly moral people who worked hard all their lives, raising eight children and then taking in three grandchildren to care for during the war and for several years beyond.

I memory about what is truly important

In the summers, Grandma and Granddad without high-tech amenities. Like many rural always raised a big garden, working long days to families in the early 1940s, we had no car, keep the weeds cut back and then to harvest the refrigerator or indoor bathroom, but I am proud food and preserve it by canning or drying, or in to say that we did have a floor-model radio and a the case of the potatoes, burying them in a hole in party-line telephone. In the evenings after supper the ground and covering the hole with a fodder and all the chores were done, we gathered around shock to shed the rain. T hey raised corn, beans, the radio as it brought us the news of the world as tomatoes, beets, turnips and cabbage from which well as entertainment that enlivened our Grandma made kraut and chow chow. imaginations. I especially loved radio dramas for Blackberries grew in abundance in the pasture. their power to create pictures in the listener's Even small kids could help with blackberry mind. The spoken words coming through the picking. There were several varieties of very airways sparked our own imaginations so that, in productive apple trees on the farm. The peach a sense, those in the audience were co-creators of trees in the new ground were not as reliable as the the story. I did not see television as a regular thing apples, but every few years they would produce until I was eighteen. I have often thought that the enough peaches to make peach butter in the huge radio stories, and stories the family members told iron pot that stood over an open fire outside the to each other as part of daily conversation, had house. Grandma made lye soap in the same something to do with my strong memory and my pot and on wash days heated water for use in her early interest in fiction writing. old wringer washing machine. They always kept a I mentioned that our telephone was on a cow, sometimes two, taking turns milking them party line. Most rural people who had phones in twice a day. They collected the cream from the the early 1940s were on a party line, where four or milk for several days and then churned it by hand five families would share one line and take turns into butter. Children could help with that work using the phone. There was a different ring for too. I remember with pleasure and pride raising each home. I think ours was one long and two the dasher up and down, up and down, gradually short rings. One of the most exciting things that feeling the butter form inside the churn. They could happen in those days was to get a long­ raised one or two hogs every year, killed them in distance telephone call. When you answered the early December and dressed them out with their phone and learned that it was a long-distance call, own hands. T hey kept chickens that produced your heart skipped a beat. Often your first eggs and meat for the family. Every Saturday, thought was: someone has died. A long-distance Grandma would wring the necks of two fryers, call was a serious thing. It took time to place a skin them and have them ready to fry for Sunday long-distance call. Granddad had two sisters who dinner when we all got home from church. lived in Texas, in the Houston area. To call them Because our family lived such a you would give the local phone operator the name basic, no-frills life, please do and number and town and state, then hang up not think that we and wait to be patched through to Texas. From were Kentucky a local phone operator might connect you to a phone company in, say, Louisville. The Louisville operator would forward your call on to Nashville, then Memphis, then Little Rock, then turn to page 10

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Houston and finally on out to the rural human communication is unfolding aroUl county where the sisters lived. Sometimes an us at a pace too fast to comprehend. It is an hour or even two hours would go by while all exotic new world we live in. Online the land-line connections were made. No communities of like-minded people who have communications satellites orbited the earth in never met develop genuine fondness for one those days. Finally the local operator would another. Many individuals send and receive call you back to tell you that you were hundreds of messages a day. The spectacle of connected to your party. Needless to say, you hordes of people on the streets and campuses did not make long-distance walking along, studying their hand-held calls for frivolous reasons, or devices, sending and receiving pictures, IIWe all want to linger on the phone for casual videos and text messages, is now conversation. You had to be commonplace. belong to a ... rich to do that. Instead of going to the local bookstore, community that Long distance you can order a book from Amazon and have telephoning in the early 1940s it delivered to your door the next day. will recognize [and probably sounds as remote in Bookstore owners might feel that such online listen to] us ...but time to young people today as commerce is one of the downsides of the the year 2011 seemed to us in digital revolution. How could there not be there seems to be 1944. We didn't think downsides to such a powerful force as digital something in anything about having to wait media? Every time we browse the web we two hours for a telephone leave information about ourselves on contemporary operator to call us back. permanent record. Large institutions build American society Today we are frustrated when information files on citizens and sell them ~ " there is a delay of a minute or a commodity. Identity theft has become a that leaves many two in our electronic major global problem. The gradual loss of a people feeling communications. It has sense of local community is surely part of the become a cliche to say that we reason that individuals look to online excluded, isolated live in an increasingly wired, communities for meaning and comfort. We and alone. " global society where all want to belong to a family or community instantaneous communication that will recognize us and listen to us and is the norm. Enormous sums care about us. But there seems to be Gurney Norman, addressing of money are moved instantly something in contemporary American society May 2011 Berea graduat es around the world with the that leaves many people feeling excluded, click of a mouse. A new global isolated and alone. economy is developing in the online world as In his 1985 book Habits ofthe Heart, creative people invent new businesses. New Robert Bellah distinguishes between what he cultures and even languages are developing, calls "communities of memory" and new vocabularies. It has been hard for me, "communities of lifestyle." A community of but at last I have accepted that the word lifestyle is an intentional community that "friend" is now a verb. I trust that my young comes into being in a relatively short time and very great nephews, Steven and David and attracts people with common interests. A Gadd of Berea, will be impressed that I know retirement community built around a golf what a hash tag is . course might be called a community based on T exting, tweeting, blogs, iPhones, lifestyle, and a good way of living it is for BlackBerries, YouTube, Facebook, Skype, all many people. Communities of memory the forms of social media: a brave new world evolve over slow time, in a local place wher~ is coming into being. Indeed, it is already people hold in common memories and st here. A watershed moment in the history of of shared experiences of life. Local people feel

10 OVAL JONES APPALACHIAN CENTER NEWSLETTER t they are members of what Wendell Berry calls "the beloved community" where, in the words of Bill Best, "older values of neighborliness, honesty, trust, and compassion" might prevail. Bill, as many of you know, is a former Berea College student and teacher who for many years has been a dedicated gardener and leader in the movement to maintain the traditional genetic heritage of vegetables and fruits by preserving heidoom seeds. I thought of Bill recently after reading an article about a company that produces Stephanie Browner, left, and Chad Berry, right, assist Gurney hybrid vegetable seeds that can't reproduce Norman as he prepares to deliver the May, 2011 Commencement themselves. The seeds will give a farmer one crop, Address to graduating Berea College seniors. but any resulting new seeds will be sterile, obliging the farmer to pay money for the hybrid search might show that the greatest wisdom is to seed every year instead of allowing the original be found among the unwired and marginally seeds to regenerate themselves in the natural way. educated common people. I can't help but see this practice as a metaphor I have always thought that my grandparents for many of the things that ail our society, which had wisdom, although Granddad would probably seems increasingly to regard every human prefer that I call it common sense. enterprise as something that must produce a cash I think of Berea College as a beloved 'l.t. The idea that members of a community community of memory that does know where to 'ht hold some things in common is not as look for wisdom. The College is unique for its strong as it used to be. Relentless individualism is balanced curriculum, which includes daily labor the doctrine of the day, which challenges the at a job. It is special in that its outstanding older belief that a shared public commons is one academic program has always been accompanied of the cornerstones of American life. by a focus on hand-craft and the folk arts such as The effort to protect original seeds is an music, dancing, storytelling, weaving, and wood­ excellent metaphor for fixing that which is working. More than any other school, Berea broken, healing what has been torn. The answers College has not separated itself from the regular, to many of mankind's problems lie before us like working people in the nearby region. It is their fertile seeds if one has eyes to see them. sons and daughters who have found opportunity Technologies come and go but human nature here. doesn't change. Humans seem to make the same To you students who are graduating today: mistakes over and over again. The knowledge and your diploma certifies that you are prepared to the wisdom to correct mistakes exists but it keeps take your place in the competitive world of the getting lost amid the general man-made clutter. twenty-first century, with every chance of We live in a time of drastic information succeeding at high levels in your chosen overload. W e "wired" citizens are so busy sending profession. Your diploma also means that you and receiving messages and processing the torrent now are a member of one of the most of information, we forget that not everyone has a distinguished groups of American citizens, the computer, or the education to function well in alumni of Berea College. I congratulate you. the digital universe. W e know there is no end of Let me conclude by quoting some words my information, but can we find wisdom there? As grandmother said to me. She was well into her c 1.S I know, no one has yet looked for wisdom eighties when she spoke: "I don't know why God ur electronic machines. That could be a good . lets me stay on here, unless there might be some project for you new Berea College graduates. A little young'un that needs me."

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Left: a proud Ha rl an County family in thei r garden (photo: David Cooke). Above: Passing on know ledge and tradit ion in Cla irborne County, Tennessee (photo: Freda W illiams).