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Looking Forward ARC: After 20 Years NEWS APPALACH IAN CENTER BE REA COLLEGE ETTER Loyal Jones • Thomas Parrish, Co-Editors Vol. 14 No.1 Win'ter 1985 Looking Forward ford University, Radford, Va. 24142. Gurney Norman will conduct a course and James Still will appear for a one-day workshop. Contact Grace Edwards, Box 5917, March 29-31: Appalachian Studies Conference­ English Department, at Radford. " The Impact of Institutions in Appalachia" -Berea June 24-29: Ninth annual Appalachian Celebration, College. Papers and other presentations will reflect the Morehead State University, Morehead, Ky. 40351. stated theme in relation to such areas as religion, en­ Music, dance, food and crafts. For complete informa­ vironment, education, handicrafts, politics, literature. tion, contact the Appalachian Development Center at For details write Anne Campbell, Appalachian Collec­ MSU. tion, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Ky. June 28-30: Third annual conference and workshop 40506. of the Appalachian Writers Association, Morehead April 3-6: Women Writers Conference, University of State University. Visiting editors, publishers and Kentucky, will be devoted to special presentations by a authors are expected to be on hand. Details from Garry variety of women writers, many of them nationally Barker, UPO 907, Morehead State University, recognized; workshops will be featured. Information Morehead, Ky . 40351. from Appalachian College Program, University of Ken­ September 9-11: 50th anniversary conference, Blue tucky, 64 1 S. Limestone St., Lexington, Ky. 40506. Ridge Parkway; University Center, Appalachian State April 11 -13: Fourth annual New River symposium, University. An across-the-board affair, expected to sponsored by the New River Gorge National River of tackle everything from f0lklore to land management. the National Park Service, joined this year by the West Write Barry Buxton, Appalachian Consortium, Univer­ Virginia Department of Culture and History; Pipestem sity Hall, ASU, Boone, N.C. 28608. State Park, Pipestem, W . Va. A serious' conference for those interested in any aspect of the New River­ physical or social-' 'from its North Carolina head­ waters down to its mouth in West Virginia." Contact ARC: After 20 Years William E. Cox, P.O. Drawer V, Oak Hill, W.Va. 25901. The proceedings of the three previous symposia Just 20 years ago-the date was March 9, 1965- are now available (at $12.50 each) from the same ad­ President Lyndon Johnson signed the act creating the dress; these are wonderful sources of facts about Appalachian Regional Commission. Recently the gover­ everything from Wythe County iron furnaces to the role nors of the 13 Appalachian states (as defined by Con­ played by the black fly in the ecology of the New River. gress) met in Washington to honor the pioneers of the April 17: Grant-writing workshop for small organiza­ commission and to call attention to changes wrought in tions, with Bob Fink and David Peters; John C. Camp­ the region in the past two decades. bell Folk School, Brasstown, N.C. 28902 . Grant writing A highlight of the celebration was the presentation of would not appear to be a growth industry, but perhaps medallions recognizing the work of the two late there are still dollars to be plucked, private if not Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Johnson; former public . Senators Jennings Randolph of West Virginia and John April 18-20: " Folklife and the Public Sector," a na­ Sherman Cooper of Kentucky; Senator John Stennis of tional conference focusing on "the dual themes of Mississippi; former Representative Robert E. Jones of assessment and prognosis" (we put that in quotes Alabama; Representative Jamie Whitten of Mississippi; because if you asked us, we couldn't tell you what it the late Representative Joe L. Evins of Tennessee; means), Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Representative Tom Bevill of Alabama; former Gover­ Ky. 42 101. For more information, you can get in touch nor Bert T. Combs of Kentucky; the late Governor J. with Bert Feintuch at WKU. Millard Tawes of Maryland; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., June 6-9: Festival of the Bluegrass, Masterson Station chairman of the President's Appalachian Regional Park, Lexington, Ky. Bill Monroe, J. D. Crowe, et al., Commission, a forerunner of ARC; and John D. performing outdoors, with adjacent campground. For Whisman, Kentucky's first representative to the com­ details, send SASE to P.O. Box 272, Georgetown, Ky. mission and ARC states' regional representative for 40324. more than a decade. June 10-21: Appalachian culture and writing; Rad- to page 2 ARC from page 1 number, scheduled for May 15. Succeeding the retiring Regional statistics in which the commISSIOn takes Stewart is Sidney Farr of the Hutchins Library staff; Ms. pride include figures showing that in the 20 years the Farr is the author of More Than Moonshine, an Ap­ percentage of Appalachians living in poverty was cut in palachian cook-and-anecdote book, published by the half and was moving downward toward the national University of Pittsburgh Press, as well the earlier figure (although there were serious setbacks in the Bibliography of Appalachian Women (University Press recession of the early '80s). Two million new private­ of Kentucky). Subscription is $12 a year. sector jobs were created. Per capita income rose from 78 The forthcoming issue will include contributions by percent of the national average to 85 percent. More Jim Wayne Miller, Wilma Dykeman, Verna Mae Slone, than 57 percent of Appalachians had completed at least John Stephenson, Jeff Daniel Marion, Bettie Sellers and four years of high school , compared with 33 percent in Albert Stewart, and in a special feature Gurney Nor­ 1960. Infant mortality (though troublesome-see ac­ man will interview poet George Ella Lyon. In a super­ companying story) was halved. special feature James Still will provide a definitive In recent years ARC has shown that it has as many answer to the timeless question: What is Appalachia? lives as an adventurous tomcat, and as its report shows it Hen·tage will be published at Berea under the aegis is still proudly hanging on by one claw. of the Appalachian Center and the Hutchins Library. According to Loyal Jones, director of the center, 20 complete sets of the magazine (1973-1985) are now Programs, No Policy available to collectors at $75 a set; orders are especially encouraged from librarians and archivists. Since World War II the South has undergone striking changes in such aspects of life as education and health Summer Special (and, particularly in the past two decades, so has Ap­ palachia, as some of the facts in the neighboring story show). This summer's course from the Appalachian Center is But a current report concerning the health of babies an across-the-board look at Appalachian literature, contains some dismal figures . Produced by a task force history and music. Wilma Dykeman (literature) and of leading citizens, the report reveals that 10 of the 11 Ron Eller (history) return, and they will be joined by states with the worst infant-mortality rates are in the Charles K. Wolfe, professor of English at Middle Ten­ South, and in spite of the fact that the national trend nessee State University and prolific writer on folk and for years has been toward lower infant mortality, in country music (his collaboration with GrandpaJones is 1981 -82 the rates in seven Southern states either in­ noted on page 4 of this NEWSLETTER issue) . creased or showed no change. Too many babies are born Wilma Dykeman-novelist, historian and biogra­ to teen-age mothers, and too many of those are 14 or pher-is one of Appalachia's most renowned writers. under. Only 71 percent of women in the South received Ronald D. Eller teaches history at Mars Hill College. adequate health care during pregnancy. And of all the His book Miners, Mtllhands, and Mountaineers won the children in the United States who have no medical 1982 W. D. Weatherford Award. coverage, more than half live in the South. Course dates are June 10-28. For an application or The report states forthrightly enough that "cuts in any further information, write the Appalachian Center, federally funded programs in the early 1980s have c.P.O. Box 2336, Berea, Ky. 40404. diminished some states' capacities to deliver com­ prehensive health services." The governor of South Carolina has observed that "this country has a lot of Sarah Gertrude Knott 1895-1984 health programs, but it doesn 't really have a health policy. " Despite the budget -deficit situation, the During the Depression, the director of the St. Louis governor believes that it's time to do better. Dramatic League-a Kentucky-born woman named Sarah Gertrude Knott-became involved with various to page 3 New Home for " Heritage" Letter Appalachian Hen·tage is not a new magazine-in fact, it's now l2 years old- but the next issue will be not TO THE EDITORS: only a novelty but very likely a collector's item. The newsletter I've been receIvmg from Berea is Founded by Alice Lloyd College, the quarterly of without doubt the dearest, best-done, most interesting " Southern Appalachian Life & Culture" was preserved one of its kind I've ever read. Believe me when I tell you through the support of an independent board when the I have a broad base for comparison; I think I'm on every founding school decided to cease its publication. The mailing list from here to Moscow. Hindman Settlement School offered a home, with Albert Stewart, the first editor, continuing in that role. AUDREY J. MORRISON Now Appalachian Hen·tage has found its third home, Louisville, Ky . as Berea College has agreed to provide not only lodging but sponsorship. The first issue to appear under the (We'll believe you-gladly.
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