Contributors In This Issue

Contributors In This Issue JAMES ARCHAMBEAULT, Lexington, Kentucky, is a member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen. For the past eight years he has exhibited and sold his photographic prints in shows and art galleries throughout the eastern United States. Kentucky, his first book of photographs, is now in its third printing. GARRY BARKER is Marketing Manager of Berea Student Crafts Program. He is a free-lance writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His recent collection of short stories, Fire on the Mountain, and his novel, Copperhead Summer, have reached a wide regional audience. His most recent book is Mountain Passages and Other Stories. LAWRENCE EDWARD BOWLING, Berea, Kentucky, is a retired university professor of English and an authority on William Faulkner. HAROLD BRANAM, son of an Appalachian coal miner, currently works at the University of Pennsylvania as assistant editor oíInternationalEncyclopedia ofCommunications (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). SANDY BRANAM lives with her husband Harold in Pennsylvania. She is a free-lance artist. The drawing used is one she did for the production of the play in which Leonard Roberts participated. JENNY GALLOWAY COLLINS is a writer and poet from Letcher County, Kentucky, whose work has appeared in numerous regional publications. Her poem is a tribute to her mentor and good friend, James Calvin Goode. RICHARD B. DRAKE is a Professor of History at Berea College, the author of numerous articles on Appalachia, and was editor of Appalachian Notes for several years. NORMA RAMSEY EVERSOLE is an elementary school teacher at the Roundstone School in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. This is her first appearance in print. JAMES B. GOODE, the son and grandson of coal miners, grew up in Benham, a Southeastern Kentucky mining town. He is currently teaching at Southeastern Community College at Cumberland, and has authored two books of poetry. JONATHAN GREENE is the author of a dozen books, runs Gnomen Press and does free-lance design and production work for various publishers. He also farms, he says, including "regular milking twice-aday ." JOYCE ANN HANCOCK received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, traveled and worked in Appalachia, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at Jefferson Community College, Louisville, Kentucky. Leonard Roberts was her mentor in folklore studies. WAYNE HOGAN is a poet, artist, and photographer whose work has appeared in regional and national publications. He lives near Cookeville, Tennessee. LOYAL JONES is Director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College, teaches Appalachian courses, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books. Jones was Executive Director of the Council of the Southern Mountains for a number of years. 103 RITA KELLY is employed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as staff nurse, and has been working part-time on an M.A. degree in folklore. Her mother, Mrs. Edith Roberts lives on Mare Creek, Kentucky , and three other daughters include Sue Atkins who teaches school in Jeffersonville, Indiana; Margaret Biller, a librarian in Baltimore; and Lynneda Denny who is a typist for Radiology Consultants in Nashville, Tennessee. Mrs. Roberts and her daughters made a tape recording on Christmas Day, 1986, especially for this issue which is dedicated to husband and father, Leonard Roberts. MARGARET KIRKLAND says that "other than a mother and homemaker, born and raised in Minneapolis , I spent a few years in professional Girl Scouting." At the age of 60, she and her husband, a photographer, began walking miles of trails in Eastern Kentucky. She says she learned from him patience to observe minute details of nature. JIM WAYNE MILLER, poet and essayist from North Carolina, teaches at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is the author of several books of poetry and a noted lecturer and workshop leader. LYNWOOD MONTELL, Professor of Folk Studies at Western Kentucky University, is a noted writer and authority on the subject. Considered an authority of national distinction, he has had several books published over the last two decades. ROBERT M. RENNICK has taught sociology and folklore classes and is the author of Kentucky Place Names, which was published in 1984 by the University Press of Kentucky. He currently works for the Cabinet for Human Resources in Pikeville. HARRY ROBIE is...