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Contributors DOUG ADAMS, watercolorist and teacher, has had many one-man and group shows. His paintings hang in both public and private collections in the United States and abroad. He lives at Elliotville, Kentucky. GARRY BARKER is Assistant Director of the Berea Student Crafts' Program. A native of Kentucky, he is the author of three books and numerous short stories, poems, articles, and essays. CHARLES BRASHERS, born and reared in Texas is at San Diego State University. The author of eleven books, he has also published short stories and critical essays. TRENT BUSCH, a West Virginia native and published writer, says this is his first appearance in Appalachian Heritage. MARIAN MOTLEY-CARCACHE teaches English at Auburn University. This is her first time in Appalachian Heritage. CAROL EDWARDS, a member of the Appalachian Writers Association, is a native of Virginia. This is her first time to be published. SHARON FINCH, is a native of LaFollette, Tennessee . "My husband is a Captian in the U.S.A.F.E.," she writes. "We have lived in the Netherlands and Italy for over seven years. I miss Appalachia very much." from churches, universities, rivers, fields, and mountains." This is his first time to be published. GEORGE ELLA LYON is the author of a chapbookof poetry and two children's books, Father Time and the Day Boxes and A Regular Rolling Noah. CHRISTYNA MECCA grew up in Durham, North Carolina. "I now live in West Virginia on a farm up a hollow," she writes. This is the first time her poems have been published. MABEL Y. MOSER, octogenarian, lives in the Swannanoa Valley near Asheville, North Carolina. Her husband, Artus, did the illustration and photograph she uses in her article. EARL PALMER'S photographs have been widely published. He lives in Virginia. ROBERT RENNICK is the author ofKentucky Place Names, published in 1984 by the University Press of Kentucky. He lives in Pikeville. HARRY ROBIE teaches in the Department ofEnglish at Berea College. He has appeared in Appalachian Heritage a number of times. DANIEL M. SCHORES, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, is the author of various articles on folklore. WILLARD GAYHEART, a native of Cordia (near Hazard), Kentucky, lives in Galax, Virginia. His signed and numbered prints are limited editions of 250 each and his original pencil drawings are becoming increasingly sought by collectors. NATALIE GRANT from Western North Carolina is living in Berea with her young daughter, and is currently majoring in history at Berea College. BARBARA SMITH, at Alderson-Broaddus College in West Virginia, is a poet, short story writer, and novelist. JAMES STILL is a well-known writer whose work reaches far beyond the region which is the setting for his poetry, short fiction, and books. An Alabama native, he has been associated with the Hindman Settlement School for over fifty years. MICHAEL HODGES, native to this region, lived in Louisiana for ten years but is now in Quebec, Tennessee. This is his first time to be published. NATHAN HOLADAY, a native of Watauga County, North Carolina, says, "I have received my education JEANNE WILSON lives in Grantsville, West Virginia . This is the first time she has been published. "I have a yard-sale education," she says, "having gleaned snippets about writing from books found in dusty boxes on front lawns. 76 ...

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