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Contributors JOANNE ALDRIDGE, native of Watauga, is a writer and editor. She lives in Boone, North Carolina. HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW is best known perhaps for her novel The Dollmaker. "The First Ride" is an unpublished story from the Harriette Simpson Arnow Collection in the Special Collections of the University of Kentucky Library. Used with permission. MARY ANN BARNETT teaches school in Dillingham, Arkansas. GARY CUMMISK, currently a graduate student at Louisiana State University, worked at the Hindman Settlement School during 19821984 . FAYE TRAIL DEATON, Morristown, Tennessee , spent her childhood days in Twila, Kentucky . She graduated from the Pine Mountain Settlement School. KIM DOUGLAS is a student at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. She hails from the northeast. JOHN FERGUSON is a professional storyteller and truck driver from Sonora, Kentucky. JOHN GLEN, Associate Professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, is writing a history of the War on Poverty in Appalachia. JOHN L. GRIGSBY, Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi, was born near Hazard, Kentucky. JOHN HARROD is a former Rhodes Scholar and director of the gifted student program in the Owen County, Kentucky, schools. He has been researching and performing southern traditional music for a long time. CARMON HACKER is a teacher at Talawanda High School in Oxford, Ohio. WAYNE HOGAN, Cookeville, Tennessee, is a poet, artist, photographer, and nonfiction writer. CHARLIE G. HUGHES Uves in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and writes in his spare time. EARL HUGHES, a Kentucky native and a retired Railroad Telegraph Operator and Station, Agent says he's "lonesome for the hills." He resides in Villa Grove, Illinois. CASEY JACOBS Uves in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. WILLIAM JOLLIFF who grew up on a farm in Ohio and now teaches at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. SANDRA B. KEATON, a newspaper columnist and free-lance writer, lives in Monticello, Kentucky . RAE KNISPEL lives in Anderson, Indiana. A poet and playwright, she currently edits a journal dedicated to supporting new writers of the Midwest . WALTER LANE lives within mailing distance of Raccoon, Kentucky. He says that he's a "very private person." PAUL LEE, Whitley County, Kentucky, native and published poet, is a retired toolmaker currently residing in Eubank, Kentucky. JANE MCCLELLAN grew up in Jenkins, Kentucky, but currently lives in Ocala, Florida. KYLE MCQUEEN, a senior at Berea College, enjoys drawing cartoons in his spare time. He was born in Jackson County, Kentucky. JIM WAYNE MILLER lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is a poet, essayist, lecturer, 79 workshop leader, and author of several books of poetry. NELI MOODY-BERNE, Palo Alto, California, a writer, actress, and choreographer, says her maternal roots go back to the Ohio/West Virginia border. JO RAYMOND MOTT lives in Archer, Florida . This is her first appearance in Appalachian Heritage. TESSA NELSON-HUMPHRIES is British and also an American Citizen. "I came here in the wake of a Kentucky husband who was a Professor of Biology at Cumberland College." She teaches at the college and is a published poet, lecturer, and photographer. SALLIE ODUM lives in Berea and works at Berea College. She has had poetry published in journals and periodicals including The New Oxford Review and Appalachian Heritage. ALFRED H. PERRIN, former President of the Friends of the Berea College Library, is currently living in Burnsville, North Carolina. PHYLLIS PRICE'S work has appeared in both regional and national publications. She currently resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia. RON RASH lives in Pendleton, South Carolina. This is his second appearance in Appalachian Heritage. RICHARD SEARS, a member of the English facutly at Berea College, is the author of several books on early Berea history. CHARLES SEMONES, Harrodsburg, Kentucky , has had his work appear in several regional publications. VERNA MAE SLONE Uves in Hindman, Kentucky. She achieved national recogniztion with her first book, What My Heart Wants to Tell. DEBORAH HALE SPEARS, fronton, Ohio, incorporates earth themes in many of her prose pieces, fiction, and poetry. GORDON LLOYD SWARTZ HI has a degree in Agriculture but has "been a West Virginia coal miner for the past 15 years." MICHAEL THOMPSON lives in Berea and does porcelain repair and restoration. RAY TRAIL was Art...

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