Notes about Contributors

NOTES ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS Betty Peterson lives in Somerset, Kentucky, and has contributed to Appalachian Heritage in several issues. She has been encouraged by Billy C. Clark, creative writing instructor and author at Somerset Community College. William Aspenwall Bradley was a well known critic and writer who spent a good deal of time in eastern Kentucky between 1912 and 1918. Jim Wayne Miller is a professor and lecturer who has been at Western Kentucky University for a number of years. He has published many articles and poems related to the Appalachian experience. He came from North Carolina. Betty Payne James is a Kentucky native who has returned to her birthplace near Berea, Kentucky. In addition to writing, she does hand loomed rugs, pillows, wall hangings and accessories, SAGITTARIUS, LTD., Berea, Kentucky. Russell Maraño has appeared in Appalachian Heritage several times with stories and poems. Originally from West Virginia, he now lives near Chicago. Samantha Clementine (Dorothy Holt) has appeared in this magazine with her perceptive dialect stories in earlier issues. She belongs to an Appalachian migrant family who settled in Ohio years ago. She herself has migrated to the West Coast (as her story might suggest) and back to Ohio. Bill Best owns and runs a farm near Berea, Kentucky, and works for Berea College's Upward Bound program. He came from the hills of North Carolina. Joanna Saylor migrated from Harlan County, Kentucky, to Chicago where she now works and lives with the memories of an Appalachian background. Tim Long and Henrietta Child are pretty well covered in the introductions to their work. Amy Marein, whose art and photographs have enhanced this as well as other issues of Appalachian Heritage, works with her husband, Andy, in publicity for Alice Lloyd College. She also prepared this issue for the camera. 71 ...