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Acknowledgments ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No book project ever occurs in isolation. This volume is the result of hard work and the patience of a number of people who were generous with their time and energy, especially Jennifer Peckinpaugh of the University Press of Kentucky. Thank you for believing in this project. We would like to thank the following people for their help in making this project possible. Contributors, who often wondered if this work would ever be completed, willingly revised their chapters and listened to our suggestions. Without the help of loved ones, work study students, and patient colleagues, the manuscript would never have been completed. Jodi McDonald proofread and typed several of the essays. Likewise, Laura Clemons read the entire manuscript for continuity and stylistic cohesion and tightened the work considerably. Todd Jarrell offered advice, reactions, and humor as the project went along. We would like to offer a special thanks to Mitch and Linda Hurst, who corrected mistakes in the articles with references to Billy Dean Anderson; likewise they were generous with images from their own collection. Lucinda Barlow and Wes Burney provided invaluable assistance as student workers doing research, clerical work, and whatever else needed to be done. Candace Evitts and Amanda Posey retyped a number of the articles. Lois Clinton made all kinds of things happen as she used her formidable talents to acquire information and workers for us, while offering moral support as well. Thank you, Lois. Several people assisted in the acquisition and copying of images for this book, including Larry Slaboda of the Cookeville History Museum; Darla Brock, Susan Gordon , and Karina McDaniel of the Tennessee State Library and Archives; Paula Stover, Reda Bilbrey, Claudine Bilbrey, Margie Lewis, and Ronald Dishman of the Overton County Historical Society; and Bob Fulcher of Cumberland Trail State Park. Tom Nolan of Middle Tennessee State University provided the maps for this volume, Jim Heard graciously donated images from his own photography studio, and Roni Christian, whose grandfather performed with the group, donated an image of Flatt and Scruggs. The Civil War remains a topic of currency in the Upper Cumberix x Acknowledgments land and will for time to come. A number of people expressed interest in the Civil War article and made significant suggestions that proved worthwhile, including Larry Whiteaker, Janey Dudney, Kent Dollar, Jerry McFarland, and Linda Salts. Several people provided information about the Tennessee Maneuvers . Nancy Jarrell, whose mother helped operate the USO in Cookeville, provided valuable insights. Many provided personal recollections of the maneuvers and how they affected the area, including Elmer Lee “Toots” Herd, Mark Harris, Sterling McCanless, Christine Jones, Eleanor Mitchell, and Savage Ragland, Jr. William and Marilyn Brinker were generous with their knowledge of the Cookeville USO, providing insights , research, and copies of the official maneuvers newspaper, The Bounce. Historian Mac Coffman added technical expertise to the article and clarified some nagging questions, while Kurt Piehler and Cynthia Tinker, at the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, provided additional information. John Story shared recollections of his father, Osby, who served in the maneuvers with the 276 Combat Engineers. We would like to express our gratitude to Randall Clemons of the Granville History Museum, who provided images illustrating the maneuvers in the Upper Cumberland. The article about Alvin York in popular culture would not have been possible without the help of George Edward York, Cletis York, Gerald York, David Lee, Mac Coffman, Buzz Davis, Rhee Ann Robinson, and the Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation. We are indebted to a number of people who assisted in the article about the Upper Cumberland in film. We thank Jerry Williamson of Appalachian State University, Jim Crabtree of the Cumberland County Playhouse, Aimee Woods, Rick Woods, Mary Crabtree, Leon DeLozier, and Pat Ledford-Johnson, former commissioner of the Tennessee Music , Film and Entertainment Commission. For assistance with the arts and crafts article, we thank Robie Cogswell of the Tennessee Arts Commission, Jane Morgan Dudney, Bob Coogan, and Ward Doubet of the Appalachian Center for Crafts, Bob Fulcher, Becky Magura ofWCTE-TV, Claudine Smith,Walter Derryberry, Sally Crain, and Sam Bacon. To the following people we owe a debt of gratitude for completion of the article concerning the Cumberland Homesteads: Emma JeanVaden, Fannie Lue and Herman Burton, Orion Miller Sr., Foress Kidwell, Mike Smathers, Jim Crabtree, Alice and Gordon Patterson, andVergie Denton. Jim Jones provided significant information about the Socialist Party [18.223.106.232] Project MUSE (2024-04-19...

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