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APPALACHIANHERITAGEBOARD These members of the Appalachian Heritage Inc. board in session planning for the continued operation of Appalachian Heritage magazine. (L-R) A.H. Perrin, Paul Neil Allen, Dr. William Hayes, Dr. John Stephenson, board chairman Bill Weinberg, editor Al Stewart, Mike Mullins, Gary Conley and Bill Gorman. (Photo by board member Ron Daley) WHAT YOU MIGHTWANT TO KNOW ABOUT APPALACHIAN HERITAGE MAGAZINE (AND MIGHT ASK IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE) What gives with Appalachian Heritage magazine anyway? I have heard during the last few years that the editor was retiring and that the magazine would fade gently away. I have also heard recently that it was to suspend publication for lack of support from some place I can't even remember. Then more recently I heard that it was to continue under new sponsors. What's the story on all this? Is it to be a "new" Appalachian Heritage? Is it going to have a new hill-side slant? Is it going to belabor the Philistines? Where will it be located and who's behind, in front of, or running along with it in this "resurrection," and how did it come about in the first place? Whew! Let me catch my breath and I will try to answer these questions, but as you guessed, it will necessitate a brief history of the magazine. A new APPALACHIAN HERITAGE? Not really. No. Rather a continuation of the magazine in its growth over the past ten years. The new sponsors did not want a "change" in the magazine except the move from unwilling hands to those of willing and supporting hands. No change in policy, they wanted it TO ??????? PUBLICATION. Their word: It was too good, too valuable, a voice for our region and people to let the Philistines íciíí it. So there you are! But let's get to a bit of history and then up to the present time. APPALACHIAN HERITAGE began officially June I, 1972, when word was received from The National Endowment for the Humanities that a proposal for a three-year matching grant for an Ap78 palúdúan studies program to be called The Appalachian Learning Laboratory had been approved. The matching grant had the purpose ofgetting the program going. APPALACHIAN HERITAGE was a part of that program. Will Hayes, James Gayheart, and Bill Weinberg were instrumental in getting the proposal accepted and the program organized. I wrote up the sections for the magazine and for Appalachian literature and folklore and taught the first classes in these subjects. The Appalachian Learning Laboratory was a comprehensive program of Appalachian studies and resources: there were classes in Appalachian literature, folklore, history, sociology; there were such related programs as oral history, photographic archives, Our Appalachia Day and other activities. Bill Weinberg was the first director. When he left to join a ¡aw firm in nearby Hindman, Kentucky, his assistant, Mike Mullins, became director. When Mike left to become director of the Hindman Settlement School, his assistant, Ron Daley, took over. When Ron left to become a founder and editor of THE TROUBLESOME CREEK TIMES, BiIi Phillips took over temporarily. But the handwriting was already on the wall: The Appalachian Learning Laboratory would be phased out and all the student work and activities connected with it. APPALACHIAN HERITAGE lasted a while longer although its survival value had been in more jeopardy than any other aspect of the Laboratory most of the time. The magazine survived longer than the other aspects, I believe, primarily because of one thing: I was editor for six years without saL·^. It is not easy to fire someone who is'doing a lot of work for nothing. But for most of the time, too, there were always two or three good peopk in high places who supported it. I retired officially, lived on my partial retirement, and commuted back and forth to the office for two years— and taught some classes when students requested them—but my main time and energy were spent on the magazine. When a four-lane, monstrous highway split my farm and house in half, I salvaged what I could by working 30 straight days from daylight until dark with the help...

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