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Contributors Bill Bake, Boone, North Carolina, a former writer/photographer for the National Park Service , is today one of the country's foremost photographers . Randy Ball, Rogersville, Tennessee, has been photographing the southern Appalachian region for about ten years and continues "to build a collection of images." Garry Barker of Berea is marketing manager of Student Craft Industries at Berea College. Pat Carr has taught at various universities in the South and is the author of eight books, including The Woman in the Mirror, which won a University of Iowa Fiction Award. Heather L. Colburn is a native of Huntington, West Virginia. This story is part of her senior thesis at the College of Wooster in Ohio. John Deaton, Morristown, Tennessee, a 1944 graduate of Pine Mountain, has been a coal miner, a school teacher, and a sailor. He is now retired. Vivian Sexton Flannery-Dees, Cedar Key, Florida, writes, "Appalachia has my heart. The memory of Berea and Dr. Francis Hutchins will stay in my mind forever." Jane H. Hail is an English teacher at Somerset (Kentucky) High School. Claude E. Hammond is director of publications at Berea College. Connie Higdon, who holds a doctorate in anthropology , teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Jane Bishop Hobgood, a graduate of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, serves as chairperson of the advisory council to the board of trustees of the school. Katie Letcher LyIe is the author of nine books, two of them on Appalachian subjects—Scalded to Death by the Steam and The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives. She lives in Lexington, Virginia. William McGowan is a Kentucky native who lives in Birmingham, Alabama. He is retired after 32 years with the Bell telephone system. Diane Meteyard is completing a B.F.A. in art history at the University of Kentucky. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. Jim Wayne Miller is a professor of German at Western Kentucky University. His poems and essays have been published in more than a dozen anthologies, most recently in Tongues and Prophecies (University of Georgia Press). Linda Myers, an Oklahoma native, is assistant editor of the Pikeville Review at Pikeville College in Kentucky. Earl Palmer, "Blue Ridge Mountains' Roaming Camera Man," lives in Christiansburg, Virginia. His photographs have been widely acclaimed. Thomas Parrish, who has written and edited many books, is the author most recently of the dual biography Roosevelt and Marshall (William Morrow & Co., 1989). With this issue he joins Appalachian Heritage as consulting editor. Bettie Sellers is a professor at Young Harris College in Georgia. She is the author of four books of poetry. Pat Spears, a Florida native, is a full-time writer. This is her first published story. Jean Haskell Speer, Blacksburg, Virginia, is the director of the Appalachian Studies program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. Agnes Scott Stevens, Mount Dora, Florida, has numerous publishing credits in both literary and popular journals. Charles M. Whitt, South Shore, Kentucky, has published two books of poetry. 79 ...

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