This Side of the Mountain

This Side of the Mountain George Brosi How awed, delighted and humbled I am to take over the reins as editor of Appalachian Heritage! Since the 1960s I have relished my friendships with my editorial predecessors here: Albert Stewart, Sidney Farr and Jim Gage. How they managed, year after year, to capture the essence of regional writing so adeptly is truly a source of inspiration to me. As I browse though the pages of old issues of the magazine, I see the words and images of many people who have meant a great deal to me including Loyal Jones, Jim Wayne Miller, Harriette Arnow, Wilma Dykeman, and Cratis Williams, alongside the contributions of former students, other friends and casual acquaintances . With your help and constant feedback, positive and negative, I hope I can create the kind of magazine that we can look back upon, decades later, with the same sense of satisfaction. I really enjoy working here at the Appalachian Center of Berea College with Gordon McKinney, its director, with my old friend, Genevieve Reyonds, and the other Center employees. I am especially heartened and pleased to have three hard-working and competent student workers: Diana Neal, Danessa Pollard and Jim Fershee. They are standing in that order, left to right, in the picture below. I'm the older feller standing on the left side. ...