Contributors in This Issue

CONTMBUTORS in this issue DORLA ARNDT lives in Holland, Michigan. She is a teacher, editor and writer. Carrying Cans to Catch Motion is a recent collection of her work. BOB HENRY BABER teaches at West Virginia Institute of Technology in Montgomery , West Virginia. He was coordinator of the Southern Appalachian Writers' Cooperative from 1977-1981 . He has lived in various parts of the country and been a published poet for a number of years. GARRY BARKER came to Berea College in June of this year as Customers' Service /Marketing Manager of Student Craft Industries. A Berea graduate, Barker has been a free-lance writer for a number of years. His recent book Fire on the Mountain , a collection of short stories, has reached a wide regional audience. ANDREW BASKIN is Director of the Black Culture Center and Interracial Education Program at Berea. A Berea College graduate, Baskin is the new editor of Griot, a publication of the Southern Conference of Afro-American Studies. Griot has had an uneven five years' existence, Baskin says, and he hopes the publication will have a solid base of operations here. BILL BEST is Director of the Upward Bound program at Berea College, and teaches in the freshman Arts Matrix course at Berea College. GEORGE BROSI publishes Appalachian Mountain Books, a listing of books and reviews, and operates the Appalachian Book Store in Berea. BOYD CARR is an artist and poet who lives in West Virginia. His work appears frequently in the West Virginia Hillbilly and West Virginia Writer's Newsletter. His sketches were done specifically for Bob Henry Baber's poems in this issue. CHARLES COLLINS was born and grew up in Corbin, Kentucky. A freshman student at Berea College, Collins has always been interested in doing pen and pencil drawings and watercolor painting. This is the first time any of his work has been published. BARBARA CONLEY lives in Lackey, Knott County, Kentucky. PAMELA CORLEY is doing graduate work in Boston this year. A Berea College art major, Corley worked several years with the Recreation Extension Department and as a free-lance artist. She was associate editor of OPTION, the Folk-School Association of America newsletter. RICHARD DRAKE is a professor of History at Berea College. His book, One Apostle was a Lumberman, is a biography of one of Berea's early founders. He also served as editor of Appalachian Notes. 78 ARCHIE GREEN has been a professor of Folklore at the University of Illinois and the University of Texas, and was Bingham Professor at the University of Louisville. A noted lecturer and teacher, Green has written and published extensively in the field of folklore and authored Only a Miner, Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs. LOYAL JONES is Director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College, teaches Appalachian courses, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books. Jones was Executive Director of the Council of the Southern Mountains for a number of years. EARL PALMER is a professional photographer in West Virginia. His photographs have been published in numerous books and publications. He sent Berea several boxes of photographs with his permission for use in Appalachian Heritage. MARTHA J.N. RANKIN, a southeastern Kentucky native, graduate of the Red Bird Settlement School and the University of Kentucky, teaches in the elementary school system in Winchester, Kentucky. Rankin has had poems published in various regional journals. BILL RICHARDSON is a librarian and archivist. Bill works as Principal Photographic Archivist directing the Settlement Institutions of Appalachia Photographic Project currently underway at Berea College. GERALD ROBERTS is Director of the Archives and Special Collections Department of Hutchins Library at Berea College. He teaches courses at the college, and is great as a back-up editor of Appalachian Heritagel ANNE SHELBY, poet and free-lance writer, lives in Lexington, Kentucky and writes for the Lexington HeraldLeader. Her dissertation was done about three years ago. DAN SHORT did the cover specifically for this issue using color pencils, a new medium for him, he says. Most of his paintings have been oils and watercolors. A Whitesburg, Kentucky native and Berea College graduate, Short lives in Berea. TIM SIZEMORE is a folk artist whose work has...