Contributors In This Issue

A Children's Book Rylant, Cynthia. Night in the Country. 32 unnumbered pages illustrated on each page by Mary Szilagyi. New York: Bradbury Press. Hardback in dust jacket: $12.95. "A remarkable picture book that sweeps the reader into the quiet, special world of a country night. Exceptionally beautiful illustrations bring the scenes to life as the text whispers...lines.... Night in the Country is a gentle, soothing story that's perfectly suited for bedtime reading." The author grew up in Raleigh County, West Virginia, and has become one of the most popular and prolific authors of contemporary children's books set in the mountains. Contributors In This Issue DOUG ADAMS, watercolorist and teacher, has had numerous one-man and group shows. His paintings hang in public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. He resides at Elliottville, Kentucky. HAROLD BRANAM, son of an Appalachian coal miner, currently works at the University of Pennsylvania as assistant editor of International Encyclopedia of Communications (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). MARK A. CORUM is a student in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the editor of the campus literary magazine, The Coraddi, and is currently working on a novel, from which "Early Harvest" was extracted. ROBERT COUGHLIN taught at Alice Lloyd College in Eastern Kentucky before he joined the English faculty at Berea College. He is a frequent contributor to Appalachian Heritage. JEANETTE COX is a sophomore with a National Merit Scholarship at Ohio University, majoring in English with a focus on creative writing. Her poem won a prize in the Appalachian Writers Association contest last June. RICKY COX left the Appalachian area to work in other parts of the country for several years. He later returned to Virginia and is completing work for an undergraduate degree at Radford University. This paper is a revised version of one that he presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference last March. RICHARD B. DRAKE, Professor of History at Berea College, is the author of numerous scholarly articles and past editor of Appalachian Notes. RONALD D ELLER (there is not supposed to be a period after the D in his name) is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky. GERALD GEORGE is director of the American Association for State and Local History, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and a former newspaper writer whose work, mostly nonfiction, has appeared in various publications. ROBERT J. HIGGS was born in Tennessee, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He is both a scholar and a humorist—a rare combination—well-known for his writings and lectures. 79 CLAY ELLIS HIGH, a native of Louisville and now in her seventies, has written poetry for many years, but never shared them with anyone except close friends and family members. This is her first publication. ELLESA CLAY HIGH, daughter of Clay Ellis High, is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She was on the staff at the Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman Settlement School last August. She and her mother are working on a book which combines poetry and nonfiction. WAYNE HOGAN is a poet, artist, and photographer whose work has appeared in regional and national publications. He lives near Cookeville, Tennessee. LLEWELLYN McKERNAN lives in Huntington, West Virginia, and teaches at Marshall University. Her first book, Short and Simple Annals, was published in 1979. This is her first appearance in Appalachian Heritage. JEFF DANIEL MARION, on the faculty at Carson Newman College in Tennessee, operates the Mills Springs Press where he handprints chapbooks and broadsides of poetry. A respected published poet, he has taught poetry classes at the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman for a number of years. JANE MAYHALL, from Harlan County, Kentucky, lives in New York. She is an established writer of both fiction and nonfiction as well as poetry. JIM WAYNE MILLER, poet and essayist from North Carolina, teaches at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is the author of several books of poetry and a noted lecturer and workshop leader. JUDY K. MILLER...