Mommy Learns to Drive the Studebaker

workshop leader, and author of several books of poetry. NELI MOODY-BERNE, Palo Alto, California, a writer, actress, and choreographer, says her maternal roots go back to the Ohio/West Virginia border. JO RAYMOND MOTT lives in Archer, Florida . This is her first appearance in Appalachian Heritage. TESSA NELSON-HUMPHRIES is British and also an American Citizen. "I came here in the wake of a Kentucky husband who was a Professor of Biology at Cumberland College." She teaches at the college and is a published poet, lecturer, and photographer. SALLIE ODUM lives in Berea and works at Berea College. She has had poetry published in journals and periodicals including The New Oxford Review and Appalachian Heritage. ALFRED H. PERRIN, former President of the Friends of the Berea College Library, is currently living in Burnsville, North Carolina. PHYLLIS PRICE'S work has appeared in both regional and national publications. She currently resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia. RON RASH lives in Pendleton, South Carolina. This is his second appearance in Appalachian Heritage. RICHARD SEARS, a member of the English facutly at Berea College, is the author of several books on early Berea history. CHARLES SEMONES, Harrodsburg, Kentucky , has had his work appear in several regional publications. VERNA MAE SLONE Uves in Hindman, Kentucky. She achieved national recogniztion with her first book, What My Heart Wants to Tell. DEBORAH HALE SPEARS, fronton, Ohio, incorporates earth themes in many of her prose pieces, fiction, and poetry. GORDON LLOYD SWARTZ HI has a degree in Agriculture but has "been a West Virginia coal miner for the past 15 years." MICHAEL THOMPSON lives in Berea and does porcelain repair and restoration. RAY TRAIL was Art Director for the CBS television station in San Diego, California, until his retirement. Mommy Learns to Drive the Studebaker Like a big, green jackrabbit the car lurches and swerves over the icy wooden bridge while big sister shifts the gears. Mommy can't quite do the gears and clutch at the same time. When a car comes towards us, she gets 'way over on the road's shoulder as if she is beggin' pardon for bein' in the way. We used to fight over whose turn it was to shift the gears while Mommy just kept on clutchin', ears deaf to the din. -Jo Raymond Mott 80 ...