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  • This Issue
  • George Brosi

David Huddle is the featured author for this issue. A native of Ivanhoe, located in the New River Valley in Southwest Virginia, Huddle is a distinguished Professor Emeritus who is working on his twentieth book. His contribution to regional literature is notable in its versatility in the forms of poetry, story, novel and essay. Our commentators on David Huddle’s work include two fellow natives of Wythe County, Mariflo Stephens and Amy Wright, along with his former colleague at the University of Vermont, Ghita Orth, and the distinguished literary critic, Casey Clabough, a fellow Virginian.

The story we have for this issue is set in the New River Valley, downstream from David Huddle’s hometown of Ivanhoe, and written by Terry Douglas, who has lived in Giles County for more than twenty years.

We are proud to include in this issue Wendell Berry’s essay, “To Break the Silence.” He is one of America’s most distinguished men of letters, and this is a truly significant call to action. The inspiration for this essay was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Night Comes to the Cumberlands by Harry M. Caudill and the recent release of The Embattled Wilderness by Eric Reese and James J. Krupa. Mary Popham reviews The Embattled Wilderness in this issue, and my editorial, “Towards a Kentucky Land Use Policy,” attempts to follow up on Wendell Berry’s essay.

Our poets are Kentucky poet laureate Frank X Walker, along with fellow Kentuckian, Samantha Lynn Cole. Also here are three Tennesseans, Jesse Graves who teaches at East Tennessee State, and two retired educators, Jane Hicks of Blountville and Sue Weaver Dunlap of Walland. Stephanie Thomas Berry is from Yancey County, North Carolina, and William Miller is a native of Anniston, Alabama.

In addition to Mary Popham’s review of The Embattled Wilderness, we also include a review of Joseph Anthony’s novel, Pickering’s Mountain, prepared by David Thurman Miller, a West Virginia native.

We are proud to illustrate this issue with photos that depict the hundred year history of Pine Mountain Settlement School, part of an exhibit that is available for hanging in venues around the region. See page 113 for information on how you can bring this display to your community. [End Page 10]

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