Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: appalachia
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1999-11-29
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0374526249
ISBN-13: 9780374526245

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series.If Country Music traced "Wright’s journey from the soil to the stars" and The Wo

Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: August House
Keywords: appalachia, laughter
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1987-07-25
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 087483032X
ISBN-13: 9780874830323

A sampling of the highlights of Appalachian humor, collected from the Festival of Appalachian Humor, with illustrations by Jacqueline Froelich.

Author: Cecil Cline
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC
Keywords: appalachia, over, sunrise
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-08-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1598582054
ISBN-13: 9781598582055

A young man from an isolated hollow of Appalachia struggles to overcome his parents cultural resistance to education and the reality of poverty to fulfill a childhood dream of a university education. This book narrates his struggles with the overwhelming odds he fought to achieve his dream and conquer his personal conflicts. His lack of confidence and his inability to meet the necessary financial needs were compounded by the constant emotional struggle with his father over his passion to achieve this seemingly impossible dream. After suffering devastating combat injuries in the Korean War

Author: Richard B. Drake
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: appalachia, history
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0813190606
ISBN-13: 9780813190600

The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. This land has always profoundly influenced the development of its people. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plan

Author: Denvil Mullins
Publisher: Overmountain Press
Keywords: appalachia, echoes
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1570720215
ISBN-13: 9781570720215

Offering more stories of those Cornfields and their rowdy neighbors from up on Coaley Creek, this collection contains more hilarious half-truths and tall tales about the author’s kin.

Author: John Alexander Williams
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: history, appalachia
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-04-29
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0807853682
ISBN-13: 9780807853689

Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia’s long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia’s Native American inhabi

Author: Sidney Saylor Farr
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: memoir, appalachia
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0813124506
ISBN-13: 9780813124506

Although Sidney Saylor Farr is renowned in the field of Appalachian studies, her own fascinating personal history has been little known until now. My Appalachia is Farr’s story of growing up in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, where her devotion to her family led her to accept crushing responsibilities that steered her away from her own goals. Her intense determination, however, compelled her to find her own path in life and gave her the strength to become one of the most influential figures in her discipline. At the age of twelve, Farr was forced to leave school