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The Fifth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Boone, North Carolina, on September 8-11, 1993. Contributors to the proceedings include Edward T. McMahon, Sidonio Costa Pardal, Nancy K. Robinson, Peter S. Szabo, Jim Fox, Sharon Kashkin and Gene Brothers, William E. Shepherd and Lynn Crafts, Janet Scheid, Richard Posner, Bonj Szczygiel, Harry L. Baker, and William L. Flournoy Jr.

An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long teacher workshop held on the campus of Appalachian State University in June, 1995. The purpose of the workshop was to allow children of the Southern Appalachian region to gain better educational access to the tremendous resources of this area.

An Appalachian Curriculum is the product of a week-long symposium workshop held at Radford University In June 1998. The purpose of the workshop was to create materials that allowed children from the Southern Appalachian region to gain better access to the natural and cultural resources available on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Archives in Appalachia: A Directory consists of tabulated entries describing 181 repositories in 195 counties in the South-Central Appalachia region which hold historical records documenting the political, social, cultural, and economic history of the region, and a list of "coming attractions, " agencies which do not currently collect manuscript material but which plan to do so in the future. Also included in this directory are indexes sorted ...

The second volume of Emerging Patterns in the Southern Highlands: A Reference Atlas focuses on agriculture in the 156 counties in the Southern Appalachian region. In addition to the maps and data, six essays by scholars of the region are included to support and enrich the volume.

The Fourth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, on November 12-14, 1991. Contributors to the proceedings are Philip A. Grant Jr., Helen Cozzetto and Don Cozzetto, Judy Byrd Brittenum, Neil P. Korostoff, Thomas G. Yahner, and Timothy P. Johnson, Wayne E. Williams, Delmar W. Barchert, Paul L. Gaskill, and Holly Pierce, Helen Smythers, Herman F. Senter and James P. Jarvis, James L. Sipes and Richard F. Ostergaar...

The Third Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 19-22, 1989. Contributors to the proceedings are Woodward S. Bousquet, Anne Lusk, Jerry L. Rogers, Noel Grove, Boudewijn Bach, Grant Jones, Li Rusheng, Elizabeth K. Meyer, Richard L. Kent, Yasuo Bansho, Sara Amy Leach, William A. Mann, Paul M. Rookwood, Steven L. Cantor, Janit L. Potter, John W. Bright, Charles Birnbaum, Lois A. Brink and Ann Skarved...

The Second Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1987. Contributors to the proceedings are Gilbert W. Leebrick, Barry Buxton, Douglas Cruickshanks Jr., Gary Everhardt, H.B. Ewert, John B. Slater, Harrold Eidsvik, Robert T. Mooney, Walter Rogers, Gary Klinedinst, Sarah Georgia Harrison, Bruce F. Leeson, Sally Schauman and Mary Jorgensen, William G.E. Blair and Curtis A. Miller, Frank B. Burggraf, Lynn Miller, David ...

The Sixth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 9-11, 1995. Contributors to the proceedings are Steven Elkinton, Christopher D. Jones and William E. Hammitt, Philip A. Grant Jr., Michael Mastrota, M. Rupert Cutler, Thomas G. Yahner, Timothy P. Johnson, Neil P. Korostoff, and A. Mark Battaglia, Terry L. Clements, Kenneth R. Tamminga, and Susan M. Smith and Stefanie Mixon.

In Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga, readers learn that the term "Hogwild" was an outrageous ideology-that a loosely organized confederation of like-minded individuals could carve out a simple country lifestyle from an enclave of mountain land, raise their own crops, bring up their children in peace and serenity, and build their own free-spirited houses with logs timbered from the local forest in an environmentally conservative fashion. It was...

Published in 1977, this collection of essays was published to honor Cratis D. Williams upon his retirement from Appalachian State University. Williams was an influential scholar, folklorist, teacher, and administrator who spent much of his career focused on the Appalachian region. Contributors to the volume are Louie Brown, Ronald J. Eller, Alan J. Crain, Stephen Fisher, Wilma Dykeman, Henry Shapiro, David S. Walls, Gene Wilhelm Jr., Robert Pa...

The culmination of more than sixty years of observing and collecting superstitions, customs, cures, riddles, games, stories, songs, and beliefs Paul Green's Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence was published in 1990. A personal collection of folk traditions, Paul Green thought that these common idioms served to showcase the heritage of mankind. With roots in eastern North Carolina, Green took inspiration from his peers to write down the tradi...

The Seventh Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Lake Junaluska Assembly, North Carolina, on September 11-13, 1997. Contributors to the proceedings are Kathleen L. Kadlec, Bill Carson, Bill Carson and Judith Francis, Edward J.P. Hauser, Philip A. Grant Jr., Fred J. Hay, Curt Cottle, Lee R. Skabelund and Lon Williams, Peter Givens, Daniel L. McDonald, Charles E. Roe, Jay Singh, and Donna Warmuth.

Published in 1977, Western North Carolina is a narrative history of the Southern Appalachian Mountains up to 1880. Ora Blackmun depicts the stories of native Cherokee and Sequoyah people and pioneers such as William Bartram, Daniel Boone, Bishops Spangenberg and Asbury, and Zeb Vance.

Published in 1999, this is a second edition of People, Politics and Economic Life. The original workbook's intention was to be a supplementary text for courses on regional studies, geography, history, and social sciences. The main focus was on teaching students how to explore issues facing different American regions with a special emphasis on Appalachia. Data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Appalachian Regional...

Born in the Wallingford Clinic in 1949, Barry Buxton called the town of Blowing Rock home during his childhood. The youngest of seven children, he grew up in the mountains attending Blowing Rock elementary school and looked towards the nearby college, Appalachian State University, for his undergraduate studies. Graduate school took Dr. Buxton to the midwest, however he returned to Blowing Rock in the 1980s to assume a position at the Appalachi...

A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in "... A Right Good People were originally published in the Charlotte Observer, the largest newspaper in the Carolinas in the 1970s. These stories were written with the intention of illustrating the heritage of the Appalachian people and letting them speak about their cul...

Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Highlander. English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish immigrants to the Appalachian region of North Carolina brought with them a rugged individualism and a sense of humor and dignity which have been characteristic of the sturdy yeoman farmer. Most mountain preachers and many of the old time mountaineers had a real talent for telling stories. While the "ta...

Civilized man has been prone to conjure up a maxim or saying to reflect the prevailing philosophy of the day. Two of those familiar favorites readily apply to the world famous Blue Ridge Parkway, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Harley E. Jolley explores the parkway through the history if its landscape architecture.

This monograph represents a massive effort to assemble printed works of regional materials held by Appalachian Consortium members at various institutions in the Appalachia region. The five libraries contributing to the effort formed a committee to formalize and catalogue their research which resulted in the 13, 000 entry bibliographic compendium which had grown from a small, local record of several hundred entries. The material has been select...