SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... 174
with illustrations by Annie Greenwood
THE POETS ... 190
ARTICLES
History
Black in Appalachia by Enkeshi El-Amin and William Isom II ... 192
History | Herstory
Lula Owl Gloyne: The First Cherokee Field Nurse, and Public Health in Native Appalachia by Laurel Sanders ... 212
History
Telling Stories: What Oral Histories Reveal About Mountain People and Mountain Lives by Elizabeth McRae and Alexander Macaulay ... 236
Literature
Kentucky Writer Silas House Builds a Reputation and a Fan-Base by Jerry W. Williamson ... 258
Music Review
Tyler Childers’ “In Your Love”: A New Look at Appalachia by Chelsea Brislin and Revell Carr ... 278
Review Essay
Defined Attention: Robert Morgan’s “Oratorio” by Robert West ... 284
BOOK REVIEWS
- Rachael Fortune on Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia by Emily Hilliard ... 290
- G. Samantha Rosenthal on Tar Hollow Trans: Essays by Stacy Jane Grover ... 293
- Lana Whited on Fairytales of Appalachia edited by Stacy Sivinski ... 295
- Sammy Osmond on A Year Without Months by Charles Dodd White ... 298
- Catherine Pritchard Childress on With Access to Tools by Dana Wildsmith ... 299
- Ernest Lee on Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place by Jesse Graves ... 301
- Thomas Alan Holmes on Summer Words: New & Selected Poems by David Salner ... 303
POEMS
- Whirligigs by Brian Beatty ... 173
- Blessings by Caleb Johnson ... 277
- Considering a House Wren on the Back Deck by Caleb Johnson ... 235
- False Spring by Caleb Johnson ... 305
- Pileated Woodpecker by Caleb Johnson ... 312
- An Appalachian in-migrant tale of sorts by Gene Hyde ... 210
- Congregants at Stony Fork by Gene Hyde ... 211
- Suburban Blue Ridge Blues by Gene Hyde ... 257
- Loss up late by Kari Gunter-Seymour ... 191
- Next time someone asks by Kari Gunter-Seymour ... 233
- Mountaintop Removal by Rania Zuri ... 234
CHRONICLE ... 306
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS ... 314
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