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"Vital Words and
Vital Actions: 28th
Annual Appalachian Studies Conference Hosted
by Radford University
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PRE-PAID (by FEB 25) REGISTRATION $100 STUDENT PRE-PAID REGISTRATION $50 ASA SCHOLARSHIPS The ASA offers “scholarships” based on an applicant’s need and the ASA’s goal to increase access to the conference to a wide range of people. To apply, please use the form included. This form enables the ASA to aid the largest possible number of attendees with its limited funds. DEADLINE: Conference scholarship applications must be postmarked by February 11, 2005 and addressed to Cassie Robinson, Chair, ASA Scholarship Committee, P. O. Box 6706 Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC 28754. EXHIBITORS, VENDORS, AND GROUPS Paper Competitions & Service Awards
Nearest Airport: Roanoke Regional, 40 miles north Radford is easily reached from I-81 at Exit 109. We welcome you to ASC 2005! Melinda B. Wagner, President
Blocks of rooms are being held at these hotels/motels on a first-come, first-served basis until they are gone. Please call the numbers below directly (not 800 numbers) to make reservations. Ask for Appalachian Studies Conference rates. These rates are guaranteed only until February 18, 2005. Best Western
Radford Inn (Headquarters Hotel)
PROGRAM Conference Sessions begin Friday at 12:30 p.m. and conclude at 12:00
noon on Sunday Friday, March 18…..Peters Hall CONCURRENT SESSIONS I FRIDAY, MARCH 18 12:30-2:00 VISIT POSTERS IN PETERS C103 FRI. 1. The ‘Place’ of Gender in Appalachia Convener Marie Tedesco, East Tennessee State University PETERS
C117 All presenters are from East Tennessee State University: “The Place of Women in the Early East Tennessee Frontier” Sändra
Henson “Gender Oppression in Lee Smith’s Religious Representations” Adam
Sanders “The Immigrant Experience: Russians in the Coal Camp” Dusty
M. Hibbs FRI. 2. Farms and Farming in Appalachian Virginia Convener
Mary B. LaLone, Radford University PETERS C142 “From Poke Salad to Tatted Lace: Economic Contributions of
a Depression Era Farmwife” Peg Wimmer, Virginia Tech “Radford University’s Farm at Selu: A Reconstructed
1930s Farm as Educational Resource” Ricky Cox, Radford University “Running the Family Farm: Adapting Economic Survival Strategies
to Deal with Today’s Development and Globalization” Mary B. LaLone, Radford University “Cultural Attachment to Farmland in Tough Economic Times” Melinda
B. Wagner, Radford University FRI. 3. Making Connections Between Academia and Mountain Youth:
Teaching Appalachian Fiction / Writing in the Mainstream College
Classrooms Convener Jennifer Mooney, Virginia Tech PETERS
C136 All presenters are from Virginia Tech: “Teaching the Mountain Experience Through Revisionist Historical
Novels of the Central Appalachian Coalfields” Stephen Mooney “’A good man can make a real difference in a small place
like this’: Community Involvement in the Coalfield Novels of
Denise Giardina” Alice Kinder “Speaking the Same Language”: Fred Chappell’s
Use of the Oral Tradition in I Am One of You Forever and Other
Novels of the Kirkman Tetralogy” Stephanie Martin “Incorporating Appalachian Culture and Literature into the
Mainstream Classroom” Serena Frost “From Page to Platform: the Political Impulse in the Literature
of Appalachian Women Writers” Jennifer Mooney FRI. 4. An Appalachian Montage: Selected Readings from NANTAHALA Convener Mark A. Roberts, Virginia Intermont College. PETERS C137 “In Your Own Backyard: Selections from Nantahala” Mark
A. Roberts, Virginia Intermont College and Rob Merritt, Bluefield
College “The Echo of Something I Have Always Known” Casey Clabough,
Lynchburg College FRI. 5. Vital Issues in Mental Health Convener Peggy Cantrell,
East Tennessee State University COOK 107 “National Models” Peggy Cantrell, East Tennessee State
University “Competencies for Rural Practice” Chris Dula, East Tennessee
State University “Inter-professional Communication” Michael Floyd, ETSU,
Quillen College of Medicine “A Rural Psychology Training Model” Stephen Smith, Wright
State University and Quillen Veteran Affairs Hospital & Medical
Ctr. CONCURRENT SESSIONS II FRIDAY, MARCH 18 2:30-4:00 FRI. 6. Hill Daughters: Poetry and Fiction Reading Convener
Diane Gilliam Fisher, Ravenna, Ohio PETERS C117 Reading from One of Everything and Kettle Bottom:
Diane Gilliam Fisher, Ravenna, OH Reading from Eclipse and Blind Horse: Jeanne Bryner,
Newton Falls, OH Reading from Clean Getaway: Sherry Robinson, Eastern Kentucky
University FRI. 7. Tennessee Women (Mostly) Talk About Tennessee Women Writers Convener
Linda Behrend, University of Tennessee PETERS C136 “On Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922)” Nicole Drewitz-Crockett,
University of Tennessee “On Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919)” Grace Toney Edwards,
Radford University “On Anne Wetzell Armstrong (1872-1958)” Linda Behrend,
University of Tennessee “On Mildred Haun (1911-1966)” Viki D. Rouse, Tusculum
College “Wilma Dykeman (1920- )” Wilma Dykeman, Newport, TN FRI. 8. Appalachia and Film Convener Jack Wright, Ohio University
School of Film COOK 107 “Hillbillies and Heroines: Songcatcher as Appalachian
History” Deborah L. Blackwell, Texas A&M International
University “Folk on Film: Authentic Fixations” Sean Chadwell, Texas
A&M International University “Teaching Appalachia on Film” John C. Inscoe, University
of Georgia FRI. 9. The Way To Cold Mountain Convener Theresa
Lloyd, East Tennessee State University PETERS C142 All presenters are from East Tennessee State University: “To ‘Come Back from Something Like the Dead’:
Stobrod, the Trickster, and the Wonder-Working Power of Music” Heather
Rhea Gilreath “Combat Trauma and Recovery in Charles Frazier’s Cold
Mountain” Mark Holland “Transcendentalist Echoes in Cold Mountain” Theresa
Lloyd “Ethnicity in the Film Version of Cold Mountain” Thomas
Alan Holmes FRI. 10. Networks of Action in the New River Valley for the Well-Being
of Women and Children Convener Perry Martin, Virginia Tech PETERS
C143 Betty Lee, Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley Tiffany Smith, Tekoa Residential Treatment Facilities FRI. 11. Authoring Stories of Competence and Resilience PETERS
C146 Dr. William R. Scott, Department of Counselor Education at Radford
University FRI. 12. Reclaiming, Recovering and Retaining Local History Convener
Sandra L. Stanwitz, Radford Chamber of Commerce. PETERS 173 “Radford Riverway Amphitheater Future Home of ‘The Mary
Draper Ingles Story’” Sandra L. Stanwitz, Treasurer,
The Long Way Home, Inc. “Remember, Collect, Protect: Reclaiming Our Collective Past:
New Work from the Floyd Story Center at the Old Church Gallery, Floyd,
VA” Kathleen Ingoldsby, Floyd, VA “Documenting Rural Appalachian Communities: N&W Steam
Railway Photography of O. Winston Link” Natasha Taylor, Marketing
and Program Assistant, O. Winston Link Museum FRI. 13. The Saltville Saga PETERS 174 “The Saltville Saga: Decline and Revitalization of a Company
Town in Appalachia” Ralph H. Lutts, Goddard College Panelists from Saltville, VA CONCURRENT SESSIONS III FRIDAY, MARCH 18 4:15-5:45 VISIT POSTERS IN PETERS C-103 FRI. 14. “Telling Your Story: Innovative Strategies for
Teaching Personal Narrative” Convener Jack Wright, Ohio
University PETERS C117 Jack Wright, Ohio University Angelyn DeBord, Gate City, VA Carol Baugh, Sinclair Community College FRI. 15. Emancipation Era Education at the Christiansburg (VA)
Institute Convener Anna Fariello, director, Curatorial InSight,
Christiansburg, VA PETERS C142 Respondent, Elaine Dowe Carter, Executive Director, Christiansburg
Institute Panelists: alumni of Christiansburg Institute from the 1930s to the 1960s FRI. 16. The Condition of Appalachia: Rural Housing, Income,
Population Change, and Unemployment Convener C. Theodore Koebel,
Virginia Tech Center for Housing Research COOK 107 Paul Bowles, Public and Urban Affairs, Virginia Tech Joanna M. Paulson, Center for Housing Research, Virginia Tech FRI. 17. Psychological and Behavioral Health Issues in Appalachia Convener
Marty Amerikaner, Marshall University PETERS C136 All members of the symposium are from the Marshall University
Psychology Department “Parenting Attitudes in Rural Appalachia” Margaret Fish,
Marty Amerikaner, and Conrae Lucas “Mother-Child Interactions in Rural Appalachia” Karen
Clifton “Women Moving Mountains” Marianna Footo Linz, Jean Battlo,
and Pamela Mulder “Place Attachment and Flooding in Rural West Virginia” Teri
Stone, Margie Zdrojewski, and Lisa Lemaster “Substance Abuse Prevalence and Program Availability in Southern
West Virginia” Tammie Smith FRI. 18. Writing Appalachia: Literature and Literary Criticism
(on the publication of An American Vein: Critical Readings in
Appalachian Literature) Convener Danny Miller, Northern
Kentucky University PETERS C143 Danny Miller, Northern Kentucky University Gurney Norman, University of Kentucky Sharon Hatfield, Athens, Ohio Respondent: John Lang, Emory & Henry College FRI. 19. Daughters of Appalachia Write: Turning Negative Imagery
Into Positive Energy: Diane Gilliam Fisher, Gretchen Moran Laskas,
and Dorothy Allison Convener Annette McGrew, University of
Kentucky PETERS C146 Panelists are from the University of Kentucky “Diane Gilliam Fisher” Annette McGrew “Dorothy Allison” Cindy Salmons “Gretchen Moran Laskas” Kerstin D. Peterson FRI. 20. Literacy, Language, and Literature Convener Martha Billips, Transylvania University PETERS 173 “Spreading Vital Words: Building on the Encyclopedia of
Appalachia Project” Martha Billips, Transylvania University “Media Influence on the Construction of Ethnolinguistic Identity
in an Appalachian African American Community” Christine Mallison,
North Carolina State University, and Becky Childs, University of
Georgia “Reading is a Mountain of Fun: A Camp-based Literacy Project” Jenny
Williams and Scott Lucero, Hazard Community and Technical College “Community, Literacy, and Identity: Appalachian Students in
the College Classroom” Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Ohio State University FRI. 21. Economic Development Issues Convener Shannon E.
McBride, University of Georgia PETERS 174 “Country Goods and Looking Glasses: An Appalachian Community
Moves to a Free Economy” Ann Cameron MacRae, University of
Kentucky “Free Consumers vs. Free Markets: Smoky Mountain Native Plant
Association’s Contested Terrain” Shannon E. McBride,
University of Georgia “Income Growth and Income Inequality in Appalachia 1960-2000” Edward
B. Reeves and Steven Parkansky, Morehead State University “Wal-Mart and the Central Places of Eastern Kentucky” Royal
Berglee, Morehead State University FRI. 22. Folklore and Folklorists Convener Ted Olson,
East Tennessee State University COOK 129 “’Something About the Smokies’: Recovering the
Stories and Songs of an Appalachian People Displaced by a National
Park” Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University “Vital Words and Actions in the Work of May Justus and Richard
Chase” Tina L. Hanlon, Ferrum College “The Role of Humor in the Collection and Interpretation of
Appalachian Folk Magic and Medicine”—John D. Richards,
West Virginia State University “Oral Histories of the Hindman Settlement School Appalachian
Writers Workshop by WIND: A Journal of Writing and Community” Nicholas Smith and Erik Tuttle, editors, University of Kentucky FRI. 23. Vital Rivers: Pathways of Community Convener Patricia
Beaver, Appalachian State University COOK 313 Presenters are all from Appalachian State University “Floods of the French Broad: Perseverance of a People Through
Poetry” Connie Aiken “The Pikeville, Kentucky Cut-Through: The Politics of Rerouting
a River” Rebecca Baird “The Story of Murrays Mill on the Catawba River” Dare
Cook “Mercury Pollution and the North Fork of the Holston River” Ashley
Crabtree “Community and Environment in the Coalfields of Southwest
Virginia: A Survey of the Powell River Project” S. Aaron Davis “The James River in the Civil War” Katie Gray “RECOVER: Agent of Change in the Mid-Ohio Valley” Luke
Sulfridge “The Watauga River: Testing Water as a Limit to Development” Alice
Brooke Wilson BOOK EXHIBITS AND SILENT AUCTION CLOSE AT 6:30 P.M. FRIDAY. FRIDAY 6:45-8:00 P.M. BANQUET IN BASEMENT OF MUSE HALL, WHICH IS THE TALLEST
BUILDING ON CAMPUS, CORNER OF TYLER AVE. AND MAIN STREET. AMPLE
PARKING BEHIND BUILDING FROM MAIN STREET. Vegetarian
options included. _______________________________ FRIDAY 8:00-10:00 P.M. CONCERT OF APPALACHIAN MUSIC IN PRESTON
HALL BONDURANT AUDITORIUM. FROM MUSE HALL, PRESTON IS THE THIRD
LARGE BUILDING ON THE MAIN STREET SIDE OF CAMPUS. AMPLE PARKING
BEHIND OR BESIDE BUILDING AT MAIN STREET Want to continue the music?
You are invited to “jam sessions” in Cook Hall immediately
following the concert. “Old Time” music in Cook 107. “Folk
Music and Singing” in Cook 129. SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Registration, Peters Hall……..8:00-11:30 Exhibits and Silent Auction …..8:00-6:30 JAS Editorial Board Meeting…7:30 a.m in Best Western
Hotel Conference Room PLENARY SESSION SATURDAY, MARCH 19 8:30-10:00 Porterfield Hall Pridemore Auditorium “Vital Words and Vital Actions: Partnerships for a Healthy
Region” Convener: Dr. Melinda B. Wagner, president of the Appalachian
Studies Association Presenters will highlight issues facing our region, such as balancing
economic growth and development with conserving culture and preserving
environment and finding resources to build a healthy place. The
session features partners who have collaborated to help communities
in the New River Valley meet their goals. _____________________ CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV SATURDAY, MARCH 19 10:15-11:15 Please note these are 60-minute sessions VISIT POSTERS IN PETERS C-103 SAT. 24. Social Pathologies Convener Ken Wagner, Radford
University PETERS C117 “Social Disorganization and Crime in Appalachian Virginia
and Kentucky” Ken Wagner, Radford University “Children’s Advocacy Center of the New River Valley:
Reducing the Trauma of Child Abuse” Martha Raby, Radford University “ ‘The East’ Steps in: Edith Maxwell’s Imprisonment
and the National Woman’s Party” Sharon Hatfield, Athens,
Ohio SAT. 25. Vital Music and Musicians Convener Cece Conway,
Appalachian State University, PETERS C136 “Mountain Banjos and African Roots” Cece Conway, Appalachian
State University “Buried Treasures: Rediscovering Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s
Folksong and Ballad Collection of the Southern Appalachians” Cassie
M. Robinson, Mars Hill College “ ‘Uncle Dave’ Sturgill: Appalachian Musician,
Blue Ridge Entertainer, Family Patriarch, and Piney Creek Hero” Paula
H. Anderson-Green, Kennesaw State University SAT. 26. The Byron Herbert Reese Society Oral History Project
PETERS C146 Bettie Sellers, Young Harris College (ret.) Helen M. Lewis , UVAWise, Berea, ASU (ret.) SAT. 27. FILM: “And Some Sweet Day I’ll Sing Up There:
The Music of Alpha Saylor” PETERS 174 Richard Ondrovic and Lisa Varner, Pigeon Pie Films, Greenville,
SC SAT. 28. FILM: “This Bridge…A History of Coal in
Montgomery County, Virginia” COOK 107 Chris Valuzzo, Christiansburg, VA (TV/Media Specialist for Montgomery Co.) SAT. 29. Appalachian Political History Convener Jeff W. Dennis,
Morehead State U PETERS 173 “A Backcountry George Washington: Andrew Pickens and the Southern
Indian Policy During the Early Republic” Jeff W. Dennis, Morehead
State University “”Harry S Truman and the Presidential Election of 1948
in Appalachia” Philip A.Grant, Jr., Pace University SAT. 30. Art and Photography Convener Fred First, Radford
University PETERS C143 “Pen, Pencil, and Paint: An Artist’s Story” Bill Work, Tullahoma, Tennessee “Glimpses from a Blue Ridge Memoir: A Photo-Essay” Fred
First, Radford University SAT. 31. Arts and Crafts Convener Philis Alvic, Lexington,
Kentucky COOK 129 “Churchill Weavers: 80 Years of American Handweaving” Philis
Alvic, Lexington, KY “Vital Words, Vital Actions: The Arts Philosophy of Allen
Eaton” Joy L. Gritton, Morehead State University “Building Communities from the Inside Out: The Kentucky School
of Craft and New Issues in Craft Education” Tim Glotzbach,
Hazard Community and Technical College SAT. 32. Significant Schools Convener Douglas Sturgeon, University
of Rio Grande COOK 313 “Mason County WV’s One-Room School Buildings: Their
Status Today” Douglas Sturgeon, University of Rio Grande “The Allen School: Northern Missionaries and African-American
Women in Asheville, NC” Jamie Butcher, Appalachian State University “Women Empowering Women in Rural Appalachian Organizations:
A Discussion of Women’s Roles in Southern Appalachian Labor
School in Fayette County, West Virginia” Janis Rezek, West Virginia Institute of Technology and Jackie Asbury, Southern Appalachian Labor School SAT. 33. “A Survey of Newspapers in Central Appalachia”—A
Project of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Al Cross, University of Kentucky PETERS C142 SAT. LUNCHEON 11:30-12:15 Basement of Muse Hall, the tallest building on campus, corner
of Tyler Ave. and Main Street. Ample parking in rear off Main Street
entrance. **Vegetarian options included.** 12:15-1:15 BUSINESS MEETING AND AWARDS, basement of Muse Hall,
immediately following lunch. CONCURRENT SESSIONS V SATURDAY, MARCH 19 1:30-3:00 VISIT POSTERS IN PETERS C103 SAT. 34. The Radford University Teaching Resource Center is open
for a 30-minute information session on free resources for teachers.
PETERS C109 Lorraine Durrill, Director SAT. 35. “Local History in the Hills: Community History,
Geography, and Oral History” Convener Steve Yonts, Lexington,
KY, PETERS C117 Steve Yonts, Piedmont Appalachian Trail Club Jack Roper, Emory & Henry College Ed Davis, Emory & Henry College Linda Dobkins, Emory & Henry College Other participants TBA SAT. 36. “Tenancy-in-Common: A Socio-Economic Problem Confronting
Central Appalachia?” Convener Brady J. Deaton, Jr., Ontario
Agricultural College PETERS C136 Brady J. Deaton, Jr., Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada Joe F. Childers, Attorney at Law, Lexington, KY Donald Profitt, director, HOMES, Inc. SAT. 37. Coal and Community Convener Thomas E. Wagner, University of Cincinnati PETERS C137 “Two Model Coal Towns: Neglected Gems in Planning History” Thomas
E. Wagner, University of Cincinnati and Phillip J. Obermiller, University of Cincinnati “Place Identity in Appalachian Coal Region Narratives” Josh
Baldwin, University of North Carolina-Wilmington “Metaphors and Authority in the Rhetoric of Appalachian Activist
Organizations” Diana Ashe, University of North Carolina-Wilmington “The Community that Eats Together, Bonds Together: The Quecreek
Mine Rescue and ‘Our Coal Miners’ Café’ in
Jennerstown, PA” Sharon Willis Brescoach, St. Francis University SAT. 38. Vital Cherokee Topics Convener Shirley Lumpkin, Marshall University PETERS C142 “Folklore and Oral History in a Literature Class: Teaching
Cherokee Indian Themes to Appalachian Students, Grades 7-12” Christy
A. Smith, East Tennessee State University “Cherokee Pre-History/Material Culture” Theresa Burchett-Anderson,
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian “Restoring a Cherokee-Celtic-Appalachian Woman Writer’s
Harmony from the Inside Out: Awiakta’s ‘stump-settin’ ’ on
Marie Curie, Hans Christian Anderson, and Niels Bohr” Shirley
Lumpkin, Marshall University Respondent: Marilou Awiakta, Memphis, TN, author of Selu: Seeking
the Corn-Mother’s Wisdom SAT. 39. Faces of Appalachia: Studies in Ethnicity and Gender Convener
Linda Spatig, Marshall University PETERS C143 All presenters are from Marshall University “Bessie Woodson Yancey: An Appalachian Perspective” Katharine
Rodier “La Movida a las Montañas en Appalachia: Investigating
Hispanic College-Going Rates and Philanthropic Giving” Monica
Brooks “The Forging of a Black Community: Huntington, WV, 1870-1930” Cicero
M. Fain III “Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Faculty in Appalachia Reflect
on Sexual Identity in the Workplace” James O. Burton II and
Kathy Seelinger “ ‘Letting Yourself Feel’: Relationships as a
Key to Learning for Appalachian Girls” Linda Spatig and Melanie
Jones SAT. 40. Appalachian Technology and Economic Development Sponsored by Oak Ridge Associated Universities Session 1: “Appalachian Big Science: A Regional Resource” Convener
John Nemeth, Oak Ridge Associated Universities COOK 107 Lee L. Riedinger, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory Larry C. Headley, Assoc. Director, Office of Science, Technology
and Analysis, National Energy Technology Laboratory Teresa Vanhooser, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Alan (Al) Bruce Goldstayn, Executive Director, Arnold Engineering
Development Center Session 2 will follow immediately in this same room. SAT. 41. “Pieces of a Dream”: Four Perspectives on
Jim Wayne Miller’s Poetry Convener Edwina Pendarvis,
Marshall University PETERS C146 “Jim Wayne Miller’s Dialogue with a Dead Man:
Sanctifying the Profane” Edwina Pendarvis, Marshall University “Religious Language/Secular Conversions: Jim Wayne Miller’s The
Mountains Have Come Closer” John Lang, Emory & Henry
College “ ‘Brier Visions’: What Did He See?” Jim
Minick, Radford University “ ‘A singing like a circle saw in oak’: Magical
Realism and Mountain Metaphors in Jim Wayne Miller’s The
Mountains Have Come Closer” Marianne Worthington, Cumberland
College SAT. 42. Vital Issues in Religion Convener Carol Baugh, Sinclair
Community College PETERS 173 “Urban Appalachian Churches” Carol Baugh, Sinclair Community
College and Sherron Courneen, minister, St. Paul UMC, Dayton, Ohio “Digital Ethnography and Spiritual Journalism: Constructing
Cultural Identity” Claire Badaracco, Marquette University SAT. 43. Reflections on 25 Years: The Appalachian Studies Master
of Arts Degree at Appalachian State University, Part I Convener Patricia Beaver, ASU COOK 129 “The History of the Center and the MA Program in Appalachian
Studies” Patricia Beaver, ASU Presenters are alumni of the ASU MA program “Expanding Our Knowledge of Diversity in Appalachia” Edward
J. Cabbell, John Henry Memorial Foundation “The Place of Music in the Production of Appalachia” Deborah
Thompson, University of Kentucky “A Mountain Pathway to Priesthood: A Personal Journey” Donavan
Cain, General Theological Seminary “African, Indian, or Portuguese?” Kathy Staley, Appalachian
State University Respondent: Grace Toney Edwards, Director, Radford University Appalachian
Regional Studies Center SAT. 44. Health in Rural Appalachia: Building Bridges that Promote
Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Health Convener Sarah
Lewis, Marshall University PETERS 174 “The Role of Community Based Research” Anna Fauber,
Chrissy Cole, David Harmon, Marshall University “Types of Research Conducted in Rural Appalachia” Jill
Nolan and Jeremiah Terry, Marshall University “Current Data: Risk and Protective Factors Associated with
Rural Living” Holly West and Monica Miller, Marshall University “Spirituality Among Rural Young Adults” Danielle Davidov
and Clifton Strange, Marshall University “Mental Health Service Delivery” Sarah Lewis, Marshall
University, and Denise Gaskin, Meridian Behavioral Health Services,
Inc. SAT. 45. Teaching Composition in Appalachia: The Role of Rhetoric Convener
Robert J. “ Jack” Higgs, Johnson City, Tennessee COOK
313 Robert J. Higgs , East Tennessee State University (ret.) Doris Chapman Wyatt, East Tennessee State University Elaine O’Quinn, Appalachian State University Ernest Lee, Jr., Carson-Newman College SAT. 46. Creators of POSTER SESSIONS will be in the PETERS C103
during this time for your discussion and questions. “Students Helping Mountain Communities Assess Needs and Evaluate
Programs: Mars Hill College’s Center for Assessment and Research
Alliances (CARA)” Tom Plaut, Jessi Burns, Carson Byrd, Summer
Nixon, and Aday Niziol from Mars Hill College “An Exploration of the Belief System in Rural Medically Under-served
Populations to Determine Compatibility with Integrative Health Care” Virginia
Weisz, Radford University “Vital Rivers: Pathways of Community” Connie Aiken,
Rebecca Baird, Leigh Ann Henion, Dare Cook, Aaron Davis, Luke Sulfridge,
Sarah Joslin, Alice Brooke Wilson, Katie Gray and Ashley Crabtree
from Appalachian State University (complements session FRI. 23) “You CAN Teach Old Dogs New Tricks” Valerie Valentine,
University of Rio Grande /Rio Grande Community College CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI SATURDAY, MARCH 19 3:15-4:45 SAT. 47. The Radford University Teaching Resource Center offers
a second half -hour opportunity for information on free resources
for teachers. PETERS C109 Lorraine C. Durrill, Director SAT. 48. A Faculty Immersion Model for Growing Partnerships:
Communities and Scholars Learn, Serve, and Prepare the Ground Together Convener
Susan V. Mead, Ferrum College PETERS C117 SAT. 49. FILM: Bottom of the Barrel Convener Anthony Slone,
Nickelsville, VA PETERS C143 Respondents: Gurney Norman, University of Kentucky Mary Angelyn DeBord, Appalshop David L. Rouse, University of Virginia – Wise William A. Farley, Appalshop SAT. 50. “Community Colleges: Vital Partners in Appalachia” Convener
Rhonda Catron-Wood, Wytheville Community College PETERS C136 Rhonda Catron-Wood, Director of Development, Wytheville Community
College John Capps, Vice-President, Virginia Western Community College Pat Huber, Dean of Arts & Sciences, New River Community College SAT. 51. Stitching an Appalachian Clothesline of Quilts: Using
Art in Community Economic Development Convener Robin Neuhart,
Ohio University PETERS C137 Donna Sue Groves, Southern Field Representative, Ohio Arts Council – Originator
of the Clothesline Pat Gorman, Resource Management Field Specialist, Iowa State University
Extension – Grundy County Barn Quilt Project Janet Peterson, Grundy County Development Alliance Specialist –project
coordinator of Grundy County Quilt Barn Project Lindy Turner, Coordinator, Clinch-Powell Resource Conservation and
Development Council Candy Barbee – program assistant of “Not Barn Yesterday:
A Clothesline of Quilts in Appalachia” SAT. 52. “The Faith of a Watermelon Seed: DANCE, MOUNTAIN,
DANCE” PETERS C146 Yolantha Harrison-Pace, Performance Arts Specialist and Dance Poet
for the Kentucky Arts Council reads and performs SAT. 53. Appalachian Technology and Economic Development Sponsored by Oak Ridge Associated Universities Session 2: “The Global Economy and Appalachia: Challenges
and Opportunities” Convener
John Nemeth, Oak Ridge Associated Universities COOK 107 “Change” Amy K. Glasmeier, Penn State University, Dept.
of Geography “The Team – Business, Government, and Academia” Sara
Lawrence, Policy Analyst, and Roland Stephens, Faculty Fellow, Institute
of Emerging Issues, NC State University “Turning Research into Economic Progress through Tech Transfer” Alex
Fisher, Director, Economic Development and Technology Transfer, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory “Reality Check on Regional Cooperation” J. Mac Holliday,
CEO and Founder, Market Street Services, Atlanta, GA SAT. 54. Teaching Literature with a Lab: The Work of Love Convener
Deanna Durham, Eastern Mennonite University PETERS 174 Martha Greene Eads, Eastern Mennonite University Eastern Mennonite students enrolled in “The Work of Love” SAT. 55. Reflections on 25 Years: The Appalachian Studies Master
of Arts degree at Appalachian State University, Part II Convener
Patricia Beaver, ASU COOK 129 All presenters are alumni of the ASU MA program “So Anyway, What I Do Is…” Stephanie Roark Keener,
Lees-McRae College “The RTCAR Initiative: Building the Bridges between Cultural
and Environmental Preservation” David Cozzo, Western Carolina
University “Appalachian Mothers Creating Community: An Anthropology of
Mothering Voices” Joanna Weintraub, Zionville, NC “Social Capital, Appalachian Studies, and My AmeriCorps/VISTA
Experience” Sara Harris, North Carolina State University “Passing the Pick & Bow: Passing Old Time Mountain Music
on to a New Generation” Suzanne Savell, Appalshop, and Mark
Freed, ASU Respondent: Roberta Herrin, East Tennessee State University SAT. 56. “Art vs. OxyContin: Reflections on the Harlan
County PACT Project” Convener Robert Gipe, Southeast
Community College COOK 313 Robert Gipe, Director, Appalachian Program, Southeast Community College Roy Silver, Professor of Sociology, Southeast Community College And students from Southeast Community and Technical College, Cumberland,
Kentucky SAT. 57. Change and Identity Convener Phillip J. Obermiller PETERS
C142 “Migration, Demography, 2000 Census” Phillip J. Obermiller
and Steven Howe, Cincinnati, Ohio “Coal Bank Hollow: Portrait of a Community” Rebecca
Hamlin Morris, Pearisburg, VA “Degrees of Separation: Nature and the Shift from Farmer to
Miner to Factory Hand” Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts
Lowell “Negotiating the ‘Appalachian Identity’”—a
poetry reading by Adam R. Hazlett, Henry Ford Community College,
Dearborn, MI SAT. 58. “A Faculty Learning Community: Teaching and Learning
In and About Appalachia” Convener Sharon A. Denham, Ohio
University PETERS 173 All presenters are from Ohio University CONCURRENT SESSIONS VII SATURDAY, MARCH 19 5:00-6:30 5:00-6:30 RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF THE
ASU MA PROGRAM IN APPALACHIAN STUDIES, AT THE COMFORT
INN, TYLER AVE. REMINDER: Book Exhibit Closes at 6:30 SAT. 59 The Radford University Teaching Resource Center in Peters
is open for a third half-hour session on free information for teachers.
PETERS C109 Lorraine C. Durrill, Director SAT. 60. Nativity, Scholarships, & Activism: Sharing Our
Experiences as Students, Teachers, and Advocates In Conflicted
Communities Convener Rebecca Bailey, State University of West
Georgia PETERS C117 “The Polk County Election of 1948: Power and Politics in the
Copper Basin of East Tennessee” Kristin N. Patterson, State
University of West Georgia “Traveling the Road to Nowhere: Community Conflict in Swain
County, North Carolina” Trevor Lanier, State University of
West Georgia “Beyond the Safety Zone: Empowering Appalachia’s Future,
Not Just Teaching Its Past” Karl Precoda, Virginia Tech SAT. 61. Traditional Mountain Music and Community Radio: Building
Healthier Communities in Central Appalachia Convener Suzanne
Savell, Appalshop PETERS C136 Rich Kirby, Appalshop Mark Freed, Appalachian State University Ron Pen, University of Kentucky Beverly May, a founder of Cowan Creek Mountain Music School Nell Fields, director Cowan Creek Mountain Music School SAT. 62. Vital Health Care Convener Sarah S. Strauss, Radford
University PETERS C137 “Creating Care and Lessons Learned: The Dialogues of Village
Square Health Care” Sarah S. Strauss, Radford University “Challenges at the Crossroads of Health and Culture: Providing
Services to Underserved Hispanic Populations in Southwest Virginia” Janet
McDaniel, Radford University “The Appalachian Rural Health Institute: Report of a Community
Needs Assessment” Ann Rathbun and Sharon A. Denham, Ohio University “Family Support and Nutritional Routines in Persons with Type
II Diabetes” Lyndel Schuster and Sharon A. Denham, Ohio University “The Political Economy of Medicare: Big Bucks for Appalachia?” Aaron
McKethan, UNC-Chapel Hill SAT. 63. “Racism in Appalachia: An Urgent Research Priority
for Words and Actions” PETERS C146 Wilburn Hayden Jr., Director, Master of Social Work Program, California
University of PA Lynda Ann Ewen, Marshall University (ret.), Co-Director, Center
for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia SAT. 64. Stories and Story Telling Convener Christina Walton,
University of Cincinnati PETERS 173 “ ‘Word Play’: Narrative Content of Urban Appalachian
Professional Story Tellers” Christina Walton, University of
Cincinnati “Appalachian Ghost Stories: Old and New” Jo Ann Aust Asbury and April J. Asbury, Radford University SAT. 65 “Cold Mountain Revisited: Media Representations
of Appalachia through Film, Music and Print” Convener
Mary Ann Barnard, Abingdon, VA PETERS C142 “Ada and Ruby and the Actresses who Portray Them” Mary
Ann Bernard, Abingdon, VA “ ‘Attuning to Place’: Inman and Ada’s Healing
in Appalachia” Jennifer Brown, Southwest Virginia Community
College “Ruby and Ada: Daughters, Friends, and Self-Reliant Women” Kerri
Huff, UNC-Chapel Hill A Discussion of Music of the Civil War Era, of Music for the Film Cold
Mountain, and a Performance of That Music by Stevan Jackson,
Radford University Respondent: Gene Hyde, Radford University (with slides and film clips from Cold Mountain) SAT. 66. Poetry Reading: “Crosses, Ramps, Hill-Coves and
Coal Dust: Four West Virginia Poets” Convener Jeff Mann,
Virginia Tech PETERS 174 Jeff Mann, Charleston, West Virginia and Blacksburg, VA (Virginia
Tech) Edwina Pendarvis, Huntington, West Virginia (Marshall University) Victor Depta, Accoville, West Virginia and Ashland, Kentucky (UTenn-Martin,
ret.) A.E. Stringer, Huntington, West Virginia (Marshall University) SAT. 67. “Which Side Are You On?: Where is the VISUAL Art
of Resistance in Appalachia” Convener Joy L. Gritton, Morehead State University COOK 129 Robert Gipe, Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College Bruce Parsons, Morehead State University Stephen LaBoueff, Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission Joy L. Gritton, Morehead State University SAT. 68. “More Appalachian than Appalachia: the Carpathians
of Romania” Convener David L. Kimbrough, Cluj-Napoka,
Romania COOK 107 “Mountaintop Removal Romanian Style: Rosia Montana” Donald
Edward Davis, Dalton State College “The Color of Hay: Subsistence Culture in Maramures, Romania” Kathleen
Laraia McLaughlin, Santa Monica College “Logging in the Rodna Mountains” Teofil Ivanciuc, Maramures,
Romania SAT. 69. “Crisscrossing Appalachia and America: The Other
Side of Inside-Out” Convener Chris Green, Marshall University COOK
313 “Crisis In Health Care: Appalachia and the National Scene” Rebecca
Adkins Fletcher, University of Kentucky “Essentializing Radicalization: 1920s Appalachian Folk Literature” Chris
Green, Marshall University “The Tourism Industry of Appalachia” Kristin Kant, University
of Kentucky “From Margin to Center: Introducing Appalachia to the Mainstream
Theoretical Debates” Tammy Werner, University of Kentucky SAT. 70. “No Happily Ever After: Trade and Globalization
in Latin America and Appalachia” Convener Michelle Tooley,
Berea College PETERS C143 All presenters are from Berea College Michelle Tooley, Eli Lilly Professor of Religion William Gyude Moore, Bonner Scholar Ashonti Davis, Political Science major Kelli Burton, Religion major SATURDAY, MARCH 19 6:30 – 8:00 DINNER ON YOUR OWN Radford Restaurants Welcome You SATURDAY, MARCH 19 8:00-10:00 MUSIC AND SQUARE DANCE, BASEMENT OF MUSE HALL Ample parking in rear off Main Street Music by “Gerry Milnes & Friends” Caller: Frank Jenkins with Mac
Traynham, Deborah Thompson, Sam Linkous and others Want to continue the music? Enjoy a “jam session” in
Cook Hall immediately afterward. “Old Time” in Cook
107. “Folk Music and Singing” in Cook 129. SUNDAY, MARCH 20 Steering Committee Meeting II 7:00 a.m. Best Western Hotel Conference Room Exhibits…………9:00 – 11:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS VIII SUNDAY, MARCH 20 9:00-10:00 Please note these are 60-minute sessions “Appalachian Sunday Morning: A Celebration in Song” ---COOK
107 Musicians and gospel singing SUN. 71. FILM: Capacidad: A Celebration of Learning in the
Galax, Virginia Hispanic Community Convener Herb Thompson,
Emory & Henry College PETERS C142 Herb Thompson, Emory & Henry College, film treatment writer
and producer Douglas E. Arnold. Asst. Superintendent, Galax City Public Schools Thomas R. Britt, Ohio University School of Film Elizabeth Stringer, Galax City Schools, film associate producer Sonia Truitt, Galax City Schools, film creative consultant SUN. 72. Vital Issues in Conservation Convener Hannah Harris,
University of Kentucky PETERS C117 “The Black Bear Capital of Kentucky: New Partnerships in Carnivore
Conservation” Hannah Harris, University of Kentucky “Land Conservation: Can We Save Appalachia’s Natural
Resources?” Elizabeth Obenshain, New River Land Trust SUN. 73. Participation and Partnerships Convener Steven Culver,
Radford University PETERS C136 “Participatory Action Research: A Community Approach” Steven
Culver and Beth Deskins, Radford University “A New Beginning – Community Based Partnerships, Injury
Prevention, and Public Health” Genia McKee and Laura Hall,
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, Lexington, KY “It’s Not Just What You Know, It’s Who You Know:
Appalachian Culture and Its Role in the Development of a State-wide
Collaborative Partnership for Prevention” Tracy LeGrow, Linda
Spatig, and Anne Swedberg, Marshall University SUN. 74. Vital Words: Memoirs Convener Cathy Pleska, Scott
Depot, WV PETERS C137 “The Last Story Teller (A Memoir)” Cathy Pleska, Scott
Depot, WV “Personal Experience Along Tobacco Road” Al Fritsch, Ravenna, KY “School Days in Appalachia: A ‘Gapper’ Remembers” Peggy
Shifflett, Radford University SUN. 75. Academic and Community Relations: Connections and Disconnections Convener
Elgin Mannion, Western Illinois University PETERS C143 “Revisiting the Three Ring Circus: Minimizing the Disconnect
Between Academia, Agencies in Policy Capacity, Activists, and Communities” Elgin
Mannion, Western Illinois University “The Changing Roles of Academics in the Kentucky Fair Tax
Coalition: Past, Present, and Future” Shaunna L. Scott, University
of Kentucky “Civic Engagement: Empowering Social Work Students for Community
Intervention” Judith Stafford, Morehead State University SUN. 76. Food Ways Convener Julie A. Shepherd, Appalachian
State University PETERS C146 “ ‘Tis Time for Peace’: Survival and Innovation
in Southern Appalachian Women’s Domestic Labor During the Civil
War – The Fannie A. Fain Diaries” Julie A. Shepherd,
Appalachian State University “ ‘It’s Not a Real Recipe: It’s Just the
Way I Make It’” Joyce Compton Brown and Les M. Brown,
Gardner-Webb University SUN. 77. Children’s Issues: No Child Left Behind Convener
Robert Bickel, Marshall University PETERS 173 Part 1: “ Undercutting Achievement in a Poor, Rural Middle
School: A Quantitative Case Study of ‘No Child Left Behind’” Part 2: “ ‘No Child Left Behind’ and Reading Achievement
in the Appalachian U.S.: Context and Social Ascription for the Poorest
of the Poor” Robert Bickel and Crystal Howell, Marshall University SUN. 78. De-Stabilizing Appalachian Stereotypes . . . Convener
Barb Howe, West Virginia University PETERS 174 (of religion) “The Word of God Inspired Vital Actions:
The Communities of Nuns in Mid-19th Century Wheeling,
WV” Barb Howe, West Virginia University (of rural Appalachia) “The Marcum Place: Investigating
the Stereotypical Image of Rural Appalachia through Archaeology” Cecil
Ison, Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission (of Appalachian women) “Power, Politics, and ‘Teenage’ Pregnancy” Anne
Blakeney, Eastern Kentucky University SUN. 79. Women’s Empowerment Convener Sharon Delaine
Pritchard Price, Appalachian State University and Western Piedmont
CC COOK 129 “A Reading from ‘Dovie,’ a Novella” Sharon
Delaine Pritchard Price, ASU and Western Piedmont CC “Learning to Work or Working to Learn: Rural Women’s
Education in the Global Economy” Donna J. Hall, Florida State
University SUN. 80. Greed and Speed: A Lost State and a Lost Race Track Convener
Andrew Baker, Ohio University COOK 313 “Where the Engines No Longer Roar: The North Wilkesboro Speedway” Andrew
Baker, Ohio University “Memory, Mythology, and Tennessee’s Lost State of Franklin” Kevin
T. Barksdale, West Virginia University SUN. 81. Reviewing International Connections and Contributions Convener
Richard Straw, Radford University COOK 318 “Hispanic Migration and Changing Institutions in Rural East
Tennessee” Chris Baker, Walters State Community College “Ulster-Scots vs. Scots-Irish: A Comparative Look at Parallel
Identities” J. Todd Nesbitt, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania “The German Hillbillies: Where Did they Come From, Where Did
they Go?” Gerald Milnes, Davis & Elkins College CONCURRENT SESSIONS IX SUNDAY, MARCH 20 10:30-12:00 SUN. 82. Appalachian Springs and Spas Convener Gary A. O’Dell,
Morehead State University PETERS C117 “The Kentucky Roadside Spring: Traditional Water-Supply Alternative
for Appalachian Households” Gary A. O’Dell, Morehead
State University and James Webb, Kentucky Division of Water “Watering Holes in East Tennessee: Montvale Springs, Tate
Springs and Unaka Springs” Mary Fanslow, East Tennessee State
University “West Virginia Spas and Springs: Then and Now” Rosanna
Reaser, Radford University (ret.), Princeton, WV “The Renewal of Yellow Sulphur Springs, Blacksburg, VA” Richard
Straw, Radford University SUN. 83. Language and Appalachian Culture Convener Michael
Montgomery, University of South Carolina PETERS C136 “Syntax and Mountain Speech” Robert Williams, Radford
University “Popular Booklets on Mountain Speech: Just Cornpone?” Michael
Montgomery, University of South Carolina “A Blue Ridge Mountain Dictionary/ Glossary/ Excursus in Self-Education” Jack
W. Weaver, Winthrop University (ret.) “Intonation Contours and the ‘Poetic Quality’ of
Southern Mountain Speech” Anita Puckett, Virginia Tech SUN. 84. Food and Politics: How Political Policy is Feeding the
Obesity Epidemic Convener Gayle Wells, Carson-Newman College PETERS C137 Gayle Wells (Health, P.E. and Sports Science) and John Wells (Political
Science), Carson- Newman College SUN. 85. “An Experiment in Shared Learning: Forming the
Clearfork Valley – Berea College Partnership” Convener
Lori Briscoe Pennington, Berea College PETERS C143 Lori Briscoe Pennington, Assoc. Director, Appalachian Center, Berea
College Ashley Cochrane, Service-Learning Coordinator, CELTS, Berea College Marie Cirillo, Clearfork Valley (Eagan), Tennessee SUN. 86. “Shifting Power from the Corporate Boardroom to
the Shop Floor: Worker Ownership and the Case of Blue Ridge Paper
Products” Convener George W. Loveland, Ferrum College PETERS
C146 Frank T. Adams, Asheville, NC, founding partner of the Southern
Appalachian Center for Cooperative Ownership Alton Higgins, Canton, NC, Blue Ridge Paper Products George W. Loveland, Ferrum College, author of Under the Workers’ Caps:
How Champion Mill Became Blue Ridge Paper SUN. 87. “Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women
Speak” Convener Denise Roberts McKinney, editor PETERS
173 SUN. 88. Nineteenth Century Appalachian Images and Realities Convener
Kevin E. O’Donnell PETERS 174 “Illustrating Appalachia: Southern Mountain Landscapes from
Appleton’s Picturesque America (1872-1874)” Kevin
E. O’Donnell, East Tennessee State University “Gendering Space in Antebellum Appalachia: Male Travelers,
Female Travelers, and Mountain Landscapes” Katherine E. Ledford,
Gardner-Webb University “Community Attention to the Well-Being of Children in Nineteenth
Century Antebellum Western North Carolina” Susanne Mosteller
Rolland, Morehead State University “Patterns of Social Life and Leisure Among Rural, Agrarian
Populations of the Nineteenth-Century Valley of Virginia” Kenneth
E. Koons, Virginia Military Institute SUN. 89. Paths of Vital Activism Convener Barry Whittemore,
Johnson City, TN PETERS C142 “Rev. Hannah Powell and Her Universalist Mission in Appalachian
North Carolina” Phoebe Pollitt, Boone, NC and Barry Whittemore,
Johnson City, TN “Vital Actions in Women’s Learning: Unity House and
the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union 1900-1995” Kenneth
C. Wolensky, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission “Ridin’ Around Listening to the Radio with Jim Webb:
The Making of a Reluctant Rebel” Dana Wildsmith, Lanier Technical
College “Women of Change, Women of Courage: Activists in Appalachia” Theresa
Burriss and Elaine Machelor, Radford University SUN. 90. The Vital Words of Five Appalachian Authors Convener
Anita Turpin, Roanoke College COOK 129 “The Dramatic Voices of Frank X Walker” Anita Turpin,
Roanoke College “Mingled in the Fate of the World: The Dangerous Visions of
Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard” Joe Rice, East Tennessee State
University “Words, Actions and ‘Resurrecting Home’: The Fiction
of Denise Giardina and the Ethical Imperative” Sylvia Bailey
Shurbutt, Shepherd University “ ‘A Mountain to Rest My Eyes Against’: The Importance
of Place of Origin as Seen in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender
Ladies” Donna Ogle, Radford University Thank you for your participation in the 28th annual
conference of the Appalachian Studies Association. In 2006 we meet
at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, hosted by Phillip
Obermiller, ASA President, Tom Wagner, Program Chair, and Carol
Baugh, Local Arrangements. You are encouraged to submit your paper to The Journal of
Appalachian Studies. Bring a copy of your paper to the registration
table, Make sure your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone
number are attached. If you do not have a clean copy to submit,
please mail two hard copies of your paper (do not send a computer
disk) to: Journal of Appalachian Studies c/o Appalachian Studies Association E-mail attachments will be
accepted; send to <<asa@marshall.edu>>.
Deadline for post-conference submission is April 30, 2005. Conveners
of panels may submit papers from the panel. Bring them to the
registration table with a note indicating you are submitting
them on behalf of an entire panel. Please include names, addresses,
e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of all panelists. Special thanks to the following sponsors of the 2005 Appalachian
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