"Piecing the Appalachian Experience"

30th Annual Conference Program

March 23-25, 2007
Hosted by Maryville College
Maryville, Tennessee

Photographs from Maryville, Tennessee

Award Winners

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award

Carl A. Ross Paper Award

Weatherford Award

Media Arts Award

E-Appalachia Award
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

"Both Ends of the Road: Making the Appalachian Connection"

29th Annual Conference Program

Sinclair Community College
Dayton, Ohio
on March 17-19, 2006

Photographs from Dayton, Ohio

Award Winners

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
Gordon McKinney

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award

Carl A. Ross Paper Award
John R. Burch; "Fighting the War on Poverty in the Second Poorest County in the United States"

Weatherford Award
Fiction and Poetry – Darnell Arnoult - What Travels With Us: Poems
Non-Fiction – Sharon Hartfield - Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell

Media Arts Award

E-Appalachia Award
Just Connections

"Vital Words and Vital Actions: Partnerships to Build a Healthy Place"
28th Annual Conference Program

Hosted by Radford University
at Radford University in Radford, VA
on March 18-20, 2005

Photographs from Radford, Virginia

Award Winners

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
Lynda Ann Ewen and Michael Montgomery

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
(1) Our Common Heritage (Dayton) & (2) Pam and Jerry Williamson

Carl A. Ross Paper Award
Kristin Patterson, "Stealing Democracy: Sheriff Biggs, the Good Government League, And Politics in Polk County, Tennessee, 1930-1948"

Weatherford Award
Fiction and Poetry – Darnell Arnoult - What Travels With Us: Poems
Non-Fiction – Sharon Hartfield - Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell

Media Arts Award
Robert Salyer for SludgeE-Appalachia Award
Just Connections; website

"Building A Healthy Region: From Historical Trauma to Hope and Healing"
27th Annual Conference Program

Cherokee High School
Cherokee, North Carolina
on March 26-28, 2004

Photographs from Cherokee, North Carolina

Award Winners

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
Patricia D. Beaver

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
Jack Spadaro

Carl A. Ross Paper Award
Emily Satterwhite: " ‘That's What They're All Singing About': Embracing Appalachian Heritage, American Nationalism, and Celtic Pride at the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival"

Weatherford Award
Fiction and Poetry - Ron Rash - Saints at the River
Non-Fiction - Michael Montgomery - Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English

E-Appalachia Award
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University; http://www.marshall.edu/csega/index.asp

"Building A Healthy Region: Environment, Culture, Community"
26th Annual Conference Program

Co-hosted by Berea College & Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky
on March 28-30, 2003

Photographs from Eastern Kentucky University

Award Winners

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS), Beards Fork, WV

Carl A. Ross Paper Award
Matt Schroeder: "The Prison Paradox: Bushy Mountain Prison, the Early Years"

Weatherford Award
Fiction and Poetry - Gretchen Moran Laskas - The Midwife’s Tale
Non-Fiction - Wilma A. Dunaway - Slavery in the American Mountain South

E-Appalachia Award
Christiansburg Institute; www.christiansburginstitute.org

"Standing on the Mountain, Looking to the Future"
24th Annual Conference Program

Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Pocahontas County West Virginia
on March 30 - April 1, 2001

Photographs from Snowshoe Resort Mountain

Award Winners

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
Steve Fisher and Jerry Williamson

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
Hindman Settlement School

Weatherford Award
John O'Brien - At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

E-Appalachia Award
Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults; Judy Teaford and Tina Hanlon; www.ferrum.edu/AppLit/