"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
Ron Lewis

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
Gurney Norman

Carl A. Ross Paper Award
White and Mzwandile Ginindza from Berea College for their paper entitled “Shifting Paradigms: The Future of Economic Development in Appalachia”.

Weatherford Award
Fiction: Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia.

2007 Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry: Dot Jackson for Refuge.

Media Arts Award
Catherine Pancake for Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & the Fight for Coalfield Justice.

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/