Weatherford Award Winners

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1970 Ben A. Franklin of the New York Times for his series of articles on Appalachia

1971 David H. Looff - Appalachia's Children

1972 Eliot Wigginton and students of Rabun Gap - Nacoochee School - The Foxfire Book

1973 Barry Bingham, Jr., of the Courier-Journal for thorough, persistent and influential reporting on Appalachia

1974 No award given

1975 Bryan Woolley and Ford Reid - We Be Here When the Morning Comes

1976 Kai T. Erikson - Everything in Its Path

1977 Gurney Norman - Kinfolks Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg - Our Appalachia

1978 John W. Hevener - Which Side Are You On? Henry D. Shapiro - Appalachia On Our Mind

1979 Thomas J. Schoenbaum - The New River Controversy

1980 John Gaventa - Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in An Appalachian Valley

1981 David Corbin - Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields

1982 Ronald Eller - Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers

1983 John Egerton - Generations

1984 John Ehle - Last One Home

1985 Eliot Wigginton - Sometimes A Shining Moment

1986 Martin Cherniack - The Hawk's Nest Incident

1987 Denise Giardina - Storming HeavenRodger Cunningham - Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience

1988 Lee Smith - Fair and Tender Ladies

1989 John Inscoe - Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina

1990 Helen Lewis and Susanna O'Donnell - Remembering Our Past, Building Our Future

1991 Crandall A. Shifflett - Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960

1992 Denise Giardina - The Unquiet Earth

1993 No award given

1994 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Colored People: A Memoir

1995 Deborah Vansau McCauley - Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History

1996 Wilma A. Dunaway - The First American Frontier1997 Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain

1998 Homer Hickam, Jr. - Rocket Boys: A Memoir

1999 Loyal Jones - Faith & Meaning in the Southern Uplands

2000 Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee - The Road To Poverty

Special Weatherford Award Winners

1972 Robert Coles, M.D.

1973 Wilma Dykeman

1975 Jesse Stuart

1976 Harry Caudill

1977 James Still

1978 Harriette Simpson Arnow

1979 Cratis Williams

1985 Albert Stewart - Certificate of Achievement

1988 Alfred Perrin

1996 Loyal Jones

1999 Sidney Saylor Farr and Jerry W. Williamson


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