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Download full textArnow, Pat, Ed. – Now and Then, 1989
This journal issue contains interviews, essays, short stories, and poetry focusing on sense of place in Appalachia. In interviews, author Wilma Dykeman discussed past and recent novels set in Appalachia with interviewer Sandra L. Ballard; and novelist Lee Smith spoke with interviewer Pat Arnow about how Appalachia has shaped her writing. Essays…
Descriptors: Essays, Interviews, Novels, Photographs
Arnow, Pat, Ed. – Now and Then, 1988
This journal issue focuses on a variety of Appalachian occupations, particularly but not exclusively, coal mining. The lead article is an interview with John Sayles about his movie, "Matewan." Sayles sees the Matewan massacre as a great movie theme, "like a classic American Western...but with a difference--the violence was…
Descriptors: Coal, Employment, Essays, Geographic Regions
Arnow, Pat, Ed.; Cheek, Pauline, Ed. – Now and Then, 1987
This magazine offers interviews, short stories and articles with a general focus on childhood in Appalachia. Two interviews include: "Creative Response to Life-Pauline Cheek," by Jane Harris Woodside, and "Insights and Experience: A Talk with Eliot Wigginton," by Pauline Binkley Cheek. Short stories include: "Thief in the…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Children, Cultural Background, Cultural Education
Arnow, Pat, Ed. – Now and Then, 1988
This journal theme issue focuses on Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in Appalachia, launched in 1964. Articles discuss the War on Poverty, the people involved, how it succeeded, and how it ultimately failed. One article examines the role of the Council of the Southern Mountains, established in 1913. Federal officials used the council's reputation…
Descriptors: Appalachian Studies, Community Action, Community Programs, Federal Programs
Arnow, Pat, Ed. – Now and Then, 1987
This journal issue focuses on Appalachian veterans and on the premise that Appalachians and Americans in general are still fighting the battles and dealing with the psychic aftermath of the Civil War and all wars fought since then. One article notes that Appalachian soldiers were 20 to 25% more likely to be killed in Vietnam than other soldiers.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Essays, Geographic Regions, Personal Narratives
Arnow, Pat, Ed. – Now and Then, 1988
This journal issue focuses on insiders and outsiders in Appalachia, the mixing of cultures, and the diversity of the region. The lead article mixes memoir with analysis of the importance of home and homeplace to people from the Appalachians, many of whom are forced to leave permanently in search of work. A second article considers the strange…
Descriptors: Cultural Images, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Traits, Essays
Arnow, Pat, Ed.; Chiltoskey, Mary, Ed. – Now and Then, 1986
This issue of "Now and Then" focuses on Cherokee Indians in Appalachia. It includes poetry, articles, fiction, book reviews, and photos. Articles include "The Story of My Life as Far Back as I Remember" by Aggie Ross Lossiah and edited by Joan Greene; "Goingback Chiltoskey, Master Carver," by Joan Greene;…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Literature, Cultural Background
