Resources
Appalachian State offers many resources for any one researching or interested in Appalachia. Learn about and explore some of the organizations here.
APPALACHIAN JOURNAL NAMED "JOURNAL OF THE MONTH"
Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review
Dr. Sandra Ballard, Editor
Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, interviews, and other scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature, music, ecology, and a variety of other topics, as well as poetry and reviews of books, films, and recordings dealing with the region of
the Appalachian mountains.
Appalachian Journal
Carol G. Belk Library,
Room 472
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: (828) 262-4072
Fax: (828) 262-2553
Email: ballardsl@appstate.edu
APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is featured on the CELJ website--recognized by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals as a "Journal of the Month."
Please check it out-- http://www.celj.org/jom.php
And visit our website to see the contents of the latest issue (& subscribe):
http://www.appjournal.appstate.edu
■SIGNS OF THE TIMES
■THE POETS
Frank X Walker, "What To Do With Your Obama T-shirt When the Election Is Over"
Richard Hague, "Things I Once Knew"
Bill Brown, "The Bears"
Llewellyn McKernan, "The Real Thing"
Donald H. Askins, "A Tribute to Charles Wright" and
"Cave Learning"
■ARTICLES
"Marketing a Mountain: Changing Views of Environment and Landscape on Grandfather Mountain,
North Carolina" by Drew A. Swanson
"'Core Resources, These Appalachian Colleges': An Interview with Alice Brown" by Stephanie Roark Keener
"She Took Up The Banjo...And Never Looked Back:
Kristin Scott Benson" by Danny Fulks
"Revisioning the Journey of Lewis and Clark: Frank X Walker's York Poems" by William Jolliff
■REVIEWS
Chad Berry on Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s by Ken Fones-Wolf
Paul Salstrom on Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History by Deborah R. Weiner
Karl Campbell on Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields by Robert C. Byrd
Denton Loving on Serena by Ron Rash
William Jolliff on Coal: A Poetry Anthology edited by Chris Green
Jesse Acquillah Jones on James Agee Rediscovered edited by Michael A. Lofaro and Hugh Davis
Donald Askins on Charles Wright In Conversation: Interviews, 1979-2006 edited by Robert D. Denham
Jesse Graves on Charles Wright: A Companion to the Late Poetry, 1988-2007 by Robert D. Denham
Thomas Alan Holmes on The Way Things Always Happen Here by Kevin C. Stewart
Jill M. Parrott on Things Kept, Things Left Behind by Jim Tomlinson
Jeff Mann on For Love of Common Words by Steve Scafidi
Dana Wildsmith on Her Secret Dream by Rita Sims Quillen
■CHRONICLE
■APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERSW. L. Eury Appalachian Collection
Dr. Fred Hay, Librarian
The William Leonard Eury Appalachian Collection , located in the Carol Grotnes Belk Library, is a repository for a wide variety of materials related to the Southern uplands. The Appalachian Collection has more than 40,000 books and over 200 periodical subscriptions, with special strengths in the social sciences, regional and local history, literature, folklore, music, religion, genealogy, and African and Native Appalachia.
The Appalachian Collection includes thousands of maps (including all of the USGS topographic maps for the entire Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) defined region), over 2300 audiotapes, 1,000 videotapes and films, 3,000 commercially produced sound discs, as well as slides, CD-ROMs, photographs, and ephemera.
The Appalachian Collection Clipping File Index for regional newspapers contains more than 150 linear feet of articles from Southern Appalachian area newspapers.
There is an extensive Appalachian Collection Microformats with over 5300 microfiche and 11,000 reels of microfilm that include area newspapers, theses and dissertations, government documents, county records (including censuses for all Appalachian Regional Commission counties from 1790 to 1920), maps, a large set of genealogical resources, music albums with an in-house song title index, photographs and slides, 1,500 linear feet of manuscript materials (including the papers of regional scholars Helen Lewis, Cratis Williams, Jerry Wayne Williams, and Henry Shapiro), movies, and Jerry Williamson's Southern Mountaineers Filmography.
Note: Use of rare books and manuscripts by appointment only. Photographs are stored in a climate controlled chamber and require additional time for handling.
W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection
Carol G. Belk Library, Room
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: (828) 262-4041
Fax: (828) 262-2553
Email: spcoll@appstate.edu
Appalachian Cultural Museum seeks to provide a continuing reinterpretation of life and culture in the Blue Ridge Region, and to serve as a laboratory for new museum ideas.
Dr. Charles Watkins, Director and Professor of History
Sustainable Development is offered as an Appalachian Studies MA degree concentration, an undergraduate BA or BS degree, and an undergraduate minor. Find out about the program.
Chuck Smith, Sustainable Development Program Director
Ethnographic Field School is occasionally offered as a course through the Anthropology department, taught by Dr. Susan Keefe.
