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I’m glad to have seen your fine spring of water, Lydia McQueen

Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) pioneered and popularized the concepts of Appalachian Studies and Appalachian Literature.  She wrote prolific columns for the ‘Knoxville News-Sentinel.’ She served as the Tennessee State Historian, a Trustee of Berea College, and as a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities. During her long career Dykeman was awarded the Sidney [...]

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