Writers Archives - Page 21 of 22 - Appalachian History

Author Gretchen Laskas discusses “The Miner’s Daughter”

Gretchen Laskas’ grandfather stopped mining in the 1950’s, but that didn’t keep black lung from killing him years later.

1978 interview with Mary Brewer, author of “Rugged trail to Appalachia” Oral History Project, Frontier Nursing Service, Kentucky Virtual Library.

Excerpt from The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America.

Author Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006) launched her career as a Tennessee historian with the publication of ‘The French Broad.’

Roy Lee Harmon occupied the post of West Virginia State Poet Laureate three different times, starting in 1937 on through till 1978.

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