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Professor Alex Hooker playing “Cotton Eyed Joe” on the banjo for his Appalachian Strings class. Feb. 14, 2024. Hooker demonstrates how the song is supposed to sound before guiding his students along. Photo by Devon Richter

Strings of legacy: Alexander Hooker’s 25-year impact on App State
Apr 16, 2024

Alexander Hooker’s journey to old-time folk music started gradually, then sudd

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This 1758 map, authored by English cartographers Emanuel Bowen and John Gibson, shows the “Apalachaen Mountains” region of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and part of Virginia. According to App State’s Dr. Sandra Ballard, professor in the Department of English and the Center for Appalachian Studies, 16th century mapmakers splayed the word ‘Apalche’ (and other spellings) — indicating the homeplace of Native Americans called Apalachee — across large inland areas of the U.S., leading others to take it
Appalachian studies graduate students Camden Phillips, Kevin Freeman, Sammy Osmond, Megan Hall and Yndiana Montes met with MountainTrue's High Country Watershed Coordinator, Hannah Woodburn, as part of their microplastics project.

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Voices from the Headwaters coverVoices from the Headwaters

$39.95 (plus $4 for S&H for first copy; $2 S&H for each additional copy)
Table of Contents (DOCX), Front and Back Covers (PDF, 3.4 MB), Order Form (PDF)

Patricia D. Beaver and Sandra L. Ballard, Editors
Brittany R. Hicks, Assistant Editor

The Cratis Chronicles: I Come to Boone coverThe Cratis Chronicles: I Come to Boone

$14.95 (including S&H)
Order Form (PDF)

David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver, editors

Neighbor to Neighbor book coverNeighbor to Neighbor: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Civil War in Appalachia

$25.00 ($2.00 for S&H for first copy; $1.00 for each additional copy)
Order Form (PDF)

Edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Leila E. Weinstein

Tales from the Sacred Wind book coverTales from the Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia

Available from: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Cratis D. Williams
Edited by David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver

Letters From Leo book coverLetters From Leo 

$9.00 US (including S&H)
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A Collection of Letters from Asheville native Leo Finkelstein to the Asheville Lions Club during World War II -- filled with humorous insight.

Leo Finklestein's Asheville and the Poor Man's Bank book coverLeo Finklestein's Asheville and the Poor Man's Bank

$10.00 US (including S&H)
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Patricia D. Beaver, editor
Kathryn L. Staley, associate editor