Issues

Interview: Filmmaker Sally Rubin

Emily Masters ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Interview

hillbilly, the new documentary film directed by Sally Rubin and Ashley York, is an examination of images and stereotypes about Appalachia and its people. The film works to combat stereotypes of Appalachia as a homogeneous region, using the 2016 presidential election as a window for examining how the region is…

Fall 2018 Editor’s Note

Jason Kyle Howard ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Editor's Note

Each fall, Appalachian Heritage devotes a special section of the magazine to a featured author, and over the years we have celebrated some of the finest writers in the country. But this year is different. Instead of a single author, we have delved into our archives to present a collection…

Not All That Much

Marc Harshman ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Poetry

It wasn’t all that much, you might say, nothing to write home about, just a heavy green floor of ground cedar and springy peat littered with reindeer moss and lichened stones, here and there evidence of flying squirrels, muddy punctures in the cloth of the moss, and coyotes, their ropey,…

Letters to Asylum

Crystal Wilkinson ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Poetry

1. August 17, 1960 Dear Sir: The fall rages on with no regard for grieving mothers. We are lonesome on this hill without her. Everybody cries. Soon we’ll have blood red leaves scattered across the pastures. Regarding my daughter, how is she getting along? It’s so hot the dogs’ tongues…

Fantasy Worlds

Monic Ductan ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Creative Nonfiction

When I was in high school, my favorite actress was Katharine Hepburn. She wore those man-style trousers, and with her neatly coiffed hair she was the perfect mix of tomboy and girly girl. She had the most unusual voice; it was not so pleasing to the ear and very nasal.…

The Elk

Gary Thomas Smith ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Fiction

after “The White Horse” by Yasunari Kawabata In the low light of the gloaming he felt the pulse of the late evening in the cutting wind. It broke around the branches and tree trunks as it slid down the mountainside into the valley where he found himself standing, his knees aching.…

Praxis

Marc Harshman ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Poetry

The soil is blackened with years of the north farm’s manure. Speckled green lifts from the unseen white flecks of lettuce seed sown weeks earlier. Faith. Hope. Charity. The large words of religion …

I Come to the Garden Alone

Marc Harshman ♦

Fall 2018, Issues ♦

Poetry

He walked the hill to the fence, fell as he reached with pliers to mend the break. The deer had done this, voracious, and his garden done this, to him, and his obsession to fix, to do, had done this, too. And now this, a single, slick stone underfoot: simple,…

In Conversation: bell hooks and Fenton Johnson

bell hooks ♦

Summer 2018 ♦

Interview

When Appalachian Heritage hosted a conversation between bell hooks and Fenton Johnson in April, the two native Kentuckians spoke to a packed house filled with students, professors, community members, and even a couple who had driven in from Texas specially for the event. After Johnson read from his recently published…

The Tennessee Kid

Hal Crowther ♦

Summer 2018 ♦

Creative Nonfiction

From the book Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers: A Gallery of Memorable Southerners by Hal Crowther. Copyright © 2018 by Hal Crowther. Reprinted by permission of Blair. Photographs can mislead, and sometimes conceal more than they reveal. But on occasion, usually in hindsight, a photograph radiates so much insight you need…