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- Night comes to the Cumberlands [sound recording] : a biography of a depressed area / by Caudill, Harry M.,1922-1990.(CARDINAL)129261; Sala, Ed.; Jesse Stuart Foundation.;
MARCIVE 9/4/12Narrated by Ed Sala.At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill's study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained "in a bad way" for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill's book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.Compact disc.- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Audiobooks.;
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- Dark journey : the tragedy of the Donner Party / by Eckert, Allan W.(CARDINAL)152487; Jesse Stuart Foundation.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-330) and index.- Subjects: Donner Party.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.;
- © c2009., Jesse Stuart Foundation,
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- An American vein : critical readings in Appalachian literature / by Miller, Danny,1949-editor.(CARDINAL)144636; Hatfield, Sharon,1956-editor.(CARDINAL)467395; Norman, Gurney,1937-editor.(CARDINAL)780305;
Includes bibliographical references and indexIntending to create a foundational text for further scholarship on Appalachian writing, the editors have selected 29 critical reviews for this collection. They include thematic surveys on the reasons why Appalachian authors are becoming considered worthy of academic criticism and the history of the regional genre as well as commentary on specific authors and works. Authors and works include Jesse Stuart, a comparison of changing views about Stuart and Pound, the poetry of James Still, Hariette Arrow's The Dollmaker, social criticism in the works of Wilma Dykeman, Mary Lee Settle's autobiographies, the concepts of home and machine, the roles of kin and counterculture in Gurney Norman, John Ehle's fiction, Lee Smith's use of language in Oral History, two reviews of works by Jo Carson, the role of community in Fred Chappell's works, the role of Calvinism in the poetry of Robert Morgan, and the promise of feminist ecocriticism. - Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; American literature; Authors, American; Mountain life in literature.;
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