A Bibliography of Original Works in the Crabtree Collection at the Washington County Public Library in Abingdon, Virginia

Box I

Box I Cra, Folder 1

Ballad of a Stranger

47 pages

Note: Lou's good friend and collaborator Quinn Hawkesworth, who donated the materials in these files to the Library, adapted Lou's works in at least one of the stories listed below. Numerous annotations and textual notes are appended to the manuscript for "Ballad of Stranger," a work "adapted from the writings of Lou Crabtree" by Quinn in 2002.

Cast

Old Stranger, Young Stranger, Fairleanah, Preacher Man, White Panther, Levisa, Old Crow, Villagers

"This piece by Quinn Hawkesworth is an age-old tale of love and betrayal. The stories and poems of Abingdon's own Lou Crabtree have been crafted into the story of a bittersweet homecoming. Woven through the tale are traditional tunes and songs of our region, providing emotional counterpoint to deeply etched scenes of innocence, faith, whimsey, and inevitable reckoning." (A! Magazine July, 2002)

Contents:

Prologue: The Broom Dance
"Ticky-ticky tambo
No so rambo
Hairy-bairy bush-eye
Bonasco-lum
Music: "Palms of Victory" (attached)

Scene 1: "Return of the Stranger"
"OS (Old Stranger) addresses the audience: "The Village where I sprang from lies over a Fault Line..."

Scene 2: "Levisa"
"Levis had thirteen miscarriages and she named all of them." [compare "Old Rellar had thirteen miscarriages..." from the "Holy Spirit" in Sweet Hollow: Stories
also, cf. "I loathed the likes of Roaring Creek" with "I loathed the likes of Smith Creek..." from "Smith Creek No. 1" in THe River Hills and Beyond
Music: "Brandyrowe" (attached)

Scene 3: "White Panther"

Scene 4: "Asking a Daisy"

Scene 5: "All the Little Birdies and Beasties"
Poem from THe River Hillds and Beyond

Scene 6: "The Bewitched Cow"
compare "Price's Bewitched Cow" from Sweet Hollow: Stories (Nannie Cow common to both)
Includes fragment from "He Cut My Garden Down" from THe River Hillds and Beyond

Scene 7: "The Hanging Judge"
Music: "The Hanging Song" ("Gallows Tree")

Scene 8: "The Bear Hunt"
Music: "Daddy Shot a Bear"
Text appended, two typed sheets titled "The Bear." Marked p. 50, 51. From Lou's play "THe Village"?
Music: "Burglar Man"

Scene 9: "Salvation"
Music: "Down in the Willow Garden," "Unquite Grave"

Scene 10: "Miracle in Sweet Hollow"
From Sweet Hollow: Stories"

Scene 11: "Wildwood Flower"
Lyrics accompany sung "to a Celtic Melody"

Scene 12: "Seed"

Scene 13: "Revival"
Music: "Go Wash in That Beautiful Pool"

Scene 14: "Ripening"
Music: "Willow Garden"

Scene 15: "Go Wash in That Beautiful Pool"

Scene 16: "End of the Stranger"
[Play ends as it began, with "Ticky, ticky tambo..."]

The Fault Line

Ten typed pages. The manuscript is annotated with notes for possible insertions. Page 6(Scene III: Asking a Daisy, is followed by "All the Little Birdies... ("All the Little Birdies and Beasties," from Lou's "The River Hills and Beyond ?); Scene VIII, "All the Little Birdies and Beasties,is followed by the annotation "Pretty Bird" (?). A handwritten sheet is attached to the end "Ending for Fault Line." This does appear to be Lou's handwriting.

"Outline: This play should be like an Appalachian Ballad Come to Life. There is a current literary term--"magical realism"--which seems best to apply to the mood and style. The realistic nature of character and situation is heightened to a dreamlike quality: off-kilter, richly shadowed, vivid.It is a dark fairy tale, a ghost story, a love story. In such an atmosphere it is accepted that animals speak and participate, that young and old versions of a character may appear together. The audience should come away with the feeling of having stumbled upon a bitter mountain Brigadoon..."

"I like to say that the stories I write are mystical because they're old. They are like the first old-time stories you hear in these mountains. The people who told them were the first people. A different kind of people have taken over now, you know. But I like to remember. That's why I like to write a Christmas story. I love Christmas." Interviewed by Edwin T. Arnold in AppalJ, cited below. ["Miracle in Sweet Hollow," from the short story collection of the same name (eponymous?) is a delightful Christmas story. For more Christmas stories see Folder 1a, below.

Box I Cra, Folder 2, Articles

• Box I Cra, Folder 2, 1—"Lou V.P Crabtree, Virginia Laureate in Literature: How Lessons from the Holston Turn 'Bad Luck Baby' Good," an interview by Judy K. Miller, November 2000. The Historical Society of Washington County, VA. Bulletin, Series II, No, 38 (2001)]
  includes a whimsical autobiographical poem appropriately titled "Bio Info." ("If you ask for a resume, she'll give you a poem instead." Jeanne Johnson, "Porches in Paradise," cited below)
• Box I Cra, Folder 2, 2—"Lou Crabtree: out of this world," and "And the Winner Is...", A! Magazine, v.6, no.10, October 1999, p.4,5,12
  Includes poem "Shadow" (inset, p.5)
• Box I Cra, Folder 2, 3—"Porches in Paradise," Jeanne Johnson. RU Magazine: the magazine of Radford University, Radford, Va.: Radford University, Office of Public Information and Relations, May, 1999
  [Copy from Internet. Requesting clean copy of the original]
• Box I Cra, Folder 2, 4—"This Lady Came Down From the Mountains," Robert Draper. American Way, published by American Airlines (undated)[3 copies]
  Includes Lou's poem "Salvation," from "The River Hills," which, as noted in the article "won the Robert Browning Prize for dramatic monologue.
• Box I Cra, Folder 2, 5—"Appalachian Women Writers, Curriculum Guide: Lou Crabtree" Tell It on the Mountain, Appalshop,c.1997

Cra Box I, Folder 3, Clippings

From the Abingdon Virginian (AV) or the Washington County News (WCN) unless otherwise indicated

• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 1—"In Short," Fiction review from N.Y. Times of Sweet Hollow, by Lou V. Crabtree, by Roy Hoffman (copies), p.22 (March 4, 1984)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 2—"Barter's Playhouse's 'Calling On Lou'". Reviewed in Kingsport Times-News Entertainment section, by Bill Williams. (9/29/84)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 3—"'Calling On Lou' Viewed by Author," by Chris Phillips. (WCN. 10/3/1984)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 4 —"Voice if the Ancients" (AV, 9/9/98); letter from Lou Crabtree to the editor.
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 5 —"Rare Bird" (AV, 10/21/98); photograph of Lou C. strolling downtown during Abingdon's Main Street Sidewalk Sale. Accompanying article, "True Blue Lou and What Becomes a Legend Most," by C. Robert Weisfeld.
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 6 —"Author to Attend Final Event of Lee Smith Symposium: Abingdon Poet to Read From New Work." (WCN, 11/18/98)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 7 —"Back to Eden." (AV, 11/25/98)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 8 —"Just Between Authors" (WCN, 11/25/98); photograph of Lou C. and author Lee Smith by Carol Fields. The authors were taking part in a symposium on Lee Smith and her work.
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 9 —"One and Onlys" (AV, 11/25/98); photograph of Lou C. and Lee Smith (at the event listed above).
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 10 —"One From the Heart: Neighbors, A Christmas Story," by Lou Crabtree (AV, 12/16/98); "Welcome to My World," photograph of Lou at home in her "office."
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 11 —"An Abingdon Treasure: Author Lou Crabtree reflects on her life & works," Carol Fields. (WCN, 3/31/99 (5E)) (Original WCN full page: OS Cra 6)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 12 —"Shine the Light": The Shamanic Lou Crabtree..."; "The Unbroken Circle..."; "Go Naked in the World." (AV, 6/30/99; article by Robert Weisfeld; photographs of Lou Crabtree; photo credit: Lora Gordon);
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 13—"Abingdon Poet Nominated For Virginia Book Award," Carol Fields (WCN, 6/30/99; photograph of Lou C. by Carol Fields)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 14 —"Lou Crabtree Takes Richmond! Wins State Poetry Award..." (AV, 9/22/99). (Original and one copy)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 15 —"Crabtree Receives Virginia Library Award for Poetry," Carol Fields (WCN, 9/22/99; photograph of Lou C., credit: Carol Fields). (Original and one copy)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 16 —"Honoring a Literary Legend," Carol Fields(WCN, 10/6/99; photograph credit: Mike Pierry). (Original and one copy)
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 17 —"Look to the Rainbow...Lou Crabtree looked positively Shakesperean." (article AV, 10/6/99; photographs accompanying: "The River Hills and Wa-a-a-a-y Beyond," "And the Award Goes To...," "Milestone Ovation...")
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 18 —"Love Letters," (AV, 2/8/2000; letter to Rob Weisfeld, published in "Read My Mind.")
• Box I Cra, Folder 3, 19 —:Writer in Residence, Lou Crabtree, Virginia Laureate in Literature 1988," EVA, the Electronic Village of Abingdon [posted online, accessed 5/4/2006]

Box I Cra, Folder 4

Calling on Lou

70 pages(includes stage directions)

The Barter Theatre presented a play with this title in 1984, adapted for the stage by Cleo Holladay, described as "a collage of Lou's life and work." [Daveena Sexton, "'Humors and Sorrows,' Writer Lou Crabtree Talks about her Life and Work," cited below]

Act I ( includes the following poems and stories. * if published)

"All the Little Birdies and Beasties"*

"Smith Creek No. 1"*

"Smith Creek No. 2..."*

"Funeral No. 2"*

"Playmate"

"Mountain Witch"

"Holy Spirit"*

"Miracle in Sweet Hollow"*

Act II

"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"*

"April Dawn Clifton (3 Years)"

"Shulammite Girl"

"Chinese Wife"

"Sister"*

"Husband"

"Sports Widow"*

"Mary Suffered the Crucifixion (for all POW's and MIA's)"

"Harriett"

"Maude May's Beau"

"Last Party"

Box I Cra, Folder 5(a)

The Village

112 pages with supporting notes by Quinn Hawkesworth. August, 1988

Contents:

1. The Stranger

2. Old Tale

3. The Children's House

4. Winter

5. Seed

6. Old Hat

7. Spider's Store and Woman With Hat of Many Ribbons

8. The Bear

9. Witch—Over-Boy, Lover-Girl

10. The Village Idiot

Box I Cra, Folder 5(b)

11. The Sheep

12. The Outcast

13. Constable Price and The Hanging Judge

14. Morning Micajdh, Finis Thitt, Housekeeper

15. Witch and Annabel

16. Silence

17. He-Woman and Miller Jehue

18. Hanging Tree, Taulby Martin, Coy Bartee

19. Preacher Man and Fairleanah

20. The Stranger

Box I Cra, Folder 6(a)
Stories

• Moses Bird--Buzzard
  (Attached in .pdf)

  A curious piece, even for Lou. Nine printed pages, with drawings, poems, notes, and annotations in the margins. The copy we have, a photocopy, is missing some lines at the bottom of some of the pages. There is a mention of the piece in one article in our files, Carol Fields 1999 tribute "An Abingdon Treasure..." (cited below). In it Lou talks about her interest in language and nature. "The beauty of those natural surroundings [her childhood home outside of Abingdon] is still with her. Once she got the name of a fiction character from the call of a blackbird.
  "I thought and thought and I could not get a name for my character [the Old Indian in "Moses Bird"]. Then I heard that call: 'Jo-Reink, Jo Reink' and I knew that was it."

• Love Story
• Wife No. 3

Box I Cra, Folder 6(b)
Christmas Stories

[In "Humors and Sorrows," cited below, Daveena Sexton writes that [Lou] recently completed a book of eight Christmas stories, entitled Christmas for which she is now seeking a publishing house.]

• The Christmas Tree Farm
• Night of Miracles
• Prayer Punch and Cookies
• Christmas in Sweet Hollow, from Sweet Hollow: Stories, by Lou Crabtree

Box I Cra, Folder 6(c)
Christmas Stories, cont.

• Noel: a Christmas Story
• Old Dotson's Mansion
• Christmas Island
• Neighbors: A Christmas Story

Media Box (shared)

• Video: Lou Crabtree: Coming of Age, Nov. 11, 1985 / by Jane Pauley
  New York, NY: NBC Today Show, segment produced by Chris Brown
  Format:1 VHS; 4 DVD
• "Meet Lee Smith, author of Dimestore: a Writer's Life.". Sunday With Friends, Sunday, April 24, 2016. Sponsored by the Washington County Public Library the even was held at Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church in Abingdon. The event was recorded
  Format: CD (photographs and Press Releases can be found in Box I Smi, Folder 4a)
• "Shall We Gather by the River: songs from The Devil's Dream," (DVD). Described in the publicity for the Virginia Tech production with the Barter Theatre cast [see Clippings, above] as "a narrative musical by Chapel Hill writer/director Paul Ferguson" with original songs written by Clyde Edgerton, Susan Ketchin, Joe Newberry, Mark K. Hartman, Brit Warren, and Alan Riley Jones. "Songs from Lee Smith's best selling novel... . The album follows a musical journey that begins in the hills of Appalachia, continues through the Bristol Sessions..., culminates at the Grand Ole Oprey, and concludes at a modern day country concert." [Amazon.com]
  Format: CD
• Notebooks and binders:

  The Devil's Dream: a play in three acts based on the novel by Lee Smith, adapted for the Stage by Paul Ferguson, Premier Production produced by Raleigh Ensemble Players, April 21, 1995 (MSS, w. promotional flyer). ~80p. Title sheet signed "To Quinn--Who made it happen--Keep it country! Love, Lee, 5/15/95" (note: Quinn Hawkesworth is a member of the cast).

  The Devil's Dream—script: 1st draft

  The Devil's Dream—script: revised (includes blocking, cues, technical aspects of the production).

Images

• Lou Crabtree in front of her house on Valley Street in Abingdon (Formal composition)
  Creator: Susan Woodley Raines. Source: Lee Smith
• Lou on the steps leading up to her house on Vally Street (Formal composition)
  Creator: Susan Woodley Raines. Source: Lee Smith
• Lou's Hands (Astral version)
  From "Porches in Paradise," by Jeanne Johnson (cited above)
  Creator: Lora Gordon

Scrapbook

Photographs and memorabilia collected by Quinn Hawkesworth
Approximately 90 photographs; a personal letter from Lou addressd to Quinn c/o the Barter Theatre; a program from Lou's Memorial Service at Abingdon United Methodist Church on Aril 14, 2006: "A Service Celebrating the Life of Lou Vivian Price Crabtree."
A selection of the photographs can be found at the library's online Omeka Exhibit, "Making Sense of Lou Crabtree"

Notebook

The Devil's Dream: a play in three acts based on the novel by Lee Smith, adapted for the Stage by Paul Ferguson, Premier Production produced by Raleigh Ensemble Players, April 21, 1995 (MSS, w. promotional flyer). ~80p.

Title sheet signed "To Quinn--Who made it happen--Keep it country! Love, Lee, 5/15/95" (note: Quinn Hawkesworth is a member of the cast)
Currently on display

Anthologies

• "Lou V. Crabtree -- What kind of egg are you? A profile of Lou V. Crabtree," Judy K. Miller. Her words : diverse voices in contemporary Appalachian women's poetry / edited by Felicia Mitchell
  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2002 (p. 85)
• "Lou V.P. Crabtree (March 13, 1913--)." Listen here : women writing in Appalachia / edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson
  Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2003.(p.141; Story "Homer Snake," from Sweet Hollow, p. 143-149)
• "Paradise in Price Hollow." Bloodroot : reflections on place by Appalachian women writers / Joyce Dyer, editor.
  Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1998 (p. 81)
• "Salvation." Appalachia inside out / editors, Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, Jim Wayne Miller ; associate editors, Laura L. Higgs ... [et al.].
  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.(Vol. 2,"Culture and Custom," p. 422)
• "Homer Snake." A Southern Appalachian reader / edited by Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb ; associate editor, Rita Quillen.
  Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1988. (Chapter 3, "Contemporary Authors Search for a Usable Past," p. 226)

On the Shelf

• 811 Cra The river hills and beyond : poems / Lou V. Crabtree ; [with introduction by Lee Smith]
  Abingdon, VA : Sow's Ear Press, 1998.
• 811 Her Her words : diverse voices in contemporary Appalachian women's poetry / edited by Felicia Mitchell.
  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c200

Lee Smith papers

The Washington County Public Library has an association with Lee Smith that goes back at least 30 years. In 1998 the library sponsored a week-long Lee Smith Symposium. One of the featured guests at that event was Lou Crabtree. (see Publicity materials for the Symposium in the Oversized box, described above).
In fact, so often did the two of them appear together, at library events or elsewhere, in going through the library's files it soon became apparent that materials related to Lee Smith should be added to the current archival project, making it a Crabtree/Smith archive.

Box I

Smi, Folder 1, Clippings

• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 1—"Voices from Virginia's heartland." Fair and Tender Ladies review, Diane Manuel. Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 25, 1988
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 2 —"Ornery Ivy, Appalachian Heroine." Bookshelf, review of Fair and Tender Ladies, Willard Spiegelman (Nov. 28, 1988) [source unknown]
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 3 —"Smith's latest tells of social change." Review Fair and Tender Ladies, Joan Schroeder. Roanoke Times & World News (Nov. 6, 19??)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 4 —"Left Behind on Blue Star Mountain." Review of Fair and Tender Ladies, W.P. Kinsella. The New York Times Book Review [date not given]
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 5—"Lee Smith, At Home With Her Muse: The Novelist & Her Blend of Southern Color and Comedy," Ken Ringle. Washington Post, Style (Sunday, Dec. 4, 1988). F1-F6 [ copies of original; original OS Smi, 1]
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 6—"Lee Smith: Capturing the Rugged Spirit of Appalachia," an interview by Sandy Heinemann. Virginia Librarian (July-September, 1989)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 7—"Small-town life is focus of Lee Smith's short stories." Review of Me and My Baby View the Eclipse: Stories, by Lee Smith, Robert Merritt. Richmond Times-Dispatch (Feb. 25, 1990)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 8—"Grundy Girl: Author of Devil's Dream likes to stay close to her roots, Beth Macy. Roanoke Times (Aug. 9, 1992)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 9—"Collecting Lee Smith: Watching a Writer's Craft Grow," Kathryn Smiley. Firsts (March, 1993)
  Includes a checklist with approximate values for First Editions of Lee Smith's works.
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 10—"Q & A," interview with Lee Smith by Jeanie Chung, after publication of Saving Grace. Southern Book Trade (June, 1995)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 11—"The Snakes of God." Review of Lee Smith's Saving Grace, by Gregory Blake Smith. The New York Times Book Review (Jul. 9, 1995)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 12—"Appalachian Story Performed by Writer," Sally Harris. Collegiate Times [date not given; printed from online source 11/96]
  According to the flyer, "Writer Lee Smith and the cast from the Barter Theatre production of the musical "The Devil's Dream" will perform together at 8 p.m., Sept. 30 in Squires Colonial Hall [Virginia Tech]." [Barter's production of Devil's Dream took place at the Main Stage, now called the Gilliam Stage, at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon from Sept. 26-Oct 27, 1996]
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 13—"Just Between Authors... Famed authors Lee Smith... and Abingdon resident Lou Crabtree share a giggle at the Washingon County Public Library this past weekend where the two ladies signed books before the last of a seven part symposium on Lee Smith and her work." Photo and caption from the Abingdon Virginia, Nov. 1998. (Carol Fields is credited for the photo.)
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 14—"Abingdon board reviews book," Debra McCown. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sept. 21, 2007.
  Debra McCown was a Staff Writer for the Bristol Herald Courier.
• Box I Smi, Folder 1, 15—"Book flap brings back memories; Challenge 27 years ago attracted national attention," Caitlin Sullivan. Washington County News, Sept. 26, 2007.
  "The 23 year old Kathy Russell White could have never imagined she'd be at the center of a national First Amendment debate" (article lead). Note: see Library's file on the contentious censorship issue.

Smi, Folder 2: Articles

• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 1—"Lee Smith: Staying in Touch With the Real World," Interview with Lee Smith." Carolina Quarterly, v.32, 1980 (Winter) [7 pages]
• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 2—"Artists and Beauticians: Balance in Lee Smith's Fiction," Lucinda H. MacKethan. The Southern Literary Journal, v.15 n.1 (Oct. 1982), p. 3-14
• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 3—"An Interview with Lee Smith," by Edwin T. Arnold. Appalachian Journal, 240, Spring, 1984, p. 240-254
• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 4—"The World of Lee Smith," Anne Goodwyn Jones. Women Writers of the Contemporary South, edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. "Southern Quarterly Series." Jackson, MS.: University of Southern Mississippi (c. 1984), p. 249-271.
• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 5—"City Folks in Hoot Owl Holler: Narrative Strategy in Lee Smith's Oral History," Suzanne W. Jones. The Southern Literary Journal, v.20 n.1 (Oct. 1987), p. 101-112
• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 6—"The Writer's Mind: Interviews with American Authors, v. III, ed. by Irv Broughton. Fayettville, AR: Univ. of Arkansas Press (1990), p. 277-297
• Box I Smi, Folder 2, 7—"Speak So I Shall Know Thee: Interviews with Southern Writers," by William J. Walsh. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. Publishers (1990), p.253-262
• Box I Smi Folder 2, 8—"On Regionalism, Women's Writing, and Writing as a Woman: A Conversation with Lee Smith," Virginia A. Smith. Southern Review (Fall, 1991), p. 784-795
• Box I Smi I, 2b—The Iron Mountain Review, Lee Smith Issue, Emory and Henry College, v.III, no.1, Spring, 1984 [entire issue; drawings by George Chavatel]

Smi, Folder 3: Articles (cont.)

• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 9 —Lee Smith: interviewed by Nancy Parrish. Appalachian Journal, 394, Summer, 1992. pp 395-401
  Note: Nancy Parrish's dissertation "Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age" is a study of the Hollins College class of 1967 which included Lee Smith and Annie Dillard.
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 10 —"Unshackling the Patriarchy: an interview with Lee Smith, Claudia Loewenstein. Southwest Review, Autumn 1993, v.78, no. 4, p 486 (11 pages; copyright Southern Methodist University)
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 11 —Lee Smith, "The mountains which used to imprison me have become my chosen stalking ground," Growing Up Southern; How the South Shapes Its Writers, Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald. Greenville, S.C.: Emerald House Group, Blue Ridge Publ. (c.1997), pp 29-51
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 12 —"Lee Smith: at home in Appalachia," Jeanne McDonald. Poets and Writers Magazine, v.25, issue 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1997), pp. 32-41
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 13 —"Personal and Cultural Transformation: Letter Writing in Lee Smith's 'Fair and Tender Ladies,'" Dorothy Dodge Robbins. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature, 38, n.2 (Winter, 1997). Accessed online: Apr. 2018: Gale General OneFile. Washington County Public Library databases (9 pages).
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 14 —"The Protean Ivy in Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies," a Critical Essay, by Tanya Long Bennett. The Southern Literary Journal, 30 n.2 (Spring, 1998). Accessed online: Apr. 2018: Gale General OneFile. Washington County Public Library databases (13 pages).
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 15 —"Terrain of the Heart," Lee Smith. Bloodroot, reflections on place by Appalachian women writers, ed. Joyce Dyer. Lexington, KY.: University of Kentucky Press (c. 1998), pp. 277-281
• Box I Smi, Folder 3, 16 —"Lee Smith," from Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobby Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, by Paula Gallant Eckard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press (2002), p. 133-173

Library events, PR, photos

• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 1 —Press Release: "Lee Smith to visit Abingdon on October 25 for celebration of new book"(The Last Girls), Release date September 23-29, 2002
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 2—Press Release: Sunday With Friends Program: "The Music of Lee Smith." Sunday, May 16, 2004
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 3—Flyer: Sunday With Friends: "Meet Lee Smith, author of Dimestore." Sunday, April 24, 2016
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 4—Press Release (full): "National Library Week celebrated at WCPL." Release date April 13. 2016
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 5—Press Release (brief): "Lee Smith speaks in Abingdon." Release date April 13, 2016
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 6—Invitation: "The Friends of the Washington County & Food City would like to invite you and a guest to a brunch honoring Lee Smith...on Sunday, April 24 (2016)..."
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 7—"Lee Smith speaks in Abingdon," April 24, 2016, Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church. Photograph: Introduction by Charlotte Parsons
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 8—"Lee Smith speaks in Abingdon," April 24, 2016, Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church. Photograph: Audience
• Box I Smi, Folder 4a, 9—"Lee Smith speaks in Abingdon," April 24, 2016, Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church. Photograph: Lee Smith

Flyers, Handouts, Promotional Material

• Box I Smi, Folder 4b, 1—"Fair and Tender Ladies," Discussion guides from StoryLines America (StoryLine Southeast Discussion Guide No. 10), "A Radio/Library Partnership Exploring Our Regional Literature." Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by the American Library Association. Additional support from Barnes & Noble. [2 copies]
• Box I Smi, Folder 4b, 2—"Barter Actress Quinn Hawkesworth in Lee Smith's 'Fair and Tender ladies,' Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Barter Theatre." Promotional brochure, 8 1/2 x 11", folded, printed on all four sides. Part of the Lee Smith Symposium, 1998. [4 folded copies (original); 1 black and white unfolded reproduction.]
• Box I Smi, Folder 4b, 3—"Lee Smith: Selected Bibliography." 8 1/2x 11" folded sheets. Printed on all four sides; entries up to and including 1996. Adapted from the first full-length study of Lee Smith by Dorothy Hill (see bibliography). [5 copies]

On the Shelf

• F Smi We don't love with our teeth / Lee Smith
• 813.54 Smi Conversations with Lee Smith / edited by Linda Tate
• 975.5752 Sit Sitting on the courthouse bench : an oral history of Grundy, Virginia / edited by Lee Smith ; oral history by Grundy High School students

Oversize (Shared)

• "Lou Crabtree Addresses the Mysteries of Life." Edwin T. Arnold. "appalj" Appalachian Journal, v. 14 no. 1, Fall, 1986 (also includes a review of Sweet Hollow: Stories by Lou V. Crabtree, by Leon Driskell)
• "Humors and Sorrows: Writer Lou Crabtree talks about her life and work," Daveena Sexton. Washington County News, Mar. 28, 1990, 1B, 3B
• OS Cra, 3 —"Taking the Stage," by Robert Weisfeld. (AV, 10/15/97); accompanying photograph of Lou Crabtree, not credited [full page from Abingdon Virginian]
• OS Cra, 4—"Library of Virginia Awards; Mr Poe is Joined by Crabtree..." (AV, 9/29/99). (Original and copy)
• OS Cra, 5—"Way Up in the Middle of the Air," "Va.Laureate Lou Crabtree Dies at 93." April 19, 2006
• Cra I, 3.11 —"An Abingdon Treasure: Author Lou Crabtree reflects on her life & works," Carol Fields. (WCN, 3/31/99 (5E)) (additional photographs attached)
• OS Cra, 7—"In Her Own Words: for Lou Crabtree, writing is a way of making sense of her life," Beth Macy. Roanoke Times & World News, Sunday, September 20, 1992 (Extra1 10) [1 "clean" copy, original copy, and 1 additional copy]
• OS Smi, 1—"Lee Smith, At Home With Her Muse: The Novelist & Her Blend of Southern Color and Comedy," Ken Ringle. Washington Post, Style (Sunday, Dec. 4, 1988). F1-F6 [2 copies of original, 1 photocopy: Oversized box]
• OS Smi, 2—"Smith's stories are self-assured, distinctive." Me and My Baby View the Eclipse: Stories, by Lee Smith, reviewed by Joan Schroeder. Roanoke Times & World-News (Apr. 1, 1990)
• OS Smi, 3—"Owens Challenges Lee Smith Book," Caitlin Sullivan. Washington County News, Oct. 3, 2007. "School Board member Dayton Owens filed a formal request Thursday to have the Lee Smith novel, 'Fair and Tender Ladies' removed from the optional high school reading list."
• OS Smi, 4—"Book flap brings back memories; Challenge 27 years ago attracted national attention," Caitlin Sullivan. Washington County News, Sept. 26, 2007.
  "The 23 year old Kathy Russell White could have never imagined she'd be at the center of a national First Amendment debate" (article lead). Note: see Library's file on the contentious censorship issue.
• OS Smi, 5—"Goodbye to the Sunset Man: Lee Smith bids farewell to her son, Josh." Independent: The Triangle Weekly (Oct. 6, 2004)