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"Because poets and poetry have been relegated to the fringes of society and the publishing world today...you won't see these writers on Oprah or The New York Times bestseller lists. But what you will see here is art-something true, often brave,…

"After military service in the 1930s, [Miller] graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a master's degree in chemistry and worked as a chemist with the Food and Drug Administration. He then went to the U.Va. School of Medicine, where he…

"Gathered as part of this year's Big Read project, local residents who lived through the 1930s shared their Depression-era memories and offered opinions on what should be done now."

Appalachian Poets and Writers has links to Library holdings and related material for a few local poets and writers, including Lou Crabtree and Lee Smith. It also provides links to the Appalachian Collection at the Washington County Public Library and…

“Nature, undisturbed and pure, as God would put in that other paradise. (New York critic said I let the birds and trees take over.) With living in Price Hollow, taking an astronomy course I was able to locate the heavenly paradise.”
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Lee Smith and Lou Crabtree met in 1980 at a literary event in Abingdon during the Virginia Highlands Festival, a meeting which was humorously detailed in Lee Smith's reflection on her writing life, Dimestore. It was a portentuous meeting, as they…

Lee Smith is the author of 17 works of fiction including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and recent novel, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from…

Program (3 pages) that describes the production.

Lou Crabtree Lou V. Crabtree (1913-2006)- "Lou Crabtree...lived most of her life in Washington County, VA. Her career...included school teaching, farming, directing a band, and lecturing. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Sweet…

Includes links to the Henry McCarthy Collection, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at Louis Round Wilson Special Collection Library at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and to an archive of Henry's Poets and Writers radio program…