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Gone Too Long

Gone Too Long Garry Barker Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1993, pp. 26-31 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436009/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:19 GMT from JHU Libraries Gone Too Long Garry Barker In September 1989, two of my young Elliott County cousins and a wife died while trying to blast open an old well and run water to a mobile home. I went to Sandy Hook for the triple funeral; I came home to write out my emotions. Of my painful essay "Home Again" {Appa- lachian Heritage, Fall 1990), Elliott County News editor Faye Whitiey wrote, in a front-page editorial: This stark description with its poor choice of descriptive adjectives of a proud, hardworking and self-sustaining people, whose very human goodness, grief and sympathy for die bereaved remained unremarked in the article, left a quite understandable hurt among residents who read it. In the article, entided "Home Again," Barker, a writer, and a tal- ented one, attempted to convey his feelings about the tragedy and his return to his native county. While some who read the article said they saw "some truth" in his descriptions http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Gone Too Long

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Appalachian Review , Volume 21 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Garry Barker Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1993, pp. 26-31 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436009/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:19 GMT from JHU Libraries Gone Too Long Garry Barker In September 1989, two of my young Elliott County cousins and a wife died while trying to blast open an old well and run water to a mobile home. I went to Sandy Hook for the triple funeral; I came home to write out my emotions. Of my painful essay "Home Again" {Appa- lachian Heritage, Fall 1990), Elliott County News editor Faye Whitiey wrote, in a front-page editorial: This stark description with its poor choice of descriptive adjectives of a proud, hardworking and self-sustaining people, whose very human goodness, grief and sympathy for die bereaved remained unremarked in the article, left a quite understandable hurt among residents who read it. In the article, entided "Home Again," Barker, a writer, and a tal- ented one, attempted to convey his feelings about the tragedy and his return to his native county. While some who read the article said they saw "some truth" in his descriptions

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