Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Shape-Shifting Appalachia

Shape-Shifting Appalachia Douglas Imbrogno Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 1994, pp. 27-32 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0100 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437212/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:16 GMT from JHU Libraries Shape-Shifting Appalachia Douglas Imbroglio Most folks who live outside of Appalachia can't even get the name right. The usual stereotypes and ignorance about the region have to do with someplace called Appa-LAY-cha. Way, way over on the opposite end of the spectrum is that small, doughty cadre of thinkers, scribblers, and performers for whom Appa- lachia is a thesis, a conundrum, a career. Each year they gather to debate, extemporize, speechify, and party. Early in March, they descended from the north, south, east, and west upon Blacksburg, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. Let the Show Begin The snapped-off branches of a thousand trees lay everywhere across the Tech campus and throughout the rolling hills surrounding it. Three ice storms in a row had done this, said the locals. It looked like Paul Bunyan had savagely attacked the mountains with dull pruning shears. But fair weather and blue skies overarched the campus on March 11 as scholars pondered attacks of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Shape-Shifting Appalachia

Imbroglio, Douglas.
Appalachian Review , Volume 22 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
Download PDF
7 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/shape-shifting-appalachia-NwP0gbvRYs
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Copyright
Copyright © Berea College
ISSN
2692-9244
eISSN
2692-9287

Abstract

Douglas Imbrogno Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 1994, pp. 27-32 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0100 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437212/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:16 GMT from JHU Libraries Shape-Shifting Appalachia Douglas Imbroglio Most folks who live outside of Appalachia can't even get the name right. The usual stereotypes and ignorance about the region have to do with someplace called Appa-LAY-cha. Way, way over on the opposite end of the spectrum is that small, doughty cadre of thinkers, scribblers, and performers for whom Appa- lachia is a thesis, a conundrum, a career. Each year they gather to debate, extemporize, speechify, and party. Early in March, they descended from the north, south, east, and west upon Blacksburg, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. Let the Show Begin The snapped-off branches of a thousand trees lay everywhere across the Tech campus and throughout the rolling hills surrounding it. Three ice storms in a row had done this, said the locals. It looked like Paul Bunyan had savagely attacked the mountains with dull pruning shears. But fair weather and blue skies overarched the campus on March 11 as scholars pondered attacks of

Journal

Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

There are no references for this article.