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This Side of the Mountain

This Side of the Mountain George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2007, p. 5 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0089 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432320/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:22 GMT from JHU Libraries This Side of the Mountain George Brosi This issue is a tribute to the first and founding editor of Appalachian Heritage. Al Stewart has played a crucial role not only in this journal, but also in the positive development of Appalachian Literature as a sub-genre. While a handful of others, including Wilma Dykeman, Jim Wayne Miller, Gurney Norman and Grace Toney Edwards have often deservedly been in the limelight as encouragers of regional writing, Al Stewart could be found diligently working behind the scenes to create the vital institutional support system crucial to the efforts of many. In the early 1960s, when Stewart was teaching at Morehead State, he produced a series of amazing anthologies of Kentucky literature that showcased the work of established writers and demonstrated his astonishing ability to discern promising new writers. Then in 1973 when he was teaching at Alice Lloyd College, he finally succeeded in creating Appalachian Heritage. From the very first issue, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

This Side of the Mountain

Brosi, George.
Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2007, p. 5 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0089 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432320/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:22 GMT from JHU Libraries This Side of the Mountain George Brosi This issue is a tribute to the first and founding editor of Appalachian Heritage. Al Stewart has played a crucial role not only in this journal, but also in the positive development of Appalachian Literature as a sub-genre. While a handful of others, including Wilma Dykeman, Jim Wayne Miller, Gurney Norman and Grace Toney Edwards have often deservedly been in the limelight as encouragers of regional writing, Al Stewart could be found diligently working behind the scenes to create the vital institutional support system crucial to the efforts of many. In the early 1960s, when Stewart was teaching at Morehead State, he produced a series of amazing anthologies of Kentucky literature that showcased the work of established writers and demonstrated his astonishing ability to discern promising new writers. Then in 1973 when he was teaching at Alice Lloyd College, he finally succeeded in creating Appalachian Heritage. From the very first issue,

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