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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Oral History Interview: Lowell E. Long, Lowell E. Long
Oral History Interview: Lowell E. Long, Lowell E. Long
0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection
Lowell E. Long’s interview focuses on the region of Appalachia: its location, environments, people, and identity. Mr. Long was born in April 1941 in War, McDowell County, WV. His family moved to East Liverpool, OH, after World War II, and relocated to Huntington, WV, in January 1945. In the audio clip provided, Mr. Long discusses what it means to be Appalachian and focuses on family bonds and sense of belonging in the region. During his interview, he describes his family’s use of folk medicine. Mr. Long provides descriptions of the segregated neighborhoods and schools of Huntington, WV, during his childhood. …
Oral History Interview: Bob Chapman, Bob Chapman
Oral History Interview: Bob Chapman, Bob Chapman
0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection
Bob Chapman was born in Louisa, KY. He grew up on Homemade Holler in the coal community of McVeigh, KY, located in Pike County. His father worked for the Eastern Coal Corporation as an explosions miner. Mr. Chapman attended a two-room school house for a short time in the 1940s, but continued his education through high school in the McVeigh school system. In the audio clip provided, Mr. Chapman discusses a typical day in a coal community and the class system within this community. In his interview, he also focuses on the integration of Belfry High School in 1957, and …
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.
The Narrative Voice Of Lee Smith: Emergence Of A Passionate Narrative Voice Through Body And Spirit, Judith A. Eddy
The Narrative Voice Of Lee Smith: Emergence Of A Passionate Narrative Voice Through Body And Spirit, Judith A. Eddy
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Winding farther and farther off the concrete interstate, climbing higher and deeper into the mountains, leaving two-lane roads behind for a one-lane dirt road, and then leaving the last vestiges of the dirt road behind and forging still deeper and deeper into the mountains, the adventuresome traveler beholds the emerging isolated rural hollows. What kind of people choose to live in this remote southern geographical region known as the Appalachian mountain range which runs from northern Georgia through the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Virginias and Pennsylvania? The people who chose to live in these isolated regions are not the town …
In The Fullness Of Time: The Literature Of Denise Giardina, Cathy Pleska
In The Fullness Of Time: The Literature Of Denise Giardina, Cathy Pleska
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Appalachia can lay claim to many authors who have written works worthy of critical analysis and scholarly research, as the literature they have produced warrants consideration. This consideration, however, is often not forthcoming, and it is the situation concerning West Virginia author Denise Giardina. To date there has been no definitive, full-length study on her and her literature. As an author of considerable talent, who by any measure has published literature of significant quality, she deserves serious scholarly study, not just as an author of regional literature, but also as a contemporary author of the late twentieth century.
The purpose …
0672: Anderson-Newcomb Company Photographs, 1895-1957, Marshall University Special Collections
0672: Anderson-Newcomb Company Photographs, 1895-1957, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of eight photographs and one backing board for a photograph from the Anderson-Newcomb Company. These photographs include one photo of the Valentine and Newcomb building, an interior shot from 1936, group shots from company picnics and outings, and other shots including a Huntington High School Group Photo, c. 1940s and a photo of the Nineteenth Annual Banquet, National Retail Dry Goods Association, 1930.
0669: Sue Shank Manuscript, 1996, Marshall University Special Collections
0669: Sue Shank Manuscript, 1996, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of one binder containing 299 pages of genealogical materials about the Handley, Love, Pritchard, Shank, and Shoemaker/Shomaker families in West Virginia. Scanned copies of various documentary records and scanned photographs are found in small amounts in the text. An index is included.