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Alexander, Bill.  2004.  Mountain Berry Baskets and Mountain Poetry.  Rev. ed.  Knoxville, Tenn.: B. Alexander.  64 pp.

Alvarez, Raymond.  2012.  “In Close Touch with Reality: Photographer Lewis Hine.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 1 (Spring): 44-49.  “Hine (1874-1940), one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century, did some of his most memorable work in West Virginia.”

Alvic, Philis.  2003.  Weavers of the Southern Highlands [comprehensive history; missionary-era weaving centers; craft revival movement]. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  233 pp.

Amberg, Rob.  1995.  “‘Photographs of Lasting Value’: An Interview With Earl Dotter.”  The Southern Quarterly 34 (Fall): 99-103.

Anderson, Belinda.  2001.  “Jim Costa: West Virginia Renaissance Man” [curates and restores regional heritage items: pioneer tools, farming, blacksmithing, cabinetry, home tending].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Fall): 42-49.

Anderson, Colleen.  1999.  “Redeeming the Wood: Self-Taught Woodcarver Herman Hayes” [Hurricane, W. Va.; b. 1923].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Summer): 20-29.

Appalachia.  2006.  In Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer, by Milton Rogovin and Melanie Herzog, 56-65, photos [1962-1971] and text, plus frontispiece photo.  Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona.

Appalachian Photography.  1997.  Special issue, Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Summer): 1-41.

Archambeault, James.  2006.  James Archambeault’s Historic Kentucky [color photographs: full-page and captioned].  Foreword by Wendell Berry.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  153 pp.

Ardery, Julia S.  1998.  The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art [Ky. woodcarver].  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  376 p.

Ardrey, Julia S.  1996.  “How Edgar Tolson Made It: Oral Sources and Folk Art’s Success.”  Oral History Review  23 (Winter): 1-18, cover photo. Wolfe Co., Ky. woodcarver; on the art of oral history documentation.

Argoe, April, and Bridget English.  2005.  “Weavin’ Stories: An Interview with Sonja Stikeleather” [Dillard, Ga.; b. 1939; rug weaving].  Foxfire Magazine 39 (Spring/Summer): 10-20.

Baron, Jennifer, Greg Langel, Elizabeth Perry, and Mark Stroup, ed.  2009.  Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania.  Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press.  203 pp.  Contents: I believe in neon / Jennifer Baron -- Learning from Pittsburgh / Greg Langel -- Privavate / Elizabeth Perry -- An invitation / Mark Stroup.

Austin, Peter.  2001.  “The Ironwork of Tony Lord” [1930s Asheville blacksmith and architect].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 35-57.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

B. B. Maurer West Virginia Folklife Award 2001: Dick Schnacke, Mountain Toy Maker [New Martinsville, W. Va.].  2000-2001.  Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 6: i.

Barker, Garry.  1995.  Notes From a Native Son: Essays on the Appalachian Experience.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  207 pp.

Barnwell, Tim.  2009.  Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia [80 full-page duotone photos of artisans and craftsmen, with biographies and oral histories].  New York: W. W. Norton.  188 pp., plus CD with 20 songs by featured musicians.

Bartlett, Larry.  1998.  “Rural Murals: New Deal Art in West Virginia [sidebar lists 16 Post Office Art sites].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Fall): 36-41.

Battlo, Jean.  2008.  “Coal Art: The ‘Other’ West Virginia Coal Industry” [jewelry and molded figurines].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 4 (Winter): 10-15.  Sidebar, “Coal Sculptor James Stewart,” 16-17.  Boone County; self-taught, award-winning carver.

Becker, Jane S.  1998.  Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 [folk revival; cultural politics].  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  331 pp.

Bell, Michael W.  2003.  “‘First Rate & Fashionable’: Handmade Nineteenth Century Furniture at the Tennessee State Museum.”  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 62 (Spring): 5-109.

Bezner, Lili Corbus.  1998.  “Photographer Bayard Wootten in 1930s Appalachia” [N.C.; pioneering female photographer].  Southern Quarterly 36 (Summer): 20-37.

Binnicker, Margaret D.  2004.  “Southern Potteries Incorporated” [Unicoi Co., 1917-1957; sidebar in Chap. 12, “Ceramic Crafts and Potters”].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 222-223.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

Bissmeyer, Beth.  2009.  “Debbie Littledeer” [featured artist; N.C.].  Appalachian Heritage 37, no. 2 (Spring): 56-60.  Eighteen of Littledeer’s silk screen prints of mountain settings illustrate this issue.

Bodell, Dorothy H.  2005.  “‘Thou Art the Potter’: A History of Bodell Pottery” [Blacksburg, Va., 1860s-1920s; photos].  Smithfield Review: Studies in the History of the Region West of the Blue Ridge 9: 18-26.

Boggs, Boyd.  2003.  “‘I Never Gave Up’: Boyd Boggs of Gilmer County” [b. 1922; painter, sketch artist, glass decorator].  Interview by Ginny Hawker.  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Fall): 10-16.

Bonesteel, Georgia.  2008.  “Appalachian Quilting” [N.C.].  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 35-36.  Special issue–“Fabric of Appalachia.”

Brackner, Joey.  2006.  Alabama Folk Pottery [comprehensive study; Ch. 8, “The Mountains,” 123-147; oversize, photographs].  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.  311 pp.

Bradshaw, Thelma Finster.  2001.  Howard Finster: The Early Years: A Private Portrait of America’s Premier Folk Artist [1916-2001; Summerville, Ga.].  Birmingham, Ala.: Cranehill Publishers.  151 pp.

Bridge Over New River Saluted by Postal Service.  2011.  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 27, no. 1 (Summer): 53.  West Virginia’s New River Gorge Bridge is depicted in a new $4.95 Priority Mail stamp issued by the USPS, illustrated by artist Dan Cosgrove.

Brosi, George.  2011.  “Angel Clark: Featured Photographer.”  Appalachian Heritage 39, no. 4 (Fall): 123.  Eighteen of Clark’s photos appear in the special “Frank X Walker” issue.

Brosi, George.  2011.  “Featured Artist: Paul Brett Johnson” [1947-2011].  Appalachian Heritage 39, no. 3 (Summer): 122-122.  Award winning children’s book author and illustrator, from Knott County, Ky.  Ten of his paintings illustrate this issue.

Brosi, George.  2012.  “Larry D. Thacker: Featured Photographer.”  Appalachian Heritage 40, no. 1 (Winter): 112.  Fifteen of Middlesborough, Ky., writer Thacker’s photographs appear in this special “Mark Powell” issue.

Brown, Brooke A., and Jennifer Francis Alkire, ed.  2005.  Art & Soul: West Virginians in the Arts [colorful profiles of 50 literary, performing, and visual artists].  Morgantown, W. Va.: Appalachian Education Initiative.  101 pp.

Brunner, Warren E., and Albert J. Fritsch.  2010.  Mountain Moments.  Photographs by Warren Brunner, reflections by Albert Fritsch.  Morley, Mo.: Acclaim Press.  168 pp.  Oversize volume; 270 color images.

Burrison, John A.  [1983] 2001.  Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery. Reprint.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.  352 pp.

Burrison, John A.  2010.  From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press in collaboration with the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia.  161 pp.  History, families, photos, text, interview excerpts, index of potters.

Burriss, Theresa L.  2007.  “Inside the Outsider: A Provocative Art Experience at the William King Regional Arts Center” [Abingdon, Va.].  Pluck: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, no. 2: 13-17.  Artist Ollie Cox returns to the formerly segregated school he was barred from attending – now an arts center.

Bye, Ole.  2007.  “Coalfields, 2002” [thirteen black & white photos; Va.].  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Photography section.  http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/photo/index.html.

Bye, Ole.  2007.  “Night Shift” [24 black & white photos].  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Photography section.  http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/photo/index.html.

Casto, James E.  2002.  “West Virginia’s Showcase for Entrepreneurs” [Charleston retail shop features work of 200 artisans, specialty food producers, and microbusinesses].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 34 (January-December): 28-33.

Caveny, Dale.  2007.  “Hurrying Slowly with T. J. Worthington” [painter of musicians, Sparta, N.C.].  Old-Time Herald 10, no. 11 (June-July).  http://oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-10/10-11/tjworthington.html.

Cawley, Lucinda Reddington, Lorraine DeAngelis Ezbiansky, and Denise Rocheleau Nordberg.  1997.  Saved for the People of Pennsylvania: Quilts from the State Museum of Pennsylvania [photographs and details].  Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.  67 pp.

Chastain, Patti.  1998.  “Pine Needle Baskets: An Interview with Mrs. Diane Taylor” [Tiger, Ga.].  Foxfire Magazine32 (Spring/Summer): 41-46.

Cheek, Mary Margaret.  1994.  “Romanticizing Democracy: the  Mountain Art of Howard Murry.”  Appalachian Journal 21  (Winter): 152-171.

Cheek, Pauline Binkley.  1997.  “The Hooked Rug Workers of Madison County, North Carolina: A Narrative Record” [1930s and 40s; interviews].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 8-35.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Cochran, Marie T.  2010.  “M. Anna Fariello: Folklife Researcher and Museum Curator” [2010 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award winner].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 57, no. 2 (Fall-Winter): 8-12.

Coe, Debbie, and Randy Coe.  2012.  Fenton Art Glass: A Centennial of Glass Making 1907 to 2007 and Beyond [W. Va.].  2d ed.  Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer.  248 pp.

Cogswell, Robert.  2011.  “Cannon County Basketry: The Sweezy Project.”  Photographs by Sam Sweezy [1998].  Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 66, no. 1-2 (Spring-Fall, 2010): 1-57.  Essay on local history and tradition followed by profiles of more than a dozen, mostly elderly basketmakers.

Cogswell, Robert.  2012.  “Cannon County Basketry, Broader Documentation.”  Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin68, no. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 3-75.  This second in a series on the white oak basketmaking tradition of Tennessee’s Eastern Highland Rim (whose artisans were also chairmakers) includes historic photographs and extensive documentation of many families involved over several generations.  See also: “Cannon County Basketry: The Sweezy Project,” vol. 66, no. 1-2 (2011), by Robert Cogswell.

Cole, Samantha.  2009.  “Featured Artist: Tom Martin” [Ky. outdoorsman and writer].  Appalachian Heritage 37, no. 1 (Winter): 30-42.  Eighteen of Martin’s photographs illustrate this issue.

Cole, Samantha.  2009.  “Frederic S. Miller.”  Appalachian Heritage 37, no. 3 (Summer): 102.  Son of Jim Wayne and Mary Ellen Miller, and whose artwork illustrates this special issue featuring Jim Wayne Miller.

Cole, Samantha.  2010.  “Builder Levy” [Featured Photographer].  Appalachian Heritage 38, no. 2 (Spring): 96.  Twenty of Levy’s b&w photos are reprinted in this issue.  See his documentary collection, Images of Appalachian Coalfields (1989; introduction by Helen M. Lewis).

Coleman, Martha Caroline.  2012.  “Martha Manning: A Century of West Virginia Stained Glass” [Morgantown].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 3 (Fall): 20-25.

Cox, Reuben.  2009.  The Work of Joe Webb: Appalachian Master of Rustic Architecture [1881-1950].  Photographs and essay by Reuben Cox.  [Winston-Salem, N.C.?]: Jargon Society; Athens, Ga.: Distributed by University of Georgia Press.  120 pp.  Tritone photos of 1920s-30s log cabins in Highlands, N.C.

Cuthbert, John A.  2000.  Early Art and Artists in West Virginia: An Introduction and Biographical Directory [19th-20th century portraiture and landscape painting; 136 plates].  Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.  312 pp.

Cuthbert, John A., and Jessie Poesch.  1997.  David Hunter Strother: “One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses” [1816-1888; pseud. “Porte Crayon”; illustrator/essayist for Harper’s Weekly].  Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.  168 pp.

Dickinson, W. Calvin, and Michael E. Birdwell.  2004.  “Made on the Mountain: Upper Cumberland Arts and Crafts” [Ky., Tenn.; wood, clay, fibers, paint].  In Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland, ed. M. Birdwell and W. Dickinson, 246-273.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Dotter, Earl.  1995.  “Portfolio.”  The Southern Quarterly 34 (Fall): 104-112.

Dunn, Dallas.  2002.  “Gravedigger Dallas Dunn” [Kanawha Co.; occupation].  Interview by Amber Griffith.  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Winter): 40-45.

Edwards, David.  2010.  “Ann W. Olson” [Featured Artist].  Appalachian Heritage 38, no. 3 (Summer): 115.  Seventeen of Olson’s photographs are featured in this issue.  She has illustrated two books by George Ella Lyon: A Wordful Child (1993), and Counting on the Woods (1998).

Ellison, Elizabeth.  2007.  “Art for This Issue–Elizabeth Ellison” [40 paintings and drawings by this Bryson City, N.C., artist].  Appalachian Heritage 35, no.2 (Spring).

Fabric of Appalachia.  2008.  Special issue, Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 1-80.  Essays, stories, and poetry about sewing, quilting, and woven fabrics.

Fariello, Anna.  2003.  “Arts and Crafts in Appalachia: The Third Wave” [1930s Appalachian Craft Revival].  Style 1900 16 (February): 70-75.

Fariello, M. Anna.  2006.  “The Folklorist’s Digital Toolkit” [Western Carolina University; digitization as a preservation tool documenting Craft Revival images: http://craftrevival.wcu.edu].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 53, no. 2 (Fall-Winter): 50-59.

Fariello, M. Anna.  2006.  “Visual Arts in Appalachia” [with suggested readings, resources].  In A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, ed. G. Edwards, J. Asbury, and R. Cox, 217-236.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Fariello, M. Anna, section editor.  2006.  “Visual Arts” [signed articles].  In Encyclopedia of Appalachia, ed. R. Abramson and J. Haskell, 1407-1455 (with introductory essay, 1407-1413).  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Feather, Carl E.  2006.  “Woodcarver Matt Wilkinson: Boone County’s Tool Man” [pocket-knife carved, identical replicas of tool hardware].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 4 (Winter): 24-31.

Feather, Carl E.  2009.  “‘I Have All I Need Here’: Glass Artist Ron Hinkle” [Upshur Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 35, no. 4 (Winter): 56-63.  www.ronhinkle.com/.

Feather, Carl E.  2010.  “Doyle Kisner: Tucker County’s Single-Handed Clock Man.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 36, no. 4 (Winter): 36-42.  Profile of one-handed, 86-year-old clock repairman and wordworker.

Feather, Carl E.  2011.  “Modeling History.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 37, no. 1 (Spring): 8-15.  John Bowman constructs balsa wood steamboat models at his home in Wheeling, “birthplace of the American steamboat.”

Feather, Carl E.  2012.  “Allegheny Treenware: Carving Out a Living in Preston County.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 4 (Winter): 48-55.  Stan Jennings produces a line of award-winning, carved wooden kitchen utensils.

Foster, Gary S.  1996.  “The Tobacco-Stick Quail Trap: A Live Trap of the Upland South” [details construction and use].  Tennessee Anthropologist 21 (Fall): 131-138.

Fountain, Samantha.  2007.  “Quilt History” [at Foxfire program].  Foxfire Magazine 41 (Fall/Winter): 66-74.

Garton, George.  2008.  “First Lady and the Ramp Egg.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 1 (Spring): 60-61.  Official 2007 Easter egg display at the White House; W. Va. submission; Laura Bush.

Garver, Thomas H.  2004.  “The Last Days of Steam: O. Winston Link and Virginia” [gallery/profile; 1950s photos of steam locomotives in social settings].  Virginia Quarterly Review 80 (Winter): 212-221.

Gayheart, Willard, and Donia S. Eley.  2003.  Willard Gayheart, Appalachian Artist [Ky. pencil artist].  Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, no. 9.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.  190 pp.

Goodrich, Frances Louisa.  [1931] 2010.  Mountain Homespun: A Facsimile of the Original, Published in 1931 [hand weaving].  Reprint, with a new preface and introduction by Jan Davidson.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  91 pp.

Graff, Elissa R.  2012.  “Preserving Traditional Culture in the Cumberland Gap Region.”  Journal of Appalachian Studies 18, no. 1-2 (Spring-Fall): 234-243.  Lincoln Memorial University-UNC Asheville  undergraduate research project to record and preserve the stories and work of craftspeople in Bell Co., Ky., Claiborne Co., Tenn., and Lee Co., Va.

Gray, Pamela Lee.  2002.  Ohio Valley Pottery Towns [vintage photos].  Chicago: Arcadia.  128 pp.  Contents: The potter and the trade | East Liverpool, Ohio | Wellsville, Ohio | Beaver Area, Pennsylvania | Chester, West Virginia | Newell, West Virginia | East Palestine, Ohio | Celebrating the future | Resources for research.

Greer, Jerry D.  2000.  Appalachia: The Southern Highlands [color photographs: N.C., Tenn., Va., W. Va.].  Appalachia Landscape Series.  Johnson City, Tenn.: Mountain Trail Press.

Greer, Jerry D.  2004.  Blue Ridge Mountains: America’s First Frontier [color photos].  Foreword by Donald Davis.  Johnson City, Tenn.: Mountain Trail Press.  72 pp.

Gritton, Joy L.  2001.  “Made in Japan with the Exception of Two: Native American and Appalachian Arts Come of Age” [traditional arts’ form and function vs. outside patrons’ “modern applications”; missions, movements, guilds, schools, markets].  Chap. 8 in Painters, Patrons, and Identity: Essays in Native American Art to Honor J. J. Brody, ed. J. Szabo, 163-186.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Gritton, Joy.  2006.  “William Morris, Walmart, and Appalachian Arts: A Personal Reflection” [Arts and Crafts movement].  Journal of Kentucky Studies 23, (September): 77-80.

Hanson, Todd A.  2012.  “Putney: ‘Model’ Coal Town in Kanawha County.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 3 (Fall): 42-49.  Scale model company town on display at the Exhibition Coal Mine museum at Beckley.

Harris, Patricia, and David Lyon.  2005.  “Kentucky’s Art Will Make People Sing, Too” [profiles locations including Morehead’s Kentucky Folk Art Center, Berea, Renfro Valley, and Hindman].  Christian Science Monitor, 18 May: 16 (Travel Section).  http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0518/p16s03-trgn.html.

Harwell, Jane M.  1995.  “Ed Briggs: Reviving a Traditional Craft With a Contemporary Eye”  [bowl carving].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 42 (Winter-Spring): 35-52.

Hassel, Ken.  2007.  “An Interview with the NR Editors: Elon University, 6 January 2006.”   Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Featured Artist section.  1600 words.  http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/photo/index.html.

Hassel, Ken.  2007.  “Ken Hassel: A Life of Coal” [Grundy, Va.].  A podcast series edited & produced by Joseph Champagne.  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Featured Artist section.  Contents, four podcasts with photos: Prologue: The Working Spirit: A Portrait of Factory Labor / I. Beginning A Life of Coal: A New Area, A Familiar People / II. Into The Mine: Working Under the Surface / III. Needless Apprehension: Meeting the People.  http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/photo/index.html.

Hassel, Ken.  2007.  “Ken Hassel: Portrait of Dante” [Va.; 60 black & white portraits].  Nantahala: A Review of Writing and Photography in Appalachia 3, no. 2 (Summer/Fall): Featured Artist section.  http://nantahalareview.org/issue3-2/photo/index.html.

Hawthorne, Ann, and Robin Dreyer.  1996.  “Penland School of Crafts” [profile].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 29 (January-April): 34-39.

Hearne, Janet.  1997.  “Ken Murray: Advocating for Appalachia” [photographer].  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Summer): 26-29.

Herrin, Roberta.  2008.  “A Meditation on Fabric.”  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 2.  Special issue–“Fabric of Appalachia.”

Hewitt, Mark, and Nancy Sweezy.  2005.  The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery [statewide scope; catalog of an exhibition; salt glaze, alkaline glaze].  Photography by Jason Dowdle.  Chapel Hill: Published for the North Carolina Museum of Art by the University of North Carolina Press.  274 pp.

Hoffman, Carl.  2004-2005.  “Kentucky’s Creative Marketing Boosts Artisan Businesses” [Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea on I-75; and Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails (KAHT) developed by EKU’s Center for Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, and Technology].  Appalachia Magazine: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission.  13 para.  http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3423.

Holbrook, Jaime.  1996.  “The Art of Making a Cherokee Arrow” [oral history].  Foxfire Magazine 30 (Fall/Winter): 119-123.

Horton, Laurel.  1999.  “‘If Quilts Could Talk’: Voices from the Late-Twentieth Century.”  Folklife Center News(Library of Congress) 21, no. 3 (Summer): 7-12.  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/index.html.

Horton, Laurel.  1999.  “Blue Ridge Quiltmaking in the Late Twentieth Century.” Folklife Center News (Library of Congress) 21, no. 3 (Summer): 3-6.  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/index.html.

Horton, Laurel.  2005.  Mary Black’s Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life [Spartanburg; 16 quilts over six generations].  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.  184 pp.

Hunter Library, Western Carolina University.  2011 (date accessed).  “Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present” [1890s-1940s] (digital collection).  Project director, Anne Fariello.  “During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mountain craftsmen formed the cornerstone of a revived interest in things handmade to create a movement known as the Craft Revival. Although craftsmen left few written records of their own, their story survives in samples of their work, accounts of their sales, and newspaper clippings celebrating their talent in collections throughout the Appalachian region. A research-based website interprets the Craft Revival and includes an archival repository of over 4,500 documents, photographs, and craft objects.”  http://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CraftRevival/.

Irwin, John Rice.  2004.  “Musical Instrument Makers” [sidebar in Chap. 8, “Woodcraft”; excerpted from A People and Their Music (2000)].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 165-166.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Isbell, Robert; photographs by Arthur Tilley.  1999.  The Keepers: Mountain Folk Holding On to Old Skills and Talents [profiles 15 folk artists, mostly N.C.].  Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair.  240 pp.

Israel, Jerry.  1997.  “The Mace Family of Chair Makers” [125 years of chair making].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 176-200.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Jeff Fetty, Spencer, West Virginia, USA.  2012.  Chapter in Metal Design International 2009.  Immenstadt, Germany: Verlag Hephaistos, comp. T. Schumacher, 123-145.  Showcases the work of metal sculptor, Jeff Fetty, one of eight world-class artists described in this yearbook.

Johnson, Andrea.  1998.  “An Interview with Tom Landreth” [Ga. landscape painter].  Foxfire Magazine 32 (Fall/Winter): 135-143.

Johnson, Bruce E.  2001.  “‘To serve unnoticed and to work unseen’: Eleanor Vance, Charlotte Yale and the Origins of Biltmore Estate Industries [missionary craftspeople; 1905-1917; woodwork].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 241-266.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Johnson, Kim.  2005.  “Rube Stump: Calhoun County’s King of Swing” [1925-2005; crafting wooden porch swings].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 31, no. 2 (Summer): 28-33.

Johnson, Mary Elizabeth, with photographs by J. D. Schwalm.  2001.  Mississippi Quilts.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.  224 pp.

Jones, Michael Owen.  [1975, 1989] 2003.  Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity [Chester Cornett, 1913-1981; Perry Co., Ky., chairmaker].  Reprint.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  289 pp.  Originally published as The Hand Make Object and Its Maker.

Joslin, Michael.  2005.  Highland Handcrafters: Appalachian Craftspeople [N.C.; profiles of 50 varied artisans].  Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.  224 pp.

Joslin, Michael.  2008.  “A New Face in the Fields: Alpacas in Appalachia” [N.C.].  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 37-40.  Special issue–“Fabric of Appalachia.”

Kilby, WC.  2012.  “Michael Kiernan: Featured Photographer.”  Appalachian Heritage 40, no. 4 (Fall): 115.  Seventeen of Kiernan’s photos illustrate this special issue on writer Nikki Giovanni.

Kirby, Jim.  2009.  Harpers Ferry: A Crossroads in Time [W. Va.; color photos].  Johnson City, Tenn.: Mountain Trail Press.  120 pp.

Knight, Joan.  2002.  Virginia Quilt Museum [Harrisonburg; catalog].  Photographs by Polly Frye.  Charlottesville, Va.: Howell Press.  134 pp.

Knight, Lydia F.  2008.  “From Quilts to Chenille Bedspreads to Carpets.”  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 30-33.  Special issue–“Fabric of Appalachia”; Catherine Evans Whitener, b. 1880, Whitfield County, Ga.

Knowles, Susan W.  2004.  “Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts” [sidebar in Chap. 13, “Tennessee Textiles”].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 240.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Knowles, Susan W.  2004.  “Fine Craft/Fine Art” [Studio Craft movement; sidebar in Chap. 9, “Basketmaking”].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 182.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Kube, Paul A.  2005.  Wagon-Making in the United States During the Late-19th through Mid-20th Centuries: A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania [estbl. 1885; 103 photos, illustrations, glossary].  Blacksburg, Va.: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company.  258 pp.

Kurtik, Frank J., and Gary Grimes.  2002.  “Gravestone Carvers of Westmoreland County.”  Western Pennsylvania History 85 (Winter 2002-2003): 40-44.

L'Ecuyer, Kelly H.  2002.  “Uplifting the Southern Highlander: Handcrafts at Biltmore Estate Industries” [1901-1917; Asheville, N.C.].  Winterthur Portfolio 37, no. 2-3: 123-146.

Lauterer, Maggie Palmer.  1997.  “The Carvings of Wade Hampton Martin” [b. 1920; woodcarver].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 98-113.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Leftwich, Rodney Henderson.  2001.  “The Nonconnah Pottery of Tennessee and Western North Carolina: 1904-1918” [later Pisgah Forest Pottery].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 70-90.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Levy, Builder.  2005.  Builder Levy: Photographer.  New York: A.R.T. Press.  167 pp.  Documentary, sepia tone portraits from 1970s- 80s W. Va. and Ky.  Contents: New York City -- Appalachian coalfields -- Mongolia -- Cuba -- Demonstrations – Artist’s Statement – Notes on the photographs, and afterword, “Builder Levy’s Appalachian Photographs,” by Walter Rosenblum, 152-153.

Lewis, Johanna Miller.  1995.  Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  240 pp.

Lilly, John, and Lloyd Gainer.  2007.  “The Photography of Lloyd Gainer: Worth 10,000 Words” [1890-1905; Parkersburg; exceptional portraiture].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 4 (Winter): 40-49.

Lilly, John.  2000.  “Blacksville Pottery: Local Hands and Native Clay.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Spring): 44-51.

Lilly, John.  2003.  “Weaver Dorothy Thompson” [Canaan Valley, Tucker Co.; b. 1920].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Winter): 10-17.

Lindsey, Jack L.  1997.  “The Woodwork of Samuel Wilson Jacobs” [African-American folk artist].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 80-81.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Link, O. Winston, and Thomas H. Garver.  [1995] 2008.  The Last Steam Railroad in America.  Photographs by O. Winston Link; text by Thomas H. Garver.  New York: Abradale Press; Harry N. Abrams.  144 pp.  Originally published in 1987 as Steam, Steel & Stars: America’s Last Steam Railroad.  Norfolk and Western Railway; 1950s Va., W. Va., N.C.

Lohman, Jon.  2007.  In Good Keeping: Virginia’s Folklife Apprenticeships [40 masters profiled].  Photographs by Morgan Miller.  Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.  227 pp.

Long, Frank W.  1997.  Confessions of a Depression Muralist [W.P.A. artist based in Berea, Ky., 1932-42].  Foreword by Sue Bridwell Beckham.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.  179 pp.

Mack, Charles R.  2006.  Talking with the Turners: Conversations with Southern Folk Potters [37 potters from S.C., N.C., Ky., Ga., Ala.; “Thematic excerpts transcribed from interviews taped in the field in 1981 and preserved in the folklife resource center of the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina with...photography, and a CD recording of the potters’ voices.”].  Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press in cooperation with McKissick Museum.  233 pp., plus CD sound disc.

Maloney, Michael.  1997.  “Murals” [arts project to paint murals on public buildings in Southeastern Ohio].  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Winter): 29-33, 48.

Marcengill, Roger.  2002.  “It’s ‘Blacksmithing,’ not ‘Welding’” [Oconee Co., S.C. blacksmith].  Interview by student Stephanie Jobbitt.  Foxfire Magazine 36 (Fall/Winter): 104-111.

Matheny, Paul.  2001.  “Face Vessels and Contemporary South Carolina Folk Pottery” [face jugs; Spartanburg and Greenville Cos., S.C.].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 48 (Spring/Summer-Fall/Winter): 22-27.

Maxwell, Dan.  2002.  “The Hammer and the Forge” [blacksmith; Rabun Co., Ga.].  Interview by student Cheryl Binnie.  Foxfire Magazine 36 (Spring/Summer): 58-69.

May, Russell.  2007.  “Illustrations: Russell May Paintings” [1921-1990; eastern Ky. commercial artist; 25 paintings illustrate this issue].  Appalachian Heritage 35, no.3 (Fall).

McCann, Matt.  2012.  “When Steam Locomotion Ground to a Halt.”  Lens: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism (blog).  New York Times, 16 November.  760 words; 12 photos.  Profile of photographer O. Winston Link who “became famous for photographing a moribund technology, lugging his flashbulbs and Rolleiflex around the hills of Appalachia in search of steam locomotives.”  http://nyti.ms/1yHY16s.

McCann, Monica.  2009.  “Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center” [Graham Co., N.C.; 2009 Community Traditions Award].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 56, no. 2 (Fall-Winter): 30-33.

McClain, LouWanda, and Buddy English.  1999.  “Uncle Buddy” [Rabun Co., Ga.; student interview with folk artist English].  Foxfire Magazine 33 (Fall/Winter): 149-153.

McCombs, Douglas.  2002.  “Western Pennsylvania Folk: Art from the People.”  Western Pennsylvania History 85 (Winter 2002-2003): 10-20.

McDaniel, Lynda.  1999.  “A Celebration of Art” [William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, Va.].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (September-December): 34-38.

McGowan, Thomas, ed.  1997.  “A Treasury of Tar Heel Folk Artists: The North Carolina Folk Heritage Award, 1989-1996.”  Special issue, North Carolina Folklore Journal 44 (nos. 1-2): 1-155.  Photographs and biographical sketches of over 100 artists.

McGowan, Thomas.  1998.  “Lula Belle and Glenn Bolick: Musicians and Traditional Potters” [Watauga Co., N.C.].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 117-119.

McKinley, Gale.  2001.  “About Fishing, Making Split Oak Baskets, and Other Affairs of Everyday Life: The McKinley Family of Anderson, South Carolina” [split oak fish baskets].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 48 (Spring/Summer-Fall/Winter): 28-36.

McLaughlin, Jean W., ed.  2004.  The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience [“Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Penland School of Crafts”].  New York: Lark Books.  228 pp.

Meredith, Donna.  2012.  Magic in the Mountains: Kelsey Murphy, Robert Bonkamp, and the West Virginia Cameo Glass Revolution [Pilgrim Glass; Ceredo, W. Va.].  Tallahassee, Fla.: Wild Women Writers.  235 pp.

Meredith, Donna.  2012.  “Visions of Heaven: Cameo Glass Artist Kelsey Murphy” [Wayne Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 3 (Fall): 60-65.  Sidebar: “Museum of American Glass” [Weston, W. Va.].

Miller, Richard Kidwell, and John A. Cuthbert.  [2004] 2011.  Richard Kidwell Miller [exhibition catalogue, 25 paintings; b. 1930, Fairmont, W. Va.].  Curated with an essay by John A. Cuthbert.  Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 104 pp.  Originally published: West Virginia Historical Art Collection, West Virginia University Libraries.

Milnes, Gerald.  2000.  “Passing It On: West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Winter): 35-37.

Milnes, Gerald.  2002.  “Carved in Stone: West Virginia Grave Markers.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 28 (Winter): 46-52.

Milnes, Gerald.  2005. “Cole Boats” [jon boat crafting, since 1834; Gauley Bridge, W. Va.]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 31, no. 4 (Winter): 43-45.

Milspaw, Yvonne J.  1997.  “Regional Style in Quilt Design” [upstate N.Y., Pa., Appalachia, Utah].  Journal of American Folklore 110 (Fall): 363-390.

Miner, Mark A.  1999.  “AL-ED-HA: Fayette County’s Forgotten ‘Mountain Poet’” [Allen Edward Harbaugh, 1849-1916; sketch artist, sign painter, poet].  Western Pennsylvania History 82 (Fall): 106-116.

Mitchell, James R.; photographs by Michael Keller.  “Sharing the Weight: A Visit with Glassmaker Jennings Bonnell” [decorative paperweights].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Winter): 48-55.  Includes sidebar photo essay on “The Students of Jennings Bonnell.”

Moore, Bob.  2006.  “Homer L. Wells: Midland Trail’s Mystery Photographer” [1898-1974; vintage photographs along scenic Rt. 60 from 1920s-40s].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 3 (Fall): 18-24.  Sidebar, “Midland Trail Association” [maps], 25.

Moore, Catherine.  2004.  “Whimmydiddles and FlipperDingers: A Visit with Toymaker Dick Schnacke” [New Martinsville; 40 years crafting].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Winter): 10-17.

Moore, Catherine.  2005.  “Ties That Bind: The Hahn Brothers of Hardy County” [sawmill craftsmen in their 80s]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 31, no. 2 (Summer): 22-27.

Morgan, Catherine.  2000.  “A Long Rest” [folk artist James Harold Jennings, d. 2000; Pinnacle, Va.].  Appalachian Heritage 28 (Spring): 32-35.

Morrison, Veronica, and Janie P. Taylor.  1999.  “Mountain Handicrafts: A Part of Our Heritage: An Interview with Janie P. Taylor” [Rabun Co., Ga.; embroidery, patchwork, lacework].  Foxfire Magazine 33 (Spring/Summer): 40-48.

Newton, Stephen.  2008.  “J. Scott Graham: Blue Ridge Parkway’s Passionate Photographer.”  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 55-56.  Graham’s books include Blue Ridge Parkway: America’s Favorite Journey, and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway: A Guide to America’s Most Scenic Drive.

Page, Don.  2004.  “Hearth & Fair: Don Page and the Roots of GOLDENSEAL” [folklife magazine, 1973-74 predecessor of Goldenseal, and outgrowth of the renowned Mountain State Art & Craft Fair near Ripley].  Interview by John LillyNo locationGoldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 30 (Spring): 52-59.

Parron, Suzi, and Donna Sue Groves.  2012.  Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press.  234 pp.  “...featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns....through twenty-nine states,” beginning in Appalachia.  Interviews; color photos.

Patterson, Daniel W.  2012.  The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  481 pp.  Carving traditions and markings of the Bigham family which immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late 1730s.

Peterson, Ronan Kyle.  1998.  “‘I’ll Tell You What — It All Depends on the Wood’: Making Handles with Joe Willis” [b. 1913; axe handle woodworking; Mitchell Co., N.C.].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 45 (Summer-Fall): 129-143.

Phillips, Keifer.  2010.  “Building a Shaving Horse with Student Keifer Phillips.”  Interview by Foxfire students.  Foxfire Magazine 44, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer): 57-64.

Pierson, Jeff.  2006.  “‘Finding a Face in the Stone’: Folk Artist Earl Gray” [self-taught stone carver; Cabell Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 32, no. 1 (Spring): 56-61.

Plant, Ian J., and Jerry D. Greer.  2005.  West Virginia: Wonder and Light [color photos; mountains and canyons].  Johnson City, Tenn.: Mountain Trail Press.  72 pp.

Pomeroy, Dan.  2004.  “Mountain Summer Schools” [Gatlinburg, Monteagle; sidebar in Chap. 6, “Painting in the Twentieth Century”].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 112-113.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Porter, Benjamin.  2001.  “Herbert W. Pelton: ‘...Expert in Taking Pictures of This Kind’” [panoramic photos, postcards; early 20th-century Asheville].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 314-342.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc.

Prine, Charles W.  2000.  Planemakers of Western Pennsylvania and Environs [woodworking handtools; 19th-century].  Pittsburgh, Pa.: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.  117 pp.

Ramsey, Bets.  2004.  “Tennessee Quilts As Art.”  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 247-260.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Rapp, Wayne.  2006.  Celebrating, Honoring, and Valuing Rich Traditions: The History of the Ohio Appalachian Arts Program.  Lancaster, Ohio: Lucky Press.  152 pp.

Reul, Myrtle R.  1998.  “Zebedee John Crouse: Mountain Photographer” [1871-1960]. Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Summer): 26-33.

Reul, Myrtle.  1997.  Photographer of the Hills and Prairielands [W. Va.; turn-of-century photographs of Barbour, Taylor, and Harrison Counties]. Self-published. Printed by Athens Printing Co., Athens, Ga.  252 pp.

Rogers, Stephen T.  2004.  “Jugs, Jars, Bowls, and Churns: Tennessee’s Ceramic Crafts and Potters” [with sidebars on patriarch Andrew Lafever, b. 1774, and renowned potter C. A. Haun, executed as a Union sympathizer 1861].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 213-227.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Romano, Carolyn.  2012.  “Pat Arnow: Featured Photographer.”  Appalachian Heritage 40, no. 2 (Spring): 138-139.  Nineteen of Arnow’s photographs illustrate this special issue featuring author Harriette Simpson Arnow.

Rood, Kermit. 2008.  “How To Make Rope The Old-Timey Way.”  Interview by student Katie Justus.  Foxfire Magazine 42 (Fall-Winter): 53-56.

Roper, Don.  2001.  “Creativity and Ingenuity on the Mill Hill: Reflections on Cotton Mill Toys and Other Objects” [Piedmont, S.C.].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 48 (Spring/Summer-Fall/Winter): 37-46.

Runnels, Leslie (Guest Writer).  2006.  “Traditional Textiles: Giving the Old Ways New Life–Foxfire’s Resident Artist, Sharon Grist.”  Foxfire Magazine 40 (Fall/Winter): 148-156.

Sanders, Randy.  2011.  “Travis Graves: Art Maker.”  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 27, no. 1 (Summer): 48-50.  Profile of Johnson City, Tenn., sculptor, painter, videographer whose art addresses our relationship with nature.

Sayers, Robert.  [1971] 2005.  “Potters in a Changing South” [Meaders Pottery, Cleveland, Ga.; Brown Pottery, Arden, N.C.].  In Culture, Ethnicity, and Justice in the South: The Southern Anthropological Society, 1968-1971, 397-411.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.  (Reprint, from Proceedings No. 4. The Not So Solid South: Anthropological Studies in a Regional Subculture, ed. J. Morland, 93-107).

Scarborough, Quincy J. The Craven Family of Southern Folk Potters: North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri. Fayetteville, N.C.: Quincy Scarborough Companies, 2005. 143 pp.

Shaluta, Steve.  2009.  “Historical Grafton, West Virginia” [photos].  Steve Shaluta Photography.  http://www.steveshaluta.com/Grafton/.  Commercial portfolio with hundreds of b&w photos of this northern W. Va. railroad town.  Links to other galleries of W. Va. seasonal and landscape photos.

Shombert, Dave.  2000.  “Turning and Learning: Paul Weinberger’s Woodshop” [Weston, W. Va.; segmented turning].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 26 (Winter): 28-34.

Simmonds, William G.  2004.  Advertising Barns: Vanishing American Landmarks [e.g., “Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco”; photos].  St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing.  128 pp.

Simons, Nathaniel.  2008.  “Bow Making in West Virginia” [traditional; of osage and hickory].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 3 (Fall): 30-33.

Six, Dean.  2002.  West Virginia Glass between the Wars [20 companies; 500 photos].  Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing.  160 pp.

Six, Dean.  2003.  “Stained Glass in West Virginia: A Brief History” [early 1900s].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Spring): 15.

Six, Dean.  2003.  Viking Glass: 1944-1970 [catalog; New Martinsville, W. Va.].  Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer.  160 pp.

Six, Dean.  2008.  “‘The Best Thing I Ever Did’: Willa Norman and Fenton Glass.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 2 (Summer): 16-17.  32-year employee; Williamstown, W. Va.

Six, Dean.  2008.  “Fenton: A Century of Art Glass in Williamstown.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 34, no. 2 (Summer): 8-13, plus sidebar with color photos of 12 exhibition pieces, 14-15.  Handcrafted glass factory, founded 1905.

Sloan, Juli.  2007.  “Dean Hill” [Featured Artist; photographer, b. Morgan Co., Ky.].  Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 1 (Winter): 124.

Smith, Barbara.  2003.  “Bringing Back the Beauty: Stained Glass Restoration in Randolph County” [100-year-old courthouse dome].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Spring): 10-17, and cover photo.

Snyder, Jeffrey B.  1998.  Morgantown Glass from Depression Glass through the 1960s

[W. Va.; glassware catalog and price guide].  Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing.  224 pp.

Sorrell, Robert.  2008.  “Hope Frazier: Remembering the Art of Brushy” [d. 2007].  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter): 41-42.  Newspaper editor and photographer discusses her 2007 multimedia exhibition at ETSU documenting mountaintop removal destruction on Ford Mountain and the community of Brushy, Ky.

Taylor, Terry B.  1997.  “Sunset Mountain Pottery” [1929-1935].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 50-62.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Teasley, Christi.  2004.  “Tennessee Textiles.”  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 229-245.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Thomas, Florence.  2004.  The Art of Florence Thomas [biography; reproductions of 124 of her paintings; Ashe Co., N.C.].  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.  144 pp.

Toplovich, Ann.  2004.  “Joe L. Evins Appalachian Center for Crafts” [created 1970s; sidebar in Chap. 9, “Basketmaking”].  In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 176-177.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Trammell, Susan.  2010.  “The Life of a Saddle Maker” [Rome, Ga.].  Student interview by Kelsey Henry, Marina Defore, Leah Gober, and Austin Carpenter.  Foxfire Magazine 44, no. 3-4 (Fall-Winter): 30-41.

Tricarico, Barbara., ed.  2006.  Quilts of Virginia, 1607-1899: The Birth of America Through the Eye of a Needle [428 color photos].  Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer.  160 pp.

Turpin, Steve.  2001.  “Steve Turpin: A Devilishly Creative Potter” [Ga.; face jugs].  Interview by student Jared Weber.  Foxfire Magazine 35 (Spring/Summer): 38-47.

Valentine, Fawn.  2000.  West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers: Echoes from the Hills [heritage documentary].  Athens: Ohio University Press.  282 pp.

Valentine, Fawn.  2001.  “‘Quilt of Happy Memories’: Mabel Moore of Nallen” [interview; profiles of 95-year-old quilter and lumber company town].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 27 (Spring): 11-19.

Van Dommelen, David B.  2004.  Allen H. Eaton: Dean of American Crafts [1878-1962; author of Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1937)].  Pittsburgh, Pa.: Local History Company.  216 pp.

Vance, Barry.  2009.  “Dwelling in the Backcountry” [portfolio].  Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 59, no.3 (Winter): 79-88, and cover illustration.  Nine of Vance’s paintings of Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains scenes in the Potomac Highlands, matched with prose and poetry passages by Billy Edd Wheeler, John O’Brien, Charles Wright, Wendell Berry, Louise McNeill, Ann Pancake, and others.

Venable, Sam; photographs by Paul Efird.  2000.  Mountain Hands: A Portrait of Southern Appalachia [profiles forty craftspeople].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  272 pp.

Wahlman, Maude Southwell, Adrian Swain, and Amalia K. Amaki.  1998.  African-American Folk Art in Kentucky [from an exhibition].  Morehead: Kentucky Folk Art Center.  17 leaves.

Watkins, Charles Alan.  1997.  “Why Have There Been No Great Appalachian Photographers?”  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Summer): 21-25.

Watts, Missy, and Candi Forester.  1998.  “The Unique Artwork of Tubby Brown” [interview with Commerce, Ga., folk-artist].  Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 23-27.

Weinstein, Emily Eve.  2009.  Moon Book: A Pictorial Journal of a Year of Painting the Full Moon.  Point Pleasant, W. Va.: Discovery Press.  82 pp.  Reproductions of approximately 70 oil paintings of settings under a full moon, mostly in N.C.

West, Carroll Van, and Margaret Duncan Binnicker, ed.  2004.  A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons [26 chapters: visual, architecture, craft, literary, performance (speech, theater, dance, film, music)].  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.  472 pp.

West, Carroll Van.  2004.  “Tennessee Basketmaking.” In A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons, ed. C. West and M. Binnicker, 175-183.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

West Virginia Museum of American Glass.  2003.  L.G. Wright Glass [catalog, decorative glass; New Martinsville, W. Va.].  Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer.  192 pp.

White, Betsy K.  2006.  Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.  212 pp.

Williams, Joe.  2012.  “Joe Williams’s Point of Life!”  Interview by student Brittany Houck.  Foxfire Magazine 46, no. 1-2 (Spring/Summer): 38-48.  Making and lacing bark berry buckets.

Wilson, Kathleen Curtis.  1996.  “A Handmade Vision” [Western N.C. partnership].  Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 13 (Summer): 20-24.

Wilson, Kathleen Curtis.  1997.  “The Handweaving of Allie Josephine Mast, 1861-1936"  [Valle Crucis, N.C.].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 138-155.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.

Wilson, Kathleen Curtis.  2001.  Textile Art from Southern Appalachia: The Quiet Work of Women [46 bed covers; 1830-1930].  Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press.  106 pp.

Wilson, Kathleen Curtis, section editor.  2006.  “Crafts” [signed entries].  In Encyclopedia of Appalachia, ed. R. Abramson and J. Haskell, 769-841 (with introductory essay, 769-775).  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Wilson, Priscilla.  2002.  “The ‘Gourd’ Life” [gourd artisan].  Interview by student Stephanie Jobbitt.  Foxfire Magazine 36 (Spring/Summer): 25-36.

Winter, John.  2012.  “Cracked Crucible: Freeform Photos from Fenton [art glass; Wood Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 38, no. 3 (Fall): 26-35, 73.  Photo essay.

Wright, Jack.  2002.  “Appalachian Art Brut: Reflections on the Life of Fred J. Carter” [Clintwood, Va. painter and sculptor; 1911-1992].  Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 144-163.

Zug, Charles G.  2009.  “Sidney G. Luck: Fifth Generation Potter” [2009 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award; Randolph Co.].  North Carolina Folklore Journal 56, no. 2 (Fall-Winter): 10-13.

Zug, Charles G., III. 1997.  “E. A. McKillop: ‘A Born Carving Man’” [woodcarver; d. 1950].  In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 1, ed. R. S. Brunk, 36-49.  Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services Inc.