- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
-
1 A Place to Begin -
2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing -
3 The Model Scout -
4 Working His Way -
5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron -
6 The Scholar’s Tale -
7 A Practical Degree -
8 “19-Dirty-one” -
9 To the Jumping-off Place -
10 Hindman Becomes a Haven -
11 Beyond the Hills, 1935–1940 -
12 A Man Singing to Himself -
13 Jolly in a Courting Mood -
14 Joining Up and Shipping Out -
15 Somewhere in Africa -
16 Coming Home Again -
17 On Dead Mare Branch -
18 Back to Hindman -
19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love -
20 On to Morehead -
21 Then-what Days -
22 Making Friends and Keeping Them -
23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication -
24 Still the Explorer, 1972–1990 -
25 Jolly and Godey -
26 Jim Wayne and Anson -
27 At Home in This World -
28 Invitation to the Eternal - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
Then-what Days
Then-what Days
- Chapter:
- (p.291) 21 Then-what Days
- Source:
- James Still
- Author(s):
Carol Boggess
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter recounts Still’s transition from teaching at Morehead to living in Knott County where problems and change were increasingly evident. President Johnson’s War on Poverty put a national focus on the region’s economy and environment. Still continued to develop his public personality during the 1970s and built connections with people like Cratis Williams, Robert Higgs, Harry Caudill, Bill Weinberg, and Mike Mullins. He was inadvertently becoming part of the emerging Appalachian Studies movement that would lead eventually to the title unofficially bestowed on him: Dean of Appalachian Literature.
Keywords: transition, War on Poverty, Cratis Williams, Appalachian Studies, Dean of Appalachian Literature
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
-
1 A Place to Begin -
2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing -
3 The Model Scout -
4 Working His Way -
5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron -
6 The Scholar’s Tale -
7 A Practical Degree -
8 “19-Dirty-one” -
9 To the Jumping-off Place -
10 Hindman Becomes a Haven -
11 Beyond the Hills, 1935–1940 -
12 A Man Singing to Himself -
13 Jolly in a Courting Mood -
14 Joining Up and Shipping Out -
15 Somewhere in Africa -
16 Coming Home Again -
17 On Dead Mare Branch -
18 Back to Hindman -
19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love -
20 On to Morehead -
21 Then-what Days -
22 Making Friends and Keeping Them -
23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication -
24 Still the Explorer, 1972–1990 -
25 Jolly and Godey -
26 Jim Wayne and Anson -
27 At Home in This World -
28 Invitation to the Eternal - Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
