Book Reviews

Kathy Campbell, Book Reviews Editor

Best, B. (2013). Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia.
Brosi, G., Egerton, K. E., Cole, S., & Cottrell, M. (Eds.). (2013). Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry.
Ethridge, R. (2013). From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715.
Fussell, F.C., & Kruger, S. (2013). Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina: A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills.
Holt, T. C. & Green, L. B. (Eds.). (2013). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 24: Race.
Reardon, C. & Vossler, T. (2013). A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places and People.
Serrano, R.A. (2013). Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War.
Smith, T. B. (2013). Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory.
Stovall, J. G. (2013). Seeing Suffrage: The Washington Suffrage Parade of 1913, Its Pictures, and Its Effect on the American Political Landscape.
White, B. K. (2013). Backcountry Makers: An Artisan History of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.

Best, B. (2013). Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 288 pages. ISBN 9780821420492

As soon as I received Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste in the mail, I scanned the index for names my Kentucky grandmother used to talk about. And I found some—Kentucky Wonder beans, Tommy Toes tomatoes and Northern Spy apples.

Bill Best, a retired professor from Berea College, is director of the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center (http://www.heirlooms.org) near Berea, Kentucky. He has spent his life involved in saving and trading seeds and educating people about the need to save the old varieties of beans and other crops. For many people who save seeds, it’s not just the taste they’re saving, but connections to people and places as well, and Mr. Best tells us some of his and other seed savers’ connections.

The book is divided into two parts—Heritage Fruit and Heirloom Seeds and Seed Savers.   The first part offers a history of how seed saving grew out of necessity and explains how to save different seeds. Beans are given the most attention and that chapter includes not only the types of beans, but the history and names as well. Lazy Wife Greasy Bean, Robe Mountain Bean, Goose Bean and Turkey Craw Bean are just some of the varieties mentioned. There are stories about “travelin’ beans” that were taken to other places as people moved away, how certain names came about, and how some beans are considered “family” or “community” beans. Other chapters in the section cover tomatoes (my favorite name: Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter), apples, corn, and cucumbers. The chapter on candy roasters includes a recipe for pie made from the giant winter squash.

The second part of the book, Seed Savers, has contributions from over a dozen different people about their work saving heirloom seeds. Some are involved in agricultural education and research, such as David W. Bradshaw, professor emeritus of horticulture at Clemson University.   Others just love the heirloom varieties and understand the importance of keeping the plant diversity going in the midst of all the corporate farms that mass produce food.

This book is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs of both plants and the people who care for them. It includes an index and list of books for further reading. The forward is by Howard L. Sacks, director of the Rural Life Center at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

The first heirloom tomato I ever saw was delivered to me in a large bowl of produce, beautifully arranged, by my new neighbor’s ten-year-old son. He pointed out all the different vegetables, told me what the herbs were, then tapped a large, mangled-looking chocolate colored glob. “It might look strange, like it’s rotten, but it’s not. It’s an heirloom tomato and it’s really good.” After one bite, I began to understand why my grandmother complained about tomatoes not tasting like they did when she was young.  Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in learning about, and saving, heirloom vegetables. This book would be a good choice for any collection with readers interested in agriculture, traditional foodways or Southern culture. It is suitable for high school and up.

Zinia Randles
Middle Tennessee State University

Brosi, G., Egerton, K. E., Cole, S., & Cottrell, M. (Eds.). (2013). Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. 408 pages. ISBN: 9781572339446

“This work shows simply the tip of the iceberg, not only in terms of the work of the individual authors, but also in regard to the literary output of the region” says editor George Brosi in his forward to Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry. Brosi and fellow editor Dr. Kate Egerton, instructors in Appalachian studies and literature, along with student editors Samantha Cole and Morgan Cottrell, have selected the short stories and poems of twenty-five contemporary Appalachian writers to introduce readers to the variety of themes and styles of Appalachian literature being created and published at the turn of the twenty-first century.

For each author featured, the book includes a short story or a small collection of poems, a biographical sketch, and a selected bibliography of works and of literary criticism. Featured writers include well-known masters such as Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina; New York Times best seller Lee Smith; award-winning novelist Sharyn McCrumb; and internationally known Barbara Kingsolver. Also included are relative newcomers such as Mark Powell and Ron Rash.

Brosi precedes the collection of works with a 10-page history of Appalachian literature and a bibliography of writings about Appalachian literature. Editors Morgan Cottrell and Kate Egerton have composed a helpful afterword suggesting instructional methods for how to use the anthology in high school and college courses.

The editors note that their book is divided into the same five categories as is Abramson and Haskell’s The Encyclopedia of Appalachia (2006): “The Landscape,” “The People,” “Work and the Economy,” “Cultural Traditions,” and “Institutions.” Readers can enjoy Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Knoxville, Tennessee,” a nostalgic tribute to the summers she spent at her grandparents’ home, in the “Landscape” section of the book. The “People” section highlights the variety of folks in the region—from the backwoods ex-con Splint, featured in Ann Pancake’s “Redneck Boys,” to Lois Carter, who relates the details of her interracial marriage in the early days of integration in Crystal Wilkinson’s “Sixteen Confessions of Lois Carter.” “Work and the Economy” includes Ron Rash’s “Blackberries in June,” which portrays young, hardworking newlyweds trying to get ahead in the midst of the demanding expectations of extended family. The conversion and baptism of Charma, a honky-tonker in Silas House’s “Total Immersion,” is described in “Cultural Traditions”; and “Institutions” includes Jeff Daniel Marion’s poetic tribute to a barbecue shack in Tennessee.

Appalachian Gateway is a useful resource for courses in Appalachian studies and literature, creative writing, and contemporary or regional American literature. It is a must-have for libraries which house Appalachian collections.

Sarah Senter
Lincoln Memorial University

Ethridge, R. (2013). From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 360 pages. ISBN: 9780807871690

The influx of Europeans into the Western Hemisphere following Columbus’ initial visit in 1492 brought about dramatic and permanent changes to the many Native American societies throughout the Americas. Along with firearms, horses, and livestock, Europeans introduced deadly diseases such as smallpox, to which natives had no acquired genetic immunity. As Robbie Ethridge demonstrates in From Chicaza to Chickasaw, the various tribes located throughout what would become the southeastern United States managed to find ways to respond and adapt to the tremendous forces of change acting upon their societies.

Researching cultures that did not keep written records can be a difficult task, but Ethridge applies a mixture of archaeological and historical methods in reconstructing the realities of Southern Indian life from the arrival of Hernando de Soto in 1540 through the early eighteenth century. Drawing both from physical evidence and European accounts of encounters with Indians, Ethridge constructs a complex portrait of native life in the South during what was perhaps the most tumultuous period in Native American history. As Europeans began, with increasing frequency in the decades following de Soto’s initial expedition, to impact traditional commerce and social structures, natives were forced to secure alliances with the English, French, and Spanish in order to maintain some degree of autonomy. Furthermore, due to the impact of catastrophic population decline, largely due to European diseases, larger tribes often assimilated smaller ones, leading to redefinitions of group identities. Along with guns and germs, slaving had a tremendous effect on Indians, as tribes often waged wars for the specific purpose of obtaining slaves to trade to their European allies, adding further to the problem of population decline.

This work is intended for an academic readership, though general readers who are interested in the Native American experience of the first 175 years following de Soto’s journey through the south will find much of interest here. From Chicaza to Chickasaw would be a fine addition to academic libraries, especially those that have collections on Native American studies. Public libraries that frequently circulate related material should also consider acquiring this work. In From Chicaza to Chickasaw, Robbie Ethridge paints a compelling and complex portrait of peoples who found creative ways to adapt to incredibly challenging circumstances, enabling their culture to survive in the face of mass population decline and territorial losses.

Aaron D. Horton
Assistant Profess of History
Alabama State University

Fussell, F.C., & Kruger, S. (2013). Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina: A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 281 pages. ISBN 9781469608211

Folklorist Steve Kruger and author Fred C. Fussell’s guide to the musical culture of the North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains is a feast for senses. A joint project of the North Carolina Arts Council and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, this ambitious work brings together the sights and sounds of a rich cultural heritage. Blue Ridge Music Trails is filled with photographs, lyrics, interviews and a CD sampler of traditional Blue Ridge Mountain music. (Donut-shaped symbols throughout the text reference songs on the accompanying CD).

The guide divides western North Carolina into six regions, one region per chapter. And within each chapter, events, festivals, dance halls and music festivals by are grouped together by county. Each listing includes the day, location, admission, and contact information.

Chapters open with a colorful introduction to the region’s history, geography, industry, and its most famous (and sometimes infamous) residents. I enjoyed reading the story of the young outlaw named Otto Wood, a one-handed gentleman bandit who broke out of one jail after another. Although Otto was killed in a shootout in 1930, his generosity and polite manners earned him a favorable reputation among the people of the Blue Ridge Mountains, who still perform his ballad to this day. After reading the brief history of Otto’s life (pp. 86-87), listen to the Elkville String Band’s wonderful rendition of Otto’s ballad (song 12).

This guidebook welcomes you to the Blue Ridge Mountain homeland of legendary outlaws, and prolific musicians like Doc Watson, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Frank Proffitt, and Etta Baker. It’s an exciting journey through the dance halls, jam sessions and festivals of a thriving musical culture. Pull up a chair and a fiddle! Just remember to read the Ten Commandments of Jam Protocol (pp161-162). Feel like dancing? Skim the text to find out where the cornstarch –smoothed plywood dance floor is, and shuffle your heels with an old fashioned buckdance!

Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina: A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills is highly recommended for academic and public libraries with travel guides, music or local history collections.

The work includes a table of contents, index, CD Notes, a twenty-six song CD, and links to the Blue Ridge Traditional Artist Directory, and the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina site.

Nancy Williams, MLIS
Acquisitions Librarian
South College
nwilliams@southcollegetn.edu

Holt, T. C. & Green, L. B. (Eds.). (2013). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 24: Race. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 320 pages. ISBN: 9781469607238

Thomas Holt and Laurie Green’s contribution to The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses one of “the most important aspects to evaluate in charting southern cultural life" (xviii). This is no understatement. Race has long been bound up with southern culture, and even today complex ideas about race manifest themselves in the practice of everyday southern life. This volume is necessary and timely. It complements the great work already completed in this series, as well as reminds scholars in all disciplines that despite claims about the New South and a post-racial United States, race remains salient in social relations.

As with most encyclopedias, problems exist because of the constraints the encyclopedic genre places on editors. One could quibble with the selection of entries, the geography of coverage, and even the charters in the unfolding racial drama. Why does Birmingham receive so much attention, but Atlanta so little? Why does Maynard Jackson receive so little attention when he is arguably not only one of the most important people in Atlanta’s history, but also one of the most important figures in racial politics in the last forty years? Why does Florida not feature prominently in the discussions of race, particularly because of Florida’s complex multi-racial history? These questions and many more linger, but they should not dissuade readers from acquiring this helpful volume.

Readers will find the entries well-written, succinct, and with ample additional references. Holt and Green have brought together scholars from across the United States, and as far away as Japan. The editors have also made an important move in breaking down the black/white binary that continues to pervade much race scholarship. This volume includes considerable information on Latina/o and Asian peoples, as well as multi-racial persons. By doing this, Holt and Green expand the race discussion in provocative and productive ways. The complexity of race and southern culture deserves a volume like this that does not fall back on antiquated understandings of race. This multicultural approach makes this volume important because it allows readers to compare the ways in which different races and ethnicities are involved in southern culture. Holt and Green have made a valuable contribution to race and southern culture studies, as well as The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture series.

This volume is a necessary contribution to a field flooded with research. Race and southern culture have long been explored across disciplines, and this volume provides an easy way to make some sense of the literature that seems to grow with every season. It is impossible for even the most dedicated scholars of race and southern culture to be aware of every person, place, and thing that shapes this complex field. This book puts a tremendous amount of information at the fingertips of today’s busy researchers. Since this volume brings some order to the field and will be useful to scholars, students, and the general public alike, it is recommended for public and academic libraries with race, economics, history, and politics collections.

Nick J. Sciullo
Ph.D. student
Department of Communication
Georgia State University
nsciullo1@gsu.edu

Reardon, C. & Vossler, T. (2013). A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places and People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 384 pages. ISBN: 9780807835258

A Field Guide to Gettysburg is a self-guided tour of the famous battlefield. The introduction to the guide starts by explaining the military decisions which brought the CSA (Confederate States of America) and Union (US) armies to Gettysburg in the summer of 1863. Then, before beginning the tour, the authors explain how to use the book. They provide hints for touring, including when the battlefield is open, touring etiquette, and restroom and picnic area locations.

This guide is organized by day of battle—July 1, 2 and 3. The entries under each day are tour stops—thirty five in all—which walk the reader through the action and the battlefield. The descriptions at each stop are vivid and detailed. They provide a narrative account of the action that took place and the reader is instructed where to look as the action progresses, just as a tour guide would do. Each tour stop has the same arrangement:

Orientation: Directions to view the scene, landmarks, where to look, things to look for;
What happened here?: A detailed description of what took place at that spot during thebattle (with maps);
Who fought here?: The participants are listed;
Who commanded here?: The major figures involved in the action (with portraits);
Who fell here? Numbers of soldiers lost on each side, along with background information
of some of the fallen;
Who lived here?: The local population and how they were affected;
What did they say about it later?: How the battle was retold and critiqued;
Detailed instructions to the next tour stop.

A Field Guide to Gettysburg is well illustrated, beginning with the color lithograph of the battlefield on the title page. There are forty-seven maps and over fifty photos and illustrations (in addition to the portraits mentioned above) in the 454 pages. The authors include extensive notes for each stop and an index.

Carol Reardon is a professor of American History at Penn State, specializing in military history. She has published four other books, including Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory and Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972. She has taught at both West Point and the U.S. Army College, and leads tours of the Gettysburg battlefield.

Tom Vossler is a retired U.S. Army colonel. He formerly directed the US Army Military History Institute and is a licensed battlefield guide.

Even if you don’t visit the battlefield, this guide will lead you through the events that took place there, step by step, battle by battle. The descriptions are detailed and well written, and the narrative style is a perfect choice for this kind of guide. It makes you feel that the tour guide is talking to you, not that you’re just reading a book. This guide would be an excellent addition to both public and academic libraries.

Zinia Randles
Middle Tennessee State University

Serrano, R.A. (2013). Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War. Washington, DC: Smithsonian. 232 pages. ISBN 9781588343956

The Civil War has certainly been written about by scholars and enthusiasts alike to the point of near-exhaustion; but there has traditionally been less focus on what happened to the young soldiers who fought in the war and then became old men in the twentieth century. As happens today, there were impostors who claimed to have served in the war in order to gain fame and attention, but as author Serrano writes, the economic pressures exerted on these men by the Great Depression played just as much a factor in the deceptions.

Dual narratives of the purported last survivors of the war, Walter Williams from Texas and Albert Woolson from Minnesota, make up the core of Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War. As Serrano describes early in the book, both of these men, who lived to be 109 and 117 respectively, were not only highly celebrated and loved in their communities, but were also celebrated by national politicians and even the White House. One of them was a genuine war veteran while the other, according to all available evidence, was a complete fraud. In a sense, given that the latter information is teased early in the book, Serrano’s work unfurls itself in a way akin to a well-crafted mystery.

However, there is a third strain of narrative interspersed into this book and that is the broader story of the toll that the Great Depression took on these men, which resulted in some of them falsifying hard-to-disprove tales of military service in order to become eligible for Civil War-related pensions. Serrano also indicates that as the centennial of the War (and the resulting celebrations) drew closer, more attention and accolades were showered on these veterans at parades and in popular media. It is no wonder that telling stories of the war, in which they did not fight, proved to be an attractive option for centenarians for whom loneliness and poverty were a fact of their everyday life.

Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War is a well-spun tale, but the reader often wonders if it might have been better suited for a long-form magazine piece as the book feels a bit padded at times. Even with such mild concerns, Serrano’s work is still a compelling and accessible book that will be of interest to the customers of public and academic libraries alike, and should be considered for purchase in any library where there’s even a minor interest in Civil War history.

Ben Neal
Teen Librarian, Richland Library
Columbia, SC
beneneal@indiana.edu

Smith, T. B. (2013). Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 197 pages. ISBN: 9781572339415

Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory consists of nine well-written essays detailing the important Civil War Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) in West Tennessee. Not only does Dr. Smith discuss the battle and its immediate effects on the war, the soldiers, the leadership, and the community, but he ably details how the strength of myth came to affect the lives and reputations of the participants, which ultimately led to the establishment and preservation of what became a National Park Service battlefield. Smith brings into focus not only this important battle during the Civil War, but his point to this reader ultimately becomes that all history is subject to myth and memory—be suspect of what is “public knowledge”. Smith is not a novice to either Shiloh or to this line of thought as he has written and spoken on the topic many times. In fact, he worked for the NPS at the Shiloh National Military Park for seven years and presently teaches history at the University of Tennessee, Martin with a specialization in Civil War battlefield preservation. He argues quite persuasively in this scholarly monograph that the preservation of maps, topography, structures, etc. is integral to discovering the facts about our pasts.

The essays follow a chronological path that leads the reader to the present. Chapters include the effects of the terrain at the time of the battle, as well as excellent commentaries on the myths surrounding the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston, on General Lew Wallace’s becoming “lost”, and on General Benjamin M. Prentiss being lauded as the hero of the day. Later essays include the effects of the battle on the inhabitants of the area, the New Deal’s effect on the development of the park, and the filming of Shiloh: Portrait of a Battle, a mid-1950s movie reenacting the event shown at the park’s visitor center until its retirement in 2012. The maps are simple but well-done, and the text is scholarly, well-documented and indexed; although scholarly in nature, the style is such that it is easily understood and readable.

Although Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory, is written specifically on the Battle of Shiloh, the researcher/reader can take away much more—it represents a microcosm of the thousands of historical events that have been “altered” through false memory, public opinion, and misquotes, and points to the vital lessons of going back to primary sources, different viewpoints, and verification of the facts when in search of the truth.

This book is highly recommended for academic libraries and larger public library collections; it is also a must for all collections seeking to enrich Civil War history collections.

Sandra C. Clariday
Associate Dean for Library & Information Services
Tennessee Wesleyan College

Stovall, J. G. (2013). Seeing Suffrage: The Washington Suffrage Parade of 1913, Its Pictures, and Its Effect on the American Political Landscape. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press. 96 pages. ISBN: 9781572339408

Seeing Suffrage documents the Washington Suffrage Parade of 1913 as a key event in the quest of the American Women’s Suffrage movement to win the right to vote. Stovall, Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the University of Tennessee, sets the stage for the parade, which occurred 3 days prior to the second inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.   In the opening section, he provides a historical review of woman’s suffrage and the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Using the women’s thoughts and reactions based on his study of the photographs and other sources listed, the author begins with a short narrative that introduces the key players in the parade—Jane Burleson, Inez Milholland, and Alice Paul (organizer of the parade).

He reviews the historical events and political climate both in Europe and in the United States that led up to the parade and aptly includes information on how events were being covered by the media during this time. Reporters, instead of documenting the news from their perspective, were seeking out “characters and conflict to hold readers interest” (p. 10).   Photographers looked for ways to capture events on film that reflected the “truth” of the event and supported the story.   Many of the photographs included in this volume do just that.

The suffragists were strategic in the use of press coverage. They actively distributed press releases daily as well as encouraged photographs of their members working to garner support for the cause.   Inez Milholland, who had recently passed the bar, was aware of and welcomed the attention that her beauty received in support of suffrage as highlighted by her leadership in the parade. The movement even used the arrest and jailing of supporters to their advantage, techniques that Alice Paul had learned while participating in the suffrage movement in England.

The photographs selected represent aspects of the parade and its participants from start to finish. Stovall separates each set of photos with a short introduction, and each photo is accompanied by a short description detailing the time period, specific individuals and location of the picture.    At times, Stovall provides commentary to illustrate chosen angles and the arduous parade route. Even after Paul was assured by the police chief that his officers would provide safe passage to the end of the route,    the marchers are depicted as having to contend with large and often unruly crowds with sometimes only a Boy Scout to come to their aid.

In the final section, Stovall details the aftermath of the parade and summarizes the seven years it took to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. An epilogue highlights the continuing participation of the organizers and leaders of the parade in the suffragist movement.

The organization of the content is understandable and helpful. Stovall’s writing style is engaging and informative. References and notes are provided at the end of each section. The majority of photographs were from the Library of Congress and the Sewall Belmont House Collection. An index is included. This title is recommended for general academic collections supporting history, women’s studies, and communication programs.

Anne Reever Osborne
Assistant Library Director for Distance Learning
Tusculum College

White, B. K. (2013). Backcountry Makers: An Artisan History of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. 183 pages. ISBN: 9781572338760.

In Backcountry Makers, White profiles the lives of more than seventy artisans in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee who lived between the late eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. The idea for this book came from a previous book that White authored, Great Road Style, which focused mainly on the items made by the artisans, but not the artisans themselves. White was the director of what is now known as the William King Museum in Virginia. She retired in 2008.

Arranged chronologically, White includes an essay at the beginning of each chapter to describe the period in which these artisans were handcrafting their items. There are also a few historical documents included, such as indenture papers that also illustrate the process of becoming an artisan.

After the introductory essay, there is an alphabetical list of the artisans for that time period that includes a summary of their life and work and color photographs of examples of the objects they made. White states in the preface that many, if not most, of these items had never been documented before, and that some of them remain in the hands of the artisans’ descendants. Only one artisan is unidentified. Although the author has an educated guess about who the artisan may be, she cannot prove it. A variety of both male and female artisans are documented, including weavers, spinners, cabinetmakers, embroiders and artists.

This is a beautiful, informative book with many color photographs. There are also a variety of close-up shots that enlarge particular details on some of the items depicted, such as stitching on quilts and potter’s marks on pottery. This book also includes notes, a bibliography, and an index. Backcountry Makers is appropriate for art schools, museums, and comprehensive local library collections in the Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee area, as well as those people who just love the history of handmade goods.

Maya Berry, Acquisitions/Public Services Librarian
Plough Library, Christian Brothers University
mberry2@cbu.edu