Local Authors Writing Appalachia: Three New Books

Celebrate the recent publication of three new books by local authors!

On Thursday, Sept. 20, at 7:30pm at Emory & Henry College in Van Dyke Hall, a panel of seminal figures in the fields of Appalachian studies, social justice and place-based scholarship gather to discuss cross-cutting themes of their recent books.  The featured books and authors are:

• Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia; collaborators Helen Lewis and Patricia Beaver;
• The Poco Field: An American Story of Place; Talmage A. Stanley; and
• Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia; Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith.

The presentation will include conversation and reflections from each of the five participants.

This is a Lyceum credit event.