BOONE—Appalachian Journal, a regional studies review published at Appalachian State University, is featured on the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Web site as a “Journal of the Month.”
Founded in 1972, the journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, interviews and other scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature, music, ecology and a variety of other topics, as well as poetry and reviews of books, films, and recordings dealing with the region of the Appalachian mountains.

The current issue includes the articles “Marketing a Mountain: Changing Views of Environment and Landscape on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina” by Drew A. Swanson and “She Took Up The Banjo…And Never Looked Back: Kristin Scott Benson” by Danny Fulks; poetry by Frank X Walker, Richard Hague and Llewellyn McKernan; and reviews of Ron Rash’s novel “Serena,” Deborah R. Weiner’s “Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History” and Ken Fones-Wolf’s “Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s.”

The journal is edited by Sandra L. Ballard, a professor in Appalachian’s Department of English.
For more information about Appalachian Journal, visit www.appjournal.appstate.edu.

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