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Barker, Garry Gene was born on November 26, 1943.
(Copperhead Summer is a novel set in Eastern Kentucky's ru...)
Copperhead Summer is a novel set in Eastern Kentucky's rugged mountains; a legendary local basketball star comes home to a welcome far beyond what he had expected. Copperheads, driven by a drought, are moving in on the population, and they're getting help from an unbelievable source. Full of action, folklore, Appalachian culture, and action.
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( Appalachians have always honored craft. Showoff quilts...)
Appalachians have always honored craft. Showoff quilts, complicated whittlings, "face jugs," intricate woven coverlets, and the work of famous basketmakers constituted the art of early Appalachia, the life and color of its remote mountain households. By the 1920s, however, the craft tradition was quickly vanishing. This lively, highly personal book recounts the "missionary" effort that preserved the traditional Appalachian craft culture and traces the organization, politics, and economics of later handcraft revival organizations in Southern Appalachia. Deeply involved in many of the events he describes, Garry Barker has worked in the Appalachian crafts world since the early 1960s. He draws on memories of the leading craftspeople of a bygone era, LBJ's War on Poverty, mushrooming markets for craft products, and the rise of academic crafts training. The Handcraft Revival in Southern Appalachia represents the thoughtful winnowing of Barker's decades of serendipitous experience and disciplined observation, casual conversation and formal interviews, research and collecting, teaching and writing. The book is the only history of the Appalachian craft movement between 1930 and 1990. As such it will become an essential resource for craftspeople, scholars, and all interested in the Southern Appalachian region. In addition, it constitutes a crucial chapter in the newly emerging history of American craft.
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(xii + 204 pages including notes and bibliography, collect...)
xii + 204 pages including notes and bibliography, collection of essays on growing up in Appalachian Kentucky and life of ordinary people there, not illustrated
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Barker, Garry Gene was born on November 26, 1943.
Bachelor in English, Berea College, 1965. Postgraduate, Morehead State University, 1985.
Assistant director Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina, 1965-1970. Director Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsment, Berea, 1971-1980. Director student crafts Berea College, 1985-1996.
Director Kentucky Folk Art Center Morehead State University, since 1997.
(Copperhead Summer is a novel set in Eastern Kentucky's ru...)
(xii + 204 pages including notes and bibliography, collect...)
( Appalachians have always honored craft. Showoff quilts...)
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