"On Grandma's Knee" by Doug Cantrell

07/28/21 • 7 min

Doug Cantrell is Professor of History and Department Coordinator at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in Elizabethtown, Kentucky where he has taught since 1987. He is the foremost expert on the topic of immigrants to the Appalachian coal fields and has written and spoken extensively on the topic. Professor Cantrell has authored, co-authored, contributed to, or edited 15 books. His two latest are Belles, Bourbon, Bluegrass, and Black Gold and The Making of an American. He is currently working on a new book tentatively titled Aliens, Appalachians, and Americans.

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Beth Bixby Davis was born in Northern New York and moved to the Asheville area of North Carolina in the mid-1960’s where she reared her family, raised Arabian horses and had a 30-year career in nursing. Enjoying a long-time hobby of writing, she recently published a book of short stories, essays, and poetry, called Patchwork Collection. Her creative nonfiction work has appeared in Bearing Up and Exploring. She belongs to Talespinners Writers Group.

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"Beautiful Flowers and Dandelion Johnny" by Vicki Easterly

– disability can enable

Not everything is at it first appears, and even more so is that true of people.

Vicki Easterly lives in Frankfort, Kentucky, where she is a member of the Bluegrass Writer’s Coalition. She has been writing since childhood. Her stories and memoirs have been published in several anthologies, including Daniel Boone Footsteps and UK Carnegie Press. Her first book, Miracles In The Mundane, was selected for the 2018 Kentucky Book Fair. She is currently a finalist in the Poetry Unites Kentucky essay competition. She has written several children’s books, which are ready for publication.