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Garry Barker is a local artist. For many years he’s made drawings of the streets around where he lives in Chapeltown, Leeds, and then worked this imagery into larger drawings. Garry Barker is also a local man. By this, I don’t mean he was born there but rather that he knows his neighbours and takes an active interest in what’s going on.
Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, interviews, and 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 entire region of the Appalachian mountains, from northern.
MOREHEAD, Ky. — Morehead State University retiree Garry Barker’s latest book, “Kentucky Waltz,” recently won the 2008 Kentucky Literary Award for fiction presented by Western Kentucky.
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.
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Garry Barker is Assistant Director of the Berea Student Crafts' Program. A native of Kentucky, he is the author of three books and numerous short stories, poems, articles, and essays. Read more.
Appalachian Heritage is a leading literary magazine of the Southern Appalachia Region, published by Berea College. Founded in 1973, Appalachian Heritage keeps readers abreast of the visual and literary arts in the region. The mix of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by both well-established writers and new writers keeps each issue fresh and entertaining for readers.