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The Sunny Side of Appalachia:  Bluegrass from the Grassroots
           2008 -  $15.95


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Sago Mine Disaster (Featured Story)
Appalachian Coalfield Stories
             2007 - $16.95
 
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Appalachia Spirit Triumphant:
(a cultural odyssey of Appalachia)
           2004 - $18.95

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The Sunny Side of Appalachia:  Bluegrass from the Grassroots
Author:  B. L. Dotson-Lewis
Release date:  September 2008
ISBN:  0-7414-4845-9
Price:  $15.95
184 pages, 8.5x11", large print, b&w photos, uncut, verbatim & original dialect
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Sago Mine Disaster (Featured Story) Appalachian Coalfield Stories
Author:  B. L. Dotson-Lewis
Release date:  January 2007
ISBN:  0-7414-3478-4
Price:  $16.95
301 pages, 8.5x11", large print, b&w photos, uncut, verbatim & original dialect
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Appalachia:  Spirit Triumphant (a cultural odyssey of Appalachia)
Author:  B. L. Dotson-Lewis
Release date:  June 2004
ISBN:  0-7414-1874-6
Price:  $16.95
301 pages, 8.5x11", large print, b&w photos, uncut, verbatim & original dialect
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New:  Interview by C. Eric Banister

new:  C. Eric Banister at Americanaroots.com and musictomes.blog interviewed me last week
about my new book, The Sunny Side of Appalachia:  Bluegrass from the Grassroots, click on link below to read
http://musictomes.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-b-l-dotson-lewis.html

photos in The Sunny Side book-----------------------------------------------
Sonny & Bobby Osborne, Antioch College
 
 Bobby Osborne & B. L. Dotson-Lewis
 Music In The Mountains Bluegrass Festival
 

Enter -Table of Contents
Author's Note
Photo Gallery

Bluegrass Events

"Music in the Mountains"
 June 24,25, 26, 27, 2009
Summersville, WV

Wayne Henderson
Guitar Competition
Mouth of Wilson, VA
June 21, 2008

Jesse McReynolds &
The Virginia Boys


Bean Blossom Festival
 






 

 

new:  Bluegrass - Music in the Mountains

      Stories, articles, featured writer
 

       
My bluegrass town
 


 

 

Christmas in Appalachia
W.Va. leads nation in free and reduced meals
Stories, articles & Featured WriterrgiNicholas County Potato Festival Sept. 2006
"Jar Flies"  click here for essay   
new:  How Journalism Affects Rural America
new:  What Rural Folk Want from Journalists
new:  Fayette Lung Association Offers Support
new;  Kentucky Coal Camps

James Branscome, Appalachian Author,
National Advisory Board -
Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky
 
(Special Collection) click here

Annihilating the Hillbilly
Strip mine hearings (1971)
The Case for Appalachian Studies
Co
ld Days, Dark Nights" (NYT)
Mountain  Eagle Newspaper ,
Federal Government in Appalachia, excerpt

 
 

King Coal (Appalachian History)

History of Coal 1923
Harlan County, KY
Coal Mine photos
Blair Mountain Mine War photos

Mountaintop removal
UMWA rally, Horizon bankruptcy

Coal Mine Related Deaths May Appear
Mountaintop removal, Kayford Property, WV,

Appalachian Culture
Blacksmith  will travel
Appalachian Stories
Coon Hunting with a Cripple -
Appalachian Folklife Center

War Stories
Civil War - sites and letters
USS West Virginia
Veterans high school Graduation
War Letters from Gen. Wing
Roy Dotson, WWII
WWII
Invasion of Luzon -
 Ralph Baber

    updated:June 11, 2008

   11.15.08