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Pendarvis, Edwina – Journal of Appalachian Studies, 2008
At the Appalachian Studies Association's thirty-first annual conference, in March, 2008, activist and author Silas House gave a thought-provoking keynote address. That Friday evening, on the Marshall University campus, in Huntington, West Virginia, not far from the coal fields of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, Silas offered some…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Area Studies, Conservation (Environment), Self Evaluation (Groups)
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Burch, John Russell, Jr. – Journal of Appalachian Studies, 2005
During the Constitutional Convention of 1890, one delegate characterized the history of county formation in Kentucky as a process whereby "fifteen or thirty or forty people" created "outrageous special legislation" to make laws that "were not for the benefit of the people at large, but only for the benefit of people who…
Descriptors: Local History, Counties, Politics, Policy Formation