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George Brosi of Appalachianbooks.com teaches a
correspondence course, Appalachian Studies 200, for the University of Kentucky. It carries
3 credit hours. A preview site for the U.K. course is http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/app200.htm
. This course is also part of the Southern Regional Electronic Campus and is available on
the web from the SREB. The Southern Regional Electronic Campus is available at http://www.srec.sreb.org/index.html.
Traveling Exhibit of Books for Sale
For hundreds of regional events since 1982, Appalachian
Mountain Books, the family business that created and maintains Appalachianbooks.com, has provided an attractive display of regional books for sale.
Passers-by are often amazed at the breath and depth of regional books available today.
Events attended have ranged from music festivals to craft shows to local celebrations to
academic gatherings. They have included the Historic Rugby Fall Festival and the Museum of
Appalachia’s Homecoming in Tennessee; the Augusta Heritage Festival in Elkins, West
Virginia; the Highland Summer Conference at Radford University in Virginia; The
Appalachian Writer’s Workshop at Hindman, Kentucky; Mountain Heritage Day at Western
Carolina University and the Appalachian Studies Conference.
THE LITERATURE OF THE APPALACHIAN SOUTH by George Brosi.
Published in 1992, revised in 1995. 70 pages. 8.5" X ll" spiral bound. $9.00
This monograph presents an overview of Southern Appalachian Literature.
It also includes 23 author profiles complete with bibliographies.
THE MULTI-ETHNIC HERITAGE OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION:
A SELECTIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by George Brosi. 1995. 50 pages. 8.5"X 11"
spiral bound. $8.00
Includes the Cherokees, Other Indians, Racial Isolates, The
Scotch-Irish, Anglo-Saxons, Black Appalachians, Western European Immigrants, Italians,
Germans, Swiss, Immigrants from Central and Southern Europe and Immigrants from Asia plus
a section on Appalachians Moving Into the Mainstream. Besides this material, a special
section on Resources for Researchers into Southern Appalachian Topics is included.
KENTUCKY LITERATURE by Eastern Kentucky University’s
Fall 1994 Kentucky Literature Class, George Brosi, Instructor. 95 pages. 8.5" X
ll" spiral bound. $9.00
Includes 59 short author profiles and 32 extensive author
treatments complete with literary analysis and bibliographies.
JESSE STUART: THE MAN AND HIS BOOKS by Jerry A. Herndon and George Brosi. Published by the
Jesse Stuart Foundation in 1988. A hardback in dust jacket. 139 pages. $12.95
Includes a complete value guide to each edition of all of Jesse
Stuart’s sixty books.
Since the 1970s, George Brosi has given a variety of talks to
numerous different groups about different aspects of regional literature. He has spoken to
the East Tennessee branch of the National Council of Teachers of English and to social
studies teachers of Western Virginia, for example. He has delivered talks on "Lincoln
Memorial University’s Amazing Literary Class of 1929" (James Still, Jesse Stuart
and Don West) to the Tennessee-Kentucky American Studies Association, on "An Overview
of 20th Century Appalachian Scholarship" to the Appalachian Studies
Association and "Appalachian Sociology as Revealed in Appalachian Literature" to
the Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky. He has also given talks to service
clubs, local libraries and to school groups. Contact us to make arrangements.
George Brosi has given state-approved teacher training
workshops on how to use Appalachian Literature in the classroom at a variety of different
of sites around the region including Moonshadow in Sequatchie County, Tennessee; the
Appalachian Celebration at Morehead State University in Kentucky and the Appalachian
Teacher’s Network at Radford University in Virginia.
Short Courses in Appalachian Literature
George Brosi of Appalachian Mountain Books has taught
one-week classes on Appalachian Literature at the Augusta Heritage Workshops of Davis and
Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia and for elderhostel at The Mountain at Highlands,
North Carolina. He is available to teach similar classes of various lengths at any
regional site he can schedule.
Last June, a health care clinic in an Urban Appalachian
neighborhood in Ohio asked for a recommendation for how to best spend $500 for Appalachian
Picture Books. George Brosi provided a list, and the clinic made the purchase locally.
Whatever special expertise is useful to you, let us know, and we will make arrangements to
try to help you.
George Brosi is available to do writing which utilizes his
expertise in regional literature and books. For example in the summer of 1998 he
wrote an article on "Appalachian Literature" for a forthcoming Companion to
Southern Literature and in 1995 he produced an annotated bibliography on the
Multi-Ethnic Heritage of the Southern Appalachians for Berea College’s 21st
annual Summer Workshop on Appalachia.
When a representative of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church wanted a selection of books available for their training workshops for new ministers moving into the Appalachian South, he contacted Appalachian Mountain Books and talked over what titles would be most appropriate. Whatever your special needs, contact us and we will try to make arrangements to meet them.
Would you like income tax credit for making a donation of
Appalachian books to a local or regional school, library or non-profit organization? Would
you like to know the replacement value of your Appalachian book collection so you can have
complete insurance coverage? Contact us to appraise your book collection for a minimal
fee.
Schools and teachers can certainly benefit from the book
listings on this website. Beyond that we can set up a display of regional books for sale
at your school either before or after school hours so teachers and/or students can
purchase books. George Brosi can speak to groups of students from any grade or do
in-service training for teachers or provide consultation on curriculum development with
regional relevance.
This website should help librarians find books to add to their collections. In addition, George Brosi has given talks and brought a display of regional literature for sale to a variety of libraries on many occasions. For example, he attended a local library celebration at the McMinn County Library in Athens, Tennessee, and gave a talk to a lecture series at the Harrison County Library in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He presented for the Western North Carolina Librarians Association meeting at the Mars Hill College Library and for the public librarians of the Fiveco Region meeting at the Martin County Library in Inez, Kentucky. He has also given a talk at the West Virginia Library Association meeting at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs. He can also bring a display of books to a library so that acquisitions librarians can examine our books, be briefed on them and check their holdings to see if they are needed.