This website was created by Kate Black, Curator of the Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, with Graduate Assistant Sheli Walker.

They wish to thank:

Dr. Dwight Billings, Professor of Sociology and Appalachian Studies, for his contribution to the content of this site.

Crystal Heis, Image Management Specialist, Digital Library Services, for her skilled digitization of the documents from the Herndon Evans papers.

Scott Horn, Graduate Assistant and Drupal web developer in the College of Arts and Sciences for his generous technical assistance and expertise.

Dr. Kathi Kern, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) for her pedagogical contributions and for sharing CELT’s resources.

Mimi Pickering, Appalshop filmmaker, for permitting us the use of her film Dreadful Memories: the Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning, 1910-1983. She not only generously allowed us to include a clip from her film, but edited it especially for the purposes of this archival web exercise.

Cara Worick, Multimedia Specialist, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) for filming and producing the conversation segments between Dwight Billings and Kate Black.