My OFFICE BULLETIN BOARD

Why not begin with Emmylou? This is the Appalachian State arts/entertainment flyer from the fall semester 06 when I was their Writer-in-Residence. I'd wanted to go to her performance, but it was sold out by the time I got around to calling. Emmylou was at UNCG just a little while after I was there and was baby-sitter for some of the English faculty, according to stories I heard. She sang in some of the local coffee houses, before she set out to become Emmylou Harris. I love this dress and wish I could wear one like it! I recently bought a cd of "Pieces of the Sky," the first record of hers I heard so many years ago. I still like it.



Here's a photo of me and my dear friend Isabel Zuber at the first Smoky Mt. Book Festival in Sylva. You can see copies of her novel SALT on the table. If you haven't read this book yet, you must.



I won't apologize for being a proud mother. This is my daughter Corinna's poem "A Start of Snow" that she wrote as a college freshman. NOW AND THEN magazine published it.



I like this photo of my brother and Janisse Ray, author of ECOLOGY OF A CRACKER CHILDHOOD and WILDCARD QUILT, among others. I snapped this at a Landowner's Day at the Jones Ecological Center in Baker County, Ga., just about 4 miles from our farm. Janisse, who is from SE Georgia, is a terrific writer and a committed environmentalist and I'd encourage anybody to read her work.



And finally, for this post, an ancient clipping from THE CAMILLA ENTERPRISE showing me with my Grand Champion Hampshire hog when I was in the 8th grade. That was some pig! The judge told my father that it was one of the finest he'd seen. The FFA boys were not happy. I was a mere 4-H'er. And---a girl!!