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Email: headoftheholler@hotmail.com |
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To order books by Garry Barker from Amazon.com. Available are NOTES FROM A NATIVE SON; THE HANDCRAFT REVIVAL IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIA, 1930-1990. Use the “Search” function to find the books, reviews, and interviews with the author. |
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The Flemingsburg Gazette, “Your hometown newspaper since 1880.” Garry Barker is publisher; Danetta Barker is editor. Join us online or subscribe to the weekly paper. |
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Read “Thanksgiving Visitor”, the fictional version of Garry Barker’s birth in Otway, Ohio, during a flood. |
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Shown above at Minnie Adkins’ Folk Art Day In The Country, Garry Barker has spent over 35 years working for and with the artists and craftspeople of Southern Appalachia. He is a Life Member and past president of the Southern Highland Craft Guild; a former member of the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Appalachian Artisans Center; and a member of the Artisans Advisory Council for the new Artisans Center at Berea. He was director of the Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen and director of the Berea College Student Crafts Program before coming to Morehead. Barker recently retired as University Editor at MSU., and received the 2003 Arts & Culture Award from the East Kentucky Leadership Foundation. |
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Read Garry Barker’s poem “My Grandfather Belonged to the Ku Klux Klan,” as used in the new textbook Touching All Bases: A Rhetoric of Self Discovery, published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa. |
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The Jesse Stuart Foundation, regional book publishers, has released a reprint of Mountain Passage and Other Stories, Garry Barker’s 1986 collection of short fiction. |
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Wind Publications in Nicholasville, Ky., is an independent publisher whose books include works by Ed McClanahan, Bob Sloan, and others. |
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Head of the Holler LINKS YOU’LL LIKE |
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The Appalachian Writers Association will meet in Morehead, Ky., July 11-13. For details visit www.moreheadstate.edu/appwriters/index. |