WataugaWatch: There Are Some Things Money Can't Buy

Friday, May 25, 2012

Anonymous said...: JW-you seemed to be obsessed with this subject of the GLBT. Do you ever discuss on your blog other important issues concerning the citizens of the US? I realize that you are smarter and more educated and informed than the 61 percent that voted for amendment 1, but surely you have some other ideas of importance for us simple folks.; 6:15 PM
Anonymous said...: nope, he has to put first.; 2:34 PM
Oooooh said...: If you folks don't like what JW posts, then you are free to never visit the site again! Freedom, ya know!; 10:44 AM

J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.