The Preliminary Program of the 39th Annual ASA Conference, Voices from the Misty Mountains: Diversity and Unity, a New Appalachia, March 17-20, 2016, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia is available. http://appalachianstudies.org/annualconference/.

Registration: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/jas/isubscribe.php.

Session 10.2. Sunday, March 20, 9:30 - 10:30 AM. Black Appalachian Pioneers Gather: William Turner, Wilburn Hayden & Edward Cabbel.

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Books can be shipped to Europe

Books are being shipped to the United Kingdom. Order via Amazon can go overseas. Thanks for the recent order in SKIPTON, N Yorkshire. Hope you enjoy the resource and read.

Wilburns' page at York

See Professor's page at York: http://people.laps.yorku.ca/people.nsf/researcherprofile?readform&shortname=whayden

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39th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference

Voices from the Misty Mountains: Diversity and Unity, a New Appalachia

ASA Conference Rates

Individual ASA Conference Registration	$150.00 ($175 after March 2)
Student ASA Conference Registration	$100.00 ($125 after March 2)

March 18-20, 2016
Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

http://appalachianstudies.org/annualconference/.

Look for me at in the Exhibit Hall with books for sale. I will also be presenting at the session:

Black Appalachian Studies - Three Pioneers Gather

Session AbstractEd Cabbell, Wilburn Hayden, and Bill Turner – natives of Appalachian WV, NC, and KY – have combined roles as academics, researchers, and community organizers since 1968.  Cabbell’s master’s thesis at Appalachian State University launched Black Appalachian Studies; Hayden served as President of the Appalachian Studies Association and Turner, once Distinguished NEH Professor of Black and Appalachian Studies at Berea College received the Association’s Williams/Brown Service Award. They will reflect on race matters in Appalachia.

Kentucky County Article

Poor in Kentucky. Interesting article http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-kentucky-and-americas-poorest-towns

North Carolina Charter Schools

Humm...

Are charter schools in North Carolina helping or hurting?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/15/white-parents-in-north-carolina-are-using-charter-schools-to-secede-from-the-education-system/

Hayden Received an Award and Presented Paper at Conferences

Hayden Received an Award and Presented Paper at Conferences

Dr. Hayden was one of the Appalachian scholars recognized as a Distinguished Friend of Appalachia by the East Tennessee State University Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at the Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference held at ETSU, Johnson City, TN. Above signing the Center's Wall of Distinguished Friends of Appalachia.

Hayden presented a paper: Omission and Exclusion: A Canadian Ethos at the 2nd Biennial Black Canadian Studies Association Conference (BCSA): Community, Empowerment & Leadership in Black Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.