An Appalachian Symposium

Published in 1977 this collection of essays was published to honor Cratis D. Williams upon his retirement from Appalachian State University. Williams was an influential scholar folklorist teacher and administrator who spent much of his career focused on the Appalachian region. Contributors to the volume are Louie Brown Ronald J. Eller Alan J. Crain Stephen Fisher Wilma Dykeman Henry Shapiro David S. Walls Gene Wilhelm Jr. Robert Paul Sessions David Looff John Opie Loyal Jones Gordon McKinney Chester Young Robert J. Higgs Amos Abrams Jean Ritchie Betty N. Smith Joan Moser Raymond O’Cain and John R. Hopkins.