The Artist as Activist in Appalachia, edited by Dr. Amy Childers Mansfield and Dr. Joyce E. Stavick is a collection of essays, stories, poetry, and photography that focuses on how people not only care for each other and for the land, but also disagree with each other about the best methods to do both. It is the reflections of people who have “been to the mountaintop” and experienced the trials of coal mining, unions, and the government.
