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The Emma Bell Miles Award for Essay
Georgia Green Stamper, who comments here from time to time and who has been my friend since school days, announces that she has won first place in the 2007 Emma Bell Miles Award for Essay awarded at The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University.
The Emma Bell Miles Award is given for an essay under 4,000 words that must address Appalachian life, literature, religion, folklore, culture and/or values. Georgia’s essay concerned Jesse Stuart and his role in the development of the Kentucky bookmobile movement. (If I remember it right, it talked about what a treat the weekly visit of the bookmobile was for bookish country girls like her and me.) This year’s contest was judged by Silas House.
Georgia writes a bi-weekly column, Georgia: On My Mind, for the Owenton News-Herald, our old hometown paper, and I do believe she has a collection of essays forthcoming from Wind Publications.
Today is also Georgia’s (and husband Ernie’s) 40th wedding anniversary. I was there when the act was committed.
Happy Anniversary, Georgia and Ernie.
And congratulations on the award, Georgia.
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2 Comments
1. Georgia Green Stamper replies at 25th June 2007, 3:36 pm :
Thank you, Sherry. I would urge your readers who are interested in southern regional writing to consider attending The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival next summer. The gathering is small and familial - and the LMU campus beautiful and peaceful. I attended last year, as well as this, and returned home inspired both times. Silas House is able to assemble an amazing cadre to staff the Festival. And meeting Earl Hamner Jr. last week was a special experience for me. As for the 40th wedding anniversary, we have a beautiful photo of you presiding over the wedding cake
Thank you for a lifetime of friendship, for always being there.
2. sherry replies at 26th June 2007, 6:24 am :
Thanks, Georgia. The literary heritage of the southern Appalachians runs deeper than most people realize and it is good to see a new(ish) conference rising to celebrate that heritage. Jesse Stuart would be proud.
Thanks, too, for making me sound like superfriend. All enduring friendships are reciprocal, and if I have been there for you, so have you been there for me. Live long and write well, my friend.
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