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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Good profile article on Rev. Ryan Eller in today's W-S Journal. Ryan took over on Dec. 15 as head of CHANGE in Forsyth County. Don't tell Sarah Palin, but Ryan is a ... community organizer.

He's also another graduate of Appalachian State University, a student leader during his time in Boone, and most recently, he managed Roy Carter's campaign against The Madam.

We're blessed to have him in the NC-5 for the long-haul.

Labels: CHANGE, Roy Carter, Ryan Eller

// posted by J.W. Williamson @ 1/07/2009 12:05:00 PM

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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.

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