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Tribute to Jim Still 1906-2001

Tribute to Jim Still 1906-2001 Charles May Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 7-9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0043 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435920/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:15 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Tribute to Jim Still 1906-2001___________ Charles May- Monday was "JIM STILL DAY" in my two American short story classes at California State University, Long Beach. It wasn't what was assigned, but my students forgave me my digression, because I recently turned sixty and they expect such vagaries from a white- bearded old feller whose hair has stopped growing. It was the uncanny confluence of events I wanted to talk to them about - that and a writer whose voice was the only one I trusted to speak for my home. I told them that forty years ago I made my first pilgrimage to Hindman to see Jim Still. It was my junior year at Morehead State, just after I had finished his class in the short story, in which he introduced me to Turgenev and Gogol and Chekhov. He read his story "The Run for the Elbertas" to us and let slip a sly smile at the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Tribute to Jim Still 1906-2001

Appalachian Review , Volume 29 (4) – Jan 8, 2014

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Abstract

Charles May Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 7-9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0043 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435920/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:15 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY Tribute to Jim Still 1906-2001___________ Charles May- Monday was "JIM STILL DAY" in my two American short story classes at California State University, Long Beach. It wasn't what was assigned, but my students forgave me my digression, because I recently turned sixty and they expect such vagaries from a white- bearded old feller whose hair has stopped growing. It was the uncanny confluence of events I wanted to talk to them about - that and a writer whose voice was the only one I trusted to speak for my home. I told them that forty years ago I made my first pilgrimage to Hindman to see Jim Still. It was my junior year at Morehead State, just after I had finished his class in the short story, in which he introduced me to Turgenev and Gogol and Chekhov. He read his story "The Run for the Elbertas" to us and let slip a sly smile at the

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

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