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A peculiar distraction about the book is its resemblance to a school annual. The hardback cover and the border colors used to introduce the various sections of the book are reminiscent of a high school or college yearbook. However, such matters as design are usually under the control of the publishers. Back Home in Kentucky magazine has recommended this book to its readers as a holiday gift for "those special persons in their lives." Indeed, Eastern Kentucky would be a welcome gift to institutions as well as individuals. —R. Charlotte Cline Reshaping The Image OfAppalachia. Loyal Jones, editor. Berea, Kentucky: Berea College Appalachian Center, 1986. Paperback, $10.95. In his introduction to Reshaping The Image OfAppalachia Loyal Jones cites the "layers of misinformation" which have built up regarding Appalachia, and adds that "We have no handy residue remover, except perhaps for persistent scholarship and thoughtful writing." To that end Berea's Appalachian Center has published a sampling of "the work of several persistent scholars who are thoughtful writers" whose work was supported by grants from the Center. Divided into five general areas—Music And Religion, Economic Change, Literary Expression, The Black Experience In Appalachia, and Individual And Social Change—Reshaping The Image OfAppalachia includes the work of 14 "persistent scholars" whose research and writing whets the appetite for more of the same. Included are articles by, among others, L. Allen Smith, J. Wayne Flint, Helen Matthews Lewis, William H. Turner, and Judy Martin. Of special interest to me was Jacqueline Burnside's "Suspicion Versus Faith: Negro Criticisms of Berea College in the Nineteenth Century." She essentially pinpoints finances as the major factor in Berea College's shift in the 1890s away from its mission of interracial education. Burnside is kinder to William G. Frost than others who have written on the same topic; she cites Frost quotes which, taken out of context, have made him sound more racist in his views than he actually was. As a native of a predominantly white pocket of Northeast Kentucky, I found the entire "Black Experience" section oí Reshaping The Image OfAppalachia to be of more interest than the studies of economics, music, and literature; my image of Appalachia has been reshaped by the reading. —Garry Barker Sellers, Bettie. Liza's Monday and Other Poems. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1986. Paperback, $5.95. Bettie Sellers' fifth book of poems, a part of the Appalachian Consortium's Community Enrichment Series, is a strong collection of largely narrative poems concerning mountain people. Woven with threads of Biblical and Appalachian lore, 62 ...
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