Squint’s Chapter Featured in Award-Winning Book

ECU’s current Whichard Chair, Dr. Kirstin Squint, contributed to Appalachian Reckon: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, which won the 2020 Weatherford Award for best non-fiction book about Appalachia. Her chapter in the book is a creative non-fiction piece called “Kentucky, Coming and Going.”

The Weatherford Awards honor books deemed as best illuminating the challenges, personalities and unique qualities of the Appalachian South. Granted by Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association for 50 years, the awards commemorate the life and achievements of W.D. Weatherford, Sr., a pioneer and leading figure in Appalachian development, youth work and race relations, and his son, Willis D. Weatherford, Jr., Berea College’s sixth President.

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