Free Uneven Ground by Ronald D. Eller Page B

Research Reports, ARL.
    18 . Ralph R. Widner, “Appalachia: America’s Oldest or Newest Frontier” (convocation address at Union College, Barbourville, KY, October 1, 1970), 10, Appalachian Regional Commission Oral History Project conducted by Duke University, Research Reports, ARL.
    19 . Appalachian Regional Commission,
1971 Annual Report of the Appalachian Regional Commission
(Washington, DC: ARC, 1971), 25.
    20 . Bradshaw,
Appalachian Regional Commission
, 49.
    21 . Calvin G. Grayson, “Remarks to the Kentucky Appalachian Task Force” (Hazard, KY, March 29, 1994), in the author’s possession. See also Alice J. Kinder,
William C. Hambley: The Mayor Who Moved a Mountain
(Berea, KY: Appalachian Imprints, 1988).
    22 . Appalachian Regional Commission,
Twenty Years of Progress
, 50; Bradshaw,
Appalachian Regional Commission
, 50–57.
    23 . Alvin Arnett, interview, July 5, 1983, audiovisual tape, ARC Archives; Donald Whitehead, interview, July 12, 1983, audiovisual tape, ARC Archives; John Whisman, interview, July 21, 1982, audiovisual tape, ARC Archives.
    24 . Charles Babcock, “Records Withheld in States’ Probe of ARC Official: Irregularities Questioned,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, March 17, 1975.
    25 . Bradshaw,
Appalachian Regional Commission
, 58.
    26 . Arnett, interview.
    27 . Caudill, “Misdeal in Appalachia,” 43–47.
    28 . Harriette Arnow, “The Gray Woman of Appalachia,”
Nation
, December 28, 1970, 684–87.
    29 . Ben A. Franklin, “Appalachia Revisited: After Ten Years of Hope, Its Poor Still Waiting for That New Day Coming,”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, December 8, 1970.
    30 . Bill Peterson, “The Appalachian Commission: Boon or Boondoggle?”
Louisville Courier-Journal
, April 8–11, 1973.
    31 . Phil Primack, “Depopulation Plan Advanced by ARC Director,”
Whitesburg (KY) Mountain Eagle
, June 29, 1972. See also Phil Primack, “ARC: In Case You Were Wondering about ARC but Didn’t Know Where to Look,”
Mountain Life and Work
, March 1973, 6–8.
    32 . Howard Bray, “Appalachia: The View from Washington,”
Progressive
, February 1975, 31–34.
    33 . ARC Accountability Project,
The Appalachian Regional Commission: Boon or Boondoggle—A Citizens’ Handbook on the ARC
(Morgan-town, WV: ARC Accountability Project, 1974), 68.
    34 . Ibid., 70.
    35 . Collins,
More
, 108; Bradshaw,
Appalachian Regional Commission
, 93.
    36 . See Appalachian Regional Commission,
Appalachia: A Reference Book
(Washington, DC: ARC, 1977).
    37 . Appalachian Alliance,
Appalachia 1978: A Protest from the Colony
(1978), in the author’s possession.
    38 . John D. Rockefeller IV, interview, “What’s Holding Up the Switch to Coal?”
U.S. News and World Report
, September 4, 1979, 26–27.
    39 . Quoted in Collins,
More
, 149.
    40 . Martha Cole, “ARC Approves $4 Million in Hospital Aid,”
Lexington Herald
, May 17, 1978; Appalachian Regional Commission,
Twenty Years of Progress
, 50;
Lexington Leader
, August 9, 1978; “Task Force Investigates Landownership,”
Mountain Life and Work
, September 1979, 22–23; Albert Smith, interview, May 1982, audiovisual tape, ARC Archives.
    41 . Cole, “ARC Approves.”
    42 .
Lexington Leader
, August 9, 1978.
    43 . See “Women Coal Miners,” special issue,
Mountain Life and Work
, July–August 1979.
    44 . John Egerton, “Appalachia’s Absentee Landlords,”
Progressive
, June 1981, 42–45. See also Appalachian Landownership Task Force,
Who Owns Appalachia
.
    45 . Egerton, “Appalachia’s Absentee Landlords,” 44; Gaventa quoted in ibid.
    46 . Tack Cornelius, “A Kentucky Success Story,”
Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission
, January–June 1983.
    47 . “Appalachia: The Economic Outlook through the Eighties,”
Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional