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This issue George Brosi Breece D'J Pancake remains an amazing phenomenon of American as well as Appalachian Literature. He authored only one book, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake published posthumously in 1983. It remains not only in print, but a brisk seller. We are proud to make him the featured author of this issue of Appalachian Heritage, and are eternally grateful to John Casey, his literary executor, for his cooperation and permission to reprint Pancake's works, carefully preserved in the archives of both the University of Virginia and West Virginia University Libraries. We are indeed deeply grateful to these libraries as well for allowing us permission to reprint. The stories in Pancake's book remain his most impressive, most mature work, and we recommend that this magazine be read in conjunction with them. Despite the fact that Pancake's work published here is not as well-developed as his later work, we feel that this magazine helps readers to obtain a deeper feel for his life and work and appreciation for his contribution. We are grateful to Grace Toney Edwards, who was a friend of Breece Pancake when they were both graduate students at the University of Virginia, for being our guest editor and to Phyllis and Jim Moore, who, along with Grace Edwards and her husband, John C. Nemeth, gathered the photos we are using in this issue. Thanks as well to Thomas E. Douglass, the author of the only book about Breece D'J Pancake, A Room Forever: The Life, Work and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake, for photos and his help in putting this issue together as well as for his article here. Thanks to Ann Pancake, David "Woody" Wilson, B. R. Seybert, Donna Ogle, and Lee Johnson for their important commentary on Breece D'J Pancake also prepared especially for this issue. We are proud to have an original story in this issue, "The Reunion," from Robert Morgan, one of the most distinguished contemporary regional writers. Our poets range from the widely published David Huddle and R. T. Smith, to Amy Partin-Elliott whose first published poem appears here. Hadley Hury and Kathy Whitson have not previously published in this journal, but Charles Swanson has contributed to previous issues. We are proud to include a review by Tricia Shapiro of Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith, an important book about social movements in our region. [End Page 9] Copyright © 2012 Berea College