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About Loyal Jones

About Loyal Jones

  • Appalachia: A Self-Portrait (1979)
  • Radio’s ‘Kentucky Mountain Boy’ Bradley Kincaid (1980, revised 1988)
  • Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lundsford (1984, revised in 1988, reprinted in 2002)
  • Reshaping the Image of Appalachia (1986)
  • Appalachian Values with Warren Brunner (1995)
  • Faith and Meaning in The Southern Uplands (1999)
  • Country Music Humorists and Comedians (2008)
  • My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia (2017).
    • Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor (1987)
    • Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule: Appalachian Mountain Humor (1989)
    • The Preacher Joke Book (1989)
    • Hometown Humor (1991)
    • More Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor (1995).
      • Music from South Turkey Creek (1976)
      • Co-producer and writer of notes for Celebration! Old-Time Music at Berea (1976)
      • Co-producer and writer of notes for Buell Kazee (1978)
      • The Ballad Tradition (1986)
      • Sheila Adams Barnhill: Loving Forward, Loving Backward (1988).
        • Member and chairman, Berea Area Human Relations Committee, 1965-1970
        • Board member, chairman, and treasurer, Kentucky Foothills Development Council, 1970-78
        • Member, Governor’s Task Force on Education, 1975
        • Member, Governor’s Task Force on Welfare Reform, 1979-80
        • Member, advisory committee, An Appalachian Experience, program in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1978-80
        • Member, agenda or program committees, Appalachian Studies Conference, 1980-84, 1986-89, chairman, 1989
        • Member and chairman, Hindman Settlement School Board of Directors, 1978-present
        • Director, annual Celebration of Traditional Music, 1973-1993
        • Co-director, Festival of Appalachian Humor, 1983, 1987, 1990.
          • As a Board Member for White House Clinics, Health Help, Inc. in McKee, Kentucky
          • On the advisory committee for the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum
          • As a Trustee for the Berea College Appalachian Fund
          • Additionally, he is a long-time member of Union Church in Berea.
            • Thomas Wolfe Award (WNC Historical Society)
            • Mountain Spirit Award (Christian Appalachian Project),
            • Laurel Leaves Award (Appalachian Consortium)
            • President’s Medallion (Berea College)
            • Appalachian Educator Award (Carson-Newman College)
            • Appalachian Treasure Award (Morehead State University)
            • Cratis D. Williams Appalachian Service Award (Appalachian Studies Association)
            • Award of Special Merit (Berea College Alumni Association)
            • Service to Appalachia and Berea College Award (Berea College Appalachian Fund)
            • Outstanding Contributor to Appalachian Literature and Culture Award (Appalachian Writers Association)
            • Denny Plattner Award for poetry (Appalachian Heritage)
            • Special W.D. Weatherford Award (Berea College)
            • Service Award (Berea College)
            • Jim Wayne Miller Award (Hazard Community College)
            • Culture and Arts Award (East Kentucky Leadership Foundation)
            • W.D. Weatherford Award for Faith & Meaning in the Southern Uplands (Berea College)
            • Willie Parker Peace History Book Award (North Carolina Society of Historians)
            • an honorary doctorate in humane letters (Union College).