The Thomas Wolfe Society
34th Annual Meeting
Asheville, NC
May 18-19, 2012
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FRIDAY, May 18, 2012
10:00-12:00 Registration
12:00-12:30 Welcome and Prologue (Welcome–Paula Eckard, President, TWS, UNC: Charlotte; Prologue-Mary Aswell Doll, Savannah College of Art and Design)
12:30-1:15 Special Presentation: “Way back in the hills . . . “ (Moderator: Joseph M. Flora, UNC: Chapel Hill. The 18th- and 19th-century family stories of the Westall-Penland clan [passed down the generations on the Appalachian frontier–and from Julia to Tom; gathered from more than 100 years of Westall letters, documents, and memories])
1:15-2:45 Session I
Moderator: Anne Zahlan, Eastern Illinois University
“Hit was Indian country in those days: ‘Chickamauga’ as Appalachian Literature”
Terry Roberts, National Paideia Center, UNC: Chapel Hill
“Eliza Gant: A Woman of Property”
Bes Stark Spangler, Peace College
“‘The Men of Old Catawba’: Wolfe’s Homily on the Earth”
Robert Ensign, Forest Grove, Oregon
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Session II
Moderator: Robert G. Anthony, UNC: Chapel Hill
“Reconciliation of Opposites: Excess and Deprivation in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel“
Joanne Rohan, UNC: Charlotte
“Who was That Masked Man?: Foster A. Sondley’s Buried Life”
Joanne Marshall Mauldin, Weaverville, NC
“The Sexual Landscape of Wolfe’s Appalachia”
Ruth Winchester Ware, Durham, NC
4:30-5:15 Featured Creative Reading
Moderator: J. Todd Bailey, Burnsville, NC
Reading from A Short Time to Stay Here
Terry Roberts, National Paideia Center, UNC: Chapel Hill
5:15-8:00 Dinner on your own
8:00-9:00 Readers Theater Production
The Mountains, A Play in One Act by Thomas Wolfe
David Radavich presiding, Eastern Illinois University
Cast:
Mark Canada
Rebecca Godwin
David Radavich
David Strange
Joe Flora
Jan Hensley
Dana Reaume
Anne Zahlan
SATURDAY, May 19, 2012
8:30-10:00 Session III
Moderator: Jerry Leath Mills, UNC: Chapel Hill
“Joanathan Daniels and the ‘Poet of the Boom'”
Edwin Yoder, Alexandria, VA
“Thomas Wolfe, ‘Return,’ and the Asheville Citizen“
Mark Canada, UNC: Pembroke
“The Case for You Can’t Go Home Again“
David Madden, Black Mountain, NC
10:00-10:30 Business Meeting
President Paula Eckard presiding
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session IV
Moderator: Janice McCullagh, Baylor University
“The Disparate Aesthetics of Harris and Gorsline and the Unity of Wolfe’s Vision”
Dylan Nealis, State University of NY, Oneonta
“Thomas Wolfe and Hart Crane: Romantic Affinities”
Joe Albernaz, UNC: Chapel Hill
“More than a Means to an End: The Train as the Locus of Human Interaction in the Fiction of Thomas Wolfe”
Joseph Bentz, Azusa Pacific University
12:15-12:30 Final Words, President Paula Eckard
Epilogue, Jan Hensley, Greensboro, NC
12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00-4:00 Tours of Wolfe Memorial and “Wolfe’s Asheville”
4:00-5:00 Featured Creative Reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore
Reading from A Land More Kind Than Home
Wiley Cash, Bethany College
6:30-7:30 Cash bar
7:30 Banquet
President Paula Eckard presiding
Keynote Speaker: Mark de Castrique, Charlotte, NC
The Board of Directors will meet at 8:30 on Sunday morning, May 20, 2012.