{"id":20528,"date":"2025-01-21T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:59:58","slug":"an-evening-with-appalachian-authors-halle-hill-and-terry-roberts-february-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/an-evening-with-appalachian-authors-halle-hill-and-terry-roberts-february-20\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Appalachian authors Halle Hill and Terry Roberts, April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Wilma Dykeman Stokely Lecture has been rescheduled for April 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spend an evening with Appalachian authors Halle Hill and Terry Roberts on April 16, 7:00 p.m., at the East Tennessee History Center. Hill and Roberts will present the Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture<\/a>, moderated by Natalie Graham, professor and head of UT\u2019s Department of Africana Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Friends of the Knox County Public Library and the John C. Hodges Society of the University of Tennessee Libraries. RSVP at tiny.utk.edu\/WDS2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Halle
Halle Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Halle Hill\u2019s<\/a> collection of short stories, Good Women<\/em>, was published in 2023. Terry Roberts\u2019s<\/a> eighth novel is scheduled for release in August. Both authors \u2014 in their own ways \u2014 address issues of faith, struggle, resilience, and redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Good Women<\/em> Hill delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South: a woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy\u2019s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he’s seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. The book showcases the interior lives of these women who are near their breaking points and the lengths they go through to find redemption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good Women<\/em> was named a 2023 Best Book of the Year by several literary journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born and raised in East Tennessee, Hill currently lives, works, and teaches in North Carolina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Terry
Terry Roberts (and Bodie)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Terry Roberts is a lifelong teacher, educational reformer and award-winning novelist. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is the director of the National Paideia Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of the mountains of Western North Carolina, his ancestors include six generations of the mountain farmers, bootleggers, and preachers who appear in his novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his 2018 novel The Holy Ghost and Speakeasy and Revival<\/em>, the reverend Jedidiah Robbins\u2019s traveling revival company rides the rails of 1920s Appalachia. In addition to offering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Robbins delivers spirits of another kind \u2014 the best whiskey the mountain stills have to offer. According to fellow novelist Ron Rash, the novel \u201ctranscends mere satire to become much more. Ultimately, The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival<\/em> contemplates complex questions of faith and morality in a world ripe with hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts also has been called \u201cthe master of Appalachian noir\u201d for his Stephen Robbins Chronicles featuring Asheville\u2019s own crime fighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual  Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture<\/a> is hosted by the Friends of the Knox County Public Library<\/a> and the John C. Hodges Society of the University of Tennessee Libraries<\/a>. The lecture honors the late Wilma Dykeman Stokely<\/a> (1920\u20132006), writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist, and long-time friend of the Knox County Public Library. Her papers are part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives<\/a> at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Speakers at the Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture represent a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and work, but all have a deep connection to one or more of Stokely\u2019s passions: Appalachia, the environment, and racial and gender equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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