Tim Barnwell is a photographer based in Asheville, N.C. His work has appeared in publications including Time, Newsweek, Black & White magazine, House Beautiful and Outdoor Photographer. He is the author of two books, “The Face of Appalachia” and the newly released (April 2007), “On Earth’s Furrowed Brow.”
A landscape transformed. Over the past 25 years, as I have traveled the back roads of the Blue Ridge mountains, I have seen the landscape transformed. The most noticeable change is in the density and type of housing that you find today. The family farmsteads of years ago, with a main house, barn and outbuildings set on 30 or more acres, are being replaced by tract housing developments with a half dozen houses per acre. Surrounding hillsides are dotted with homes, many occupied only six or eight weeks out of the year.
Irene McKinney is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of five books of poetry: THE GIRL WITH A STONE IN HER LAP (North Atlantic, 19...
