Uncovering Appalachia’s Hidden Heroines: Pauletta Hansel Reveals Untold Stories in Understory
After one of those trips, I went directly to my annual gathering of Appalachian writers, and a wise friend who saw my photos and heard my descriptions suggested I write about my journeys. Around that time, I was asked to do a keynote address at a writers’ conference and I pulled together a PowerPoint with photos and poems, and wrote up my travel descriptions and some historical background to present something I called “Branch and Root: In Search of an Appalachian Family History.” One of the conference conveners said he hoped the final book would include that sort of weave, and I told him that I wasn’t sure I could get a publisher for such an unwieldy mix. But all that got me thinking, and a cleaned-up version of the presentation was accepted for publication by Appalachian Journal, so by the time I started sending out book proposals, it was as a hybrid.
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