In these poems Don Johnson creates a history of the Watauga Valley, from the mythical settlement by the descendants of Duke Allen, through the many floods that inundated the valley down through the decades and justified the building of the Watauga Dam following World War II. The central event in the collection is the drawdown of Watauga Lake which occurred in 1983 and allowed the former residents of the village of Butler, Tennessee, to return to their homeplace after it had been under water for over thirty years. Thus Watauga Drawdown becomes a study of the attempts by the many characters which define this book, to recover or create their respective pasts.
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (1) |
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9 | (1) |
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Polly Hyder Waits to be Moved |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (2) |
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And the River Gathered Around Us |
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13 | (3) |
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Mothers in Waiting: A Christmas Stamp, 1945 |
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16 | (1) |
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Alden Crowe's Stubbornness Rewarded |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (2) |
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Raymond Pierce's Vietnamese Wife |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (4) |
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31 | (7) |
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Letter to Hugo from Bulter |
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38 | (1) |
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Your Sickness: A Memory of Birds |
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39 | (2) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (2) |
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Mammoth Cave: Good Friday, 1986 |
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52 | (3) |
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Dolls at the Fish Springs Store and Filling Station |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (3) |
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