The Chickasaw Plum

Dr. John R. Guthrie practiced family medicine in the Smokey Mountain foothills of Appalachia for years. As an adolescent he was a U.S. Marine infantry rifleman and later served as a physician in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He lives in Southern California and is a writer and social activist.

The Chickasaw Plum  -  Politics and the Arts Online

Volume VII  -  Number 2  -  February 2010

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How the Animals Came to Distrust Man: A Haitian Folk Tale

Poetry of Rita Dove and Terrence Huiskens

The Man Who Moved to Les Cayes

Lisa See, Author the New York Times Best Seller Shanghai Girls,

on National Tour for the Paperback Edition of This Exceptional Novel

Christianity at Work in Nigeria

Apocalyptic Beliefs of American Evangelicals by Jeannette Catsoulis

Book Review of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna by John R. Guthrie

Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Ed Voves

Photo: Peg Shanahan,

Lowell, Massachusetts

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