"Appalachia as Science Fiction" by Alessandro Portelli; "The Northification of the South" by Sam Howie; "Down in the Valley, The Valley So Low" by Daniel F. Hurley. "When I Get Good and Ready," an interview with "Helen" by Laurence French.
Poetry by Hilda Downer ("So much has come and gone that the Appalachians never existed," "The Smoke of Winter Trees,").
Reviews by Bill Ellis (The Season of Dorlan-Bell: History of an Appalachian Mission School by Jacqueline Burgin Painter), Walter R. Hibbard (St. Clair by Anthony F. C. Wallace), Charles Thomas Davis III (Diversities of Gifts: Field Studies in Southern Religion Edited by Ruel W. Tyson, Jr., James L. Peacock, and Daniel W. Patterson), Bruce Henderson (Education in Appalachia: Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on Appalachia paper), Curtis Seltzer (Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease by Barbara Ellen Smith), and Alessandro Portelli (Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson).
Carl A. Ross obituary by Gene Hyde.
Plus "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle."
