"Patterns of Paternalism in Harlan County" by Alessandro Portelli; "Blue Knob: Gone But Not Forgotten" by Bob Henry Baber; "Eat Grits and Die: Or, Cracker, Your Breed Ain't Hermeneutical" by Rodger Cunningham.
Poetry by Barbara Presnell ("Ethel's poem") and Kenneth King ("The Things She Has, The Things She Needs").
Book reviews by Joyce Dyer (Charley Bland by Mary Lee Settle), Sally Ward Maggard (The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones Edited by Edward M. Steel), R. Chesla Sharp (Variation and Change in Georgraphically Isolated Communities: Appalachian English and Ozark English by Donna Christian, Walt Wolfram, and Nanjo Dube), George Ella Lyon (Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces by Jo Carson), and Richard A. Humphrey (The Journey is My Home: A Film About Nelle Morton 16mm film).
Letters to the editor, "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle."
