"The Story of Breece D'J Pancake" and a Breece Pancake Bibliography by Thomas E. Douglass; "Will the Curriculum Be Unbroken?" by Bob Snyder; "Culture, Southern?" by Werner Sollors.
Poetry by Jim Wayne Miller ("When He Was Brier in Residence" and "Bhagavad-Briar").
Book reviews by Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. (Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge by James L. Peacock and Ruel W. Tyson, Jr.), John Morefield (Appalachian Patterns by Bo Ball), Sam Howie (The Year the Lights Came On by Terry Kay, After Eli by Terry Kay, and Dark Thirty by Terry Kay), and Richard Drake (A Mountain Heritage: The Illustrated History of Western Carolina University by Curtis W. Wood and H. Tyler Blethen, Beside the Waters of the Buffalo: A History of Milligan College to 1941 by Cynthia Ann Cornwell).
A letter to the editor from Denise Giardina.
"Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle."
