"Trip to Ypsilanti: Traveling for Unity among the Old Regular Baptists" by Howard Dorgan; "Writing Out of the Region" by Meredith Sue Willis [PDF, 550 KB]; "Incumbents Survive, But Warning Shots Fired: Election 19011 by David Sutton.
Poetry by P.J. Laska ("By Way of Night") and a letter from Larry Vonalt (about William Schafer's essay on Donald Harington).
Reviews by Woodrow Hill (Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina by Roger Manley and O, Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountains by Ramona and Millard Lampell), Curtis Seltzer (Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry by Priscilla Long), Nancy J. Martin-Perdue (A Bearer of Tradition: Dwight Stump, Basketmaker by Rosemary O. Joyce), Philip Balla (Vigils by Jeff Daniel Marion and Sigodlin by Robert Morgan), Virginia Hege Tobiassen (The Barefoot Bride by Rebecca Paisley), and Richard B. Drake (Catawba: The Story of a College by Francis B. Dedmond).
"Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle.