"No Tennessee Waltz in Appalachia" by David Sutton; "Messing with the Sacred: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver" by Guy Mendes; "Backtracking from Oklahoma to North Carolina: An Interview with Robert J. Conley."
Poetry by William Jolliff ("Eating the Route 23 Blues"), John Foster West ("Imagery of Trees"), Dan Leidig ("Time Out"), and Kathryn Kirkpatrick ("Looking for Ceilidh").
Photography by David Underwood.
Reviews by John Hartigan (Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles by Chad Berry), Donald E. Davis (The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park by Daniel Pierce) , Merrill M. Hawkins, Jr. (The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith by Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald), Jonathan Greene (Casualties by Ron Rash), Silas House (Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry), Monroe Ledbetter (The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark), Donald Secreast (Blue Ridge by T.R. Pearson), Susan O'Dell Underwood (Family Gathering: Poems by Fred Chappell), Lynn Powell (Heart Cake by Leatha Kendrick), Edwina Pendarvis (The Silence of Blackberries by Victor Depta & In Praise of Motels by Pamela Steed Hill), Joyce Compton Brown (The Flavour of Home: A Southern Appalachian Family Remembers), Fred J. Hay (Romancing the Folk: Public Memory & American Roots Music by Benjamin Filene), and Lana Whited (A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver by Daniel Patterson).
With the "Signs of the Times" and "Chronicle."