"The Paradox of the 'Familiar Outsider'" by Nelda Knelson Daley and Sue Ella Kobak; "Al, Abner, and Appalachia,' by Edwin T. Arnold; "All God's Children Got Wings (And Six Legs, Carapaces, Rub Accents)" by William J. Schafer.
Book Reviews by David E. Whisnant (The Past Is Another Country: Representation, Historical Consciousness, and Resistance in the Blue Ridge by Stephen William Foster), John C. Inscoe (The Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Cultural Traditions and Literary Form by Mary Ann Wimsatt), John Alexander Williams (Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina by John Inscoe), William K. McNeil (Four From June Appal, Mountain Masters series), and Ivan Tribe (The Appalachian Heritage on Heritage Records).
"Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle."