"Gloria Houston and the Burden of the 'Old Culture'" by Roberta Herrin; "Witness in the Nightmare Country: Jayne Anne Phillips" by Meredith Sue Willis; an interview with Donald Secreast by Tal Stanley.
Reviews by George Ella Lyon (Counting the Sums by Rita Quillen and Alchemy by Dana Wildsmith), John Lang (Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work by Haeja K. Chung), Henry D. Shapiro (Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century eds.Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina l. Waller), Ralph Mann (Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War by Charles F. Price), Shaunna L. Scott (The Court-Martial of Mother Jones ed. Edward M. Steel), Burton L. Purrington (William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians ed. and annotated Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund), Paul Salstrom (Rethinking Our Centralized Monetary System: The Case for a System of Local Currencies by Lewis D. Solomon), Jesse Acquillah Jones (Early Pioneer Gravestones of Pope County, Illinois by Michael J. McNerney and Herb Meyer), and Stephen Flinn Young (The Plow Reader: Selections from an Appalachian Alternative Newsmagazine of the Late 1970's ed. Ann F. Richman).
Poetry by Rachel Jennings ("Letters from Home" and "The Squatters").
A letter to the editor from Craig Howley; "Signs of the Times" and the "Chronicle."
