"Cormac McCarthy: The Hard Wages of Original Sin" by William J. Schafer. "The Appalachian Backgrounds of Billy De Beck's Snuffy Smith" by M. Thomas Inge. "Primitivism and Exoticism in John Fox's Early Work" by Marilyn DeEulis.
Higgs and Manning answer Hugh Holman on Appalachian literature.
Sketches, reminiscence, and folklore by Sidney Farr ("Dark Hollow and Other Memories"), Sarah Evelyn Jackson ("Ashley Weaver: Microcosm of Appalachia"), Granville Liles ("The Blue Ridge Parkway: Some Personal Notes on Its History"), and W. Edward Orser ("Morris R. Mitchell: Social and Educational Visionary").
Fiction by Joyce Rockwood ("Grand Ole Opry") and Betty N. Weaver ("The Celebrity").
Reviews by Kelly Cherry (River by Fred Chappell), Robert L. Taylor (Valley So Wild: A Folk History by Alberta and Carson Brewer), Gordon B. McKinney (John George Jackson by Dorothy Davis), and W.H. Ward (The Folk Music Sourcebook by Larry Sandberg and Dick Weissman).
Music Reviews by W.H. Ward (Stolen Love by the Red Clay Ramblers, Lester Raymond Flatt by Lester Flatt, and Doc and the Boys by Doc Watson and Merle Watson).
Poetry by Mary Balazs ("Lifeguard"), Jeff Daniel Marion ("Relics"), George Scarbrough ("Small Community with Two Houses").
