"Appalachia and Social Change: A Cultural Systems Approach" by Tom Plaut. "Culture and Development: Through Romantic Relativism into the Emerging Present" by Thomas O'Toole. "A Bibliographic Survey of Dissertations Dealing with Appalachia" compiled by Richard M. Kesner. "Retrospective: Miner's Day by R.L. Coombes" by David Brooks. "Hillbilly Paideia," a review essay by Bob Snyder (Teaching Mountain Children ed. David Mielke, Things Appalachian, and Handbook both ed. by Lorena Anderson, William Plumley, and Marge Warner). "The Complicated Equation: Worker Rebellion and Unionization," a review essay by Peter Gottlieb (Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-39 by John W. Henever).
Review by Sharon Lord ("Johnny's such a bright boy, what a shame he's retarded": In Support of Mainstreaming in Public Schools by Kate Long).
Poetry by Ann Romines ("Piecing: Birds in the Air), Jessie Ellison ("Deep in the Center of the Eye"), Evelyn Hayes ("Near Glenville, W.Va."), Neal Bowers ("Ten and Now" and "Control"), and Chester Wolford ("Pa's Three Climates: I," "Pa's Three Climates: II," and "Pennsylvania is an Oshun").
