From the Editor by Fred Waage

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Archives of Appalachia: Recent Events and Acqusitions by Norma Thomas

From the Reece Museum by Helen Roseberry

From the Center: Fellows of the Center, 1984-85

Johnson City Now and Then photographs

About the ‘People Pieces’ by Jo Carson

Broke

Law, you know who’s living

It’s gettin’ to where

Every time I get a little headache

I was born three months before I’s due

Oh, It Be Once by Paul Weinman

Not Exactly a Hermit by Paul Weinman

The Devil Dog by Annis Ward Jackson

Mrs. Ellen Sue MacDowell Has a Thought or Two on the Way to Dress Rehearsal (It’s the Easter Pageant She Has Written to Showcase Her Daughter’s Talent) by John O’Brien

R.B. Splain Returns From His Lamb Pen by John O’Brien

Mrs. Ned Rowan Working in the Front Yard by John O’Brien

Five Ways of Talking about a Flood by Fred Waage