From the Editor by Fred Waage

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Center: Fellows of the Center, Spring 1985

From the Archives of Appalachia: Services to Teachers

From the Reece Museum

Bringing the Pieces Together by Pat Arnow

Profile of a Narrator by Pat Arnow

Appalachian Women Now and Then photographs

Emma Bell Miles, Appalachian Poet by Grace Toney Edwards

About “Where I Was Born” by Anne Shelby

About “The Picture” by Julia Nunnally Duncan

About the Poems by George Ella Lyon

Winter by Lou Crabtree

The Picture by Julia Nunnally Duncan

The Conversion of Brother Jack by Margery Plummer

A Twist of a Tale by Amy Garza

The Chimney Sweep Mother by Rita Quillen

Ode To My Pillow by Ginger Renner

Where I Was Born: Leander Combs 1922-, Lizzie Webb 1900-1916, Greenberry Bishop 1913- by Anne Shelby

A Testimony—for L.H. by George Ella Lyon

Her Words by George Ella Lyon

The Foot-Washing by George Ella Lyon

’Lectric by Lee Howard

Generations: An American Family by John Ederton, reviewed by Robert J. Higgs

The River a film from Universal Studios, starring Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson, reviewed by Ron Giles

Sunny Side of Life (a film from Appalshop) and Living with Memories (by Janette Carter): A Look Inside the Carter Family Fold by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Fred Waage

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Center: Fellows of the Center, Fall 1985

From the Museum by Helen Roseberry

From the Archives of Appalachia: Music Resources

Relics and Treaure: A Perspective on Charlie Osborne by Tommy Bledsoe

The Triplett Tragedy: The Topical Ballad as an Instrument of Revenge by Charlotte Ross

A Sound From the Past by Pat Arnow

The Role of Bascom Lamar Lunsford in the Rediscovery of Traditional American Music by Loyal Jones

Appalachian Voices Now and Then photographs

Appalachian Voices compiled by Richard Blaustein

“Close of a Day” by Janette Carter

“My Appalachian Mountain Home” by Janette Carter

“Living with Memories” by Janette Carter

“Daughter of McLeod” by Robin Williams

“Murders on the Cumberland Plateau” by Robin and Linda Williams

“The Leaving Train” by Robin and Linda Williams

“A Melody from You” by Ed Snodderly

“Yesterday’s Kid” by Ed Snodderly

“The Farming Man” by Ed Snodderly

“Drive Back the Night” by Sparky Rucker

“Cold and Lonesome on a Train” by Sparky Rucker

“Silas McGee” by Sparky Rucker

“Long Way Back to Georgia” by John McCutcheon

“Christmas in the Trenches” by John McCutcheon

“Water from Another Time” by John McCutcheon

“Black Water” by Jean Ritchie

“High Hills and Mountains” by Jean Ritchie

“Early Fields” by Jean Ritchie

At the Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention text and photos by Joyce Duncan

Variations on the Theme: A Reminiscence by Rubye Fowler

Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford by Loyal Jones, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Vein of Words by Jim Wayne Miller, reviewed by Fred Waage

Literature of Tennessee edited by Ray Wilbanks, reviewed by Fred Waage

Relics and Treasures LP album by Uncle Charlie Osborne, reviewed by Charles Wolfe