From the Editor by Fred Waage

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Archives: County Court Records as a Research Source by Ellen Garrison and Norma Thomas

From the Reece Museum by Paul Byington

Preservationists and Achievers compiled by Now and Then

Mountain Artist’s Landscape by Pat Arnow

A Part and Apart by Pat Arnow

Black Diamonds: The Search for Blacks in Appalachian Literature and Writing by Edward J. Cabbell

History Uncovers the Role of Black Appalachian Women by Edward J. Cabbell

Black Appalachians Now and Then photographs

The Black Community in Tennessee’s Oldest Town—Jonesborough, Tennessee photo essay by Pat Arnow

The Homecoming by Margery Plummer and James Story

Uncle Luke’s Prayer: Glimpses of Tazewell Through the Holley Heritage by Minnie Holley Barnes

Trial by Fire an excerpt from 40 Years in the Wilderness by Joseph Morgan

Granny by Chris O’Brien

I Y’Am What I Y’Am by Rita Bradley

Mountain Child by Mittie L. Jordan

Life is an Image by Melissa Cabbell

Memory by Fred Millner

Ditty for My Daddy by Sondra Millner

Naked Dawg by Fred Millner

Appalachia: An Old Man’s Dream Deferred by Edward J. Cabbell

Free Hill: A Sound Portrait of a Rural Afro-American Community LP album by Elizabeth Peterson and Tom Rankin, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Fred Waage

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Archives by Ellen Garrison

From the Reece Museum by Helen Roseberry

Writers’ Homecoming by Pat Arnow

Ed McClanahan

Fred Chappell

Lisa Alther

Jo Carson

John Yount

Don Johnson

Jim Wayne Miller

Anndrena Belcher’s Journey Home

Where I Live by Ed McClanahan

Family and Friends Now and Then photographs

Seventy-five Years of School: Frank Williams Writes the Book on ETSU by Pat Arnow

Coming Home to Appalachia by Bettie Sellers

Script: Long Journey Home excerpts from Anndreana Belcher’s film produced by Appalshop History Film Project

A Weaving of Art and Community by Pat Arnow

From Kinflicks by Lisa Alther

Switch County, Kentucky, Summer 1979 by John Yount

A Prayer for the Mountains by Fred Chappell

“I want to know …” by Jo Carson

Alden Crowe’s Stubbornness Rewarded by Don Johnson

The House in the Woods by Don Johnson

Quick Trip Home by Jim Wayne Miller

Three Women of Brasstown by Bettie Sellers

Jenny Says by Barbara Smith

Come Home by Garry Barker

A Family Tradition by Gretchen McCroskey

Another Generation by Gretchen McCroskey

Greater Johnson City: A Pictorial History by Ray Stahl, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Essay: Finding Poetry by Rita Quillen

Appalachian Writers audio tape produced by National Public Radio, reviewed by Fred Waage

Nostalgia for 70 by Jim Wayne Miller, reviewed by Fred Waage

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Reece Museum by Helen Roseberry

From the Archives by Ellen Garrison

The Story of My Life as Far Back as I Remember by Aggie Ross Lossiah, edited by Joan Greene

“We Were Just Wanders” by Joan Greene

Goingback Chiltoskey, Master Carver by Joan Greene

Daughter of Tahlequah by Jill Oxendine

Maggie Axe Wachacha, Beloved Woman of the Cherokees by Patricia A. Swan

Brownies, A Cherokee Legend by Ruth Ledford

The Tsali Legend by John Parris

Saving the Then for Now by Pat Arnow

Cherokee Eden (with asides): An Alternative to the Apple by Marilou Awiakta

Marilou Awiakta: Eye of the Deer by Parks Lanier

Fears and Challanges: Tourism by Robert Youngdeer

Lloyd Carl Owle sidebar

The Museum of the Cherokee Indian by Duane H. King

The Art and Craft of the Cherokee Have Endured and Trived on the Qualla Boundary photographs

Cherokees of the Qualla Boundary Then and Now photographs

Hello by Lloyd C. Owle

Within my heart the music by Shirley Catt Lincoln

An Indian Walks in Me by Marilou Awiakta

Test Cow by Marilou Awiakta

What the Choctaw Woman Said by Marilou Awiakta

Memo to NASA by Marilou Awiakta

Sequoya for Marilou Awiakta by Parks Lanier

Here I am Ancient Ones by Shirley Catt Lincoln

Cherokee land lottery (Tale of the Cherokee land disposal) by Grace Cash

The Eastern Band of the Cherokees, 1819-1900 by John R. Finger, reviewed by William L. Anderson

Tellico Archaeology: 12,000 Years of Native American History by Jefferson Chapman, reviewed by Anne Frazer Rogers