From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Archives by Norma Thomas and Marie Tedesco

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: John Sayles Talks About His Coal Mining Movie Matewan an interview by Marat Moore

James Earl Jones in a Coal Mining Role an interview by Marat Moore

Fighting Back: Denise Giardina Talks About Storming Heaven by Tim Boudreau

Lives in Coal: James Thompson, Lottie Thompson, Judy Cobb by Mary Alice Basconi

Another Side of Appalachia: Southwest Virginia, 1988 photographs by Kenneth Murray, conceived and coordinated by Carol Moore and Jenay Tate Rockett

Dr. Enuf is Still Here: Voting for Cantankerous Idiosyncrasy by John Hart

Working in Appalachia Now and Then photographs

“I Never Did Change Things Here” by Jane Harris Woodside

“Majestic” words and music by Ed Snodderly

The Shine Man an interview with Lee Allen by Ed Snodderly

Letter From a Writer Harriette Arnow

Hooking Past to Future — with Rugs by Pauline B. Cheek

The Gertie Nevels Appalachian Workout art by Tony Feathers, with copy assistance from Jo Carson and Pat Arnow

Ain’t No Pie Jobs by Jenny Galloway Collins

Discussion at Age Seven by Georgeann Eskievich Rettberg

The Strikers by Joseph Barrett

the answer is blowin’ in the wind by Bob Henry Baber

Working Mother by Rita Quillen

Summer of 1908 by Glenn McKee

Fixing Supper by Suzanne Clark

Closed eyes by Ron Johnson

Retirement Living by Sheryl L. Nelms

Our Minister’s Other Heaven by Randy W. Oakes

Diamond Jenny #5 Mistress Mine by Jane Hicks

The Runner by Georgeann Eskievich Rettberg

Onions by Kelly Cogswell

Harriette Simpson Arnow, 1908-1986 a film by Herb E. Smith, 16 mm or video, reviewed by Robert J. Higgs

Black Coal Miners in America by Ronald Lewis, reviewed by G.E. Neasman and Larry Mayes

Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy by Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers, reviewed by Jim Odom

Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Film Matewan by John Sayles, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, reviewed by Laurie Lindberg

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Deloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher B. Daly, reviewed by Marie Tedesco

Mud Creek Clinic a film directed by Anne Johnson (first seen on public television as part of Appalshop’s Headwaters division), reviewed by Mary Swaykus

Frontier Nursing Service a film directed by Anne Johnson (first seen on public television as part of Appalshop’s Headwaters division), reviewed by Jo Ann Crawford

Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City by Margaret Ripley Wolfe, reviewed by Edward L. Ayers

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Archives by Norma Myers Thomas and Marie Tedesco

From the Museum by Margaret Carr

The Ideal Home: Return From Flatland Exile by Dot Jackson

Inside, Looking Out by Gary Carden

Slaying the Mythical Kingdom Bonny Stanley

Insiders/Outsiders Now and Then photographs

Outsider/Insider: A Grown-Up Who Writes for Children by George Ella Lyon

You Know You’re an Insider When … by Martha Whaley

Sylvia Attilli Basconi by Mary Alice Basconi

Ida Ginsburg by Pat Arnow

How to Keep a Kosher Household in Johnson City, Tennessee by Pat Arnow

Tom Huang by Richard Blaustein

The Phil-Am Club by Mary Alice Basconi

Early Days at Keno excerpts from the diary of Harriette Simpson Arnow

Meeting of Minds, excerpt from Crazy Quilt a novel by Gurney Norman

The Incredible Expanding Sentence by Lance Olsen

A Young Republican by Randy W. Oakes

What California Means to Me Part 34 by Wayne Hogan

Kevin by Judy Odom

Barnetts by Amy Tipton Gray

The Disappeared by Ann Kilkelly

Large Mouth by Robert Bess

Transplanted by Gretchen McCroskey

From Away by Glenn McKee

Cold Mountain by Bill Wood

A Roadside Stand by Bill Wood

Waiting for Flying Saucers in Wytheville by Felicia Mitchell

First-Love Summer by Mary Ernestine O’Dell

The Last Family Reunion by Bob Henry Baber

Borrowed Children by George Ella Lyon, reviewed by Roberta Herrin

A Regular Rolling Noah by George Ella Lyon, reviewed by Sarah K. Davis

Two Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980s edited by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

Long Journey Home a film directed by Elizabeth Barret, 16 mm and video, reviewed by Phillip J. Obermiller

On Being a Joines a film by Tom Davenport, 16 mm with transcription and commentary, reviewed by Jane Harris Woodside

Zone 3 a poetry journal edited by Malcolm Glass and David Till, reviewed by Jo Carson

Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations by Howard Dorgan, reviewed by R. Chesla Sharp

Dear Flora Mae and Other Stories by Patricia Shirley, reviewed by Ed Davis

“Subways Rumbling in My Mind” by Richard Blaustein

“Waitin’ for the Sunrise” by Ed Snodderly

From the Director by Richard Blaustein

From the Editor by Pat Arnow

From the Archives by Norma Myers Thomas and Marie Tedesco

From the Museum by Helen Roseberry

The Council and the War by John Glen

The Papers and the War excerpts from the New York Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Lexington Leader

Loyal Jones and the Council interview by Pat Arnow

Where Are They Now? An Update on the Soldiers in the War on Poverty in Appalachia by Robert Gipe

Win, Lose, or Draw? What Effect Did the War on Poverty Have in Appalachia? statistics

Perceptions and Prescriptions Now and Then photographs

David Whisnant: A Born Again Appalachian by Jane Harris Woodside

Sister Marie Ubinger: Evangelized by the Poor by Tim Boudreau

The Hillbilly Vampire by Amy Tipton Gray

I’m Just Talkin’ by Eleanor Brownfield

Strawberry Flats by Walter Darrell Haden

Letter to Hong Kong From my 8th-grade Latin Teacher in Alabama, 36 Years Later by Louie Crew

When I Had Done It by Louie Crew

The Graveyard of Trees by Malcolm Glass

Preacher With a Horse to Ride excerpts from the play by Jo Carson

Early Days at Keno: Excerpts From a Diary by Harriette Simpson Arnow

A Lesson in Commodities by Dot Jackson

Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962 by John M. Glen, reviewed by Guy L. Osborne

Crum by Lee Maynard, reviewed by Denise Giardina

Brier, His Book and His First, Best Country by Jim Wayne Miller, reviewed by Pat Verhulst

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War by Gavin Wright, reviewed by Larry D. Gossett

Feuds: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 by Altina L. Waller, reviewed by Richard Blaustein

These Are Our Voices: The Story of Oak Ridge, 1942-1970 edited by James Overholt, reviewed by Charles Moore

“The More Things Change” by Larry Bledsoe, commentary by Ed Snodderly