Contents

• Flowering ivy / Shelia Kay Adams
• Border states / Lisa Alther
• The mountains dark and close around me / Maggie Anderson
• Sound / Marilou Awiakta
• Root hog, or die / Artie Ann Bates
• Deep water / Kathryn Stripling Byer
• Good questions / Jo Carson
• Paradise in Price Hollow / Lou V.P. Crabtree
• All this, and honeysuckles too / Doris Diosa Davenport
• Mutant in bandana / Hilda Downer
• "The past is never dead. It’s not even past" / Wilma Dykeman
• Women born to be strong / Sidney Saylor Farr
• Salt-water geechee mounds / Nikky Finney
• No scapin the booger man / Denise Giardina
• 400 Mulvaney Street / Nikki Giovanni
• Uncle Orphy / Gail Godwin
• The standing people / Ellesa Clay High
• Writing in the smokehouse / Lisa Koger
• Voiceplace / George Ella Lyon - - Keepers of the legends / Sharyn McCrumb
• Letter from a poet in West Virginia / Llewellyn McKernan
• A natural history / Heather Ross Miller
• Leaving Pre-Appalachia / Elaine Fowler Palencia
• Premature burial / Jayne Anne Phillips
• Counting the sums / Rita Sims Quillen
• The song about the story, the story behind the song / Jean Ritchie
• Westward from Bald Mountain / Bettie Sellers
• The search for the Beulah Quintet / Mary Lee Settle
• Piddlin’ / Anne Shelby
• Big Stone Gap / Betsy Sholl
• Appalachian loaves and fishes / Bennie Lee Sinclair
• Inside discoveries / Barbara Smith
• Terrain of the heart / Lee Smith
• This house and this world / Jane Stuart
• An inquiry into who my grandmother really was / Meredith Sue Willis