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Table of Contents |
| Regular Items | |
| This Side of the Mountain | George Brosi |
| News of the Appalachian Literary Arts | |
| Upcoming Regional Literary Events | |
| Contributors to this Issue | |
| Featured Author – Robert Morgan, edited by Patrick Bizzaro | |
| Robert Morgan's Mountain Roots | George Brosi |
| Wild Dogwood, a poem | Kelly Cherry |
| "The Moral Ambiguity of that Time," an interview | Resa Crane Bizzaro and Patrick Bizzaro |
| Listening to the Clock, a poem | Robert Morgan |
| Morgan's Things | Fred Chappell |
| Packsaddle, a poem | Robert Morgan |
| Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek | Patrick Bizzaro |
| Water of Death, a poem | Robert Morgan |
| "Sentences of Light" | Maggie Anderson |
| Letter to Robert Morgan from Denmark, a poem | Maggie Anderson |
| The Years Ahead, a poem | Robert Morgan |
| Fiction | |
| Against a Sea of Troubles | R. T. Smith |
| Restless Spirits, Part I | Patty Crow |
| Memoir | |
| Heavenly Jams and Jellies | Sidney Saylor Farr |
| Excerpts from The Last Mountain Dancer | Sidney Saylor Farr |
| Poetry | |
| Calling | G. Leigh Wilkerson |
| Berry Picking in the Appalachians | Lisa A. Ezzard |
| Making Jelly | Mary Stewart |
| The Killing | Craig Crist-Evans |
| Bottomland | Young Smith |
| Wedding Day | Julia Nunnally Duncan |
| First Fruits | Charles Swanson |
| That Day | Linda Parsons Marion |
| New Appalachian Books: Review Essay | |
| New Poems by Four Appalachian Masters | George Garrett |
| New Appalachian Books: Reviews | |
| Robert Morgan's Brave Enemies | Cecelia Conway |
| Wilma Dunaway's Books on Slavery | Rodger Cunningham |
| Bob Sloan's Home Call | Andrea A. Pawliczek |
| New Appalachian Books | |
| Write-ups | George Brosi and Leanna Lantz |
| Photography for This Issue | |
| A barn in Madison County, North Carolina | Front Cover |
| Three Men Working in Hayfield, Mars Hill, NC | Inside Cover |
| B. W. Payne Family Working Hay, 1981 | 5 |
| Apple Trees, Willow Creek | 10 |
| Gordon Freeman, Holding Fiddle | 18 |
| Barbara Miller At Loom | 27 |
| Andy Bennett Cutting Cane To Make Molasses | 28 |
| James Griffith, Plowing with Horse, Pensecola | 41 |
| Hunter and Ethel Maney Walking To House, Burnsville | 57 |
| Tammy and Amanda Gunter, Cousins on Swing, Sodom, NC | 62 |
| Alice Davis Sitting On Porch, 1983, Grapevine Section of Madison County | 71 |
| Farmland Panorama, Near Independence, VA | 73 |
| Lady Shelling Green Beans | 76 |
| Eugene Worley, Horse, Tobacco Field | 87 |
| Clarence and Patsy Ramsey, On Porch Swing | 92 |
| Family Working Hay, Shelton Laurel | 97 |
| Pearl Gosnell, Spring Cleaning, Paw Paw Section | 100 |
| Malcombe Payne In Doorway of Barn | 105 |
| B. W. Payne and Family Taking Break, 1981 | Inside Back |
| A Madison County Church from a distance | Back Cover |
For eight years, the photographer for this issue, Tim Barnwell, served as executive director of the Appalachian Photographic Workshops in Asheville, North Carolina, and before and since his photographs have graced the pages of virtually every tasteful American magazine from House Beautiful to Newsweek, from Outdoor Photographer to American Craft. His images have hung in the permanent collections of the High Museum in Atlanta, the New Orleans Museum of Art and other fine galleries throughout the country.
The pictures on pages five, twenty-seven, seventy-one and the
inside back cover also appear in The
Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm by Tim Barnwell, published in 2003 by
W.W. Norton of New York City. The rest of the pictures have not
been previously published, but several of these subjects, including
those on pages forty-one and sixty-two, also appear in the book.
Most of the pictures here and in the book were taken in the nineteen
eighties in Madison County, North Carolina, but a few in the
subsequent decades and some in surrounding counties, like the
picture on page forty-one of James Griffith plowing with a horse
in the Pensecola community of Yancey County.