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.