David Crocket / A Narrative of the life of David Crockett, of the State of Tenessee - Mary Noailles Murfree / "First and their ways" - Opie Read / "The tear in the cup" - Merrill Moore / foreword to the Golden Mean and other poems - Twelve Southerners / I´ll take my stand: The South and the Agrarian tradition - Allien Tate / The migration - Donald Davidson / "On a Replica of the Parthenon" - Langston Hughes / The big see - Robert Penn Warren / At Heaven´s Gate - Alfred Leland Crabb / Home to the Hermitage - Randall Jarrell / "The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division" - Walter Sullivan / The long, Long love - Ralph McGill / "Formaldehyde and poetry" - James Dickey / "False youth: two seasons" - Robert Hayden / "Mystery boy" looks for kin in Nashville" - Bowen Ingram / Milbry - Andrew Nelson Lytle / A wake for the living - Jesse Wills / "Remembrances for D.D." - Peter Taylor / "In the miro District" - Tom T. Hall / The storyteller´s Nashville" - Madison Smartt bell / "Triptych 2" - Julius Lester / All is well - V.S. Naipul / A trun in the south - Alan Cheuse / Sources of Country Music" - Lee Smith / The devil´s dream - Jay McInerney / "The termite inspector" - John Berendt / "High-Helle Neil" - A. Manette Ansay / "Why I don´t like poetry" - Diann Blakely / "History" - Mark Jarman / "The past from the air" - Madison Jones / Nashville 1864; the dying of the light.