The Small-towner : a quarterly magazine.

Library has: Vol. 1, no. 1 (summer 1983) - Vol. 3, no. 3 (April 1986) [except missing Vol. 2, no. 1] bound together.

v.1, n.1 Summer 1983 : An interview with Clarence Brower / Peter Phinny ; Photography / Clark Shutt ; South Manitou: a metaphor for U.S. environmentalists / Elizabeth Edwards ; Poor bugger (fiction) / Alan Coates ; Aesthetic truckin' / Dan Gerber ; Letter about the end of all flesh from California to the snow country (poetry) / Judith Minty ; God's play (poetry) / Dan Gerber ; The housepainters (poetry) / Robert VanderMolen. Recollections (historical photographs).

v.1, n.2 Fall 1983 : On Hansen: holding court / Peter Phinny ; An interview with wildlife artist Rod Lawrence / Peter Phinny ; The business of Leelanau / William Egloff ; A biologist's view of fall (photography) / Robert Karner ; Papa Pete and Gramma Rita / Peter Phinny ; Hemingway: artist in our time / Clyde Henson ; Something fine and human (fiction) / Dan Gerber ; Return (poetry) / Dan Gerber ; A sense of place (poetry) / Judith Minty. Recollections (historical photographs).

v.1, n.3 Winter 1983 : Gus and Paula Leinbach: they've given new meaning to the term outdoor education / Elizabeth Edwards ; In the spirit of his grandfather: an interview with Russell Chatham / Peter Phinny ; Photographs / Kathleen Cole ; Perspectives on the conflicts in Central America: an interview with James Nelson Goodsell / Peter Phinny ; Winter (fiction excerpted for the novel) / Russell Chatham ; The stranger, The ordinary, Firewood, Where we are, Dawn, Elm (poems) / Lucien Stryk. Recollections (historical photographs).

v.1, n.4 Spring 1984 : Combining talents: an interview with Susan and Russell Bolt / Peter Phinny ; Chicago journal: volunteer work in the inner city / Bob Sutherland ; Presidential trivia / Everett Waisanen ; Photographs / Richard Hilton ; The woods along Morrison Road: a maple sugar operation in rural Kalkaska County / Kathleen Prentice, photographs by Elizabeth DeBeliso ; Ralph Ellis and the damned Betsie / Elizabeth Edwards ; Zimmer and the age of zeppelines (poetry) / Paul Zimmer ; The old ways (poetry) / Judith Minty ; Waves (poetry) / Robert VanderMolen ; Elderberry blood (fiction) / William Eastlake.

v.2, n.2 Fall 1984 : An interview with artist Mike McDonnell / Peter Phinny ; Batik painting / Terri Schneider ; Watching the first snow fall, I remember my father (poem) / Nick Bozanic ; Northern lights (poem) / Elizabeth Kerlikowske ; The widow (poem) / Buff Bradley ; Up at dawn, for Susan (poem) / Buff Bradley ; 1916 reminiscences of a north country school teacher / Winifred Wilson Warriner ; Sharon (a short story) / Dan Gerber, illustration by Jack Smith. Small town kitchens: "Pete" Peterson of Ellsworth / Elizabeth Edwards. Recollections: Fountain Point (poem) / Michael Huey.

v.2, n.3 Winter 1984 : A way of seeing: an interview with artist Jack Smith / Marianne Russell ; Photographs / Robert Karner ; Ed Narva: Leelanau County's Conservation Officer / Bruce Matthews ; Traverse area poets: Ice, Confession / Madonna Ballance ; North/Fire / Michael Delp ; Chickadees / Bruce Matthews ; Preacher's kid (excerpted from the novel) / Morgan Gibson. Alternatives: homebirth / Elizabeth Edwards. Small town kitchens: Pam Klingbail / Elizabeth Edwards.

v.2, n.4 May 1985 : A free spirit: an interview with artist Roland Roycraft / Marianne Russell ; The coast: a union of land and water / Elizabeth Edwards ; Poetry: And then there were none / Kwabena Cawarrie -- The other six million, Token / John Ditsky -- House guest / Miriam Pederson -- Calling on a Taoist priest in the Tai-t'ien Mountains but failing to see him / Carl Thayler ; Photographs / Sheila Stafford ; Memorial Day weekend / David E. Edwards ; I got the raspberries: the reminiscences of Louise Bremer / Elizabeth Edwards and Marianne Russell. Connections / Bruce Matthews. Alternatives: Environmental education / Robert Karner. Small towns everywhere: Mikova / Aleksander Choma. Recollections / Elizabeth Edwards.

v.3, n.1 August 1985 : Dinosaur tales: an interview with artist Mark Nelson / Marianne Russell ; The emergence of the symphony orchestra / R.J. Nelson, photographs by Ron Kramer ; Photography / Ray Frodey ; Poetry: Interior of the past, Old white house, Snow, Running of the mice / Tom McKeown ; A special summer, a short story / Tom Huggler ; A cherry picker's journal / Bruce Matthews. Connections / Bruce Matthews. Alternatives: Bioregionalism / Sue Kopka. Recollections: the battle for the bear / Rob Rader.

v.3, n.2 November 1985 : A journey through the creative process: an interview with artist Charles Richter / Marianne Russell ; Rising tides: the eroding shoreline / Elizabeth Edwards ; Poetry: Driving country roads at night, In search of stars / William Shaw -- In the winter after father lost his hand in the combine / Rodney Terreson -- Snowshoeing up / Mary K. Philipp-Petrick ; Jez: a short story / Karen L. Tossey, illustrated by Ruth Van Nice Conklin ; The dancing balloons / Marlene Kindt. Connections / Bruce Matthews. Small towns everywhere: Vermontville: Michigan's link to old New England / Leigh Jackson. Alternatives: Oryana, vegetarianism and the evolution of consciousness / Kathleen Stocking. Profile: Mike Williams: portrait of an ameliorist / Kathleen Stocking. Recollections / Rob Rader.

v.3, n.3 April 1986. An act of faith: an interview with artist Dale Johnson / Marianne Russell ; Having fun first of all: the Baic family / Kathleen Prentice ; Ross Lang: fisherman / Bruce Matthews ; Saved again, a short story / Kathy MIller, illustrated by Lisa Targal Nelles ; Poetry: On the edge of sight / William J. Vernon -- Graves near Birkenfeld, Oregon / Patrick B. Mikulec -- Pond, Sunday morning / Holly Guran ; The Wye March Wildlife Interpretation Centre: a saga / Heather Kirk ; Cabin fever / Gregg Fedchak. Connections / Bruce Matthews. Recollections: the battle for the bear: an update / Elizabeth Edwards.