Foreword by Lorraine McConaghy
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: About Being a Local Historian
Call: Not for a Test, but History for Life, Response: Spencer Downing
Call: Perambulation, Response: Aaron Sachs
Call: Inappropriate Questions, Response: James L. Baggett
Call: What We Tell the Youngsters, Response: Kate Betz
Call: We Are Not Journalists, Response: Jeffrey J. Kollath
Call: Local Knowledge, Response: Mary Alexander
Call: Abby Hemenway, Response: Rebecca Conard
Call: Water Buffalos, Wildebeests, and Gazelles, Response: Robert B. Townsend
Call: Educating Our "Other" Audiences, Response: Karen Graham Wade
Call: The Local History Apprentice, Response: Kate Tiller
Call: Millenialism, Response: Robert Richmond
Call: Taking the Prize, Response: Donald P. Zuris
Call: History's Long Rangers, Response: Michael Potaski
Call: Retiring Sorts, Response: Richard L. Williams
Chapter 2: The Clay for Our Wheels and the Pots We Make
Call: Getting Involved, Response: Allyn Lord
Call: Out of the Closet, Response: Paul Landry
Call: The Clipping Point, Response: Scott Muir Stroh III
Call: An Ode to Scrapbooks, Response: Kelly Nolin
Call: The Envelope Please, Response: K. Allison Wickens
Call; Replevin, Response: Galen R. Wilson
Call: Local History and the Underground Railroad, Response: Dina Bailey and Richard C. Cooper
Call: The Hall's in Your Court(house), Response: James D. Folts
Call: Down for the Count, Response: Lila Teresa Church
Call: Small Changes, Response: Darlene Roth
Call: Rethinking Local History, Response: Bruce Teeple
Call: Around and About, Response: William L. Lang
Call: Recording the Home Front, Response: Courtney L. Tollison
Call: To Blog or Not to Blog, Response: Kate Theimer
Chapter 3: Mingled Yarn
Call: Community Education, Response: Lynne Ireland
Call: Seeking Diversity, Response: Patricia Williams Lessane
Call: History Tents, Response: Linda W. Chapin
Call: Travel at Home, Response: Janet Vaughan
Call: Travel at Home (Redux), Response: Amy H. Wilson
Call: In Memoriam: Quite a Decade (Prelude and Postscript), Response; Jessica Dorman
Call: Acts of Nature and Other Disturbing Events, Response: Beverly C. Tyler
Call: When All is Lost, Response: Alice Parman
Call: The Poor are Always Among Us, Response: Robert Archibald
Call: What's in a Name, Response: Mary E. Montgomery
Chapter 4: Truth and Consequences
Call: When Not Being Wrong is Not Good Enough, Response: Constantine Dillon
Call: Ducking, Bobbing, and Looking Away, Response: Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Call: Unintended Consequences, Response: Joe Meehan
Call: Making it Up, Response: Tim Grove
Call: Truth and Fiction, Response: Mark T. Mannette
Call: Just All the Facts, Ma'am, Just Not All the Facts, Response: Annette Atkins
Chapter 5: Words in Stone
Call: History for Our Times, Response: David A. Janssen
Call: In Context, Response: Paige Lilly
Call: Local History's Audience, Response: J. Kent Calder and Thomas A. Mason
Call: Community History, Response: Stephen L. Cox
Call: The Things We Ignore, Response: Philip V. Scarpino
Call: To Note or Not to Note, Response: Chris Brewer
Call: Defining the Field, Response: Matthew Gibson
Chapter 6: Work and Play in History's Sandbox
Call: A Fourteen-Step Program for Local History, Response: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Call: Clanking of Canes: A Survey of North American State and Local History, Response: Burt Logan
Call: The Future of Historical Societies, Response: James M. Vaughan
Call: An Abundance of History, Response: Lisa Anderson
Call: Cultural Tourism, Response: Carolyn Brackett
Call: In the Company of Our Peers, Response: Janice B. Klein
Call: The Importance of a Good Chair, Response: Tobi Voigt
Call: Out of the Box and Into the Fray, Response: Katherine D. Kane
Call: Tripping over History, Response: Lawrence J. Yerdon
Call: Radio Waves, Response: Stan Deaton
Call: Random Acts, Response: Cynthia Cardona Melendez
Call: Into the Archive, Response: Kathleen D. Roe
Call: On Boards, Response: Kent Whitworth
Call: Being On Board, Response: Kathleen M. O'Leary
Title/Author index
Subject index
About the Authors
