Secrecy vs. rights -- Contempt for small places -- Rugged individualism -- We have begun -- Some notes for the Kerry campaign, if wanted -- Compromise hell! -- Charlie Fisher -- Imagination in place -- The way of ignorance -- The purpose of a coherent community -- Quantity vs. form -- Renewing husbandry -- Agriculture from the roots up -- Local knowledge in the age of information -- The burden of the Gospels -- Letter to Daniel Kemmis -- Daniel Kemmis replies -- The working wilderness: a call for a land health movement / by Courtney White