Vol 1  No. 2 The Furniture Pioneers: a history of the firm of Powers and Ball as told in the letters of Ebenezer Ball Gordon Olson Consumers Ice Company and the Ice Industry in Grand Rapids K.A. Zuris and Dorothy Ebersole And Still Going:  Grand Rapids Centennial Business: The Waddell Manufacturing Co. George A. Whinnery, Jr. The Grand Rapids Cookbook Made in the Valley: Cyrus Shigley and his Multiphone John H. Perschbacher Living History in the Grand River Valley: Coit Elementary School Corrinne Carey and Fred Conover
Vol 2  No. 2      1981 The America Letters:  Letters from Immigrants in America to the Homeland Herb Brinks Pounding a Typewriter, Punching a Clock, women at work, 1870-1920 Lynn G. Mapes and Anthony Travis A Sampler of Heritage  Hill Wallcoverings Catherine Stryker Recollections of the Hannah Floral Company W. Harold Hannah
Vol 4  No. 1    1983 The Polar Bears, A Memoir Godfrey Anderson Wizard of Grand Rapids, the Russel Kirkhof saga Reid Holland The Happiness of Singing Birds Newly found document by Simon Pokagon, leader of the Patawatomis in the late 1800s
Vol 4  No. 2    1983   The Polanders Eduard Skendzel The Great Log Jam of `83 Gordon Olson Gardens of Sepulture (cemeteries, tombstones, and monuments) Robin Roberts
Vol 5  No. 1     1984 An Ancient and Honorable Game: Curling in Grand Rapids James Van Vulpen The Community on the Bluff: the Belknap-Lookout neighborhood Richard Kurzhals Images of West Michigan Railroad History Art Gibson
Vol 5  No. 2      1985 Steamboats and River Landings Donald Linebaugh The Mound Builders of the Grand River Valley Gordon Olson Weathermen in Khaki, reminiscences of a student in Grand Rapids Weather School in World War II Wilton G. Hawes
Vol 6  No. 2    1986 Images from Life, early photographers in Grand Rapids Gordon Olson “Dearest Friend”  Mary Allen Hulbert Peck, friend of Woodrow Wilson James Stanford Bradshaw
Vol 7  No. 1     1987 A Few Idle Moments Floating the Grand (Sketches and Journal of the Fitch family's 1889 trip down the Grand is published for the first time in our magazine) Cadette Everett Fitch, edited by Gordon Olson Childhood Memories of the Grand Margaret Mead Gunn, who grew up on the Grand River by North Park Wildflower Collections Recall the Past Betty Mattson.
Vol 7  No. 2      1987 “A Full, Appreciative, and Delighted Audience” 120 Years of Opera in Grand Rapids Gilbert R. Davis First Light Nibbles, Fishing Lures Made in Grand Rapids Paul Lindner Fallesburg at 150 Debra Moore
Vol 8   No. 1      1988 The Braumeisters of Old Grand Rapids Wilhelm Seeger The University of Grand Rapids: 1936-1945 David Aussicker
Vol 8  No. 2      1989 Grand Rapids Theatre: The Early Years Gary Konow Grand Rapids Furniture in the White House James Stanford
Vol 9  No. 1 and 2     1990 Handmade in Grand Rapids: Using hand-decorating techniques perfected by European craftsmen during the Renaissance, local furniture makers revived a dying art. John Beckwith Above and Beyond  (special medical experiment in 1901) Gordon Olson
Vol 10  No. 1     1991 Churches, Temples, Courthouses and More: the Architecture of Osgood and Osgood Richard Harms Summer in the Park, Ramona Park Nate Diedrich
Vol 10  No. 2     1992 Dear Parents: Letters from the Front-A Civil War Soldier's Letters Home Paul Leavenworth Mme. Lipczynski-Queen of the Poles  Eduard Adam Skendzel Tracking Luther Lincoln, an early settler Fred Van Hartesveldt Musing on Landscapes Ronald Jager
Vol 12      1995 Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council and Legacy Many Hats Mary Seeger The Voices of Ottawa Women in Western Michigan History James McClurken A Conversation with Helen Jackson Claytor edited by Mary Lu Sulentich A Woman of Letters, Constance Rourke Jo Ellyn Clarey Invisible Journeys a one-act play written for Legacy by Jean Reed Bahle Arab Women: Dispelling the Myths Karen Henry Sources for Women's History at the Grand Rapids Public Library Claudia Derda Vanderstelt
Vol 13     1996 The Game of Bat, Ball, and Wicket Tom Melville A Marine Veteran Remembers Korea Peter F. Lydens Early Days in Wyoming Township Fred van Hartesveldt, Jr. Another Link in the Great Interurban Chain Gordon Olson
Vol 14  1997 Grand Rapids Boy: the Early Years of Arthur Vandenberg Henk Meijer University of the People: the Legacy of the Grand Rapids Public Library Katherine Gould Carl Forslund, Jr.:  Army Artist Gordon Olson Down on the  Farm: a Memoir Marva Hathaway Jane Idema Receives Albert Baxter Award Gloria Barsey Slykhouse and Vernis L. Schad
Vol 16      1999 Lithuanian Roots in Grand Rapids Edward Gillis The Sweetest Store in Michigan Howard Silbar Escaping “La Miseria,”  The story of Grand Rapids First Italian Residents Scott Noto Beans Risinger:  All-American Pitcher Jim Sargent
Vol 18      2001 The Civil War Diaries of Rebecca Richmond Gordon Olson Max Kortlander: King of the Player Piano Lee Barnett The Dutch in West Michigan: The Impact of a Contractual Community Robert Swierenga
Vol 19      2002 Far From the Fatherland: German Prisoners of War in West Michigan Sandra K. Hines Greetings From Uncle Chris: postcards from Grand Rapids Ryan Jeltema The People's Park: story of John Ball Park Rebecca Smith Hoffman
Vol 20      2003 From Private Lyceum to Public Museum: The changing role of the Grand Rapids Public Museum Gordon Olson From Bekaa to the Grand: the Lebanese Community of Grand Rapids, 1890-1940 Erin Berg, Justin Derdowski, Evan Murphy and Diane O'Neill St Cecilia Music Society: a Community Treasure Ellen Arlinsky
Vol 21      2004 “Behind Every Good Man . . . .”   The Legacy of Fannie Boylon, Home Designer Marcella Beck The Mustache Saga, analysis of the 1966 racial controversy at South High School Todd Robinson John Ball: Pathfinder Gordon Olson