diff --git a/lib/XRay/Formats/Mf2.php b/lib/XRay/Formats/Mf2.php
index 47d5903..7023f1b 100644
--- a/lib/XRay/Formats/Mf2.php
+++ b/lib/XRay/Formats/Mf2.php
@@ -617,10 +617,15 @@ class Mf2 extends Format {
     // If the value is an h-* object with a URL, the URL is used and a "ref" is added as well
     self::collectArrayURLValues(['photo','video','audio','syndication'], $item, $data, $refs, $http);
 
-    // If there is a description, always return the plaintext description, and return HTML description if it's different
-    $description = self::parseHTMLValue('description', $item);
-    if($description) {
-      $data['description'] = $description;
+    // If there is a description, always return the plaintext content, and return HTML content if it's different
+    $content = self::parseHTMLValue('content', $item);
+    if($content) {
+      $data['content'] = $content;
+    } else {
+      // Fall back to looking for "description"
+      $content = self::parseHTMLValue('description', $item);
+      if($content)
+        $data['content'] = $content;
     }
 
     $data['post-type'] = \p3k\XRay\PostType::discover($data);
diff --git a/tests/ParseTest.php b/tests/ParseTest.php
index 474c388..141b7fb 100644
--- a/tests/ParseTest.php
+++ b/tests/ParseTest.php
@@ -498,10 +498,10 @@ class ParseTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
     $this->assertEquals($url, $data['data']['url']);
     $this->assertEquals('2016-03-09T18:30', $data['data']['start']);
     $this->assertEquals('2016-03-09T19:30', $data['data']['end']);
-    $this->assertStringStartsWith("Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...", $data['data']['description']['text']);
-    $this->assertStringEndsWith("See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.",  $data['data']['description']['text']);
-    $this->assertStringStartsWith("<p>Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...</p>", $data['data']['description']['html']);
-    $this->assertStringEndsWith('<p>See the <a href="http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter">Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1</a> for a description of the first meeting.</p>', $data['data']['description']['html']);
+    $this->assertStringStartsWith("Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...", $data['data']['content']['text']);
+    $this->assertStringEndsWith("See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.",  $data['data']['content']['text']);
+    $this->assertStringStartsWith("<p>Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...</p>", $data['data']['content']['html']);
+    $this->assertStringEndsWith('<p>See the <a href="http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter">Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1</a> for a description of the first meeting.</p>', $data['data']['content']['html']);
   }
 
   public function testEventWithTextDescription() {
@@ -518,9 +518,28 @@ class ParseTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
     $this->assertEquals($url, $data['data']['url']);
     $this->assertEquals('2016-03-09T18:30', $data['data']['start']);
     $this->assertEquals('2016-03-09T19:30', $data['data']['end']);
-    $this->assertStringStartsWith("Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...", $data['data']['description']['text']);
-    $this->assertStringEndsWith("See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.", $data['data']['description']['text']);
-    $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('html', $data['data']['description']);
+    $this->assertStringStartsWith("Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...", $data['data']['content']['text']);
+    $this->assertStringEndsWith("See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.", $data['data']['content']['text']);
+    $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('html', $data['data']['content']);
+  }
+
+  public function testEventWithTextContent() {
+    $url = 'http://source.example.com/h-event-text-content';
+    $response = $this->parse(['url' => $url]);
+
+    $body = $response->getContent();
+    $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
+    $data = json_decode($body, true);
+    $this->assertEquals('mf2+html', $data['source-format']);
+    $this->assertEquals('event', $data['data']['type']);
+    $this->assertEquals('event', $data['data']['post-type']);
+    $this->assertEquals('Homebrew Website Club', $data['data']['name']);
+    $this->assertEquals($url, $data['data']['url']);
+    $this->assertEquals('2016-03-09T18:30', $data['data']['start']);
+    $this->assertEquals('2016-03-09T19:30', $data['data']['end']);
+    $this->assertStringStartsWith("Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...", $data['data']['content']['text']);
+    $this->assertStringEndsWith("See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.", $data['data']['content']['text']);
+    $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('html', $data['data']['content']);
   }
 
   public function testEventWithHCardLocation() {
diff --git a/tests/data/source.example.com/h-event-text-content b/tests/data/source.example.com/h-event-text-content
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4722816
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/source.example.com/h-event-text-content
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Server: Apache
+Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 03:29:14 GMT
+Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
+Connection: keep-alive
+
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Homebrew Website Club</title>
+  </head>
+  <body class="h-event">
+    <h2 class="p-name">Homebrew Website Club</h2>
+
+    <a href="/h-event-text-content" class="u-url">permalink</a>
+
+    <time class="dt-start" datetime="2016-03-09T18:30">March 9, 6:30pm</time> - <time class="dt-end" datetime="2016-03-09T19:30">7:30pm</time>
+
+    <div class="p-content">
+      <p>Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...</p>
+      <p>See the <a href="http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter">Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1</a> for a description of the first meeting.</p>
+    </div>
+
+  </body>
+</html>