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Wit, Wisdom and Other Stuff labeled “storyteller supreme”
The JSF has released Wit, Wisdom & Other Stuff by Keith Kappes. The book is a collection of 125 commentaries Kappes wrote for a variety of community and regional newspapers in eastern Kentucky during his long, award-winning career in journalism.
This new release follows Kappes’ other collection of commentaries, The View From My Keyboard, published by the JSF in 2019.
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Allan Eckert’s Winning of America Series
This Jesse Stuart Foundation best-selling series details accounts of frontiersmen and Native Americans and many dramatic events of the time period. Many years of research went into this popular series that also tells the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement.
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Jesse Stuart Junior Books
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