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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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Another World: Ballet Lessons from Appalachia
After five years of intense research and thoughtful writing, Jesse Stuart Foundation Board Member Edwina Pendarvis has published “Another World: Ballet Lessons from Appalachia.” This boundary-crossing book views ballet through the eyes of twenty-four Appalachian women — most from the Tri-State area — who began their ballet lessons in childhood. Ballet is not a dance form people generally associate with Appalachia, but it is central to the lives of [...]
Book reprints, Writers Workshop on agenda for 2024
For more than four decades, the Jesse Stuart Foundation has been preserving the human and literary legacy of one of America’s most popular and influential writers. We have published more than 155 books, keeping Stuart’s books in print while also advancing the works of other Kentucky and Appalachian writers. With support from friends like you, the JSF has made important literature available to several generations of readers. As we [...]
Regional Readers group meeting Nov. 28
The Regional Readers book discussion group will meet on Tuesday, November 28 in the former JSF Conference Room (now Right Eye Graphics). Lunch and conversation at 1 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The November selection is Missing Christmas: My Life in the Depression and World War II by Jack D. Ellis. Ellis was one of almost 16 million soldiers who answered our country’s call during World War II. [...]
Best Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart
The Jesse Stuart Foundation has recently reprinted an attractive soft cover edition of “The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart,” a collection of 34 stories with an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. First published in 1982, this was the last Stuart book during the noted author’s lifetime – although several have been published since his death on February 17, 1984. The stories in this volume reveal the broad range [...]
Missing Christmas
Following World War I, our nation entered a decade of national prosperity. Businesses flourished, and the standard of living rose. Jobs were plentiful and Americans were better fed, clothed, and housed than they had ever been before. During the “Golden Twenties,” Americans also experienced profound changes in societal and moral values. Our nation became more urban and industrial, and the protestant ethic was replaced, in many places, by a [...]