Jesse Stuart Weekend
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October 3 & 4, 2025
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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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Night Comes to the Cumberlands
When Harry Caudill, a recipient of the Purple Heart, returned to Kentucky after serving as an infantry soldier during World War II, he resumed his studies at the University of Kentucky. Later, he graduated from law school and returned home to Whitesburg, Kentucky, to practice law. His deep commitment to improving the quality of life in eastern Kentucky took him into the political arena, and he served in the [...]
Billy C. Clark, the chronicler of the Big Sandy Valley
Billy C. Clark began life in storybook fashion. On December 29, 1928, Bertha Clark, who was pregnant with her seventh child, went to Huntington, West Virginia, to shop for second-hand clothes for her six children. While shopping, she experienced labor pains. Quickly gathering her purchases, she boarded a streetcar and headed home. One thought occupied her mind: she was determined that her child would not be born a “foreigner.” [...]
“Jesse Stuart: An Extraordinary Life”
The late Poet Laureate of Kentucky, Jesse Hilton Stuart, published 2,000 poems, 460 short stories, and more than 60 books. Yet his contributions are more than literary. During his life, this important educator and charismatic author served as a leader for the people of his mountain homeland and as a spokesman for their values. His life and works still attract hundreds of tourists to eastern Kentucky every year. Jesse’s [...]
32 Votes Before Breakfast
In these twenty tales about rural politics in Appalachia, collected in his book “32 Votes Before Breakfast,” Jesse Stuart reminds us that there’s nothing new about political conflict and intrigue.One of these stories follows Mose Winthrop, the Kentucky moonshiner who charters a bus to take a group of his best customers on a trip to Chicago to cheer their Wildcats to victory. Influenced by partaking liberally of his own “herbs,” [...]
Jesse Stuart’s Short Stories
In his short stories, the late author Jesse Stuart (1906-1984) reshaped W-Hollow into a fictional place that became part of the American imagination. His stories helped to define the Appalachian world for generations of American readers, beginning in the late 1930s and continuing to today. Stuart’s fictional world – like his real world – was the hills, hollows, and small farms of northeastern Kentucky. Readers entered an outdoor world [...]