In the 1930s and ’40s, Peebles, Ohio, was a sleepy farm town populated by good-natured, hard-working, religious and patriotic people who represent the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps ethos of rural Appalachia. And those people form the backdrop for A Book of Matches: The Life, Murder [...]
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, October 26 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. The October selection is The Enduring [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert#2 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert#3 The Enduring Hills, Janice Holt Giles#4 Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert#5 Johnny Logan: The True Story of a Shawnee Who Became a U.S. Spy, Allan W. Eckert [...]
#1 Sergeant Sandlin: Kentucky’s Forgotten Hero, James M. Gifford#2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart#3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert#4 Trail of the Hunter’s Horn, Billy C. Clark#5 That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley, Allan W. Eckert [...]
In the fall of 1938, Jesse Stuart arrived in Greenup after a year of studying and writing abroad. A large delegation of friends and family met him at the train station, and many inquired about his plans. Jesse told them that he expected to [...]
#1 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Miss Willie, Janice Holt Giles #4 (tie) Strength From the Hills, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) Twilight of Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys – The True Story, Dean King #3 (tie) The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #3 (tie) The Hunters of Kentucky, Ted Franklin Belue #3 (tie) The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse [...]
In his 1956 autobiography, “The Year of My Rebirth,” Jesse Stuart makes brief mention of the mid-nineteenth century murder of “Nick” Nickapopolis, a pack peddler who worked W-Hollow on a monthly basis in the 1850s. Little is known of “Nick”—the people of W-Hollow did [...]
#1 Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones #2 The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart #3 Warrior Woman, James Alexander Thom #4 Follow the River, James Alexander Thom #5 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert
One-room school life inspired two famous books by Kentucky authors. “The Thread That Runs So True” by Jesse Stuart is a nationally recognized autobiographical novel. Not as well-known but even more interesting is Janice Holt Giles’ novel, “Miss Willie,” set in the hills of [...]
