The article, “Lieutenant (J.G.) Jesse Stuart and the Armed Services Editions” by Dr. James M. Gifford appears in the Spring 2021 edition of Kentucky Humanities magazine. In November 1941, the American Library Association, the American Red Cross, and the United Services Organization formed the [...]
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, May 25 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 pm; book discussion at 2:30 pm. The May selection is Traveling the Underground Railroad: A Visitor’s Guide to More Than 300 Sites by Bruce Chadwick. [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 A Sorrow in Our Heart, Allan W. Eckert #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #5 Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones [...]
#1 Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 Twilight of Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, [...]
“Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there?” These haunting questions posed by William Faulkner in “Absalom, Absalom!” could just as easily be applied to Appalachia. Where is Appalachia? On its surface, that seems [...]
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, April 27 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 p.m; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2021 reading [...]
#1 A Jesse Stuart Reader, Jesse Stuart #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #3 (tie) A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #4 The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #5 What My Heart Wants to Tell, Verna [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #3 (tie) Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones #3 (tie) Cruelly Murdered, Keven McQueen #4 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #5 The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far [...]
Wendell Berry is one of Kentucky’s best-known citizens. He has distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, and philosopher, and, like Jesse Stuart, he is a great conservationist who loves his Kentucky homeland. Berry was born in Louisville on August 5, 1934. He grew up [...]
