Milner Award established in 1977; previous recipients include Jesse Stuart “This award marks this day as one of the best days of my life. It is the capstone of my career as an educator, author, and publisher. For me, education is a tool for [...]
If you are looking for a Valentine’s Day gift or just a good collection of short-stories, I recommend “Appalachian Love Stories.” Edwina Pendarvis, a nationally recognized scholar and author, and I compiled and edited this collection, which was published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation [...]
New year’s resolutions reflect personal values. Many resolutions relate to our physical being: we resolve to lose weight or start an exercise program. Some resolutions relate to strengthening our spiritual lives, but it seems to me that people should also resolve to improve their [...]
As a gift to The Daily Independent readers, the Jesse Stuart Foundation is pleased to share a story from “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” a collection of true stories from the Library of Congress that celebrates the spirit of Christmas during World War II. [...]
The Jesse Stuart Foundation 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. Mark Maynard, [...]
In 2019, the Jesse Stuart Foundation published “True Christmas Stories From the Heart of Appalachia,” a book that captures the spirit of Christmas in 43 stories by 39 authors. Thirty-five of the stories are from Kentucky and the others are from neighboring states.These stories are [...]
For forty-two years, the Jesse Stuart Foundation has been preserving the human and literary legacy of one of America’s most popular and influential writers. We keep Stuart’s books in print while also advancing the works of other Kentucky and Appalachian writers. With support from [...]
Several years ago, as my tribute to Veterans’ Day, I wrote about Willie Sandlin, Kentucky’s only World War I Medal of Honor recipient. Last year, I wrote a lengthy essay, “In Praise of Appalachian Soldiers,” which was serialized in the Daily Independent. This year, [...]
Best known for his nonfiction work “Night Comes to the Cumberlands,” Harry M. Caudill also wrote fiction, including “Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny Wiley,” first published in 1969 and recently reprinted in a new softback edition by the Jesse Stuart Foundation. [...]
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 [...]
