Beginning in 1937, a new book had been tumbling around in Jesse Stuart’s head. It was a book about education—a hymn and personal testimony to the profession of teaching. In 1948, he finished the book, and it was published the following year. “The Thread [...]
Unlike Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, whose novels have appeared on best-seller lists, James Still (1906-2001) never won a popular national audience. He did, however, win many honors and was well praised by a small but select band of supporters until late in his [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #5 Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert [...]
#1 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 Daughter of the Legend, Jesse Stuart #4 That Summer of ’45: A Boy’s Adventure Story, G. Sam Piatt #5 W-Hollow Kitchen Adventure, Glennis Stuart Liles and [...]
My friend Sam Piatt died on June 25 at the age of 88. He was a much-loved man and a much-respected journalist. Like thousands of others in northeastern Kentucky and surrounding areas, I enjoyed his weekly column in The Daily Independent, where he had [...]
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #5 Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. [...]
Ninety years ago, a young man from Kentucky borrowed $150, gathered up his Oliver typewriter, packed a trunk short on clothes and long on manuscript pages, and headed for Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a master’s degree. He was essentially a farmer, [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley, Allan W. Eckert #3 Come Back to the Farm, Jesse Stuart [...]
#1 New Harvest, Jesse Stuart #2 Beyond Dark Hills, Jesse Stuart #3 Bluetick Pig, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Kentucky Women, Eugenia Potter #5 (tie) Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert [...]
In 1985, I moved to Ashland to assume the executive and literary leadership of the Jesse Stuart Foundation, an organization that had been created in 1979, five years before Stuart’s death, to manage his literary estate. With assistance from hundreds of people, including Keith [...]
