My friend Billy C. Clark died on March 15, 2009. Since then, I have thought of him often. Memories of long trips together or his fanciful stories supercharged with hyperbole always make me smile. The great eastern Kentucky writer and storyteller began his life [...]
#1 Patriots & Heroes: Eastern Kentucky Soldiers of WWII, Jack D. Ellis #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #4 A Southern Appalachian Reader, Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb, eds #5 (tie) Kentucky Frontiersmen, [...]
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 Patriots & Heroes: Eastern Kentucky Soldiers of WWII, Jack D. Ellis #3 Blue Jacket; War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #4 A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert [...]
Lily May, center, of Coon Creek Girls, c. 1950. Music has always been an essential part of the lives of Appalachian people, who valued their banjos, fiddles, and mandolins almost as much as the family firearms. From the early settlement of eastern Kentucky [...]
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, July 27 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 pm; book discussion at 2:30 pm. The July selection is A Long Row to Hoe by Billy C. Clark. In this fascinating and highly readable [...]
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 Patriots & Heroes: Eastern Kentucky Soldiers of WWII, Jack D. Ellis #3 A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan [...]
#1 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #4 (tie) Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones #4 (tie) Kentucky is My Land, Jesse Stuart #5 Simon Kenton: Kentucky Scout, Thomas D. [...]
Above, HOKC Executive Director Sherry Crose presents the grant award letter to JSF CEO & Senior Editor Dr. James M. Gifford. The Jesse Stuart Foundation is proud to announce it received a $6,300 grant from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (HOKC) to distribute [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 Simon Kenton: Kentucky Scout, Thomas D. Clark #3 (tie) A Sorrow in Our Heart, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #4 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) [...]
One of eastern Kentucky’s greatest heroines, Eula Riley Hall, died May 8 at her home in Craynor (Floyd County), Kentucky. She was 93. Eula Hall was born into Appalachian poverty on the floor of her family’s four-room cabin in Pike County on October 29, [...]
