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Allan Eckert’s Winning of America Series
This Jesse Stuart Foundation best-selling series details accounts of frontiersmen and Native Americans and many dramatic events of the time period. Many years of research went into this popular series that also tells the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement.
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Morehead Memories by Jack Ellis
Fewer words in the English language are more glibly uttered and more misunderstood than the word “history.” American history rests squarely upon a local base. Thomas Jefferson theorized that what happens at the local level of society is more important to the individual than what happens at the national or international level. Kentucky is divided into one hundred and twenty counties, and scores of towns, cities, and crossroad communities. [...]
Jesse Stuart Weekend returns for 2023
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Clark writes of his own astonishingly primitive childhood in “A Long Row to Hoe”
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Regional Readers set for first meeting of 2023 ~ March 28
The Regional Readers book discussion group will meet on Tuesday, March 28 in the former JSF Conference Room (now Right Eye Graphics). Coffee and conversation at 2 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The March selection is Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline by Loretta Lynn. When Loretta Lynn first came to Nashville in 1960 – a broke young mother trying to navigate the [...]