The Jesse Stuart Foundation proudly presents

The Jack Ellis Writers Workshop

Jesse Stuart Lodge – Greenbo Lake State Resort Park

June 21-22, 2024

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Beyond Dark Hills

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, and he was impressed with what he had heard about the Agrarians, a group of Vanderbilt writers who were more interested in the land than [...]

JSF best sellers ~ July 4-10

#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 #4 (tie) Kentucky is My Land, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) To Teach, To Love, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) Come Gentle Spring, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) [...]

By |July 15, 2022|Categories: Best Sellers|

JSF best sellers ~ June 27-July 3

#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 #5 (tie) White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler

By |July 8, 2022|Categories: Best Sellers|

Jesse Stuart: Personal Reflections

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 Kappes, a Vice President at Morehead State University, Judy B. Thomas, President of the Ashland Oil Foundation, and former state librarian Wayne Onkst, I have [...]

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