Kentucky is My Home signing
McCauley to visit Jesse Stuart Foundation to sign copies of new release book
John W. McCauley will be at the foundation offices on Tuesday, June 24, at 1 p.m. McCauley will deliver a 45-minute author talk that will begin at 2:30 p.m. The book signing, author talk, and subsequent meeting of the Regional Readers are free and open to the public.
If you wish to purchase a signed copy of this new book and you are unable to attend the book signing, please call 606-326-1667.
Kentucky is My Home signing with author set
McCauley to visit JSF to sign copies of new release book
John W. McCauley will be at the foundation offices on Tuesday, June 24, at 1 p.m. McCauley will deliver a 45-minute author talk that will begin at 2:30 p.m. The book signing, author talk, and subsequent meeting of the Regional Readers are free and open to the public.
If you wish to purchase a signed copy of this new book and you are unable to attend the book signing, please call 606-326-1667.
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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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