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The Jack Ellis Writers Workshop

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June 21-22, 2024

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In this family history, "Raft Tide and Railroad: How We Lived and Died — Collected Memories and Stories of an Appalachian Family and Its Seventh Son,” Appalachian author, poet, and editor Dr. Edwina Pendarvis, was guided by sage advice from a grandmother, Jet Johnson, known only to her through family stories and photographs. Not long before Johnson was murdered, she asked one of her sons to note the strength [...]

James Still’s Gold Figurines

The James Still Room at Morehead State University houses many of the late author’s manuscripts, photographs, documents, books, poems, and personal memorabilia.  At one time, this collection also included approximately one dozen high-grade gold figurines, standing no more than four inches tall. Still had brought them to Kentucky from an Ashanti village in Africa (now central Ghana). Each figurine represented one aspect of daily life in a small African [...]

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