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May 9-10, 2025

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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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Jesse Stuart Junior Books

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Raft Tide and Railroad: How We Lived and Died

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 [...]

By |May 12, 2022|Categories: James M. Gifford|

Performance of Penny’s Worth of Character set for May 17

A "family and friends" performance of A Penny's Worth of Character music/drama will be at Raceland-Worthington High School on May 17. The performance is set for 7 p.m. at the John P. Stephens Cultural Arts Center. Admission is free. The first 50 audience members will receive a free copy of the book, compliments of the Greenup County Farm Bureau and the Jesse Stuart Foundation. This music/drama adaptation is produced by [...]

By |May 12, 2022|Categories: Jesse Stuart Foundation|
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