Jesse Stuart Weekend
Greenbo Lake State Resort Park
October 3 & 4, 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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A Jesse Stuart Reader
High school teachers and home-school teachers who wish to introduce their students to Jesse Stuart have a unique teaching tool available in “A Jesse Stuart Reader,” reprinted by the Jesse Stuart Foundation in 1988. Originally published in 1963, the book was designed as a classroom text; it consists of eighteen stories, twenty-six poems, and excerpts from three autobiographical books – “God’s Oddling,” “The Thread That Runs So True,” and “The [...]
JSF best sellers ~ Dec. 27-Jan. 2
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg #4 (tie) Cruelly Murdered: The Murder of Mary Magdalene Pitts and Other Kentucky True Crime Stories, Keven McQueen #5 Wilderness Empire, Alan W. Eckert
JSF best sellers ~ Dec. 20-26
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #3 Night Comes to the Cumberlands, Harry M. Caudill #4 (tie) Blue Jacket; War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Alan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Foxfire 10, Eliot Wigginton, et.al., editors #5 (tie) Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert
Improve your mind with a new year reading resolution
New year’s resolutions reflect personal values. Many resolutions relate to our physical being: we resolve to lose weight or start an exercise program. Some resolutions relate to strengthening our spiritual lives, but it seems to me that people should also resolve to improve their minds. In 2021, I encourage you to start a reading program. Watch television less and read more. Toward that end, I invite you to join [...]
JSF best sellers ~ Dec. 13-19
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert#2 Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert#3 The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart#4 Kentucky is My Land, Jesse Stuart#5 True Christmas Stories From the Heart of Appalachia, Gifford, Kidwell, and Onkst, editors