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Recommended for Christmas!

True Christmas Stories From the Heart of Appalachia

Publishing by the JSF in 2019 and a great Christmas Gift for an adult, “True Christmas Stories From the Heart of Appalachia” is a full-color, 216-page book that captures the spirit of Christmas in 43 stories by 39 authors.

Another World: Ballet Lessons from Appalachia

This boundary-crossing JSF new release by Edwina Pendarvis views ballet through the eyes of twenty-four Appalachian women — most from the Tri-State area — who began their ballet lessons in childhood.

Free book with any order over $50.00!

Nov. 25 through Dec. 31: Receive a copy of Appalachian Christmas Stories with any website order over $50.00.

SHIPPING NOTE: To receive shipments by Christmas, please place online orders by Dec. 17. Contact the JSF directly at 606.326.1667 for express shipping options.

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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.

Shop any of the 6 books in the series below, or BUY THE WHOLE SET!

Jesse Stuart Junior Books

Shop this popular book set for the young reader!

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#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 Patriots & Heroes: Eastern Kentucky Soldiers of WWII, Jack D. Ellis #3 A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert

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Kentucky Colonels awards grant to JSF

Above, HOKC Executive Director Sherry Crose presents the grant award letter to JSF CEO & Senior Editor Dr. James M. Gifford. The Jesse Stuart Foundation is proud to announce it received a $6,300 grant from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (HOKC) to distribute a copy of Patriots & Heroes: Eastern Kentucky Soldiers of WWII by Jack D. Ellis to 300 underserved public and high school libraries across Kentucky. [...]

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JSF best sellers ~ June 7-13

#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 Simon Kenton: Kentucky Scout, Thomas D. Clark #3 (tie) A Sorrow in Our Heart, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #4 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones #5 (tie) The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) A Penny’s Worth of Character, [...]

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One of eastern Kentucky’s greatest heroines, Eula Riley Hall, died May 8 at her home in Craynor (Floyd County), Kentucky. She was 93. Eula Hall was born into Appalachian poverty on the floor of her family’s four-room cabin in Pike County on October 29, 1927. When she was 14 – just out of middle school – she went to work in a boarding house, cleaning and cooking for miners.  [...]

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