Bloodied but unbowed
Jesse Stuart’s unwelcomed homecoming turned violent in 1938
Eighty-three years have passed since the scarring episode with a local constable at a Greenup drug store, and some mystery still remains.
Read more about this story and many other chapters in Jesse Stuart: An Extraordinary Life.
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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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The Orphan Trains
In the 1800s and early 1900s, waves of immigrants came to American cities to escape famine or persecution in their home countries. On New York’s Lower East Side, mostly Irish and Italians were packed into airless, crowded tenements or makeshift shelters, where they lived in extreme poverty. Under these miserable conditions, diseases spread quickly, making orphans of many children. Other children were placed in orphanages by parents who could no [...]
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
Cynthia Rylant is an author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children. Rylant is a prolific author who often bases her works on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains. She is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction, and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, collections of short stories, [...]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s massive achievements tower over the twentieth century
For more than four years, I have been working on a collection of essays about the depression decade in eastern Kentucky. That work has intensified my interest in Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. With a presidential election imminent, I thought my readers would enjoy reading more about the Roosevelts. The president is the central person in the American political system. That would seem to contradict the intentions [...]
Red Helmet takes an inside look at coal mining
With his past series of books set in Coalwood, West Virginia, New York Times best-selling author Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of a huge national readership. His novel, Red Helmet, takes an inside look at coal mining, from shoveling gob to negotiating international trade deals, through the lens of modern romance. A half-Korean New York rich girl turned takeover specialist for her Daddy’s company, [...]
Mr. Gallion’s School illustrates importance of school
Education was a calling for Jesse Stuart. In his books he portrays the teacher as a devoted nurturer, an advocate, and a liberator, rescuing children and their families from decline, illiteracy, social decay, or economic instability. “We educate our people or we perish,” he often said. Stuart recounts his experiences as a teacher, principal, superintendent, educational reformer, lecturer, and ambassador for education in his books. Beyond Dark Hills, his autobiography [...]