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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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“Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there?” These haunting questions posed by William Faulkner in “Absalom, Absalom!” could just as easily be applied to Appalachia. Where is Appalachia? On its surface, that seems like an easy question to answer. Geographically, Appalachia is a mountain chain that stretches from southern New York to the northern parts of Alabama, Mississippi, [...]
Regional Readers to meet April 27; What My Heart Wants to Tell focus
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, April 27 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 p.m; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2021 reading list. The April selection is What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone. Slone wrote the memoir for her children and grandchildren at [...]
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Wendell Berry is one of Kentucky’s best-known citizens. He has distinguished himself as a poet, essayist, and philosopher, and, like Jesse Stuart, he is a great conservationist who loves his Kentucky homeland. Berry was born in Louisville on August 5, 1934. He grew up in Henry County, attended Millersburg Military Institute, and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kentucky. Like several of his writing friends, [...]