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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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Jesse Stuart: Immortal Kentuckian
The late Poet Laureate of Kentucky, Jesse Hilton Stuart, published 2,000 poems, 460 short stories, and more than 60 books. He was one of Appalachia’s best known and most anthologized authors, and his works have been translated into many foreign languages. In 1976, eight years before his death, the editors of Country Gentleman magazine boldly proclaimed that Jesse Stuart was “America’s most famous chronicler of rural life.” Yet his [...]
Naomi Deane Stuart
“A perfect woman, nobly planned . . .” —William Wordsworth Jesse Stuart and Naomi Deane Norris met as Greenup High School students in the mid-1920s. When Deane saw Jesse, a “timid-looking new boy from the country,” she was unimpressed with his patched sweaters and rough accent. There was no hint whatsoever of their future romance.1 Despite their vast differences, though, they found themselves seriously dating within a decade. Jesse [...]
Regional Readers group meeting Oct. 31
The Regional Readers book discussion group will meet on Tuesday, October 31 in the former JSF Conference Room (now Right Eye Graphics).Coffee and conversation at 2 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The October selection is A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South by Ben Montgomery. After moonrise on the cold night of January 21, [...]
“The Thread That Runs So True” treasured by teachers throughout the world
Beginning in 1937, a new book had been tumbling around in Jesse Stuart’s head. It was a book about education—a personal testimony to the teaching profession. In 1948, he finished the book, and it was published the following year. “The Thread That Runs So True,” a classic of educational philosophy and educational history, is treasured by teachers throughout the world. It is the autobiographical story of Jesse Stuart’s first [...]
Jesse Stuart and WWII: A Family Goes to War
World War II had been underway a little more than two years when Japan’s savage attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, plunged America into the global conflict. Early the following year, Jesse Stuart, nearly 36 with a pregnant wife, tried to enlist in the army but failed the physical. Like millions of American men, he wanted to serve his country and defend his family and his freedoms. Two [...]