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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.

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Jesse Stuart Junior Books

Shop this popular book set for the young reader!

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Regional Readers group meeting Nov. 28

The Regional Readers book discussion group will meet on Tuesday, November 28 in the former JSF Conference Room (now Right Eye Graphics). Lunch and conversation at 1 p.m.; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The November selection is Missing Christmas: My Life in the Depression and World War II by Jack D. Ellis. Ellis was one of almost 16 million soldiers who answered our country’s call during World War II.  [...]

Best Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

The Jesse Stuart Foundation has recently reprinted an attractive soft cover edition of “The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart,” a collection of 34 stories with an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. First published in 1982, this was the last Stuart book during the noted author’s lifetime – although several have been published since his death on February 17, 1984. The stories in this volume reveal the broad range [...]

Missing Christmas

Following World War I, our nation entered a decade of national prosperity.  Businesses flourished, and the standard of living rose.  Jobs were plentiful and Americans were better fed, clothed, and housed than they had ever been before.  During the “Golden Twenties,” Americans also experienced profound changes in societal and moral values.  Our nation became more urban and industrial, and the protestant ethic was replaced, in many places, by a [...]

By |October 24, 2023|Categories: Appalachia, Jesse Stuart Foundation|

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 [...]

By |October 9, 2023|Categories: Appalachia, James M. Gifford|
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