What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) Finalist, 2022 Weatherford Award for Nonfiction, Berea College and Appalachian Studies Association Drawing from her work as the West Virginia State Folklorist, Emily Hilliard explores contemporary […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky in the War of 1812: The Governor, the Farmers and the Pig (History Press 2023) details just how instrumental in kickstarting, maintaining, fighting, ending, and negotiating the treaty Kentucky was. From Henry Clay’s War Hawks to his roll at the Treaty […]
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? It is my belief that basketball fans will benefit from the book and enjoy hearing about my place in Transylvania basketball history, but I think anyone who enjoys reading memoirs will find this book a tremendous read. My co-author, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My first book and my only book for this event, “Waste into Taste: turning scraps into delicious dishes.” Creativity is taking a second look at something. For me, some of my best and most loved dishes resulted from this practice. In Waste […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My latest book, The Back Page, collects 12 years of back page essays that I’ve written for Kentucky Living magazine, a monthly publication of Kentucky Electric Cooperatives. Kentucky Living has the largest circulation of any print publication in Kentucky, and the essays […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Louisville Gambling Barons discusses Louisville when the city experienced the golden age of gambling between 1860 through 1885, thanks to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers by steamboat and later railroads. Entire city blocks were devoted to betting. Horse […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? First will be my newest book – James Harrod, Founder of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. This is only the second book ever written about Harrodsburg’s founding father. A pioneer, a soldier, and a visionary, in 1774 James Harrod founded the oldest, permanent American settlement […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? You will find a copy of my first and only book to date, Exiled- the Climax and Surrender of Jimmy Stokley by Bill Luxon. This first-hand account follows the beginning of the Exiles, a local rock-n-roll band and its decades-long climb to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Common Wealth of Kentucky Project was written and produced by Beth Pride and Kentucky artist Kelly Brewer. It is a time capsule of the inspirational and powerful journey across the state, painting Kentuckians from life and recording and telling their […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Tula Pendleton: The Life and Work of a Forgotten Southern Writer is the story of a woman born in a Kentucky village in 1872 who became a successful short story writer in the 1910s. But tragically, as Tula’s career blossomed, her husband became […]
YOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of freedom fighters? Step back in time to face the challenges and decisions that real people faced […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (Ferris and Ferris Books, 2023). My new book tells the story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran […]