Kentucky Books

Incredible short stories based on Appalachia. Compelling mixture of fact and fiction. Highly recommend.

I was recently doing some research on the Palisades Kentucky River and the Locks of the river. I came across this book and was delighted by the work done it in. They cover the Ohio, Big Sand and Little Sandy, Kentucky, Red, Dix all the rivers so loaded with beauty and history.

It's written with love by someone who understands the rivers of a state can be their lifelines.

I highly recommend it for those interested in the off-the-beaten-path. Just a shame pictures could not be included.

loved reading about this. one of my relatives lives in an area with these fences and it was great to know the history

The 6th edition was published in May 2005 by West Publishing. The treatise has been referred to as "the leading authority" on the Kentucky civil rules by the Kentucky Supreme Court and the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Professors Birdwell and Dickinson have compiled and edited a delightful collection of essays that explore the cultural and historical roots of the Upper Cumberland. This area stretches from north to south in mid-Tennessee between Nashville and Knoxville where the mountains start to rise toward the Great Smokies. Anyone who thinks that the inhabitants are prototypes of The Dukes of Hazard will be surprised to read the truth about the music, history, crafts, culture, religion, and habits of a people proud of their heritage and sturdy as the mountains that surround them. The book encompasses Civil War lore, religious revivals, moonshining, music, farming methods, and many more insights into the lives and history of the area. It is at once scholarly and readable (those two characteristics do not always go together) and is a treasure of information for the student of Southern culture as well as an entertainment for the casual reader.

This is an excellent local history book written by a life-long expert on the subject. However, if you want to save $490, Richard and the Friends' still have a stack or two that they will sell you for $10, and the money will actually go to the Friends and the Fort instead of a carpetbagger.

This book has been invaluable to me in helping my child with her math. I recommend it wholeheartedly!

This series of books (Happy Little Family, Up and Down the River, Schoolhouse in the Woods and Schoolroom in the Parlor) is a wonderful set of stories about five children and their adventures. My friends and I affectionately refered to them as the "Bonnie books" and they will be enjoyed by those who love the Little House books, The Saturdays' series, the Sydney Taylor series (All of a Kind Family) and the current American Girl phenomenon. Highly recommended!

School in the Kentucky hills goes from August to the last Friday before Christmas. After that the snows are too high, and later, the thawing rivers too full, for the Fairchild children, and their neighbors, the Wattersons, the Sawyers, and the Huffs to make it safely to the little school house in the woods. Now that Althy is fourteen, Mr. Fairchild has other plans for the long winter months. Learn, along with Bonnie, Debbie, Chris and Emmy, what it is like to have school at home in the early 1900's.

"You see, the way a free government works, there's got to be a housecleaning every now and then." Harry Truman, as cited on the first page of the book. Well, in the U.S. Government, before you get a real housecleaning, it appears you have to build the vacuum cleaner from scratch every few years, and even then you only get the big dirt on the margins. This book is a very important book with all the more value today as we finally get serious about intelligence reform. Loch's professional and extraordinarily detailed account of the entire Church Committee investigation, its findings, White House attempts to avoid reform, and the rather bland outcomes that finally resulted, should be considered the key to understanding where we are today and why we so desperately need legislation to achieve substantive reform. Had Senator Church been chosen by Jimmy Carter as Vice President (Church was favored by the convention, with Mondale and Stevenson tied behind him), who knows what good might have come of his White House service.