Additional Reading
- By, L. E. (1985, Jul 28). Where I ought to be: A writer's sense of place: New York Times By Louise Erdrich.New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]28 July 1985: BR1.
Bluegrass craftsman: being the reminiscences of Ebenezer Hiram Stedman. by Call Number: F 455.S78 A3 1959 (Gen Coll.)ISBN: F455.S78 A3 1959Publication Date: 1959
Clear Springs by
In this superb memoir, the bestselling author ofIn Countryand other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker's Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain, and other classic literary memoirs,Clear Springstakes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. Clear Springs is also an American woman's odyssey, exploring how a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer. A multilayered narrative of three generations--Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents--Clear Springsgracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a small rustic schoolhouse. Clear Springs depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century, as well as to Bobbie Ann Mason herself. When the movie of Mason's bestselling novel In Country is filmed near Clear Springs, it brings the first limousines to town, even as it brings out once again the wisdom and values of Mason's remarkable parents. Her mother, especially, stands at the center of this book. Mason's journey leads her to a recognition of the drama and significance of her mother's life and to a new understanding of heritage, place, and family roots. Brilliant and evocative, Clear Springs is a stunning achievement.
Call Number: PS 3563 .A7877 Z77 1999 (Gen Coll.)ISBN: 9780679449256Publication Date: 1999-04-20
Deciduous Forests by
First published in 1950, this text describes in detail the trees and shrubs in the deciduous forests of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It is still widely used as a reference work today.
Call Number: QK 938.F6 B7 2001 (Gen Coll.)ISBN: 9781930665309Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Earth in Mind by
In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human domination; causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they are; overemphasizes success and careers; separates feeling from intellect and the practical from the theoretical; deadens the sense of wonder for the created world. The crisis we face, Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge. The author begins by establishing the grounds for a debate about education and knowledge. He describes the problems of education from an ecological perspective, and challenges the "terrible simplifiers" who wish to substitute numbers for values. He follows with a presentation of principles for re-creating education in the broadest way possible, discussing topics such as biophilia, the disciplinary structure of knowledge, the architecture of educational buildings, and the idea of ecological intelligence. Orr concludes by presenting concrete proposals for reorganizing the curriculum to draw out our affinity for life.
Call Number: GE 70 .O77 2004 (Gen Coll)ISBN: 9781559634953Publication Date: 2004-07-30
Kentucky Women by
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention. Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in Kentucky Women, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky's relationship with the American South and the nation at large. With essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780820347523Publication Date: 2015-04-15
“In My Own Country”, essay, Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community by Call Number: Accessible with Transy username and passwordISBN: 9780813140964Publication Date: 2013-03-12
Kentucky Resources
George Ella Lyon
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Former Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon talks about "Where I'm
From" poem and project.
- George Ella Lyon--"Where I'm From"“Where I'm From” grew out of my response to a poem from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet (Orchard Books, 1989; Theater Communications Group, 1991) by my friend, Tennessee writer Jo Carson. All of the People Pieces, as Jo calls them, are based on things folks actually said..." --G. Lyon
- Radio Interview: National Writing Project--The I Am From ProjectSummary: This conversation with George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman, hosts of the I Am From Project, is about countering divisions of race, culture, and background through poetry, artwork, videos, music, and dance.
Elkhorn Creek reveals its past: A mammoth, a massacre, a famous painter and more.
Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor talks about his new book about Elkhorn Creek, near where he lives. The book was recently named the best new book about Kentucky of the year.
Paul Sawyier
Online resources and image galleries
Paul Sawyier, one of Kentucky's most renowned artists, was an American impressionist painter who depicted scenes of New York and Frankfort, KY.
NPR: Memories of Home--Call for poems
NPR Host, Rachel Martin, and poet, Kwame Alexander, join together to solicit poems from their listeners about where they are from. During their show they read from George Ella Lyon's Where I'm From poem to help listeners get an idea of the types of poems they are seeking for submission.
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