Beyond dark hills,: A personal story

Beyond Dark Hills was originally written by Jesse Stuart as a graduate school assignment at Vanderbilt University. Assigned to write an 18 page personal narrative, he turned in 322 pages about a seemingly simple farm boy and his family. His professor said, "I have been teaching for forty years and I have never read anything so...beautiful, tremendous and powerful..."  Stuart shares with the reader all his youthful anxieties as he prepares for life and then ventures forth on his own. He freely shares his frustrations and successes, as he examines the forces that mold and shape him into a worldfamous author and educator.

Stuart, Jesse

McGraw=Hill

The author of this book:Jesse Stuart and Joe Clark's photographic essay of the town Lynchburg, located where the Blue grass country meets the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Known for the Jack Daniel distillery, the townspeople are loyal to their employer and to each other. But they are also "close-to-the land" people who farm, raise livestock , and enjoy diversions which have nothing at all to do with the distillery. For the most part. it is their lives outside of working hours that Clark and Stuart have chosen to reflect.

Up the Hollow from Lynchburg

Arts & Photography

Clark, Joe

Photography & Video

Jesse Stuart Foundation

The world of Jesse Stuart: Selected poems

The Kingdom Within: A Spiritual Autobiography

The Kingdom Within: A Spiritual Autobiography

Literature & Fiction

Come Back to the Farm is a collection of sixteen stories which reflect Appalachia at its essence; most often they are gentle in tone, but they portray the pioneer spirit, the self-reliance, and the humor of the hill people of Stuart's Kentucky homeland.

Come back to the farm

Take a part of our country where snakes are as much a piece of everyday life as winds and birds and frogs and hoeing tobacco and plowing the steep hills and the gentle slopes behind a mule.

Dawn of remembered spring

The saga of the Perkins family - Mommie and Poppie and an ever-increasing brood of children. Mired in poverty in Appalachia, firm in Freewill Baptist CHurch beliefs that it is their duty to replenish the earth, ever on the move from farm to farm to try to eke out enough food for twelve hungry mouths.

THE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER.

McGraw-Hill (1973)

Come Gentle Spring, a collection of twenty short stories, was first published in 1969. The title clearly reflects Jesse Stuart's philosophy of life, the joy and hopefulness he feels for humanity, symbolized by the coming to Spring.   Jesse Stuart's works always seem to focus on the essential goodness of humanity. He depicts a simple world where people exist the best they can. He focuses on the positive and life-enriching qualities of laughter, joy, respect, kindness, and love.

Come, Gentle Spring.

Short Stories & Anthologies

A regional love story set in the hills of Tennessee against a backdrop of mystery and racial misunderstanding. Dave, a young lumberjack, falls in love with Deutsia, a Melungeon girl. Her people are shunned by the valley people and the relationship splits the lifetime friendship of Dave and his best friend, Ben. Edited and preface written by John H. Spurlock and the afterword by Brent Kennedy.

Daughter of the Legend

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Beyond dark hills,: A personal story

Beyond dark hills,: A personal story

Up the Hollow from Lynchburg

The world of Jesse Stuart: Selected poems

The Kingdom Within: A Spiritual Autobiography

Come back to the farm

Dawn of remembered spring

THE LAND BEYOND THE RIVER.

Come, Gentle Spring.

Daughter of the Legend