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Autobiography, anecdotes. The View From Plum Lick describes the return of David Dick, his wife & their child to his ancestral roots along Plum Lick Creek in Bourbon County, Kentucky, following the author's retirement from CBS News in 1985. They live in an 1850 house, "...where the main thing is the willingness to listen good. Sometimes, especially on a star-filled full-moon night, voices seem to whisper to us, & we answer back from time to time." Celebrating rural values, shepherding, country people & dedicated conservation of the land, this volume has been praised by Wendell Berry, Charles Kuralt, Dan Rather, the Louisville Courier Journal & the Lexington Herald-Leader. The Historian Laureate of Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark, wrote the foreword: "David Dick integrates the memories & history of the ancient ancestors who traveled the country roads & worked the Plum Lick fields before him...The author details the occurrences of incidents, minor & consequential, with the grace & spiritual attachment of an Elizabeth Madox Roberts, of Wendell Berry, or a James Still & Jesse Stuart."

Follow the Storm, a personal account of mass suicides in Guyana at "Jonestown" in 1978, the 1978-1979 civil war in Nicaragua, the 1982 civil wars in El Salvador & Beirut, the volcanic eruption of El Chichonal in Mexico in 1982, & the invasion of the Falkland Islands that same year, is based upon daily journals kept by the author when he was a radio & television correspondent for CBS News. David Dick's close encounters with death on numerous occasions during his 19-year career with CBS News are described in graphic detail. The author won an Emmy for his coverage of the shooting of Governor George C. Wallace in 1972. Follow the Storm includes coverage of earthquakes, hurricanes & tornadoes. David Dick writes only about the events he has actually witnessed, & he gives a moving, nonfictional account of his relationship with the victims of disaster, the global impact of the folly & frailty of man & the bravery of the messengers willing to place their lives on the line in order to bring the "big story" home to the reader & the viewer. Follow the Storm chronicles the successes & the failures of network television news against the background of tragic consequences.

Peace at the Center contains 41 original essays, each inspired by the life experiences & sensitivity of the CBS News Emmy Award- winning author. Each essay is punctuated with excellent illustrations which help to convey themes. In an afterword, Historian Laureate Thomas D. Clark writes that this book gives meaning & dignity to the simple things that form the matrix of living. David Dick, a retired national news correspondent & current university journalism professor, writes about many subjects in this outstanding collection of essays, including the life & legacy of a gentle lamb; final days of Governors George Wallace & Bert T. Combs; insights into Mother's Day; students & farm life; insight into his own battle with prostrate cancer; & much more. Author Wendell Berry dubs this book "big hearted & companionable." Charles Kuralt says, "readers can be happy that this good man has found peace & has taken the time to pass it along to the rest of us." Readers of all ages will benefit from the captivating style & subject matter in this inspired book about worthwhile living. It is particularly recommended for readers in the 35-plus age group. This is David Dick's third book, following "View From Plum Lick" & "Follow the Storm."

In 1993, retired CBS correspondent, David Dick, was diagnosed with prostate cancer a life-threatening disease that affects thousands of men'potentially most men. Over the years since that first diagnosis, Dick and his wife, Lalie, have seen his PSA (prostate specific antigen) number rise and fall in response to a long list of medical procedures administered by a host of skilled medical specialists.A Journal for Lalie-Living Through Prostate Cancer is a book for men who have, or may someday have, prostate cancer, but equally for the women who will follow in David and Lalie Dick's footsteps as they negotiate the same rocky medical trail. It is David Dick's most personal book, yet one that will bring hope, laughter and inspiration to the thousands who have laughed and loved through his eleven previous books, including The View from Plum Lick, Rivers of Kentucky, and Kentucky?A State of Mind. At a time when prostate cancer has become increasingly widespread, Dick says, ?Of all the books I have written since leaving CBS News, A Journal for Lalie is without a doubt the most important. Through laughter and tears, it comes to terms with the reality of a treatable disease that claims the lives of so many. If the journal I have kept in the years from 1993 to 2007 saves just one life, the writing will have been worth all the effort.'

History, 265 pages. Contents: Foreword by Gurney Norman--Introduction--Ohio--Big Sandy and Little Sandy--Licking--Kentucky and Little Kentucky--Red--Dix, Red Bird, and Horns--Salt, Rolling Fork, Nolin, and Chaplin--Green-Pond, Rough, Mud, and Tradewater--Barren, Little Barren, Gasper, and Finns--Echo, Logsdon, and Styx--Rockcastle, Laurel, and Little Laurel--Cumberland--Little--Blood, Clarks, and Tennessee--Mississippi--Bibliography.

Biography; Kentucky social life and customs; anecdotes. "The Quiet Kentuckians is a book for all America. Rooted in the values of little people in little places doing little things but receiving little recognition, it embodies fundamental truths as seen in the lives and heard in the voices of these individuals."--book flap.

History, anecdotes. "Home sweet Kentucky is a book to slow you down, warm your heart, and lift you go. It'll take you to many forgotten places, introduce you to people who generally don't make headlines, and give you a taste of essence of Kentuckians-the good people who make the commonwealth unique. Byron Crawford has written in the foreword to Home Sweet Kentucky:We have come to admire the couple, not only for their word-smithing, but their loyalty to Kentucky, and for the deep sense of belonging that they share with us for this place. We count them now as our friends or as neighbors with whom we might hold an afternoon conversion across the garden gate or the odd corner fence post. So, come along to Bath County, where the memory of a dog name "Bo" rides on the sound of fox hounds off the distance. Travel to McCreary County and meet eight-one-year old Timothy Taylor who loves the grasslands surrounded by forest. Visit with Sister Mary Jane at Nazareth, Kentucky, whose father was a moonshiner, and Bonnie Consolo from Menifee County, who waves goodbye with the feet. Sit awhile at Penn's Store at Gravel Switch. Eat a bologna sandwich and listen to Dava and Dawn sing "Cong Home to you". Home sweet Kentucky is a gentle reminder to stay as long as you like. Chances are you'll find that sense of place that binds you to the beauty and the goodness of a way of life."

History. In 1935, President Roosevelt established the Rural Electrification Administration, authorizing the creation of regional electric cooperatives in which farmers and their families could become members and have access to electrical power. This book discusses the history of the electric cooperative in Kentucky, telling the stories of the people who worked to establish the companies as well as its present-day leadership.

Biography, anecdotes. Shake hands with "Mousie" Crouch, who understands chain saws as well as Einstein made sense of universal time and space. Trace the waterways of Hell Fer Sartin. Sit and stay awhile at Ralph Marcum's "Old Town" in Hooten Holler. The authors, David and Lalie Dick, have spent the past twenty years crisscrossing Kentucky from the Big Sandy to the Mississippi, the Cumberland to the Ohio, seeking the essence of individuals as unique as the spirit of Sister Kate, the Asparagus lady, and critters named "Bozo" and "Horny." Come along and walk the.

Biography, anecdotes. Outhouse Blues is a song of humor and faith and love - a prayer for forgiveness, a chance to do better for all mankind and other creatures assembled. The outhouse is a temporary shelter from misunderstandings, a quiet tabernacle for truth with precious time to sort out realities. It is well to remember, in the community of outhouses, there is no perfection, only a yearning for it.

A historical novel of prejudice and plague, The Scourges of Heaven sweeps gracefully, joyfully, painfully across centuries and generations. Through Cynthia Anne Ferguson, orphaned aboard a vessel carrying immigrants, hopes, dreams, and cholera from the Old World to the New, David Dick paints a world where the causes of disease are little understood, where faith is not always a comfort, where human questioning often goes unanswered, and where unexpected death is frequently attributed to the wrath of an angry God. Cynthia's story unfolds in the midst of the first of four great cholera epidemics to sweep America in the mid-nineteenth century, and her journey through life, from New Orleans up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and across the Bluegrass to Lexington, parallels the track followed by the deadly scourge. More powerfully told than any factual, statistical, or scientific account could ever manage, yet based upon historical events, this tale of disease, ignorance, and narrow-mindedness is supported by a central theme of hope that ultimately brings redemption.

Fiction; 121 pages.

History, anecdotes. "Home sweet Kentucky is a book to slow you down, warm your heart, and lift you go. It'll take you to many forgotten places, introduce you to people who generally don't make headlines, and give you a taste of essence of Kentuckians-the good people who make the commonwealth unique. Byron Crawford has written in the foreword to Home Sweet Kentucky:We have come to admire the couple, not only for their word-smithing, but their loyalty to Kentucky, and for the deep sense of belonging that they share with us for this place. We count them now as our friends or as neighbors with whom we might hold an afternoon conversion across the garden gate or the odd corner fence post. So, come along to Bath County, where the memory of a dog name "Bo" rides on the sound of fox hounds off the distance. Travel to McCreary County and meet eight-one-year old Timothy Taylor who loves the grasslands surrounded by forest. Visit with Sister Mary Jane at Nazareth, Kentucky, whose father was a moonshiner, and Bonnie Consolo from Menifee County, who waves goodbye with the feet. Sit awhile at Penn's Store at Gravel Switch. Eat a bologna sandwich and listen to Dava and Dawn sing "Cong Home to you". Home sweet Kentucky is a gentle reminder to stay as long as you like. Chances are you'll find that sense of place that binds you to the beauty and the goodness of a way of life."

History, 265 pages. Contents: Foreword by Gurney Norman--Introduction--Ohio--Big Sandy and Little Sandy--Licking--Kentucky and Little Kentucky--Red--Dix, Red Bird, and Horns--Salt, Rolling Fork, Nolin, and Chaplin--Green-Pond, Rough, Mud, and Tradewater--Barren, Little Barren, Gasper, and Finns--Echo, Logsdon, and Styx--Rockcastle, Laurel, and Little Laurel--Cumberland--Little--Blood, Clarks, and Tennessee--Mississippi--Bibliography.

Biography, anecdotes. Shake hands with "Mousie" Crouch, who understands chain saws as well as Einstein made sense of universal time and space. Trace the waterways of Hell Fer Sartin. Sit and stay awhile at Ralph Marcum's "Old Town" in Hooten Holler. The authors, David and Lalie Dick, have spent the past twenty years crisscrossing Kentucky from the Big Sandy to the Mississippi, the Cumberland to the Ohio, seeking the essence of individuals as unique as the spirit of Sister Kate, the Asparagus lady, and critters named "Bozo" and "Horny." Come along and walk the.

Free digital copy available on Explore UK. "This volume is offered as a miniature representation of Kentucky verse for the one hundred years that is has been a state. The whole field of poetry has been traversed from the pioneer days to the present time, and en effort made to have every known poet of merit represented. Besides selections made from published books, there are also many fugitive verses that never went beyond the "Poet's Corner" in a newspaper, while some are here in print for the first time." -- Preface.

The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University -- and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so -- Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started a resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day, but French's collection of traditional Kentucky ballads, which should have been her crowning scholarly achievement, never saw print. Academic rivalries, gender prejudice, and broken promises set against a thirty-year feud known as the Ballad Wars denied French her place in history and left the field to northerner Olive Dame Campbell and English folklorist Cecil Sharp, setting Appalachian studies on a foundation marred by stereotypes and misconceptions. Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector tells the story of what might have been. Drawing on never-before-seen artifacts from French's granddaughter, Elizabeth DiSavino reclaims the life and legacy of this pivotal scholar by emphasizing the ways her work shaped and could reshape our conceptions about Appalachia. In contrast to the collection published by Campbell and Sharp, French's ballads elevate the status of women, give testimony to the complexity of balladry's ethnic roots and influences, and reveal more complex local dialects. Had French published her work in 1910, stereotypes about Appalachian ignorance, misogyny, and homogeneity may have diminished long ago. Included in this book is the first-ever publication of Katherine Jackson French's English-Scottish Ballads from the Hills of Kentucky.

"This arrangement may be performed as either a quintet ... or in the original Solid Brass version ... or in a flexible version combining parts from both sets as needed"--Title page verso.

Liza DiSavino: vocals, guitar, banjo, gourd banjo, bass, accordion, autoharp, keyboard, cornetto, dulcimer ; Tom Cunningham: fiddle, octave violin ; A.J. Bodnar: vocals, autoharp. Contents: Disc 1. The Lord of the old country -- Fair Marg'et and Sweet William -- The house carpenter -- The three crows -- Lord Randal -- Barbara Allen (c) -- Barbara Allen (b) -- Barbara Allen (a) -- The greenwood side -- A lady gay -- Lord Vanner -- Disc 2. The serving maid -- Lord Thomas (b) -- Lord Thomas (a) -- It rains a mist -- A wealthy young farmer -- Lord Bateman -- Summer is a-cumin in -- True lover's farewell.