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Bourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminates the development of the United States as a nation, from conquering the wild frontier to rugged individualism to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit to solidifying itself as a nation of laws. Bourbon is responsible for the growth and maturation of many substantive areas of the law, such as trademark, breach of contract, fraud, governmental regulation and taxation, and consumer protection. In Bourbon Justice Brian Haara delves into the legal history behind one of America's most treasured spirits to uncover a past fraught with lawsuits whose outcome, surprisingly perhaps, helped define a nation. Approaching the history of bourbon from a legal standpoint, Haara tells the history of America through the development of commercial laws that guided our nation from an often reckless laissez-faire mentality, through the growing pains of industrialization, and past the over-correction of Prohibition. More than just true bourbon history, this is part of the American story.

"Life Notes From a Kentucky Woman: A Coal Camp- first in a series of "Life Notes" books by Sarah Cornett-Hagen a native of Letcher County, Kentucky. This story details the beginnings of a mountain woman, a coal miner's daughter, reared in the hills of eastern Kentucky. It takes you deep into the heart of coal mining country to a town called Haymond and the ways and times of the people who lived there shortly before World War 2.  The story carries you through Sarah's coming of age years in the early fifties and beyond as the author shares with you how she became a woman who knows, "Mountain roots run deep and tendrils of these roots are wrapped gently around her heart forever."

Poetry.

Stories and poems by members of the HayWire Writers' Group.

Aunt Jane Short Story Compilation, book 1. Aunt Jane is a fictional character well known for her gentle folk wisdom and her vivid descriptions of a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century. Her words recall lavish Sunday dinners, courtships, quilting bees, church meetings, and county fair competitions. Yet Aunt Jane of Kentucky is more than a collection of reminiscences about the region of Western Kentucky where Eliza Caroline Obenchain (who published under the name Eliza Calvert Hall) was born and raised. She writes about strong women and the ways in which they make their voices heard. Obenchain was a dedicated suffragist who worked to win rights for women in the areas of property ownership and divorce, and her interest in the social condition of women is evident throughout her fictional work. In one of the most popular stories in the collection, "Sally Ann's Experience," Sally Ann refuses to agree that women should be silent in church; she tells her male audience, "Now it's my time to talk and yours to listen." Aunt Jane of Kentucky is a delightful example of regional fiction that will also serve as a valuable document for those interested in the history of women's issues. Contents: --Sally Ann's Experience, --The New Organ, --Aunt Jane's Album, --"Sweet Day of Rest", --Milly Baker's Boy, --The Baptizing at Kittle Creek, --How Sam Amos Rode in the Tournament, --Mary Andrews' Dinner Party, --The Gardens of Memory. Free ebook available through HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and Google Books.

Aunt Jane Short Story Compilation, book 2. Contents: --A Ride to Town, --The House that Was a Wedding Fee, --The Courtship of Miss Amaryllis, --Aunt Jane Goes A-Visiting, --The Marriage Problem in Goshen, --An Eye for an Eye, --The Reformation of Sam Amos, --In War Time, --The Watch Meeting. Free ebook available through HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.

Aunt Jane Short Story Compilation, book 3. Contents: --How Parson Page Went to the Circus, --Mary Crawford's Chart, --Old Mahogany, --Millstones and Stumbling Blocks, --"One Taste of the Old Time", --One Day in Spring. Free ebook available through ExploreUK, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive.

Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.

Aunt Jane talks with her niece about her quilts and their stories. Based on a chapter from Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Eliza Calvert Hall, originally published in 1907, and has been edited and adapted for publication in this form.

Fiction, novel; 205 pages. Free ebook available through Google and HathiTrust.

Born Eliza "Lida" Calvert in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Hall experienced the upheaval of both the Civil War and family scandal. As Hall struggled to balance her writing career with the duties of a nineteenth-century wife and mother, suffragist Laura Clay was lobbying for every woman's right to vote. Hall joined the battle, writing fearlessly in support of suffrage and equality. While her passionate essays served as a direct appeal for this cause, her creative writing also carried a feminist spirit, celebrating the strength, humor, love, and art of the common woman.

Poetry. 40 pages.

Poetry. 21 pages. 270 numbered copies. 56 copies have been numbered and signed by the author.

Poems. 65 pages.

In his fifth book of poems, The Mother on the Other Side of the World, James Baker Hall revisits his dark childhood with a spiritual maturity earned of lifelong struggle with the forces of silence, secrecy, deception, and hiding. Without the usual linear guideposts and cathartic emotional epiphanies we've come to expect from contemporary poetry, he reveals the dangerous and strange aspects of family intimacies that are both universal and taboo. With talismanic images from the natural world, he refigures the mother's body as a timeless landscape, through whichthese visceral and worldly poems move. And move they surely do, with a distinctive panache, with great kinesthetic intensity and subtlety. A pilgrimage is implicit in the stops they make and in the sacraments they achieve. An experienced conjurer dealing with his deepest urgencies, Hall realizes a poetic technique in these poems that refracts embodied experience to reveal the energies-secular, spiritual, animal, and human-that come and go in forms. What these poems know-without explanation-is agrace beyond both intuition and belief. The Mother on the Other Side of the World is James Baker Hall's fifth book of poems.The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, andThe Kenyon Review are among the many magazines to have published his work. He has received an NEA fellowship in poetry writing and has won both Pushcart and O. Henry prizes. He lives with his wife, fiction writer Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, in the Kentucky countryside and teaches at the University of Kentucky. "James Baker Hall has consistently pursued in his poetry a trajectory that is deeply authentic. It has produced writing of daring and delicacy, over a period long enough to make it plain that this is not a momentary brilliance but a sustained vision. He has been dedicated to making the language reflect the surprise, the turns and leaps of memory and recurrent apparition in which pain and beauty are often indistinguishable. This new collection displays an intimate authority and mystery of tonethat are the fulfillment of a genuine gift and uncompromising devotion to it."-W.S. Merwin "A delightful collection of poems depicting Hall's life long st

Poetry. "Designed, composed, and printed in Carrollton in the year of our Lord, 2007. The photographs were taken and printed by the author. All was bound by Priscilla Spitler. Of the thirty numbered and ten lettered copies made, this is number ..."--Colophon.

Light is the principal element in this book. Light is "on the edge," it is both the agent of perception and the last thing perceived. Hall celebrates the beauty of what is perceived as it appears or changes and the pain of that experience. The theme is loss, but things lost are willingly relinquished. The small self moves outward toward the larger, toward enlightenment. This is a book of "first" things, the first snow, the first kite, the first winter light, the spring's first bloodroot, all seen intensely as part of a wider experience. Its tone is mystical and contemplative.

Poetry. First line: Each with its own language, contingencies, catalogues, instructions.

Exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, November 5, 1995-January 21, 1996. 25 pages; chiefly color illustrations.

Photography. 136 pages; chiefly illustrations.

Named persons: Gurney Norman; Bobbie Ann Mason; Ed McClanahan; Wendell Berry; Mary Ann Taylor-Hall. 240 pages; portraits.

"In 1973, James Baker Hall photographed these scenes and events of a Kentucky tobacco harvest. We look at them now with a sort of wonder, and with some regret, realizing that while our work was going on, powerful forces were at play that would change the scene and make "history" of those lived days, which were enriched for us then by their resemblance to earlier days and to days that presumably were to follow." -- Wendell Berry, from the book An insightful meditation on the shifting nature of humans' relationships with the land and with each other, Berry's essay laments the economic, political, and societal changes that have forever altered Kentucky's rich agricultural traditions. Berry also adds a deeply personal perspective to Hall's eloquent visual testimony. With a farm of his own nearby, Berry was a longtime friend and neighbor of the families shown in Hall's pictures and took part in their work swapping. In addition to detailing the repetitive, strenuous labor involved in harvesting a tobacco crop, he relates memories of stories told, laughs shared, meals savored, and brief moments of rest and refreshment well earned. Hall's striking photographs illuminate the characters and events that Berry describes. During the 1973 harvest, he photographed the rows stretching toward the horizon while laborers cut a tobacco crop, one plant at a time, until the last row was cut, hauled, and housed in the barn. These photographs powerfully convey the physical experiences of a Kentucky tobacco harvest: the heat of the sun, the dirt, and the people hard at work. James Baker Hall, former Kentucky Poet Laureate, is the author of many books, including The Total Light Process and Yates Paul, His Grand Fights, His Tootings. Wendell Berry is a poet, a novelist, a farmer, a conservationist, and a former professor of English. His books include The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Jayber Crow, Two More Stories of the Port William Membership, Life is a Miracle: An Essay against Modern Superstition, and Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work.

Nationally acclaimed poet, photographer, filmmaker, and novelist James Baker Hall has long been regarded as one of Kentucky's most profound artists. Hall's growing body of work is an essential part of Kentucky's literary tradition, and yet his poetry in particular transcends the borders of the Commonwealth. The Total Light Process collects poems spanning Hall's celebrated career as well as new poems that have never before been published. The subjects of Hall's poems range from humorous and revealing portraits of his fellow writers and friends Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan, and Gurney Norman, to the traumatic experience of his mother's suicide when he was eight years old, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the tragic murder of Matthew Shepherd.

Fiction Collective. 163 pages.

A novel in verse. Paul Praeder--an immensely complex character with the bravado of a Hemingway hero, the literary erudition and despair of Berryman's Dream Songs persona, and the dark, self-destructive magnetism of Conrad's Captain Kurtz--is a new and disturbing addition to the pantheon of American literary characters. His story unfolds over his 30-year correspondence with a young poet, and it is a story of lost moral compass, in which artistic integrity is traded for commercial success,and friendship and fidelity fall to lust and greed. James Baker Hallis currently the Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

James Baker Hall's blackly comic coming-of-age novel has been denied, by unfortunate circumstances surrounding its original 1964 publication, its rightful place alongside classics such as Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the canon of essential late-twentieth-century American fiction. Set in Lexington, Kentucky, the story unfolds through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Yates Paul. He becomes consumed with revelations about his inattentive father's loneliness, his grandmother's stormy relationship with his boisterous alcoholic uncle, and the frustration of being the best photography assistant in town when no one else knows it. In pursuing his career and falling in love with women twice his age, the precocious Yates falls back on Walter Mittyesque daydreams to cope with a frequently humorous, sometimes dark, world. Long respected among literary insiders, sought after but nearly impossible to obtain, this "lost" classic will finally reach the wider audience it deserves.

With an introduction by Wade Hall, Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter" to Crystal E. Wilkinson's "Humming Back Yesterday," these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond. Contributors: Robert Penn Warren, Caroline Gordon, James Still, Jane Mayhall, Elizabeth Hardwick, Dean Cadle, Jesse Stuart, Billy C. Clark, Janice Holt Giles, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Hollis Summers, Ed McClanahan, Sallie Bingham, Robert Hazel, Jack Cady, Jim Wayne Miller, David Madden, Gayl Jones, Jane Stuart, Gurney Norman, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joe Ashby Porter, Leon V. Driskell, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Richard Cortez Day, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pat Carr, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, Lisa Koger, Barbara Kingsolver, Normandi Ellis, Guy Davenport, Kim Edwards, Chris Holbrook, Paul Griner, Chris Offutt, Dwight Allen, Crystal E. Wilkinson. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs; with an introduction by Wade Hall and an afterword by Charles E. May.

"Minor White is one of the greatest of photographers. I do not make this statement lightly ...The sheer beauty of the medium of photography is tuned to the exact meaning of the visualized image." --Ansel Adams This selection of Minor White's superb photographs is accompanied by extensive, revealing excerpts from White's letters and amplified by James Baker Hall's perceptive observations of the artist-teacher at work.

Poems; 39 pages. Poems and mounted color photographs are bound in red cloth covered boards with author and title on panel on spine. "Printed from handset DeRoos type, the work of the noted Dutch type designer, S H DeRoos, on Biblio paper during the winter months of 2013. The photographs were printed by Artale Graphics. Jerry Kelly did the title page lettering. Priscilla Spitler bound it all up & made it a book"--Colophon. In an edition of 60.

Audio cassette. 50 minutes. The cassette contains biographical information about the author and readings by the author from his works.

Archival material. Housed at the Kentucky Historical Society.
Collection consists of 41 boxes of letters, drafts of his publications; copies of interviews conducted by James Baker Hall with other writers; draft copies of manuscripts from other authors; drafts of unpublished James Baker Hall stories, poems, and two novels; journals and notebooks; and memorabilia (clippings, magazines, etc.) related to the literary career of James Baker Hall. Included are letters from Hall's literary friends and colleagues such as Wendell Berry, Robert Hazel, Ed McClanahan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gurney Norman, and Barry Spacks, as well as other artists.

Artist files. Housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Includes exhibition or other catalogs (less than 50 pages) which have not yet been fully cataloged. Library continues to add to the file.

Eight photographic prints and four poems by Hall.
The six unbound sheets include the four poems, a title leaf, and a colophon. Titles are printed in red; some edges are untrimmed.

Film. DVD (45 minutes). "Original music by James Friley."--DVD case.

DVD video, 89 minutes. Produced and directed by Guy Mendes ; original music composed & performed by Jay Bolotin ; fiddle & mandolin, Paul Patterson. Participants: Wendell Berry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gurney Norman, Ed McClanahan, James Baker Hall. "Meet writers and creative artists in all disciplines, whose stories will fascinate you and whose work will inspire you. Explore diverse culture and traditions. Enjoy the best music, dance, and theatrical performances that Kentucky, the nation, and the world have to offer."--Container.

A history of Kentucky's poets laureate since 1926. Contains works by J.T. Cotton Noe, Edward Gay Hill, Louise Scott Phillips, Edwin Carlisle Litsey, Jesse Hilton Stuart, Lowell Allen Williams, Lillian D. Chaffin, Senator Tom Mobley, Agnes Todd Saffell O'Rear, Clarence "Soc" Henry Clay, Lee Pennington, Paul Salyers, Dale Faughn, Jim Wayne Miller, Henry E. Pilkenton, James H. Patton, James Still, Joy Bale Boone, Richard Lawrence Taylor, James Baker Hall and Joe Survant.

44 pages; illustrations.

Until I was nine or ten, everyone called me Joe or Joe Hall. Then one day, my grandmother, for reasons known only to her, pulled me aside, telling me my name was "too short and too plain." She said, "Let's add your middle initial to make it more interesting. From now on, you say your name is Joe B., not just Joe. It's Joe B. Hall." Joe B. Hall is one of only three men to both play on an NCAA championship team (1949, Kentucky) and coach an NCAA championship team (1978, Kentucky), and the only one to do so for the same school. In this riveting memoir, Hall presents intimate details about his remarkable life on and off the court. He reveals never-before-heard stories about memorable players, coaches, and friends and expresses the joys and fulfillments of his rewarding life and career. During his thirteen years as head coach at the University of Kentucky, from 1972 to 1985, Joe B. Hall led the team to 297 victories. The most memorable of these is the 1978 NCAA Men's Division Basketball Championship. This legendary coach followed in the colossal footsteps of Adolph Rupp to chart his own path to success and become one of college basketball's all-time greats and winningest coaches.

Biography; 251 pages.

History and biography; 256 pages. With Frank Ramsey, Larry Conley, Cotton Hash, Larry Pursiful, Jim Andrews, Doug Flynn, James Lee, Chris Gettelfinger, Dick Parson, Jim Master, Winston Bennett, Bernadette Locke-Mattox, C.M. Newton, John Pelfrey. Named persons: Adolph Rupp; Rick Pitino, and Joe B. Hall.

A print copy of The Kentucky Encyclopedia is available in William T. Young Library on the second floor in the Reference Collection.

Audio recording; country music. Vocals by University of Kentucky basketball coach Joe B. Hall, Cawood Ledford, former governor of Kentucky A.B. "Happy" Chandler, Al McGuire, J.D. Sumner, M. Blackford, K. Taylor, and Katharine Hall. Recorded at Soundshop Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Contents: I can hear Kentucky calling me -- On the road again -- Chunkin' & windin' -- My old Kentucky home -- The gambler -- Elvira -- Good ole boys -- We love each other.

Biography, criticism, interpretation. 75 pages. Indiana English Journal, pt. 1, vol. 5, nos. 2-4.

Biography, 273 pages; illustrations. Includes index.

Pee Wee King's birth on February 18, 1914, into a Milwaukee working-class Polish family named Kuczynski was hardly an indicator that he would grow up to become a pioneer and superstar of country and western music. Certainly no one in the Polish-German community of his youth could have foreseen his influence on the direction of American popular music or his enduring fame on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. Even Pee Wee King himself is incredulous at the unlikely twists and turns of his life and career. Pee Wee King is best remembered today as the co-writer of the most popular country music song of all time, The Tennessee Waltz. He is just as important, however, for his vital role in expanding the horizons, and the market potential, of country and western music. He took the polka and waltz rhythms of his youth, mixed them with the sounds of the big bands of the thirties and forties, and flavored it all with the balladry and moods of the Western cowboy. He combined this new sound with folk and country traditions rooted in places like Louisville, Knoxville, and Nashville. The result was a smooth, listenable, danceable, up-to-date sound that has become the most popular form of music in the United States. Recipient of numerous awards, including induction into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Pee Wee King has been one of the most important figures in country music for over sixty years. Told in King's own voice and words, this biography, based on many hours of taped conversations, is the first account of King's incredible life and career. Featuring a star-studded cast of characters from the history of music -- Eddy Arnold, Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Gene Autry, Patti Page, and many others -- this memorable book is a must-read for any fan of country music.

"While Bellarmine is young, it has had a long history." In his 1990 inaugural address as Bellarmine University's third president, Dr. Joseph "Jay" McGowan, pointed to a key paradox at the heart of this venerable academic Louisville institution. Although opened at mid-century in 1950, Bellarmine rose with roots much deeper into the past. No one was more conscious of this truth than the leaders of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville who called it into existence, and its founding president, the youthful Fr. Alfred F. Horrigan.Two predecessor institutions in Kentucky, St. Joseph's and St. Mary's Colleges took their rise in the 1820s; both were deeply impacted by the Civil War; and both produced an impressive list of graduates from throughout the South, many of whom were destined for high civic positions. The very land on which Bellarmine would be built had itself already been home to seven institutions: a plantation, a Civil War hospital, a bishop's home, two seminaries and two orphanages. Additionally, a special educational partner, Louisville's Ursuline College, tracing its own roots to the 1920s, has its own vivid and worthy history to report. Ursuline and Bellarmine would merge in 1968, becoming co-educational, with a Board of Trustees that added a significant number of lay and interfaith members.This volume, In Veritatis Amore - In the Love of Truth, invoking the institution's founding motto - sets out to give a concise rendering of key elements of this storied past as well as major developments and personalities in Bellarmine's nearly seventy years of academic and community life. It seeks to evoke the values and ethos that make Bellarmine, to so many of its 23,000 alums, a singular home. Here is the saga of an infant college with a single structure that barely survived its first year, through its new status of university in 2000. Moving into the 21st century, Bellarmine emerged into a regional scholastic center with international range and nearly 4,000 students. All that story is reported here, along with a chapter on Bellarmine sports, and with a wealth of photographic detail.

In words of James Still, based on taped interviews and conversations

On cover: "Lincoln's law partner makes the case for a great man. Is this the unvarnished truth about Honest Abe?" 83 pages; illustrations.

In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state's formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate. Born in Millersburg, Kentucky, in 1904 to a black mother and a white father, Kidd grew up to be a striking woman with fair skin and light hair. Sometimes accused of trying to pass for white in a segregated society, Kidd felt that she was doing the opposite -- choosing to assert her black identity. Passing for Black is her story, in her own words, of how she lived in this racial limbo and the obstacles it presented. As a Kentucky woman of color during a pioneering period of minority and women's rights, Kidd seized every opportunity to get ahead. She attended a black boarding academy after high school and went on to become a successful businesswoman in the insurance and cosmetic industries in a time when few women, black or white, were able to compete in a male-dominated society. She also served with the American Red Cross in England during World War II. It was not until she was in her sixties that she turned to politics, sitting for seventeen years in the Kentucky General Assembly -- one of the few black women ever to do so -- where she crusaded vigorously for housing rights. Her story -- presented as oral history elicited and edited by Wade Hall -- provides an important benchmark in African American and women's studies and endures as a vital document in Kentucky history.

First published in 1962As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its aftermath were days of the South's greatest need. Historians have suggested many reasons for the South's fearless stand against "overwhelming numbers and resources," to use General Lee's words. In this short study, author and historian Wade Hall adds one reason to the list: the humor of the Southerner -- as soldier and civilian -- during the war and the bleak days that followed it. The South arose from the ashes of humiliation and defeat smiling -- though sometimes through tears. The Southerner's sense of humor helped him to fight a war he believed honorable and to accept the bitter defeat which ended it. Without the escape valve of humor, many a "rebel" would have succumbed to despair. The Southerner could smile wistfully as he looked back on a proud past and hopefully as he looked forward to an uncertain future. He smiled because he read humorists like Bill Arp, who once wrote somewhat serio-comically that the South was "conquered but not convinced." In this study, Hall has attempted to represent all the types of humor written in the South between the beginning of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I, specifically 1861 and 1914, including war memoirs, novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and songs. After a survey of humor written during the war, Hall discusses the soldier, the Negro, the poor white, and the "folks at home" in wartime, as they are reflected in the postwar humor.

In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson was born in 1906 during the darkest days of segregation. He learned from his father not to sit in the "crow's nest" reserved for blacks in his hometown movie theater. This refusal to accept second-class citizenship became a guiding principle in Johnson's life. Johnson was almost forty-three when he won admission to graduate study at the University of Kentucky in 1949. Crosses were burned on campus. Because of his family commitments, he returned to his teaching position in Louisville and never completed his doctorate. Thirty years later the university that fought to keep him out awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree. Johnson earned his doctorate the hard way -- by saying no to the crow's nest and other marks of inequality. Johnson's graphic recall of people and incidents and his storyteller's talent for narrative make this record of a unique American life filled with suspense, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

Second edition. Two volumes. v.1: Cormac McCarthy's appalachian works -- v. 2: Cormac McCarthy's western novels.

Southern humor. 375 pages; illustrations.

Biography. 172 pages; illustrations.

Biography. Series: Occasional papers (University of Kentucky, Libraries), no. 12. 60 pages; illustrations.

Clyde May was the patriarch of a family from rural Bullock County, Alabama. He was a devoted father, a war veteran, and a churchgoer. He was also a moonshiner. This memoir, based on oral history interviews with May's son, Kenny, explores May's life and his passion for making good whiskey despite the risk of going to jail. Now the family tradition is taking a new twist, as Kenny and his siblings have established Alabama's first legal distillery to bottle and sell a distinctive whiskey based on the late Clyde May's recipe. "Transcribed from audio tapes by Greg Swem and rewritten and reformatted by Wade Hall. The narrator is Kenny May"--Pg. 9. Includes index.

This volume is an intimate collection of oral history interviews that captures the lives of the people who were once the backbone of the rural South, in this case from Bullock County, Alabama. The interviews are elevated to art by the skill of the interviewer/author, a native, who left the area after high school and became a college professor and well-known author in Kentucky but always maintained his roots in the community where he grew up.

First published in 1996. Kentucky and Kentuckians are full of stories, which may be why so many present-day writers have Kentucky roots. Whether they left and returned, like Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason, or adopted Kentucky as home, like James Still and Jim Wayne Miller, or grew up and left for good, like Michael Dorris and Barbara Kingsolver, they have one connection: Kentucky has influenced their writing and their lives. L. Elisabeth Beattie explores this influence in twenty intimate interviews. Conversations with Kentucky Writers was more than three years in the making, as Beattie traveled across the state and beyond to capture oral histories on tape. Her exhaustive knowledge of these authors helped her draw out personal revelations about their work, their lives, and the nature of writing. When Still concludes his interview with "I believe I've told you more than anybody," he could be speaking for any of Beattie's subjects. Aspiring writers will learn that Mason submitted twenty stories to the New Yorker before one was accepted, and that Still wrote articles for Sunday school magazines. There's plenty of advice: Dorris tells budding authors to get real jobs, keep journals, and read everything, even cereal boxes, and Marsha Norman reminds playwrights that "it is not the business of the theater to provide writers with a living." Kingsolver advises, "Read good stuff and write bad stuff until eventually what you're writing begins to approximate what you're reading." Beattie's collection includes striking self-portraits of such writers as Sue Grafton, Leon Driskell, James Baker Hall, Fenton Johnson, George Ella Lyon, Taylor McCafferty, Ed McClanahan, Sena Naslund, Chris Offutt, Lee Pennington, and Betty Layman Receveur.What most distinguishes these moving conversations from other author interviews is their focus on creativity, on the teaching of writing, and on the authors' strong sense of place.As Wade Hall writes in his foreword, all twenty writers recognize that their works have been significantly influenced by their "Kentucky experience." This collection offers insights into Kentucky's rich and flowering literary heritage.

Although he was a native of Bullock County, Alabama, Wade Hall -- teacher, writer, poet, critic, interviewer, folklorist, and documentarian -- spent most of his fifty-year career in Kentucky. But he was never emotionally far from his home as evidenced by his passion for collecting vintage Alabama postcards. In his lifetime he amassed 10,000, which he then graciously gave to the University of Alabama Libraries and Troy University in a large joint bequest that also included rare books, quilts, folk art, letters and more. These postcards date from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century and offer a fascinating and diverse picture of the state. The meaning of postcards that could be purchased as a travel souvenir is largely forgotten today when cameras are commonplace. But the value of Hall's stunning collection cannot be missed. The some 400 cards featured in Greetings from Alabama are revealing of scenes familiar and rare. From Birmingham's Vulcan to Mobile's Bellingrath Gardens, from Enterprise's boll weevil monument to Huntsville's rockets, from Helen Keller's home to William Rufus King's resting place, the scenes offer captivating glimpses of Alabama history.

208 pages; illustrations. Includes index.

Long before the official establishment of the Commonwealth, intrepid pioneers ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains into an expansive, alluring wilderness that they began to call Kentucky. After blazing trails, clearing plots, and surviving innumerable challenges, a few adventurers found time to pen celebratory tributes to their new homeland. In the two centuries that followed, many of the world's finest writers, both native Kentuckians and visitors, have paid homage to the Bluegrass State with the written word. In The Kentucky Anthology, acclaimed author and literary historian Wade Hall has assembled an unprecedented and comprehensive compilation of writings pertaining to Kentucky and its land, people, and culture. Hall's introductions to each author frame both popular and lesser-known selections in a historical context. He examines the major cultural and political developments in the history of the Commonwealth, finding both parallels and marked distinctions between Kentucky and the rest of the United States. While honoring the heritage of Kentucky in all its glory, Hall does not blithely turn away from the state's most troubling episodes and institutions such as racism, slavery, and war. Hall also builds the argument, bolstered by the strength and significance of the collected writings, that Kentucky's best writers compare favorably with the finest in the world. Many of the authors presented here remain universally renowned and beloved, while others have faded into the tides of time, waiting for rediscovery. Together, they guide the reader on a literary tour of Kentucky, from the mines to the rivers and from the deepest hollows to the highest peaks. The Kentucky Anthology traces the interests and aspirations, the achievements and failures and the comedies and tragedies that have filled the lives of generations of Kentuckians. These diaries, letters, speeches, essays, poems, and stories bring history brilliantly to life. Jesse Stuart once wrote, "If these United States can be called a body, Kentucky can be called its heart." The Kentucky Anthology captures the rhythm and spirit of that heart in the words of its most remarkable chroniclers.

Contents:
"Howling wilderness": exploration and early settlement --
Flush times: civilization comes to Kentucky --
United we stand: Kentucky in the Civil War --
"No geographical prejudices": The new south in Kentucky --
New century: from the Cabbage Patch to the flood --
"We are not afraid": Kentucky since the flood --
Politics and religion: a Kentucky burgoo --
"O streams divine": the rivers of Kentucky --
Unholy trinity or the pleasures of life --
Pikeville to Paducah: the corners of Kentucky --
Once a Kentuckian, always a Kentuckian: epilogue.

88 pages; illustrations.

Selected essays from the first McCarthy Conference, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky, October 15-17, 1993

Pictorial works. Color photos by H. Harold Davis; words by Kentuckians selected by Wade Hall. 79 pages; color illustrations.

12 pages; illustrations.

Poetry. "First collection of Wade Hall's poems." --t.p. verso. Poets of Kentucky series, no. 5. 56 pages.

Author Wade Hall has taken Abraham Lincoln's actual words from speeches, articles, and letters and assembled them in the form of answers to questions posed in an imagined interview with a fictional young journalist recently returned from the war front. The result is a fresh look at the mind and philosophy of our sixteenth president and the issues he was grappling with as the war came to a close, just a few days before he was assassinated. Fiction. 88 pages; illustrations.

"In this play based on real life, a middle-aged gay man mourns the sudden departure of his longtime companion and the death of his beloved mother when a mysterious but familiar stranger arrives to prod and goad him into revealing perhaps more of himself and his own faults than he realizes. As his mood gradually changes from anger and despair to hope and renewal, he recounts his unusual boyhood growing up in the hills of northeast Alabama, where his family attends a Holiness church that practices serpent handling as a testimony of faith that sometimes ends in death." -- Summary by NewSouth Books

DVD video. Contains interviews of members of the Bellarmine Community conducted by Wade Hall.

DVD. "A presentation of WKPC-TV Channel 15 and Bellarmine College ©1990." --End credits. Original broadcast re-aired on Monday, April 8, 1991 as "Wade Hall Special: In memory: Dr. Eugene V. Petrik." --Courier-Journal television guide listing. "This program was originally broadcast on November 25, 1990 and was taped in September, 1990. Also another Kentucky Desk episode at end of this Dr. Petrik interview is on disc: Interview with David Hawpe, editor of Courier-Journal and Louisville Magazine; taped September 12, 1990.

There's always room for improvement. It's tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals--make no mistake, management is a people-driven job. Though the barriers to success are many--you could become a victim of circumstances, confuse the need to manage with the need to control, let management become maintenance, fail to tune up and realign--don't be discouraged. With over 30 years of experience, author Lisa Haneberg has seen it all and is here to guide you with 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager. From detailing the foundational importance of knowing your business to understanding pull versus push motivation, managing change, and leaving a legacy, Haneberg illustrates how to establish or realign your management habits, describing in each step an area of action you can develop for a healthy management practice. With pointers, examples, tables, tools, and worksheets, this updated second edition is also aligned with ATD survey-based research on social skills crucial to managerial success--so you are better able to build managerial capabilities. Intended for managers of all experience levels, this book will help you to embrace your challenges and triumph over management barriers. Make your current management challenge the best job you will ever have.

Not the work of a single, isolated management consultant, The ASTD Management Development Handbook is instead a collection of the best and most current thinking from a wide range of contemporary management experts. Presented in a variety of styles and focused on different aspects of management, the pieces contained in The ASTD Management Development Handbook nonetheless share a common purpose and vision: to provide lessons, wisdom, and perspectives that are deeply relevant for leaders and trainees in today's challenging corporate environment.

Great coaching makes a world of difference. Coaching is one of the quickest and most effective ways to advance the success of an organization. Yet it remains underused and misunderstood, and the term is often used synonymously with corrective counseling, encouragement, or the many helpful tactics in between. In Coaching Basics you'll discover a precise coaching framework along with insights from 40 experienced coaches, including Barry Goldberg and Marshall Goldsmith. This refreshed edition also hones in on what it takes to build influencing skills and introduces new content on microcoaching to highlight practical ways to leverage technology. Part of ATD's Training Basics series, Coaching Basics presents the theory and follows it up with easily applicable techniques, examples, and exercises that will help you perfect essential coaching skills.

Coaching is a core skill for trainers and other workplace learning and performance professionals. This work presents a methodology along with the practical examples and exercises you need to begin your development as an effective coach. It is intended for trainers who want to improve their coaching skills, as well as organization development.

Great coaching gives performers just what they need, when they need it. Create made-to-order learning experiences that deliver results with Lisa Haneberg by your side. By emphasizing deep listening and empowering learners to pull coaching conversations forward, you'll help coaches build experiences that count. Coaching Training, the third book in the ATD Workshop Series, takes a service-oriented approach to workplace coaching. It teaches the essential skills trainers must master to give learners what they need when they need it. Each half-day, full-day, and two-day program in this volume comes with its own agenda to drive the workshop and includes online presentation slides, handouts, assessments, and tools. About the Series The ATD Workshop Series is written for trainers by trainers, because no one knows workshops as well as the practitioners who have done it all.

"Coaching," Lisa Haneberg says, "is agile, service-oriented persistence with a tolerance for the unexplainable and a willingness to go down a path that is not yours, does not interest you, and requires that you buy new shoes to traverse unharmed." This tongue-in-cheek description suggests the fun and breezy tone of this book. This is most decidedly not just another book about generational differences, nor is it yet another "how to coach" book. Coaching Up and Down the Generations looks at the key processes of transferring knowledge, developing teams, and collaborating, and examines how different age groups can better learn from one another and even experience major breakthroughs that will improve their progress--despite disparate backgrounds. You'll find a thorough examination of key issues in intergenerational coaching situations, including what constitutes great coaching, at any age; a complete overview of each generation and how they view life, technology, work, communication, and behavior; how to handle clashing communication styles and preferences; the importance of "coachability" in yourself and others regardless of different habits, opinions, and work styles; how to cultivate a coaching environment where the different generations can have provocative conversations and truly help one another. With this book as your guide, you can show the generations how to find common points of interest, needs, and goals. You'll find ingenious tips for creating formal and informal coaching situations, developing opportunities to build relationships, and helping people of all ages to become catalytic coaches and engaged performers.

How do you go about improving leadership team performance, strengthening the connections between leaders, and strengthening the leadership team's connections with the rest of the enterprise?  This book tells you how.  Leadership teams, working together, create the culture and set the tone for the entire organization. When leadership teams fail to connect with employees, their organizations fail. Expensive leadership meetings often accomplish nothing, and clashing leadership styles can disrupt the entire business. What do these issues have in common? Simply this: The way leaders work together is crucial, and enormous organization-wide performance improvements can be achieved when they work together more effectively. Readers will first learn how to define what leadership team excellence looks like, and clarify the organizational impact you want your leadership team to have. Next, they'll learn how to systematically optimize the 5% of time your leaders spend working together-in person, electronically, and through subordinates. This book will help readers magnify their impact, whether they're already at the top of the organization, or aspiring to a future leadership role.

Use this set of 20 "Power Hour" conversations to develop high-profile managers hungry for learning and management excellence, but seriously short on time. Using the increasingly popular "informal" training approach, Haneberg's "Power Hour" conversations motivate and focuses participants toward the pursuit of excellence. Replete with a facilitator's guide, handouts, and worksheets, this title is aimed at middle and senior level managers in all fields who seek to improve their own performance.

"It's no secret. People are amazing. And cranky. And courageous. And fearful. And unpredictable. And funny. And stuck in a rut. And driven to be great. Highly talented and deeply flawed. Tough to manage, but easy to love. What is a secret, though, is how leaders can learn to inspire and transform these amazing and complex people into productive, highly engaged teams. Join leadership expert Lisa Haneberg as she presents a compelling model for creating accountability and engagement with grit and, surprisingly, love at its heart. She reveals 11 practical and profound secrets to help you hone your leadership practices to cultivate excellence and build performance velocity in your teams immediately. Real-life examples and easy-to-use tools help you put these powerful ideas into action."--

In Focus Like a Laser Beam, acclaimed management consultant and business blogger Lisa Haneberg offers business leaders a new way to direct their focus that, like a laser beam, is direct, fast, and on track. The book offers leaders ways to improve energy and engagement in the workplace and redirect how people communicate at work. Focus Like a Laser Beam is filled with useful suggestions for dealing with distractions and diversions and outlines the ten practices that will help leaders focus on what's most important. Know and feel the power of laser focus Get connected with your employees Have fun and be fun Relax to energize Turn meetings into focus sessions Invite a challenge Huddle Stop multitasking and put your focus where it belongs Do one great thing Let go of outdated goals, projects, and tasks

High-Impact Middle Management is designed to address the unique needs of public sector managers. Middle managers in the public sector have more direct impact on results than any other layer of an organization. This book shows you how to become a high-impact middle manager one who can transform high pressure into high impact business results. This is a sister book to The High-Impact Middle Manager."

In most organizations, middle managers are in the best position to positively impact business results. Yet, for most of these uniquely talented business professionals, this opportunity is lost. "The High Impact Middle Manager" offers a powerful set of practices that will transform these key organizational players from task and crisis managers to strategic business partners. From understanding their true organizational role, to planning and demonstrating business results, to improving time and project management techniques, to optimizing performance and leadership capability, this book provides all the tools, direction, and encouragement needed for a life changing journey to change and career success.

Think Tony Bennett, William Shatner, or Tina Turner. Baby Boomers and Traditionalists they may be, but there is no denying that they are as connected to their Gen-Y and Millennial fans as to their contemporaries. They have become hip and sage - reinventing and reenergizing their careers by adopting new ways of thinking, collaborating, and communicating. Written from a practicing hip-and-sage professional's point of view, "Hip and Sage" is prime reading for the millions of Baby Boomers challenged by today's fast-paced changes and searching for fresh insights into how they can stay relevant and successful in today's techno-driven workplace.

This Infoline offers you a direct path to conduct just-in-time coaching. You'll learn how to establish coaching relationships, recognize just-in-time coaching opportunities, assess interest and coachability, and create effective just-in-time coaching dialogues.

This Infoline focuses on the skills that are needed to succeed in middle management, specifically, the top five capabilities every middle manager needs to succeed: effective relationship building, building talent, critical thinking and alignment, optimizing performance, and inspiring excellence. Management is the best and most challenging job, and it provides the best opportunities to have maximum impact. Middle management acumen is a set of capabilities that will help every manager be a great engine for an organizations success. This Infoline is targeted at helping managers focus on building middle management acumen, as well as providing a training and reference resource for human resources and training professionals.

Organization development (OD) practitioners help companies manage change and align people, processes, and practices for success. At the heart of practice, OD helps the organizations find the best way to get from point A to point B employing a range of disciplines and competencies including the behavioral sciences field - psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. This book is primer on the broad field of OD and offers just the right amount of information to gain an understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner. It is a useful book for trainers and training managers wishing to add new knowledge and capabilities to their resume and is a solid resource for beginning OD professionals and other human resource professionals.

Using Lisa Haneberg's proven process will help you move beyond your fears and bad habits and help you make significant breakthroughs, even amid the overwhelming clutter of everyday life. Two Weeks to a Breakthrough uses both repetition and the gradual introduction of new techniques to increase your ability to discover and manifest new possibilities. Through a combination of step-by-step instructions, examples, exercises, and illustrations, you will learn how to clarify your goals, take steps to break through both internal and external obstacles, and discover how to transform your career and personal life into exactly what you've always wanted.

Spy Shop Mystery series, prequel. Xena Cali was a successful human resources executive who plummeted off the corporate ladder. She relocates to quirky Galveston Island, Texas, to open the Paradise Lost Spy Shop and a private investigation practice in the gritty Strand Historical District. Xena uncovers and must overcome several challenges related the store's former "residents." At the same time, business owners are on edge about of a string of recent burglaries. Xena jumps in to help, but a rag-tag crime watch group makes solving the case harder and weirder. Find out what Chef Robert Irvine, a probably-fake voodoo queen, and a golf-cart-driving pot-head artist have in common in this fun and fast-moving caper. Free e-book available.

Spy Shop Mystery series, book 1. A popular marine biologist is dead. An octopus named Fred is accused of killing her. Can Xena interrogate Fred and solve the crime before more people die? Xena Cali is a somewhat overzealous investigator with a passion for poetic justice. Her latest case takes her to the Biological and Aquatic Research Labs (BARL) in Galveston, where Dr. Jane Moore is found dead in a tank with a large octopus wrapped around her body. When Dr. Ari Pani (42 and very handsome) doesn't accept the police's conclusion of death by octopus, he hires Xena to find the truth before Fred is lethally injected in two weeks. The investigation tests her mental and athletic prowess, her stash of spy shop gadgets and her assumptions about octopuses. She'll need all that and a commandeered Segway to stay alive. Toxic Octopus is the first book in the Spy Shop mystery series. If you like fast-paced crime novels, clever satire and gritty beach towns, then you'll love this humorous mystery.

Spy Shop Mystery series, book 2. A birding guide is found dead. The murder rattles locals and birders who flock to Galveston for the influx of Sandhill Cranes. With sidekick Ned "The Pelican Man" Quinn, Xena Cali and her team explore birding's darker side and the tenuous relationship between commerce and nature to solve the case.

A Spy Shop Mystery, book 3. Rodent Roger, a popular Galveston Island exterminator, goes missing the day after he tells private investigator and spy shop owner Xena Cali about a concerning uptick in green iguana sightings on the island. They're crapping in people's boats and falling from trees. Are the lizards swimming over from Florida to escape the pythons, or is it something more nefarious? Can Xena help untangle the mess before the raucous reptiles take over Galveston? Ultima Penelope Roger is a best-selling writer of romance novels. The Lizard Liquidators have set up shop on Galveston Island. Herpetologist Quintana Flores, PhD, works on a bizarre cruise ship that sails out of the Port of Galveston. Sasha Barlow is a driven junior reporter who'll do anything to get the story. Ned "The Pelican Man" Quinn writes a column about bird necropsies. Captain Ethan Slaughter is the head of the Major Crimes team at the Galveston Police Department. Xena and her team will have to partner with and/or battle this cast of characters and others to solve what becomes a disturbing murder investigation. Stiff Lizard is the third full-length book in the Spy Shop Mystery series. If you like fast-paced crime novels, clever satire, and gritty beach towns, then you'll love Lisa Haneberg's humorous and contemporary cozy caper.

Poetry. "I read in a glossary of mining terminology that prize means to lever or loosen with a pry bar or pick. And the term suggests the noun for what is gained: a prize. In Coal Town Photograph, Pauletta Hansel prizes memory for the resource that it is. Throughout, this book dives into the challenge of the past as place. Its journey is from underground-darkness to a state of earned brightness. As she tells us in the title poem: 'I am from / a place that could not hold me, / never even tried. Come morning, / mist of evening rain, a ghost above a mirrored sun.' We should prize the work of this traveler forever."--Roy Bentley

Poems; 70 pages.

Poems; 20 pages.

Poems; 73 pages.

Poetry. "In this wrenching work--sonnet sequences, free verse lyrics, journal entries--Pauletta Hansel confronts the slow and agonizing demise of her dementia-stricken mother. This is not the first time Hansel has taken pen up in an extended confrontation with death; each time she does, we must admire anew her courage, tenacity, and her willingness to give all to art. PALINDROME is the saga of a daughter growing older and becoming the caregiver as her mother declines into a sometimes child-like helplessness. And it is the transformation of suffering, grief, and guilt into expert writing of the highest empathy and honesty." --Richard Hague

Poetry. ""Tangle" is made of poems that ache and grieve, desire and remember, the space between words and the hand. They capture the body's grace and the tumor backlit on a screen. They are waking and dreams, a jagged tear across our sleep. They are winter and a woman's last menses. They are a daughter's final summer at home, her mouth already remembering the tomato's ripeness. Pauletta Hansel's poems are also mystery we can taste here and now. Smoke from a father's cigarette. Packed-dirt yards. Oranges and cloves. Who we are, Hansel tell us, 'is hatched from who we were / this film of self now covering / who we will be.' These are poems to mend us." -- Karen Salyer McElmurry, author of Surrendered Child and Motel of the Stars

Poems; 32 pages. "By three women from Appalachia [Gail V. Amburgey, Mary Jane Coleman, Pauletta Hansel]."

Poetry. "Hansel takes the stuff of her life--that first person world--and spins a web which takes in all of us who have lived awhile. We travel through her poems blessed 'with light for (our) journey,' feeling not like voyeurs but companions for whom, Hansel claims, 'I must still give thanks.' Enlarged by our journey, we offer our thanks back to her" --Dana Wildsmith.

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. APPALACHIA UNDER THIRTY - VOLUME 19: PINE MOUNTAIN SAND & GRAVEL, is comprised of work of writers under thirty, and those writers over thirty, reflecting on the experiences of their under thirty lives. These poems, stories, essays, and memoirs, by turns, angry, pensive, and joyful, are a wealth of writing reflective of the work being done in this, the second generation of the Appalachian literary renaissance. In 1974 a group of writers and activists gathered at Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee to form what became the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. From its very beginning, SAWC was intended to support writers in their efforts to take control of their regional identity and to take action, individually and collectively, on the issues that impact the land and its people. For over four decades the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative has provided a place for writers to come together to share their work and their struggles, and to ponder how these things affect not only their work, but also their relationships to each other, to the region, and to the broader culture. APPALACHIA UNDER THIRTY - VOLUME 19: PINE MOUNTAIN SAND & GRAVEL is the annual themed journal published by the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.

Fiction. Poetry. Essays. "In our call announcing the theme for this issue, we said, 'We are blessed or cursed to live in these interesting times. For Volume 21 we offer the theme of Appalachia Acting Up. Take it as and where you will: political protest, community conflict, childhood tantrums, family quarrels, life in the theater, life as drama queen, technology on the fritz, your own or your characters' misspent youth...Surprise us!' Well, we certainly were surprised! Surprised both at the diverse varieties of acting up to be encountered, and pleasantly surprised at the quality of the writing that describes it. There is to be found within these pages all the acting up in our list and much, much more. The youngest author in this collection is fourteen. The oldest...well, we're not sure and we're not going to ask. But these writers are significantly older. And still acting up. Which is to say that 'acting up' is not a thing limited by age. Nor is it limited by race, gender, sexual orientation, nor any of the other constructs by which we separate ourselves one from another. We all feel the urge to break the bonds of conformity, to remove from ourselves the shackles of convention and control, to throw off William Blake's 'mind-forg'd manacles.'"--The Editors, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. In 1974, a group of writers and activists gathered at Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee, to form what became the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. From its very beginning, SAWC was intended to support writers in our efforts to take control of our regional identity and to take action, individually and collectively, on the issues that impact our land and our people. For over four decades, the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative has provided a place for us to come together to share our work and our struggles, and to ponder how these things affect not only our work but also our relationships with each other, the region, and the broader culture. PINE MOUNTAIN SAND & GRAVEL is now an annual, themed journal. In its thirty-some years of publication, PMS&G has produced 22 volumes of contemporary Appalachian writing and has been stewarded by 13 editors and co-editors. In 2015, the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative, in collaboration with Dos Madres Press, published Quarried: Three Decades of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel.

Poems; 122 pages.

Poems; 162 pages.

Poems, 177 pages.

Poems; 181 pages.

Poems; 221 pages.

Poems; 269 pages.

Kentucky was the last state in the South to introduce racially segregated schools and one of the first to break down racial barriers in higher education. The passage of the infamous Day Law in 1904 forced Berea College to exclude 174 students because of their race. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s black faculty remained unable to attend in-state graduate and professional schools. Like black Americans everywhere who fought overseas during World War II, Kentucky's blacks were increasingly dissatisfied with their second-class educational opportunities. In 1948, they financed litigation to end segregation, and the following year Lyman Johnson sued the University of Kentucky for admission to its doctoral program in history. Civil racism indirectly defined the mission of black higher education through scarce fiscal appropriations from state government. It also promoted a dated 19th-century emphasis on agricultural and vocational education for African Americans. John Hardin reveals how the history of segregated higher education was shaped by the state's inherent, though sometimes subtle, racism.

Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Michigan

The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.

Living with her brother and grandmother while her parents drift from place to place, Marian Coleman finally decides to move to New York by herself and begin a new life. First published in 1945.

Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals--such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books--in which it originally appeared. This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to her childhood Kentucky home and discovers the world of difference within her. A girl's boyfriend is not quite good enough, his "silvery eyes, light and cool, revealing nothing except pure possibility, like a coin in hand." A magazine editor's life falls strangely to pieces after she loses both her husband and her job. Individual lives and the life of New York, the setting or backdrop for most of these stories, are strikingly and memorably depicted in Hardwick's beautiful and razor-sharp prose.

First published in 1955. Joseph Parks and Anita Mitchell meet during a sensational murder trial and are drawn together as they try to understand the motivation of the murderer.

The narrator of Sleepless Nights is a woman piecing together her life from scraps. Those scraps include tent meetings in Kentucky, a seedy hotel in New York in the 1940s, a nightclub where Billy Holliday sings. There are newly divorced women taking each other's emotional temperature and several seductive men - especially a Dutch doctor who conducts his adulteries with domestic coziness. Above all, there is Hardwick's own unmistakable sensibility, one that delights in startling juxtapositions and the music of the American language. First published in 1979.

Essays, criticism. 292 pages.

Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. She covered civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, and murder trials that gripped her. She wrote sketches for various occasions and countless essays about literature, her greatest passion. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor. The continuous attention to language, the structure of observations, the line of interpretation- Hardwick deserves to be read and reread for the clarity of her perceptions and her enduring assessments of literature and society, and simply for the beauty of her writing alone. Edited and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwickgathers more than fifty essays for a retrospective of this writer or moral courage, as Joan Didion called her. Hardwick's readings define literature itself.

Originally published as the winter 1978 issue of Daedalus.

Ibsen's female characters as well as the Brontë sisters, Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Jane Carlyle are considered in essays studying contrasts in heroism.

It is only in a country where newness and change and brevity of tenure are the common substance of life," wrote Henry James, "that the fact of one's ancestors having lived for a hundred and seventy years in a single spot would become an element of one's morality." Newness and rootedness are the twin poles of Sight-Readings, Elizabeth Hardwick's brilliant new collection of essays. (Her first, Seduction and Betrayal, was nominated for the National Book Award.) Hardwick's focus here is on American writers, at home and abroad, and especially women, as writers and as characters: Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion, among others. In sections on Old New York, Americans Abroad, and Fictions of America, Hardwick considers writers and their landscapes, real and imagined. Her essays on Edith Wharton and Henry James illuminate aspects of their inventions of New York. From there she takes us to the Paris of Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes, into the hermetic world of Boston Transcendentalism, and on to the suburbs of John Cheever, the America of Philip Roth and John Updike, and the restless expanses of Richard Ford and the Prairie poets. Elizabeth Hardwick has achieved a permanent place in American letters for her sharp and elegant criticism. Her essays on American writers are them-selves a work of literature.

Essays, criticism. 214 pages.

Biography. The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, & the challenging shape of his life, a story of the creative history of an extraordinary American genius." Hardwick's superb critical interpretation & award-winning novelistic flair reveal a former whaleship deck hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. Later, a self-described "thought-diver" into "the truth of the human heart" Melville harbored a bitterness that knew no bounds when that same public failed to embrace his masterwork, Moby-Dick. Invaluable for enthusiasts of American literature, Herman Melville is itself a masterpiece of critical commentary in the tradition of D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature.

Letters of William James, edited, and introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick. 271 pages.

With an introduction by Wade Hall, Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter" to Crystal E. Wilkinson's "Humming Back Yesterday," these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond. Contributors: Robert Penn Warren, Caroline Gordon, James Still, Jane Mayhall, Elizabeth Hardwick, Dean Cadle, Jesse Stuart, Billy C. Clark, Janice Holt Giles, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Hollis Summers, Ed McClanahan, Sallie Bingham, Robert Hazel, Jack Cady, Jim Wayne Miller, David Madden, Gayl Jones, Jane Stuart, Gurney Norman, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joe Ashby Porter, Leon V. Driskell, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Richard Cortez Day, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pat Carr, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, Lisa Koger, Barbara Kingsolver, Normandi Ellis, Guy Davenport, Kim Edwards, Chris Holbrook, Paul Griner, Chris Offutt, Dwight Allen, Crystal E. Wilkinson. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs; with an introduction by Wade Hall and an afterword by Charles E. May.

Ficton; short stories. Contents: King Solomon of Kentucky / James Lane Allen -- An Experience on the Dress Line / Lucky Furman -- Courtin' on Cutshin / John Fox Jr. -- Hoodooed / Alice Hegan Rice -- Snake Doctor / Irvin S. Cobb -- Children of Noah / Ben Lucien Burman -- The Sacrifice of the Maidens / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Old Red / Caroline Gordon -- The Immortal Woman / Allen Tate -- Room in the World / Leane Zugsmith -- Dawn of Remembered Spring / Jesse Stuart -- Mrs. Razor / James Still -- Blackberry Winter / Robert Penn Warren -- Evenings at Home / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Ebbie / A.B. Guthrie Jr.

The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literature, The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centered on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circle--writers, intellectuals, friends, and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Rich--the book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of their twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation. Lowell's controversial sonnet-sequence The Dolphin (for which he used Hardwick's letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwick's influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Essays on Women in Literature and Sleepless Nights: A Novel. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriages, children, and friends, and of the feelings that their personal crises gave rise to. The Dolphin Letters, masterfully edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of art--what occasions a work of art, what moral and artistic license artists have to make use of their lives as material, what formal innovations such debates give rise to. The crisis of Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone surrounding him, and Bishop's warning to Lowell--"art just isn't worth that much"--haunts.

This volume offers 13 extended conversations with an interesting mix of old masters, mature practitioners and relative newcomers. Included is Malcolm Cowley on the drinking habits of Hart Crane, on procrastination, and on rescuing Faulkner; William Maxwell on the early days of The New Yorker; Raymond Carver on what the physical act of putting words on paper involves; Philip Larkins' last interview; Eugene Ionesco on writing versus party going; Edna O'Brien on the sanctity of first lines; and Philip Roth on psychoanalysis and fiction. Other writers covered include: Arthur Koestler, May Sarton, Elizabeth Hardwick, John Ashbery, John Barth, and Milan Kundera. These men and women speak to and against each other, candidly and provocatively, on their craft and their worlds.

DVD (originally VHS). From the series: Writers in Conversation. Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist and advisory editor of The New York review of books, discusses the American literary scene of the 1930s, neo-conservative criticism, the American expatriate writers, the role of protest in contemporary American fiction, and contemporary authors whose work she admires in an interview with Malcolm Bradbury.

Seduced by Sheet Talkin' Lovin' and a Man's Man this book takes you on a safari of pain and hilarity as Yolantha Harrison-Pace Slings Snot with God, confronts the Sistah's of Satan, rejoices over the demise of Jazzba the Jezebel Butterfly and is born again through the Hoochie Coochie Girl who Lost Her Hooch. This is a quest to embrace the authentic self, based on a secret survival journal that takes the reader on a metorphic ride of prayers, essays, poetry and ghetto-tales. Wing-Plucked Butterfly is one woman's war on hate crimes against women and children in spite of cultural conditioning, religious brainwashing, and being mad stupid in love.

From the writer of Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope comes this full color illustrative companion volume HERE'S TO HAITI: Kiss America Kiss, depicting the missionary trips of Yolantha Harrison Pace and her interactions with the people of the nation. In her own words Yolantha writes: "Many of the things I see in Haiti are difficult for my heart to comprehend. I am not an artist, but in order not to cry and in order to pass the time when what I have witnessed keeps me from sleeping, I doodle. It helps to mend my broken heart. This book is full of my doodles of love for Haiti."Authored by Yolantha Harrison-PaceDesigned by Neo BlaqnessIllustrated by Yolantha Harrison-PaceLiterary editor Neo Blaqness

Biography. 180 pages; illustrations.

"This compelling narrative of the inner mind's spiritual reckoning with God on the mission fields and mountainsides of Haiti is beautifully and masterfully revealed through a naked candor and self reflection seldom seen in writing. There are no Oompa Loompas or Everlasting Gobstoppers, but, no doubt, Yolantha Harrison Pace could give even the wily Willy Wonka a run for his money as the reluctant hero and pied piper of hope in the chocolate factory of Haiti.If you have ever wondered what it is like to be born of the black American experience and then to go on the mission field, then this book is a MUST READ!!"-Neo Blaqness "I believe that when you are in love, you tell everybody. So I'm telling everybody. See I love you Haiti, because you always love me back." This quote by an amazing author, Yolantha Harrison-Pace, is but one of many profound words of wisdom in her book, Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope. Having, myself, worked many years in ministry, I thought this book was going to be a familiar quick read, informative, thoughtful, and spiritual. After three days of reading, sleeping with it, dreaming about it, and soul searching because of it, I found this book to be life changing. It is spiritually, culturally and emotionally provocative, consciously intrusive and radically transparent. Yolantha Harrison-Pace has you in stitches one moment, tears the next, and often finding yourself standing right beside her saying, "did you hear that?" or "did you see that?" or "who said that?" She is definitely guilty of writing a truthful book about how each of us, as African Americans, have to come face to face with our Americanisms and, moreover, question our beliefs to the point of evoking an authentic conversation with God to confirm whether we need to say "Yes" again to our own Calling. In Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope, the subtitle being One American's Rude Awakening, Yolantha Harrison-Pace is true to form, skillfully exposing the many gods we pay homage to in our Americanism: the god of criticism and alienation; self-medication, ....the god of negligence and oversight. While reading this book, which I believe is destined to be a classic, new definitions emerged for the words missionary, hope, even food and love. Truly Yolantha's mission and commission was to ignite hope in the starving, abandoned and disenfranchised mountain children of Haiti. The reward she received for her obedience is summed up in this quote: "Everything I learned about the real ME, I learned on the mission field." I recommend this book as a MUST READ for current missionaries and those curious or contemplating work in the mission field, and, for sure, anyone looking for a clarity of purpose. Yolantha makes it perfectly clear in Haiti: The Aftershocks of Hope, that we all have a Calling. The Call is the invitation to work the doing power of God. God is love and love is doing. "This is the Call, the Call to doing Love", says Yolantha. A masterpiece from the first page, this book will return your spirit to the days when there was no Caller ID, when you answered the Call simply because the phone rang, and by not filtering the doing of God, discovering your real self." -Dr. Verlean Hailey

Juvenile fiction. 23 pages. Danville and Harrodsburg are best 'Tucky Bear Friends. But they always argue about who gets to be first and why. Me First is a historical look at friendship and family. It is written to challenge students to find out what makes them who they are and challenge students to look into their own family histories.

"The Mountain Workshops, 2007; The 32nd year."
Includes gazeteer of the 32 towns which have been the forces of The Mountain Workshops photography projects.
A portfolio of 37 black and white photographs and 26 human interest stories of local people by means of over 130 additional photographs.
Yolantha Harrison-Pace is a contributor.

"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys. In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. Lush and richly imagined, a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love, and the enduring power of stories awaits in Alix E. Harrow's spellbinding debut--step inside and discover its magic.

Oona's blood is a river delta blending east and west, her hair red as Tennessee clay, her heart tangled as the wild lands she maps. By tracing rivers in ink on paper, Oona pins the land down to one reality and betrays her people. Can she escape the bonds of gold and blood and bone that tie her to the Imperial American River Company? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.

Poems; 32 pages. "Matthew Haughton's debut collection honors and extends Kentucky's great literary heritage, which stretches from Greenup to Bowling Green, the 18th century to now. In poems that dare 'pray there's a heaven for snakes,' and dare see a man 'growing like a sycamore out of the untamed earth,' he adds his worthy voice to the chorus." - Frederick Smock, Author of Guest House. Review from publisher's website

Poems; 75 pages. In Matthew Haughton's Stand in the Stillness of Woods, the inner life of a native Kentuckian is placed against the external life of that same landscape, and the two visions illuminate each other.

Poems; unpaged.

Poems; 16 unnumbered pages. Includes brief biographical information on the poet at end. Issued in light blue paper wrappers.

Poems; 122 pages.

Poems; 162 pages.