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Jesse Stuart

(#420) from Kentucky Life Program 420 (1997)

A profile of Jesse Stuart, a son of poor tenant farmers in the hills of northeastern Kentucky who went on to become one of America’s most popular authors of the 1940s and ’50s. The segment includes archival recordings of Stuart reading from his own works; interviews with family members; and a visit to the author’s beloved homestead, W-Hollow.

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