Alpha M. Hutchinson The Biography of a Man and his Community
Alpha M. Hutchinson spent his lifetime as an employee of The Citizens Bank of Morehead. He began his career at the bank in 1940 when, clad in a clean pair of overalls, he applied for a job as bookkeeper and was hired for $40 a month. He worked his way up to become president of the bank in 1970. Later, he became Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Dr. Jack D. Ellis is a native of Morehead, Kentucky. He is a retired Director of Libraries and Professor of Library Science at Morehead State University. His 34 years of library work also includes Public, Bookmobile and School Library supervisory experience in Florida and Kentucky. Dr. Ellis is also a retired minister having served six different churches in four Eastern Kentucky counties. He holds degrees from Morehead State University, Peabody College of Vanderbuilt University and the University of Southern Mississippi. He is now serving his 32nd year as a member of the Kentucky Archives Commission having been appointed by seven seperate Governers. Dr. Ellis is married to Janis Caudill Ellis and they have four children: Jackie, John, Jeff and Jean, and 10 grandchildren.
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In this pithy ethnography detailing the people of the Little Laurel Valley of western North Carolina, Hicks has accomplished an anthropological ideal--he takes us beyond the caricatured features of the hillbilly image and into the Appalachian folk culture, examining the surroundings with a compassionate and observant objectivity. While no longer completely isolated from the mainstream of American culture, the Little Laurel Valley preserves its cultural uniqueness in its local attitudes, speech, kinship relationships, and a strongly felt, cohesive identity based upon a knowledge of positive distinction. Characterized by an emphasis on egalitarianism, the strong belief in personal independence and individualism, clearly defined sex roles, a great regard for the rural life and the household within it, and a pervasive suspicion of urban things and people, the culture of the Little Laurel is reminiscent of earlier colonial American culture, and the small communities of rural Great Britain. Through Hicks' keen eyes we can overlook the stereotypical images of L'il Abner and Snuffy Smith, and see in a better light this local culture of distinction that is representative of much that is old-line American. Americans of Anglo-American extraction may find the essence of their identity here, overshadowded and corroded by the material affluence, crassness, and immorality endemic in the mainstream of modern America.

Forty Years in the One-Room Schools of Eastern Kentucky:A Memoir
In the early 1900s, the one-room schools of Elliot County, Kentucky, served as the educational and cultural centers of more than 60 small communities. Within the community of Wells Creek, the faded white one-room school also served as an inspiration for Curt Davis, a future educator, administrator, superintendent and builder, who later helped create centralized modern facilities for his students in the Eastern Kentucky hills.

Curt Davis was born August 28, 1910, and reared on Wells Creek in Elliott County, Kentucky. His interest in education began as a toddler, anticipating the day that he could join his eight older brothers and sisters in the community's one-room school. Davis obtained his degree in education from Morehead State Normal School and taught in several one- and two-room schools before his appointment to serve as director of pupil personnel in Elliot County. Davis served as the county's superintendent of schools from 1942 to 1970, during which time he worked to consolidate the 66 one- and two-room schools into 3 modern facilities by 1968. In addition to his career in education, he worked extensively in the construction industry, beginning as an equipment operator and later serving as a contractor for highway developement. Davis lives in Elliot county with his wife, LaVinia.

A Mother’s Journey. A Daughter ’s Legacy
"Jonnae’s life began with me teaching her and ended with her teaching me."
Jonnae Taylor’s purpose was not to live through leukemia, it was to teach through it. With greater strength and faith than her years might suggest, she did not live as though she were dying; she died showing us how to live.Nine months of preparation preceded Jonnae’s Heavenly Birth. Through her eyes as a mother, Denise documented her’s and Jonnae’s experiences. Throughout these pages, you will be moved to laugh, cry, and make the most of every day. Allow this faithful child and mother to inspire you, as they have family, friends, and complete strangers.
• Feel the power of their story transform your life.
• Embrace their powerful perspectives, practices, and mantras.
• Become equipped to overcome adversity and live a full life.
• Change your thoughts about death.
Find peace and joy as you anticipate a Heavenly Birth.

Denise Taylor lives in southern Indiana with John, her husband of 20years, and their four living children. She touches audiences all over the world as an inspirational speaker and writer. Her candid and honest account of her daughter’s life and Heavenly Birth relays the powerful lessons she and Jonnae learned through a surprising teacher, leukemia.

"In Kentucky Memories: Reflections of Rowan County, Jack Ellis has demonstrated an awareness of the important role of local history. During the past century-and-a-half, the human population of this amoeba-like area, carved out of Fleming and Morgan Counties, has matured into an Appalachian folk, cultural, economic, educational, and medical center. Literally scores of people have contributed both positively and negatively to the history of this community, and each of their acts in some form or another should remain as a record of their presence and activities. In the same way, every important human act documenting the past should should be passed on to future generations as a foundation for its presence and actions." Dr. Thomas D. Clark

Dr. Jack D. Ellis is a native of Morehead, Kentucky. He is a retired Director of Libraries and Professor of Library Science at Morehead State University. His 34 years of library work also includes Public, Bookmobile and School Library supervisory experience in Florida and Kentucky. Dr. Ellis is also a retired minister having served six different churches in four Eastern Kentucky counties. He holds degrees from Morehead State University, Peabody College of Vanderbuilt University and the University of Southern Mississippi. He is now serving his 32nd year as a member of the Kentucky Archives Commission having been appointed by seven seperate Governers. Dr. Ellis is married to Janis Caudill Ellis and they have four children: Jackie, John, Jeff and Jean, and 10 grandchildren.

We Went to the Mountaintop but it Wasn't There
Thirty-five Kentuckians write against mountaintop removal in this collection of essays, fiction, and poetry. In April of 2005 a group of Kentucky writers participated in a "Mountaintop Removal Tour" organized by Kentuckians For The Commonwealth. After witnessing first-hand the devastation from this type of mining, the inadequacy of reclamation, and hearing from residents regarding the effects of mountaintop-removal mining on the land and the people who live there, this book was conceived.
This book calls for responsible mining practices and an end to the unnecessary destruction and devastation of the land, people, and economy of the eastern Kentucky coalfields and the planet caused by mountaintop removal. Every day many thousands of Kentuckians and residents of the Ohio and Mississippi valley drink water from streams that originate in the coal-mining region of Kentucky. It’s not just a local problem.

Odyssey to Iowa is about a young couple and their children from Wales to leave their homeland to start a new life in the United States.
They experience the furstrations of uprooting themselves from friends and family, to settle in the Midwest.
Adventure and excitement are part of this book of historical fiction.

Kent Freeland is a professor of education at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. He has traveled to Wales and visited some of the areas mentioned in Odyssey to Iowa. He is the author of many articles and books.