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An Appalachin Writer AN APPALACHIAN WRITER Legends come in all different shapes and sizes and from all over the world. Even people that grow up in extreme poverty,
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AN APPALACHIAN WRITER
Legends come in all different shapes and sizes and from all over the world. Even people that grow up in extreme poverty, in rural Eastern Kentucky, have the power to become a legend. Jesse Stuart was an incredible writer who told the stories of his homeland. His writing made him a legend. His life also helped shape his writing. Where he was born, how he grew up, and what he was taught, had a great impact on his writing.
Jesse Stuart was born in W-Hollow, in Greenup County, on August, 8, 1906, to Mitchell and Martha Hilton Stuart. He was their first son, and the second of their seven children. His father, known as "Mick," married Martha in Greenup County. They lived together forty-nine years before Martha died. Within those forty-nine years, they lived in six different houses, all in a one-mile stretch in W-Hollow. Jesse's father worked as a coal-miner for awhile and then began share-cropping, until he earned enough money to buy fifty acres of land. This was the only land that his father ever owned. His family truly lived off the land. They never bought anything from the store except for seasonings and sugar. They survived by eating wild game, pork, beef, and mutton that they raised. When Jesse was a child, W-Hollow was his playground. He loved to explore the woods and knew all the different kinds of birds, rodents, and insects. His brother Herbert died when Jesse was young, so he had no other playmates. He had to become friends with nature. From the time he was six, Jesse helped work in the fields and crops. It was their way of life. (Jesse: The Bibliography of an American Writer)
W-Hollow was not the only place where Jesse learned valuable knowledge. His father was illiterate, and his mother had only finished second grade, so they were determined that their children would receive a proper education. He walked two miles each way every day to a one-room Plum Grove school house where he spent...
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