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The Quare Women - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains (Paperback)
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The Quare Women - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains (Paperback)
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When Katherine Pettit and May Stone arrived in the rural
Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky to engage in social
settlement work in the late 1800s, they were unmarried outsiders,
living in pitched tents on the side of a hill, and perceived as
odd, peculiar -- and "quare" (the local pronunciation of "queer").
Yet these strong, capable educators wanted to "learn all we can and
teach all we can," and in doing so would persevere to establish the
Hindman Settlement School in 1902. When Lucy Furman arrived at the
school five years later, she was already an accomplished writer,
but used her two decades of living and working at the school as
fruitful and prolific inspiration for her beloved novels. Printed
for the first time since 1941, this lightly fictionalized account
of Pettit's and Stone's entrances into the Hindman community offers
the contemporary reader a unique look at this country's early
rural/urban divide. From the time of its first publication in The
Atlantic to the last edition of the bound book, The Quare Women was
a big success. Readers loved the book's dramatic adventure and
romance, as well as the real-life research that Furman used to
create the story. To this day, the Hindman Settlement School
believes in "honoring the past, improving the present, and planning
for the bright and colorful future of Central Appalachia." This
book endures as a lasting testament to the spirit and legacy of
these trailblazing women.
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