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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...
Last fall, after a political argument in Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart was blackjacked while his back was turned by Constable Amos Allen. Last week a jury found Constable Allen guilty of assault and battery; the judge fined...
...lived here among these hills in W-Hollow nearly all my life-with the exception of the years I spent in Tennessee in college and a year abroad. Despite the fact I've been sued for $75,000 I owe a lot of people in Greenup County and it is to their interest to see that I stay until I get my debts paid in full. Petty politicians and constables with blackjacks are not running me out either...
...editorial about Dictator Joe Bates with out getting slugged in the head," he explained, "in one of the most unfair method ever used on a man. . . . Without boasting, by using fists and skull and without weapons of any sort, I can whip Amos Allen on less street-space in Greenup than the length of his body. . . . The blood I shed from the three wounds was more than a quart. . . . For every drop of blood I shed - yes, for every red, sticky drop - I shall write 10,000 words in ink exposing this 'gang' work in Greenup County...
Back teaching school in an Ohio town across the river, emotional, romantic, enthusiastic Jesse Stuart refused to give up, though friends told him to stay out of Greenup. One of the most prolific writers going, he dislikes teaching school because it cuts his output from 30,000 to 10,000 words a day, hates to get "messed up" in politics, but says: "I am a citizen of Greenup County. I was born here; my people live here; my farm is here. I love Greenup County and its citizens...