Hounds on the Mountain when his name first appeared

when his name first appeared in print

capable educators wanted to "learn all we can and teach all we can

Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth)

of Piano in a Sycamore: Writing Lessons from the Appalachian Writers' Workshop and is author of a poetry chapbook

The Gift Horse: A Story

Hounds on the Mountain when his name first appearedFirst published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes James Still's personal experiences of eastern Kentucky through reflective folk poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through death. Written during the Great Depression, the collection emphasizes a collective reliance on the earth and the primacy of nature that Still observed from the seclusion of his thirty acre home in Knott County, Kentucky. Still, who became known as the "Dean