JOHN SPARKS
APPALACHIAN, KENTUCKIAN, HISTORIAN, AND WRITER

He warn't only just a farmer, he was a preacher, too, and had a little one-horse log church... and never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too. There was plenty other farmer-preachers like that, and done the same way, down South.
-- Mark Twain

I won't be leaving much.
Something to read, maybe.
A wild onion in the gutted road.
-- Charles Bukowski
LINKS TO:
MY AUTHOR'S BLOG ON AMAZON.COM
NEWS; MY HISTORICAL NOVEL,
THE LAST DANCE OF GUS FINLEY,
IS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE OLD SEVENTY CREEK PRESS OF ALBANY, KENTUCKY
COMING IN SUMMER 2009: KENTUCKY'S MOST HATED MAN (Wind Publications, Nicholasville, Ky.)
MY NOVELETTE, ON EDGE, FROM BLUE CUBICLE PRESS OF PLANO,TX.
At the Western Kentucky Book Expo, Union County Fairgrounds, Sturgis, KY, October 2004. Photo courtesy C. & D. Barrett
THE ROOTS OF APPALACHIAN CHRISTIANITY: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ELDER SHUBAL STEARNS (The University Press of Kentucky, 2001 & 2005)
RACCOON JOHN SMITH: FRONTIER KENTUCKY'S MOST FAMOUS PREACHER (University Press of Kentucky, 2005)
GOD BLESS GEOCITIES FOR SO MANY YEARS OF FAITHFUL FREE HELP. WHEN GEOCITIES CLOSES DOWN, GO  HERE TO SEE MY NEW  AMAZON WEBSITE
A PICTORIAL TRIBUTE TO RACCOON JOHN SMITH
CROSSROADS 2006:A SOUTHERN CULTURE AND LITERARY ANNUAL (contributor)
APPALACHIAN CHURCH AND LITERARY LINKS
RECORDS OF THE OLD ZION ASSOCIATION, 1848-1880
Contact:
jgsprks (at) bellsouth.net
NEW GROWTH: RECENT KENTUCKY WRITINGS FROM JSF BOOKS
Postal Mail: write to me in care of one of my publishers. If it's legit, I'll surely get back to you