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Throughout the 1980s he released innumerable homemade chapbooks that were mostly given away and scattered across his old hobo route, which included Canada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico.
In the 1990s he put out fewer books, such as "The Last Laugh" and "Chickenwire", while returning to a focus on his painting.
This summer will see the release of JSH's Weird Kentucky, a book based on his Unusual Kentucky website.
JSH also dabbled in theater during the 1980s, writing several short plays and working in some small productions in the South. In August 2008, his two-act play Toulouse-inations will debut at Louisville's prestigious Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts.
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