JUST A HILLBILLY: None

by George O. Stapleton, Jennifer Stapleton (Compiler), Glenda Faye Stapleton (Editor)

Overview

Over a period of eighty years, the book takes the reader through significant highlights of the author's life starting in Claiborne County, Tennessee to Middlesboro, Kentucky and other parts of the United States, ending in Golden, Colorado. It is written to entertain and enlighten the reader regarding what life was like growing up in Appalachia America and how that life has played out around other parts of the country. It includes some of the author's impact on other lives he came in contact with, as well as contributions he may have made in communities he has lived. The book also argues that hillbillies are much more than comic characters, as depicted in books, TV shows, and movies, and have made significant contributions to American life. Cases in point include President Abraham Lincoln born in Kentucky, President Andrew Jackson from Tennessee, Country Western music stars originating in Nashville, Tennessee, Elvis Presley (the King of Rock and Roll) from Tennessee, Sargent York , one of the heroes of World War II from
Tennessee, and Daniel Boone (who grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina and the founder of Cumberland Gap (where the author grew up) that opened up the Wilderness Road, gateway to the Western United States). Boone and Lincoln are mentioned here because their grandfathers Squire Boone and Mordeci Lincoln were close friends of the author's ancestor Robert P. Stapleton when they lived in and attended the Quaker Church in Olney Valley, Pennsylvania in the 1700's. (This account is covered in the author's book STAPLETON CHRONICLES.) And the book also argues that hillbillies are not just "moonshiners" on the public dole, but are true contributors to all that has always made America the leader of the free world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987004311
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/27/2018
Edition description:	Recalling Incidents from 1930's Onward ed.
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

George O Stapleton was born June 7, 1934 in a three-bedroom unpainted wooden house in a hollow in a Claiborne County, Tennessee community called Little Sycamore. He began his education at the age of six in a one-room school house where grades one through six were taught. His family moved to Middlesboro, Kentucky in 1941, and he grew up there in the shadow of Cumberland Gap where Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia meet. He entered the U.S. Navy immediately upon graduation from high school to take advantage of the G.I. Bill so he could go to college. While serving in the Navy in a highly classified job he spent three months on the Battleship New Jersey with the rest of his four-year enlistment at the Naval Security Station in Washington, D.C. He graduated from George Washington University in D.C. and married Glenda Faye Overly in 1959. They moved to Louisville, Kentucky shortly after marriage where he earned a Master of Divinity degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. They lived several places around the country serving churches while he worked for the U.S. Government. He retired from government service in 1990 and from United Airlines in 2003. He and Glenda Faye have three children, George Jr., Glenn, and Jennifer, and live in Golden, Colorado.