Gregory Kent Stanley Bücher

My House Wasn¡¯t on Stilts tells the poignant and humorous story of a boy from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. It examines a childhood spent on the move and his many sojourns in the including Detroit, the Appalachian Mecca of the 1950s and 1960s. It then follows the narrator through the rites of passage of young leaving home, going to college, marriage, job hunting, and downsizing. The book explores a peculiarly Appalachian side of Southern culture. How do people who move out of the region regard themselves and their background? How do they measure themselves against the values of their home region and the sometimes larger than life legacy of their family?

On February 12, 1991, all the schools in the small town of Monroe, Georgia were the targets of simultaneous terrorist attacks. Over 40 people were killed. Yet the high school suffered no casualties thanks to the actions of the students favorite teacher, Daniel Tillman, who single-handedly dispatched the attackers. After the attacks, word begins leaking out that Tillman had spent seven years in Vietnam as part of the ultra-secret SOG Special Forces team. The teachers, administration, and some townspeople demand his dismissal because they no longer feel comfortable around him. The story focuses on how he is prodded into fighting for his future and how, along the way, he comes to terms with his past. He is aided and sustained by the love and support of his students, the advice of an aged uncle, the interventions of a pesky CNN reporter, and the help of one of the states most powerful politicians who has vivid memories of the teacher from twenty years earlier.

The book explores the evolution of organized sports at UK, highlighting the initial struggles under student leadership and the challenges faced, including scandals and financial issues. It delves into the conflicts with administration that shaped the sports landscape, culminating in the significant Purge of 1938, which marked a turning point for the rise of basketball. This historical account offers insights into the complexities and transformations within the sports community at the university.

The Rise and Fall of the Sportswoman examines health and fitness advice for American women in the years 1860-1940. It describes the factors that propelled the sportswoman to the level of a highly visible cultural symbol. Blending together medical, educational, social, and cultural history, it also discusses how this symbol eventually collapsed, all but disappearing from the landscape of American social thought.