Follow a “Mountain Path”

Walking eighteen miles to and from Burnside, Kentucky to the Blue John Road community to teach was the adventure of a lifetime for this young lady.

Local Pulitzer Prize nominated author, Harriette Simpson Arnow, shares her experiences teaching school in a remote mountain path community in rural Pulaski County, Kentucky. Although Arnow's first novel is considered to be a work of fiction, it has been well researched and considered by many to be autobiographical.

"Thus, the world I first saw in the summer of 1926 is gone; more completely vanished than ancient Greece and Rome. Different from Pompeii under the ashes, it cannot be excavated and re-created. Pine and sassafras roots destroy, instead of preserve, as do ashes; and anyway, who can excavate a fiddle tune, the coolness of a cave now choked with the water of Lake Cumberland, or the creakings and sighings of an old log house?

From the author of the Dollmaker and Old Burnside, Mountain Path is a novel that you will be sure to enjoy and be inspired by.