The Quare Women: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains

by Rebecca Gayle Howell and Lucy Furman

When Katherine Pettit and May Stone arrived in the rural Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky to engage in social settlement work in the late 1800s, they were unmarried outsiders, living in pitched tents on the side of a hill, and perceived as odd, peculiar -- and "quare" (the local pronunciation of "queer"). Yet these strong, capable educators wanted to "learn all we can and teach all we can," and in doing so would persevere to establish the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950564037
• ISBN13: 9781950564033
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Fireside Industries
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up