Memoranda of the Preston Family

by John Mason Brown

1870

Forest Buchannon Preston who served on the City Board of Paintsville in 1918, owned a coal company, and belongs to the Paintsville - Johnson County Hall of Fame. It shares his history, business records, and family genealogy.

American Poetry 19th Century 2

by John Hollander

2016 · Routledge

First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor notes on the texts within.

The Golden Book of Favorite Songs (Community Collection)

by John W. Beattie, William Breach, Mabelle Glenn, Walter J. Goodell, Edgar B. Gordon, Norman H. Hall, Ernest G. Hessner, E. Jane Wisenall

1999 · Alfred Music

An entirely different collection from The Gray Book of Favorite Songs, this 21st edition is the newest in a long-lived popular book published since 1915. Truly "A Treasury of the Best Songs of Our People." Includes the Gettysburg Address and histories of the best-loved patriotic songs of America.

Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911

by John Gassner

2000 · Courier Corporation

Sixteen works from American theater, 1787 1911: "Charles the Second" (1824); "Fashion "(1845); "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852); "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1883); "The Mouse-Trap" (1889); "The Great Divide" (1906); more. Background essay. "