Loyal Jones (Author) Born:  January 5, 1928

About The Author Adapted in part from Loyal Jones Appalachian Center "About Loyal Jones" at Berea College. Born in 1928, Loyal Jones grew up on a mountain farm in western North Carolina. He graduated from Hayesville North Carolina High School in 1945, earned an undergraduate degree in English at Berea College in 1954, and received his masters in English (and became certified to teach) from the University of North Carolina in 1957. Having served as Director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College from 1970-1993, Jones currently lives with his wife, the former Nancy Swan of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in Berea. The two met while in college and they are the parents of three children: Susan, Carol, and Scott. Before coming to Berea College as director of the Appalachian Center, Jones served two years in the United States Army as teacher and educational specialist; was a teacher in Jefferson County, Kentucky, public schools; and was Associate Executive Director and later Executive Director of the Council of the Southern Mountains in Berea. Most of Jones� life has been spent in the Southern mountains, and nearly all of his writing is connected to the region. Berea College Loyal Jones Appalachian Center — About Loyal Jones Read More From The Author Buy this Book Country Music Humorists and Comedians By Loyal Jones University of Illinois Press 2008 427 Pages ISBN:  978-0252033698   Buy this Book Minstrel of the Applachians The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford By Loyal Jones Applachian Consortium Press 1984 249 Pages ISBN:  0-013230-11-9   Buy this Book Radio's 'Kentucky Mountain Boy' Bradley Kincaid By Loyal Jones Berea College Press 1988 193 Pages ISBN:  0-935680039   Buy this Book Appalachian Folk Tales By Compiled and Edited By Loyal Jones Jesse Stuart Foundation 2010 117 Pages ISBN:   978-1931672610   Buy this Book Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule By Loyal Jones; Billy Edd Wheeler August House 2005 212 Pages   Buy this Book Hometown Humor By Loyal Jones; Billy Edd Wheeler August House 1991 220 Pages ISBN:  0-87483-139-3   Buy this Book Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor By Loyal Jones; Billy Edd Wheeler August House 2005 160 Pages ISBN:  978-0874830323   Buy this Book My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia By Loyal Jones University of Illinois Press 2017 246 Pages ISBN:  978-0252041136