Published in Heaven Books, $25.00

Non-Fiction/Travel, 275 pages (includes 130 photos)


Companion CD, WHEN THE REDBUDS BLOOM $15.00

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Like no travel book before it, the multi-layered working class blue collar
Western Kentucky: Lost & Forgotten, Found & Remembered contains
the captivatingly fearless brutally honest bardic story of Sarah Elizabeth and Ron Whitehead's
19 day, 14 county, 325 mile hike,from Cherokee Park in Louisville all the way,
via backroads and railroads, to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

The book is a dangerous love story, a walking history of western Kentucky,
a scintillating portrait of the people Sarah and Ron meet on their hike,

families and friends, ancestors, and their own personal lives.

In this vision quest Sarah and Ron search for the lost pieces of their souls, their heritage.
The book contains 130 photos plus candid interviews with their parents and the legendary Montgomery Brothers.
It includes deeply personal views of Pee Wee Reese, of the old Jerusalem Ridge Bill Monroe homeplace,
and of Native American Spirit Elder Momfeather plus a spirit walk on the Cherokee Trail of Tears.


This book also features a full account of Sarah Elizabeth's creative process as she writes songs, while dodging roadkill,

for her new
WHEN THE REDBUDS BLOOM album.

  Sarah & Ron teach, give readings, talks, performances, and concerts all over the world

at Universities, Festivals, Libraries, Concert Halls, you name it!

to book Sarah and Ron for a show please email publishedinheaven@yahoo.com