Mr. Shafter Bailey

A. U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Shafter Bailey is a retired teacher, principal, state educational consultant, and executive director of the Governor's Council on Vocational Education. He was born at the Frontier Nursing Center in the southeastern hills of Clay County, Kentucky. He is the author of Far From the Hills of Canaan, A Marine Story, Words of Antiquity, Pure Fiction, Unfortunately, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings, and James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse.