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Pollinator Produce Partners
Becca Holmes and Joe Gorman run Pollinator Produce Partners in Duffield, Virginia. There they grow different vegetables than some other farms might, and they do it at a smaller scale, on purpose. This includes endangered and extinct in-the-wild plants, heirloom and open pollinated seeds. In this episode reporter Sydney Boles visits Becca and Joe...Read More ▶Pollinator Produce Partners
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Mtn. News: Plants, People, & Industry in Appalachia
In this episode we bring you stories about plants, people, and industries – and the ways they interact – throughout the Appalachian region. We’ll learn about The Moth storytelling event at Appalshop on September 13th, the Running Buffalo Clover’s exit from the Endangered Species List, and former-miner Scott Shoupe’s take on the future of...Read More ▶Mtn. News: Plants, People, & Industry in Appalachia
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Come to an AV Archiving Workshop at Appalshop
All are invited to a free, all-day Community Archiving Workshop on Thursday, September 12, to take place at Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY. This IMLS-funded event brings members of the community together with audiovisual archivists from the Southeast to learn the essentials of preserving film, videotape, and audiotape. Participants will gain hands-on experience by working...Read More ▶Come to an AV Archiving Workshop at Appalshop
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Kentucky Can Do Better With Tax Reform
One of the biggest challenges affecting efforts to rebuild eastern Kentucky’s economy is the failure of the state to properly invest in the region and its people due to an inadequate tax system that has led to repeated budget cuts to education, health care, social services, infrastructure and more. In this episode, Jason Bailey,...Read More ▶Kentucky Can Do Better With Tax Reform
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Mtn. Talk: A Night on the Tracks with the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
In Cumberland, Kentucky, dozens of miners have been blocking the tracks in front of a Blackjewel coal train after the company declared bankruptcy and miners’ checks bounced in early July. The protest started on Monday July 29th and is still going strong. WMMT reporter Benny Becker, arrived at the railroad tracks at 7 PM...Read More ▶Mtn. Talk: A Night on the Tracks with the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
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Appalshop unveils largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky
In the heart of the coalfields, Appalshop, Inc. unveiled the largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky with a ribbon cutting on June 7th. The project is a groundbreaking example of what’s possible in Appalachia, a region uniquely vulnerable to rising energy costs and political lobbying against renewable energy. With 192 panels incorporated...Read More ▶Appalshop unveils largest net-metered renewable energy system in Eastern Kentucky
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Appalshop Celebrates 50 Years in New York & Boston | April 2019
DONATE NOW From a Library of Congress 50th Symposium to Speed Cinema events in Kentucky’s largest art museum throughout 2019, Appalshop’s 50th Anniversary celebration is off to a beautiful start. Appalshop family and five decades worth of artistic partnerships are coming together to make this Golden Anniversary one that touches as many places and people as...Read More ▶Appalshop Celebrates 50 Years in New York & Boston | April 2019
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Appalshop at 50: Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019
As a part of Appalshop’s growing 50th Anniversary celebrations, Appalshop musicians, artisans and vendors will appear at the Brooklyn Folk Festival from April 5-7, 2019. The annual New York City event will showcase June Appal recording artists, screen Appalshop films, and feature workshops led by traditional Kentucky artists. One Appalshop workshop will explore African-American...Read More ▶Appalshop at 50: Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019
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Appalshop At 50: Speed Art Museum Film Screenings
Kentucky’s largest art museum, Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, will screen free Appalshop films monthly throughout 2019 as part of its celebration of the art of Kentucky and Appalshop’s 50th Anniversary. The Museum’s Free Owsley Sunday Films series will kick off on Sunday, January 27 at 1 P.M. with Appalshop’s most circulated film,...Read More ▶Appalshop At 50: Speed Art Museum Film Screenings
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Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
During Seedtime on the Cumberland 2018, Appalshop Archive mounted a gallery exhibition featuring historical photographs and heirloom objects from family archives in and around Letcher County. The exhibit is the culmination of a yearlong, NEH-supported project to preserve and increase public awareness of personal archives. In spring and summer of 2017, Archive staff hosted...Read More ▶Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
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A Theater of Affirmation
Here's what happened when, in September 2017, American Theatre magazine asked Roadside's artistic director for an interview for a forthcoming article about how our current polarized politics “in the Age of Trump” shine a spotlight on the social and cultural work of theatremakers.Read More ▶A Theater of Affirmation
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Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail as a white southerner whose rejection of her segregationist upbringing was "eloquent and prophetic". Ostracized as a "red" in the 1950s, she fought for an...
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