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Mtn. News: Celebrations, Memorials, & Cooperatives
In this episode we’ll hear stories of eastern Kentucky’s second ever pride festival, hemp growers in the region forming cooperatives, a dedication to miners who’ve died of black lung in Letcher County, and some results of a survey by a group called “What’s Next EKY.”Read More ▶Mtn. News: Celebrations, Memorials, & Cooperatives
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Rethinking Retraining
In the midst of the Appalachian region’s declining industries, politicians are betting big on job training, with millions directed at those who lost jobs in coal mining and power plants. The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced nearly $5 million for worker training programs in Appalachia. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced more than...Read More ▶Rethinking Retraining
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Mtn. News: Musical, Cultural, & Economic Histories
This episode is chock full of local & regional history! We’ll hear about a celebration of Carr Creek Kentucky history through a dinner performance based off a poem by Margaret Humes Collins. Then, we’ll hear historian Ron Eller’s thoughts about what works and what doesn’t in terms of development in the region. And finally,...Read More ▶Mtn. News: Musical, Cultural, & Economic Histories
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Appalshop Turns 50
We were founded in the fall of 1969. This weekend, we officially launch our 50th anniversary year. We’re bringing back our founding generation for a reunion on Saturday. They’ll screen early work, see films by some of our youngest filmmakers, and give materials from their time at Appalshop to our professional archivists to preserve. They’ll eat lunch catered...Read More ▶Appalshop Turns 50
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We Needed New Industry Here Yesterday
Scott Shoupe is interviewed by WMMT reporter Sydney Boles about his experience mining coal in Harlan County, Kentucky and in Alabama, and the transition he believes miners will have to make to other kinds of work if they and the region are going to stay afloat. Shoupe quit work in mines he felt were...Read More ▶We Needed New Industry Here Yesterday
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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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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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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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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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