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Mtn. News: Building the Communities We Want
In this episode we bring you a piece from OVR about a proposed bill to shore up miners pension benefits & reinstate the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, a visit to the Mountain Women Mean Business conference with WMMT’s Mimi Pickering, and the first in a 6 part series from Michael and Carrie Kline...Read More ▶Mtn. News: Building the Communities We Want
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Mountain Women Mean Business
This past November over 100 people, most of them women from throughout central Appalachia, came together in downtown Harlan, KY, for “Mountain Women Mean Business.” The gathering was organized by local businesswomen and community leaders who recognized that, despite the downturn in the coal economy, new businesses were popping up in Harlan and across...Read More ▶Mountain Women Mean Business
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Mtn. Talk: WV Mine Wars Museum Strike Supper
In this episode we travel back to September 2018 for the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum’s Strike Supper! You’ll hear descriptions of dishes folks brought to share, the Red Bandana Awards given to important people in West Virginia, and event organizers talking about their hopes to help bust the myth of a culturally &...Read More ▶Mtn. Talk: WV Mine Wars Museum Strike Supper
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Girls Rock Whitesburg Announces 2019 Camp Dates
Appalshop held its inaugural WMMT Girls Rock Camp, the first of its kind in eastern Kentucky and the rural southeast in late July, 2018. After a packed Showcase to culminate the week-long camp, gaining official membership to the national Girls Rock Alliance, and a successful Feminist Friday sponsored benefit show, a second Girls Rock...Read More ▶Girls Rock Whitesburg Announces 2019 Camp Dates
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Fighting to Save the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund
Citizens from six states traveled to Washington D.C. in late November 2018, to urge their legislators to uphold the fees supporting the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, and to pass the Reclaim Act. One in 5 miners in our region have Black Lung, and that rate has doubled in the past decade. And yet,...Read More ▶Fighting to Save the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund
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Alex Gibson To Deliver Historic Berea College Address
Appalshop Executive Director and Berea College alum (’08) Alex Gibson, J.D., will deliver the commencement address at Berea College’s Recognition Service for Mid-Year Candidates for Graduation at 3PM ET on Sunday, December 9, 2018. Alex is the youngest alumnus ever to deliver this annual address, which celebrates the culmination of students’ hard work and accomplishments at Berea....Read More ▶Alex Gibson To Deliver Historic Berea College Address
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Let the Mountains Ring Forever: Celebrating Jim Webb
It is so hard to describe what Jim Webb meant to Appalshop. Words are inadequate to measure his impact on generations of filmmakers, photographers, writers, radio listeners and programmers young and old alike. They cannot convey the wild joy, at once playful and determined, which Jim brought to every musical program, board meeting, or...Read More ▶Let the Mountains Ring Forever: Celebrating Jim Webb
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Remembering “Red Fox” In Life and Onstage
There are still many old people around home who remember these two trials, some whose families were deeply involved in them. And the way these folks tell the story is often very different from the history books, yet closer to those forgotten documents. Ours is such a story, a story about memory – memory...Read More ▶Remembering “Red Fox” In Life and Onstage
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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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Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
Appalshop is proud to announce that it has received two Spring 2018 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. These NEA funds with matching contributions will enable Appalshop Archive to support artist residencies and associated cultural events with a focus on foodways, and an Appalachian Media Institute-led exchange between rural regional youth and...Read More ▶Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
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Beyond Measure: Appalachian Culture and Economy DVD
Directed by: Herb E. Smith 1994 Running Time: 58:00 Color There is a constant tension between the forces of an ever changing economy and need to have stable communities. All communities must have an economic base, yet changes in economic conditions can devastate a community. As technologies change, workers can lose their jobs and whole communities can be left without...
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