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MN&WR: The Assets We Have
Mary Gail Adams tells the story of her mother and the Hound Dog Hookers, a group of wool rug makers in Blackey, Kentucky established in the 1960s as part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty effort. The Administrator of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, Jay Williams, speaks on the correlation...Read More ▶MN&WR: The Assets We Have
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Coal Report for September 21, 2016
Photo by Thomas Biggs The Public Service Commission (or PSC) took back an order that would have allowed a biomass (or wood-burning) plant to be built in an industrial park in Perry County, Kentucky 11 miles northwest of Hazard. The plant would have supplied Kentucky Power Company with all of the electricity generated […]Read More ▶Coal Report for September 21, 2016
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Sharing Envisioning Our Future: Recap of 2016 Summer Documentary Institute
Sharing Envisioning Our Future The Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), Appalshop’s award-winning youth media program, is proud to share the powerful work of our 2016 cohort of Summer Documentary Institute youth interns. Each summer for the past 28 years, the SDI […]Read More ▶Sharing Envisioning Our Future: Recap of 2016 Summer Documentary Institute
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Appalachian Youth Envision Their Future
~~The 2016 Appalachian Media Institute interns speak about their experiences in this year’s Summer Documentary Institute and thoughts about the region and their futures within it. Since 1988, Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute (AMI) has provided opportunities for young people from central Appalachia to explore their communities and develop their creative skills through the arts...Read More ▶Appalachian Youth Envision Their Future
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Farmacy Increases Health, Local Foods Economy
WMMT visits the Letcher County Farmers’ Market in Whitesburg, KY where an innovative program called Farmacy is improving health and getting nationwide attention. Formed through an unusual partnership between medical providers – area medical clinics, Medicaid insurance companies, doctors and nurses – and local farmers, the Farmers’ Market, and nonprofits such as Community Farm Alliance, the...Read More ▶Farmacy Increases Health, Local Foods Economy
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Building Our Future Together in Appalachia
Last week’s New York Times featured a story by Sheryl Gay Stolberg about efforts to rebuild the central Appalachian economy in the wake of the coal industry’s collapse. Appalshop is mentioned a number of times—including its origin story during the War on Poverty and its role in incubating Mountain Tech Media, a new for-profit...Read More ▶Building Our Future Together in Appalachia
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Ralph Stanley Tribute held at Appalshop Theater
On July 7, Appalshop Archive and WMMT co-hosted a community gathering at the Appalshop Theater in Whitesburg, KY to celebrate the life and music of Dr. Ralph Stanley, who passed away on June 23, 2016. Appalshop filmmaker Herb E. Smith presented his 2000 documentary The Ralph Stanley Story along with a new short work...Read More ▶Ralph Stanley Tribute held at Appalshop Theater
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Introducing All Y’all: Southern Documentary Collective
“Southern filmmakers and media artists have joined forces to cultivate media that complicates Southern identity and grapples with the political and cultural nuances of our communities.” We’re thrilled to announce the launch of All Y’all: Southern Documentary Collective, a group of 15 media makers from West Virginia to Texas who aim to bring Southern voices front...Read More ▶Introducing All Y’all: Southern Documentary Collective
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Appalshop Accepting Applications for Core VISTA Position
Appalshop is seeking applicants for a VISTA position in Arts Programming to begin work on August 1st, 2016. Selected applicant will need to be located in Whitesburg, KY and be able to work 40 hours per week. A cost of living stipend as well as rent assistance will be provided. See the VISTA Assignment...Read More ▶Appalshop Accepting Applications for Core VISTA Position
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Archive Receives Film Preservation Grant
Appalshop Archive is excited to announce that it has received a 2016 grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve 16mm amateur films shot by Father Richard J. Reimondo, a Catholic priest who helped lead a parish in Hazard, KY in the early 1950s. Born in Buffalo, NY, Richard Reimondo arrived in Hazard...Read More ▶Archive Receives Film Preservation Grant
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Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange Now Accepting Applications
Launched in 2013 by partner organizations Appalshop and Art of the Rural, the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) is a statewide network of leaders working together to build cross-sector partnerships in Kentucky. Thus far, RUX has engaged 75 young leaders from the coalfields of Appalachia to the Louisville Metro area, and the river towns of...Read More ▶Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange Now Accepting Applications
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Nikos Pappas - Lost in the Lowlands
Lost in the Lowlands celebrates fiddle music, and Kentucky’s rich and varied old-time traditions from all parts of the commonwealth. Exploring a range of Kentucky stylings, tune choices vary from the intricate improvisational approach of the northeast, to the lonesome solo traditions of the southeast, to the African and European American musical interchange of the Bluegrass, to the syncopated backbeat style of the Cumberland Plateau, to the popular ragtime-and-blues- influenced string bands of western Kentucky, just to name a few. Pappas is joined by former bandmates Kevin Kehrberg and Jeff Keith of the Red State Ramblers, along with Travis Stuart on banjo of the Stuart brothers and Martha Scanlan.
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