Appalachian Culture Month
by Omope Carter Daboiku Omope Carter Daboiku is a wordsmith, actress and storyteller based in Dayton and Cincinnati. A folklorist with specialties in African, Affrilachian, Appalachian, and Native Ame...
The Frank Foster Memorial Library on Appalachian Immigrants: Once and Future
by Mike Maloney Dr. Frank Foster was a Presbyterian minister and educator. Before coming to Cincinnati, he had run a missionary school in the North Carolina mountains and had been a professor of educa...
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition—Core Plus Story Circle
by Pauletta Hansel On a chilly December evening members of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition gathered for our final UACC Core+ meeting of 2015, the first full year of the Coalition’s ...
Camp Washington Community School
by Anne Endress Skove Camp Washington Community School was chartered in February, 1988. The school’s original purpose was to contribute to workforce development and overall well-being of the com...
Family History in Appalachia: George Davis, the “Singing Miner”
by Troy Davis In this UACC blog entry, Troy Davis tells the story of researching family history in Appalachia. His distant uncle, singer and radio personality George Davis, had been interviewed in t...
My Appalachian Memory Series: Excerpts from the Word Quilt Created by Cincinnati’s Urban Appalachians
Memories from Betty June Taylor, Tom Taylor, and Nona Carter by Barb Childers Watch this space as we share thoughtful, funny, sad, surprising “rememories” collected from My Appalachian Memory: A W...
Tribute to Maxine Groves, Master Quilter
by Mike Maloney Nina Maxine Green Groves died May 21, 2015, at the University of Kentucky Medical Center of congestive heart failure and other complications. Maxine was not just the best known traditi...
Debbie Zorn is ASA President-Elect
by Phil Obermiller The Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) was founded in the 1970s to provide a way for activists and academics to cooperate in regional understanding and advocacy. Since then urban...
Urban Appalachia Lost and Found: An Identification of a Half-Century of Community Photographs
by Jeff Dey When the former UAC closed in January 2014, the organization’s collection of old photos were fortunately taken to the Berea archives for safe-keeping. These photos are to be catalogued s...