The Urban Appalachian Project
Finding Home in Heritage, Building Identity The Urban Appalachian Project (UAP) recognizes Cincinnati as home to thousands of Appalachian migrants and descendants, and works to strengthen the irrepres...
Sponsorship Opportunities
Restitching the Seams: Appalachia Beyond Its Borders 2018 Appalachian Studies Association 41st Annual Conference April 5 – 8, 2018, Millennium and Hyatt Hotels, Cincinnati, Ohio In April 2018, t...
Conference Themes
The primary themes for 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference: Re-stitching the Seams: Appalachia Beyond Its Borders, to be held in downtown Cincinnati at the Millennium and Hyatt Hot...
2018 Appalachian Studies Association Conference
Re-stitching the Seams: Appalachia Beyond Its Borders The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is honored to serve as host for the 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference: Re-stitching...
“Restitching the Seams” – The Appalachian Studies Association 2018 Conference
by John Bealle Imagine a thousand of the brightest minds of Appalachia – scholars, writers, activists, artists – coming to Cincinnati. This will happen in April of 2018 when UACC hosts the annual ...
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...
Community Engagement
UACC Community Engagement Community Engagement takes the form of a number of overlapping initiatives designed to bring people together to discuss, celebrate and participate in Appalachian cultural edu...
Health
UACC Health The group of volunteers working in the Health group are Stewards from the UACC Core and other Action Teams. Concerned with the health and well-being of urban Appalachians in Cincinnati, we...
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...
Blog Submissions
Have something to say? The UACC’s weekly blog is interested in any submissions that help us fulfill any part of the UACC’s calling (see below). We see this as a place for urban Appalachian...
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...
Research Committee
UACC Research Committee The UACC Research Committee – formerly known as the UAC Research Committee – is one of the oldest continuing research groups in the Cincinnati area. First establish...
Archives Team
UACC Archives On the Archives Team, we effort to collect media and materials that document and discuss migrant and urban Appalachian experiences that may interest contemporary journalists, poets, scre...
Cultural Resources Team
UACC Cultural Resources Team Our work within the Cultural Resources team is concerned with the gathering and dissemination of information about Appalachian history and culture, including an online cul...
Communications Team
UACC Communications Team Our work within the communications team is about creating spaces that support conversations and the sharing of information by and about urban Appalachians. This Action Team ta...