UACC Blog
UACC is Honored with a Grant from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
By Mike Templeton We are extremely happy and grateful to report that the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, along with nine other community groups in greater Cincinnati, has been awarded a grant b...
The 54th Annual Appalachian Festival
By Mike Templeton As always, May brings us Mother’s Day and the Annual Appalachian Festival, sponsored by our friends at the Appalachian Community Development Association. This will mark the 54th ye...
UACC Launches New Website for Kith and Kin: Appalachians and the Making of Cincinnati
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Kith and Kin: Appalachians and the Making of Cincinnati is now fully accessible online on UACC’s new Kith and Kin website which includ...
Help Stop the Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities
By Mike Templeton The Trump Administration has quickly enacted numerous policy changes which cut funding to offices all through the federal government, many of which will drastically impact services t...
Francie Pepper Gave a Voice to Those with No Voice
by Michael Maloney There are people who are so real, so fully themselves, that they are a joy and a blessing to all they meet. Francie Pepper was one of these. The Urban Appalachian Community Co...
“The Forgotten Frontier”: A Film Review
By Mike Templeton A long-standing source of inspiration for Appalachians everywhere, and for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition in particular, is Appalshop. The education, media, and arts organ...
Stories and Songs: The Kith and Kin Project Links Up with the Queen City Balladeers’ Leo Coffeehouse
By Mike Templeton On Sunday, April 13, 2025, from 4:30 – 9:00 pm, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Kith and Kin Project will team up with the Queen City Balladeers’ Leo Coffeehous...
Re-run: Meet Anna Curvin: Our First Onsite Librarian at the Frank Foster Memorial Library
By Mike TempletonOriginally published 12/07/2024 Help us support Anna Curvin, the first-ever Frank Foster Memorial Librarian and an urban Appalachian, as she seeks a kidney donor! Anna will share her ...
Community Acts: A Creative Storytelling Event to Raise Kidney Donation Awareness
By Mike Templeton On Friday, April 4, from 6:30 -8:30 pm, the Originary Arts Initiative and the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, in partnership with Off the List and Network for Hope will be hos...
Just Earth-Cincinnati and Arts Equity Collective Poetry Contest and Poetry Slam
By Mike Templeton A good many of those involved with the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition are professional educators, poets, artists, musicians, and writers, and fostering the interests and passi...
The Midwestern Hayride and the ways Urban Appalachians Transformed Popular Culture
By Mike Templeton One of the ways the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition conveys the importance of urban Appalachians to all of greater Cincinnati is by making people aware of the ways urban Appala...
More Catastrophic Floods in Appalachia
By Mike Templeton Eastern Kentucky and other parts of the southern Appalachian region are once again being ravaged by floods, with people again left homeless, isolated, without electricity and fresh w...
The Many Forms of Appalachian Dance
By Mike Templeton One of the biggest draws at the annual Appalachian Festival is dancing. Both formal demonstrations and the informal movement of people at performances, dancing is a central feature o...
The Black Appalachian Coalition: Widening the Narrative of Appalachian Communities
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s history of advocacy and community organization has always been built by forming allies with other groups around greater Cincinnati and b...
Rerun: Urban Appalachian Poets perform in As if You Will Remember: Words, Music, and Dance Exploring Dementia’s Love and Loss at Cincy Fringe Festival
By Mike TempletonOriginally published on June 2, 2024 This week’s blog post is a repeat of a summer post about a powerful multi-media performance by Appalachian poets Gerry Grubbs, Pauletta Hansel a...
Abby Retz and Research on Folk Healing Practices Among Appalachian Migrants by Mike Templeton
Abby Retz has already written about herself and her life for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition. Her blog article, “Home Away from Home,” appeared back in August, and she explained how her ...
Steal the Street: the Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification. The New Book by Mark Mussman
By Mike Templeton The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, a community partner of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, provides material assistance to people in Cincinnati struggling with home...
Omope Carter Daboiku is the Recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship
By Mike Templeton One of the first people I got to meet and interview as a writer for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition was long-time associate Omope Carter Daboiku. Storyteller, advocate, edu...