UACC Blog
Resources for Appalachian Writers
By Mike Templeton Still: The Journal recently published its final issue. After fifteen years of blazing trails in Appalachian writing and art, the people behind Still have decided it is time to move o...
Re-Run: Meiser’s Fresh Grocery & Deli in Lower Price Hill Offers an Oasis Amid the Food Deserts
By Mike Templeton Originally published December 4, 2022 (Re)discover how Meiser’s, a vital grocery store in Lower Price Hill, is transforming access to fresh food in a food desert. You can suppo...
Reflections on the Charter Committee as Urban Appalachian Allies as the Committee Celebrates 100 Years
By Mike Templeton The City of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Charter Committee are celebrating 100 years of the Cincinnati Charter, the guiding document for local government in Cincinnati. Something li...
Some Surprising New Energy from Appalachia with No Options: Hip-Hop in Appalachia
By Mike Templeton Regular readers of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition blog may remember our profile of Brandon Shields, an urban Appalachian from right here in Cincinnati who works as a river...
The Concept of Mutual Aid as an Appalachian Tradition
By Mike Templeton With the recent needs in southern Appalachia due to Hurricane Helene, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has worked to provide information about aid groups. These range from o...
Assistance for Victims of Flooding in Appalachia
By Mike TempletonCover Photo By Bill McMannis / Source It just does not seem possible that we would be posting an article on devastating flooding in the Appalachian region just as we co-sponsored a ce...
Appalachian Flow Homecoming: A Celebration of Urban Appalachian Arts, Music, Literature, and Cultural Heritage
By Mike Templeton On Sunday, October 6, from 12:30-8:30 pm, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Appalachian Flow Homecoming will be held at the Carnegie Arts Center of Columbia Tusculum. This ev...
Michael Henson’s Novel Secure the Shadow
By Mike Templeton The opioid crisis that hit Cincinnati took some of its highest tolls in the historically urban Appalachian neighborhoods. Lower Price Hill was hit hard by opioid addiction and its at...
Katie Laur: A Beloved Voice from the Hills of Home
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George Stoney’s The Newcomers: A Crucial Piece of Urban Appalachian History
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is the home of the Frank Foster Memorial Library, one of the premier resources of the study of the history of urban Appalachian life and cul...
Kelli Hansel Haywood to Read at Troublesome Rising: An Evening of Art & Activism” at the Southgate House Revival
By Mike Templeton We hope you will join us for “Troublesome Rising: An Evening of Art & Activism” on September 7, 2024, 7 pm at the Southgate House Revival in Newport, Kentucky. This is a spec...
Glenetta Krause: Urban Appalachian Educator, Author, and Poet
By Mike Templeton The collection of essays in White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all too: Reality, Pedagogy, and Urban Education, edited by Christopher Emdin and Sam Seidel and p...
Troublesome Rising: An Evening of Art & Activism at the Southgate House Revival
By Mike Templeton On September 7, 2024, 7 pm at the Southgate House Revival in Newport, Kentucky, a special evening of readings and music called “Troublesome Rising: An Evening of Art & Activism...
Author and Artist Anya Liftig and the Art of the In-between in Holler Rat: A Memoir
By Mike Templeton Through our various projects and activities, including our longstanding Research Committee and Kith and Kin, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has focused attention on the id...
Home Away from Home: Making Sense of my Appalachian Identity through Home Healing
By Abby Retz Instead of frequent visits to the doctor, my family frequented trips to the herb garden maintained by my maternal grandmother. While there was no outwardly spoken disapproval from our sma...
Upcycling and the Appalachian Origins of this Modern Idea
By Mike Templeton I will openly confess that I cannot keep up with the trends and ideas that circulate in online culture. My knowledge of upcycling comes from my wife, about whom I will say more below...
Jim Talkington of Talkington Media
By Mike Templeton Two of the most exciting projects in development by the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition are in connection with Kith and Kin, which brings together the Urban Appalachian Story G...
The Pre-History of Urban Appalachian Advocacy
By Mike Templeton While the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Blog works hard to cover a wide range of events, ideas, artists and writers, and cultural activities, an original goal of UACC is to a...