UACC Blog
Hopes for the Return of the American Chestnut Tree
By Mike Templeton On any given weekend, you might find a good many of us with the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition in the woods around greater Cincinnati. Given time, most of us will head back to...
A Celebration to Honor Richard Hague as the Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate for 2025-2027
By Mike Templeton The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati just announced that long-time Cincinnati writer, poet, and urban Appalachian Richard Hague has been awarded the honor of the Cincinnati and Merca...
Through Their Eyes, a New Film from the Appalachian Media Institute
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition embraces the fact that Appalachian people comprise the full range of humanity. We are not a singular bunch of folks. Like everyone who calls...
Introducing Urban Appalachia in a Great New Article by Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller
By Mike Templeton Sometimes the most important thing we need to do in urban Appalachian advocacy is make it known just exactly who and what we are. It is easy for us within the circle to see it all as...
Mark Mussman Takes the Helm at Your Store of the Queen City
By Mike Templeton We have offered numerous stories on the progress of Meiser’s Fresh Grocery & Deli because it operates in the historically urban Appalachian neighborhood of Lower Price Hill, wh...
“Somewhere Over the Holler” at this Year’s Cincinnati Fringe Festival
By Mike Templeton This year’s Cincinnati Fringe Festival will include something quite close to our hearts at the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition. Local theater and dance company Pones Inc. wil...
Earth Ships in Appalachia
By Mike Templeton For all the ways technology has brought tremendous blessings to human life, there is a trade-off that can make us wonder if the blessing is really worth the cost. The Urban Appalachi...
A Mental Health Walk in the Woods and the Elusive Lady’s Slipper Orchid
By Mike Templeton There is a lot going on in the country and in the world right now, enough to overwhelm anyone. We do not seem to be running short of reasons for anxiety right now. While the Urban Ap...
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...