UACC Blog
Saving the Boldface Park Shelter in Sedamsville
By Mike Templeton Cincinnati’s west side riverfront neighborhoods have historically been urban Appalachian neighborhoods. These areas have long been the focus of Urban Appalachian Community Coalitio...
Our Harvest Cooperative: Building Community through a Worker-Owned Business Model
By Mike Templeton When we think about building and empowering communities, we often think in terms of two separate spheres of work. We look to businesses to offer employment, and we look to groups lik...
Urban Appalachian Artist and Advocate Michael London wins 2023 Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts
By Mike Templeton For the Urban Appalachian Community, art and advocacy are deeply linked. How we speak on behalf of our communities has everything to do with how we represent urban Appalachians both ...
The 52nd Annual Appalachian Festival
By Mike Templeton The 52nd Annual Appalachian Festival will be held on May 13 and 14 at Coney Island. As in previous years, the festival coincides with Mother’s Day. The Appalachian Community ...
Mergoat Magazine
by Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has taken on environmental issues in a number of ways. You may recall our article about the litigation led by lawyer Rob Bilott against DuPo...
Katie Laur reads from Red Dirt Girl: Essays and Stories on April 30
By Mike Templeton There are those artists and writers the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition recognize as absolutely central to the cultural life of Greater Cincinnati, and Katie Laur is one of tho...
Second and Third Generation Urban Appalachians and the Story Gathering Project
by Mike Templeton The uses for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Story Gathering Project are seemingly endless. It stands out as an oral history of urban Appalachia in Great Cincinnati. On...
Eastern Kentucky Mutual Aid
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has presented articles on this blog in support of people in places like Eastern Kentucky after catastrophic floods. In these articles there ...
Mike Mitchell: Director at the Indiana School of Lutherie
By Mike Templeton When we at the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition talk about Appalachian music the focus is almost exclusively on the musicians and the music itself. Delving into the instruments ...
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Jensen Infuses Traditional Appalachian Music with the Spirit of Improvisation
By Mike Templeton Traditional Appalachian music has persisted for so long, and appeals to so many people, because it is continuously changing, much like the culture itself. There is the constant tensi...
“Georgia O’Keeffe, the Power of Place, & the Creative Ecosystem:” A Presentation at the Art Museum with Michael Thompson, Sherry Cook Stanforth, and Asa Featherstone, IV
by Mike Templeton Continuing through May 7, the Cincinnati Art Museum is offering a special exhibition of the photography of Georgia O’Keeffe at the Thomas R. Schiff Gallery. We are familiar wit...
Six Seniors at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill are Accepted at the Highly Selective Berea College
By Mike Templeton Oyler School in Lower Price Hill has gone through a legitimate transformation over the years. From an elementary and middle school that largely reflected the struggles of a strugglin...
The Disaster Unfolding in East Palestine
By Mike Templeton As Appalachians, members of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition are no strangers to environmental catastrophes and the resulting political and economic storms that surround the...
Mucky Boots Farm: Elderberries and Organic Farming
By Mike Templeton Appalachian Ohio is just a short drive east of Cincinnati, and the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition pays close attention to what is happening just beyond our city. We are especi...
Urban Appalachia in the Spotlight at the 46th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference
by Mike Templeton The 46th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference will take place at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio on March 16-19. This year’s theme, “From Surviving to Thriving,” opens...
UACC’s Communications Specialist Erinn Sweet’s Research on Urban Appalachian Women’s Identity and Experience
by Mike Templeton Erinn Sweet is the Communications Specialist for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition. All the forms of communication and information that turn up in the UACC Newsletter, this b...
Appalachian Foodways Fellowship with Grow Appalachia: Deadline February 1
by Mike Templeton From the things urban Appalachians took with them to the factories like soup beans to people in Greater Cincinnati who are continuing Appalachian practices like food foraging, the Ur...
Ray Rechenberg: Sacred Harp Singer
by Mike Templeton I recently met Ray Rechenberg who is deeply involved in the traditional musical form known as Sacred Harp Singing, a musical form that is extremely old, forcefully alive, and a stron...