UACC Blog
Worse than folks can imagine: how to help flood-ravaged southeastern Kentucky
by Pauletta Hansel I awoke Thursday morning, July 28, 2022, in my safe and comfortable house and, as I am wont to do, opened up my Facebook app. That week I was living vicariously through my writer fr...
Ginseng: Appalachia’s Panacea by Mike Templeton
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s focus on Appalachian culture leads us to shine a light on things that are not so obvious to people outside the Appalachian communities. This includes feat...
An Urban Appalachian Poetics of Relation by Mike Templeton
In a 1990 interview with Phillip Obermiller, Ernie Mynatt discussed some of the founding activities of the Urban Appalachian Council in Over-the-Rhine. Over the course of their conversation, Mynatt of...
An Evening of Appalachian Reminiscence with Christine Harper McKinney by Matthew Smith
Early last week, Matthew Smith, Public Programs Director at Miami University Regionals, attended a discussion at Reading Public Library featuring Christine Harper McKinney. McKinney is the 96-year-old...
An Appalachian Tribute to Louise Spiegel
Pioneer of Appalachian AdvocacyLouise Spiegel’s advocacy for Urban Appalachians goes back to the early 1950s. This was several years before our first indigenous leader, Ernie Myatt, migrated to Cinc...
Melinda Grisco: An Urban Appalachian Storyteller and Strawberries of the Road: From the Hills of West Virginia by Mike Templeton
Everyone has a story tell, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Story Gathering Project would like to hear that story and document it. Melinda Grisco is an urban Appalachian who has quite a f...
Urban Appalachians to be Included in the Over-the-Rhine Museum by Mike Templeton
In development for several years now, the Over-the-Rhine Museum will serve as a monument to the cultural history of Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. All of us at the Urban Appalach...
Cincinnati’s Western Riverfront Neighborhoods: Sedamsville, Riverside, Sayler Park: A New Study by Core member Michael Maloney by Mike Templeton
We have focused several articles on greater Cincinnati neighborhoods historically defined by the large urban Appalachian presence. Of particular interest to the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition i...
Some Provisional Lessons from the Story-Gathering Project by Mike Templeton
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Story Gathering Project started in Fall 2021 as a way to both collect short histories of our people, and to connect urban Appalachians through the telling...
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia: On Being LGBTQ And Appalachian by Mike Templeton
June is Pride Month, and the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition recognizes this by turning our attention to the literature of the LBGTQ communities whose work also comes out of the Appalachian trad...
The Eastern Kentucky Social Club by Mike Templeton
The history of urban Appalachians is made up of many histories. We are not one unified thread, but a knitting together of many threads that led to the complex and constantly changing cultural network ...
Roadside Theater: Creating Theater for Appalachian Advocacy and for Bringing Communities Together by Mike Templeton
We have focused our attention recently on visual art and poetry and the ways these forms can bring attention to issues of social justice and community through art. The Urban Appalachian Community Coal...
SOS Art, Saad Ghosn, and the Mission to Promote Peace and Social justice through the Arts by Mike Templeton
Culture and advocacy in the 21st Century require collaboration and communication among and between different groups and organizations. It is difference that has emerged as the cultural constant in our...
Shorty Mincey: From Appalachian Georgia to Rock and Roll Impresario by Mike Templeton
Urban Appalachian culture consists of many things, and much of which is not so obvious. Appalachians in greater Cincinnati have had a hand in every aspect of our culture, and so the Urban Appalachian ...
The Appalachian Festival Makes its Return to Coney Island by Mike Templeton
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition places central importance on representations of who we were and are. There are not many opportunities to get a more complete picture of these representations ...
Current Research on Peck’s Addition: A Lost Urban Appalachian Neighborhood in Hamilton, Ohio by Mike Templeton
Members of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Research Committee are currently working on a project that is of vital importance to urban Appalachian history. The story of the Peck’s Addition ...
A Conversation with Sherry Cook Stanforth About Place-Keeping, Ecology, and New Open Mic Series by Erinn Sweet
Author, educator, and UACC Core Member Sherry Cook Stanforth grew up in Clermont County, Ohio, within eyeshot of the Ohio River. She would wander around on her family’s property pretending to be dif...
Michael Maloney and Jane Stephenson are the Co-Recipients of the Berea College Public Service Award by Mike Templeton
It is safe to say that the very heart of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is a commitment to public service. Advocacy, research, and education are the gears that drive the work of UACC. The r...