UACC Blog
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...
Ringin’ in the Appalachian New Year 2023
by Mike Templeton On Sunday January 15 from noon until 6:00 pm, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition will be hosting our annual Ringin’ in the Appalachian New Year. This year feels particularly...
Riley Goodman’s From Yonder Wooded Hill
by Mike Templeton The first thing photographer Riley Goodman told me about his new collection of photographs, From Yonder Wooded Hill, published by Fall Line Press, was that he is not Appalachian. He ...
Creations by Brandi: Brandi Martinez Hildebrand and the New Urban Appalachian Entrepreneurs
by Mike Templeton The migration of Appalachian people to cities like Cincinnati for jobs in industry created a set of dynamics in which mountain people needed to adapt to a different way of life, and ...
Appalachian Christmas Folkways
by Mike Templeton With the holidays in full swing and Christmas almost upon us, it seems appropriate for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition to look at some of the ways Christmas takes on a uniq...
Reporter and Editor Chris Graves and Coverage of the Pike County Murders
by Mike Templeton The focus of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is primarily the people and issues that define the urban Appalachian experience. That said, we are never removed from the peopl...
Meiser’s Fresh Grocery & Deli in Lower Price Hill Offers an Oasis Amid the Food Deserts
by Mike Templeton The holiday season is a happy time for most folks. This is a time for family and celebrations. But as we know, this time of year weighs heavily on people who struggle to simply put f...
Traditional Appalachian Thanksgiving
by Mike Templeton The holidays are a fine time for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition to consider more Appalachian foodways. Mountain people have their own traditions during the holidays, and T...
Accessing the Archives of Urban Appalachia
by Mike Templeton Advocacy on behalf of urban Appalachians in Cincinnati goes back to 1964 with the work at the Main Street Bible Center that primarily served people in Over-the-Rhine. In a previous b...
Urban Appalachian Families at the Over-the-Rhine Museum
by Mike Templeton The cultural makeup of Over-the-Rhine has gone through several distinct shifts over the decades, transitioning from its original German atmosphere which gave the neighborhood its nam...
Hy Thurman: The Revolutionary Hillbilly
by Mike Templeton From the earliest days of mountain people sharing resources in isolated regions of Appalachia to our contemporary work of advocating access to education and health care in both urban...
Sara Moore Wagner’s Hillbilly Madonna and the Poetry of Contemporary Urban Appalachian Experience
by Mike Templeton Urban Appalachians, by definition, exist in two worlds. We are of the urban world, and we are of the mountain regions that have historically defined Appalachian people. Our poets and...