UACC Blog
The John Roger Simon Sorghum Festival
by Mike Templeton As part of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s focus on Appalachian foodways, some months ago we featured an article on the sweet staple of Appalachian food and culture, sw...
Kendra Winchester and Read Appalachia
by Mike Templeton Having so many writers and poets involved with the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition offers us an embarrassment of riches when it comes to Appalachian literary voices. That said,...
Cameron Snowden and the Harvard College Appalachian Student Association
by Mike Templeton Most of us know the familiar story behind the phenomenon of urban Appalachians. People left the mountains for opportunities in the urban areas like Cincinnati, and we came to make ou...
The Eastern Kentucky Recovery Benefit will be at WordPlay Cincy
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has partnered with WordPlay Cincy and local activists Kelly Cornett and Corinne Aquino for a benefit for the Hindman Settlement School in Ea...
A Conversation with Nick Swartsell about The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook
by Mike Templeton In December, Belt Publishing will release The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook, a collection of essays written by people who live in the urban neighborhoods that give Cincinnati its...
Benefit for Flood Recovery in Eastern Kentucky Organized by Perry County Native Kelly Cornett
by Mike Templeton Cincinnatian Kelly Cornett is from Perry County in Eastern Kentucky. She knows this place and she still has family in Perry County who are devastated by the July 28 floods. Kelly Cor...
John Burroughs: Urban Appalachian and National Beat Poet Laureate
By Mike Templeton There are two crucial moments that defined my interests in literature. The first was reading Thoreau and Emerson as a teenager. The next was stumbling onto the Beats. I was never the...
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 ...