UACC Blog
Lower Price Hill: Struggles, Transitions, and Victories in one of Cincinnati’s Key Appalachian Neighborhoods by Mike Templeton
Lower Price Hill has historically occupied a place within the city of Cincinnati as one of the central urban Appalachian neighborhoods. Although not as significant in terms of population as East Price...
Looking Back to See Forward: The Harpers of Pongo Ridge by Nora Stanger
With the passing of each generation, our understanding of the lives our ancestors experienced is diminished. The Harpers of Pongo Ridge is a treasure for the Appalachian people. In her book,...
Recognizing the Long Commitment of Roberta Campbell by Mike Templeton
The more visible presence of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is recognized in things like Ringin’ in the Appalachian New Year and other cultural events. These public events and celebration...
Urban Appalachian Communities: Elmwood Place by Mike Templeton
A key component of the work of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition involves being closely connected to our Appalachian neighborhoods. The neighborhoods that have historically been made up of App...
A La Prochaine to Core Member John Bealle By Mike Templeton
The Core Team with the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition consists of people who have advocated on behalf of urban Appalachian for many years. These are the folks who are present and working for ur...
How the Rainbow Coalition Inspired Solidarity Between Appalachians and Black Panthers By Erinn Sweet
I am no stranger to the Confederate flag. It waved in the back of pick-up trucks at my high school’s student parking lot. It was tattooed onto the arms of my peers. It was a sticker slapped on a Yet...
The Newly Digitized Frank Foster Memorial Library by Mike Templeton
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has maintained a host of resources for scholars and others throughout its existence. Together with the Research Committee, members of UACC have always contrib...
Parsley Pottery: Carol and Jason Parsley Make Pottery for the People by Mike Templeton
Appalachian culture is so woven into daily life in greater Cincinnati that we can often equate it with the culture of the city in general. Even as the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition pays partic...
Brandon Shields: Sailor, River Captain, and Rapper By Mike Templeton
Neighborhoods like Sedamsville and Lower Price Hill have historically been largely populated by urban Appalachians. These neighborhoods have changed over the past several decades, and the Urban Appala...
Getting the Neighborhoods Vaccinated by Mike Templeton
The most recent news on the COVID-19 pandemic has been promising. Mask regulations are slowly being relaxed and businesses are re-opening as new cases continue to fall around the nation. But the pande...
Ma Crow: Lived and Breathing Bluegrass and American Roots Music by Mike Templeton
Part of “our calling” at the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is to highlight and advance “artistic and cultural expressions of who we were and are.” This naturally includes bluegrass m...
Michael Croley: Winner of the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction for Any Other Place: Stories by Mike Templeton
When we speak of Appalachia and Appalachian culture, it is crucial that we understand that we are never talking about a single unified idea. Appalachia is an enormous area and is comprised of many dif...
The Facts About Charter Amendment 3 by Mike Templeton
One of three charter amendments on the ballot on May 4 is Issue 3. This charter amendment would put $50 million into an Affordable Housing Trust Fund designed to ensure affordable housing to low-incom...
What is Left of Over-the-Rhine After the Renaissance? by Mike Templeton
I have been interviewing people on the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Cultural Resource Directory and highlighting their work in blog articles. In place of interviewing myself, I thought I ...
Tess Collins: Placing Appalachia at the Heart of Contemporary Fiction by Mike Templeton
One of the primary goals of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition in assembling the Cultural Resource Directory is to allow all artists and creative folks to find each other, and to help people fr...
Sweet Sorghum: The Appalachian “sweet for lil’ Liza Jane” by Mike Templeton
There are few things more central to a people than their foods and culinary practices. In promoting and furthering Appalachian culture, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition includes the foodways ...
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwest Ohio’s Musical Legacy: Major Contributions to the Scholarship on Bluegrass and Urban Appalachians by Mike Templeton
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has always been committed to promoting both music and scholarship as essential components of culture and history. With the publication of Industrial Strength ...
Chuck Black: Appalachian Music Historian and Radio Broadcaster by Mike Templeton
The study of Appalachian culture and history has fully emerged as an academic discipline. Yet, the field relies in some measure on those who have been immersed in Appalachian culture more as a passion...