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John Pepper, Jr.: Personal Reflections on “Hillbilly Elegy” by J. D. Vance
John Pepper, Jr., grew up in the coal town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, attended Yale University, and was CEO and later Chairman of the Board of Procter & Gamble Corporation. He is widely recogniz...
Restitching the Seams
by Jeffrey Stec This video by Jeffrey Stec chronicles the closure of the Urban Appalachian Council and its rebirth as the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition. It includes interviews with Mike Malone...
UACC Remembers: The Main Street Bible Center
by Dale Marie Prenatt This blog post by UACC intern Dale Marie Prenatt initiates our “UACC Remembers” series on the event Urban Appalachia Lost and Found. Held in 2015, the event opened th...
Child Poverty Community Conversation with Urban Appalachians
Intro by Jeffrey Stec; transcriptions by Dale Marie Prenatt. On June 22, 2016, UACC hosted a “community conversation” for the City of Cincinnati Child Poverty Collaborative. While the Coll...
Urban Appalachians in Jonathan Bradshaw’s Dissertation
During his several years in the Cincinnati area, Jonathan Bradshaw contributed immeasurably to the Appalachian renaissance that emerged with the formation of UACC. He was a stalwart trooper for our ca...
The Frank Foster Memorial Library on Appalachian Immigrants: Once and Future
by Mike Maloney Dr. Frank Foster was a Presbyterian minister and educator. Before coming to Cincinnati, he had run a missionary school in the North Carolina mountains and had been a professor of educa...
Urban Appalachians Join the Cincinnati Child Poverty Collaborative
By Katie Trauth Taylor On Saturday, June 25th, a crowd of nearly 600 people participated in the Cincinnati Child Poverty Collaborative Summit held at Xavier University’s Cintas Center. The summit in...
Urban Appalachian Council (1974-2014)
by Donald R. Walker Don Walker is an Indianapolis-based artist, writer, and activist (https://m.facebook.com/drwartist/). A former resident of Cincinnati, Don maintains ties to Cincinnati through hi...
Cincinnati
by Roscoe Morgan Roscoe Morgan grew up on Elm Street in Over the Rhine and now lives in Tennessee. He is a renowned bluegrass recording artist, music teacher and producer, and songwriter (on the web a...
Who are Urban Appalachians? A Research Guide for Finding Out
by Jonathan L. Bradshaw Urban Appalachians are deeply woven (or quilted) into the fabric of Cincinnati. While many might know of Appalachians’ contributions to folk music and literary arts, ther...
Pioneers Among Their People: James Hathaway Robinson and Michael Eamon Maloney
by Phillip J. Obermiller For Black History Month I thought readers of the UACC blog might enjoy reading about the parallels between these two Cincinnati community leaders. Readers of this blog are pro...
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition—Core Plus Story Circle
by Pauletta Hansel On a chilly December evening members of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition gathered for our final UACC Core+ meeting of 2015, the first full year of the Coalition’s ...
Meeting Tom Taylor
by Warren Waldron Warren Waldron is a master fiddler and a stalwart in Cincinnati’s old-time music community. With his wife Judy and also Barb and Russ Childers, he can be heard in many local ve...
“Kentucky Wonder” (poem for Tom Taylor)
by Barb Childers Tom Taylor, an exceptional northern Kentucky fiddler, was born March 17, 1924, in Adair County on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee. He was proud to say “Both states ...
Being Santa
by Steve Laird In this special holiday edition of the UACC blog, Steve Laird shares his memories of playing Santa. The “Agency” refers to the Urban Appalachian Council. As a child I reme...
Camp Washington Community School
by Anne Endress Skove Camp Washington Community School was chartered in February, 1988. The school’s original purpose was to contribute to workforce development and overall well-being of the com...
Family History in Appalachia: George Davis, the “Singing Miner”
by Troy Davis In this UACC blog entry, Troy Davis tells the story of researching family history in Appalachia. His distant uncle, singer and radio personality George Davis, had been interviewed in t...
Appalachian Identity
Appalachian Identity by Mike Maloney “In the hills of Kentucky, we all looked alike – scruffy white people with squinty eyes and cowlicks. We shared the same economic class, the same religion, the...