By Matthew Smith Matthew Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Miami University’s Hamilton campus. He has developed and taught a course there on the history of Appalachian culture ...
by John Bealle Imagine a thousand of the brightest minds of Appalachia – scholars, writers, activists, artists – coming to Cincinnati. This will happen in April of 2018 when UACC hosts the annual ...
by Omope Carter Daboiku Omope Carter Daboiku is a wordsmith, actress and storyteller based in Dayton and Cincinnati. A folklorist with specialties in African, Affrilachian, Appalachian, and Native Ame...
By Bonnie Neumeier Bonnie Neumeier is a long-time advocate for Black and Appalachian urban core neighborhoods in Cincinnati. She has witnessed the decline of these residential neighborhoods over the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...