Rerun: Tailypo, Tailypo, Who or What is Tailypo?

By Mike TempletonOriginally published October 9, 2022 Cover illustration by Katherine Coville **** October has arrived, and it’s time to embrace the spookier side of life, just in time for Hallo...

Rerun: The John Roger Simon Sorghum Festival

by Mike Templeton **** In honor of the 2023 John Roger Simon Sorghum Festival, we are revisiting this article about last year’s festival, which was the first festival after a four-year hiatus! T...

The Chief of Birds: A new book by Mike Templeton

By Pauletta Hansel Readers of our Urban Appalachian Community Coalition blog are used to seeing posts BY Mike Templeton, rather than about him. Therefore, I am especially honored to be writing this po...

Try Love in a Small Town

By Elissa Yancey In a hot, hot summer when the stereotypically brutal movie “Deliverance” turns 50 and a Jason Aldean hymn to small town violence tops the charts, we at the Urban Appalachian Commu...

The Appalachian Breastfeeding Network

By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has a deep investment in public health. This goes back to the earliest days of the Urban Appalachian Council and its mission of advocacy and...

The Historic Mill Creek and the Mill Creek Alliance

By Mike Templeton One of the most important issues for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, and Urban Appalachian Council before us, has been environmental justice, as so many urban Appalachians...

Appalachian Foodways: Foraging the Common Dandelion

By Mike Templeton An essential feature of any culture is food, and this is why a regular focus of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition blog is Appalachian foodways. Our foodways and traditions ar...