UACC Blog
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...
“Perceptions of Home: The Urban Appalachian Spirit”: Urban Appalachian Images and Interviews
By Mike Templeton The 52nd Annual Appalachian Festival featured numerous exhibits that demonstrate the rich culture of Appalachia. Some of these exhibits allowed people to see some of the ways Appalac...
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...
Adam Payne and the online magazine YNST: New Voices and Ideas from the Appalachian Region
By Mike Templeton There are many media sources one can follow to keep up with what is going on in and around Appalachia. The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition works to bring you many of these thro...
Saving the Boldface Park Shelter in Sedamsville
By Mike Templeton Cincinnati’s west side riverfront neighborhoods have historically been urban Appalachian neighborhoods. These areas have long been the focus of Urban Appalachian Community Coalitio...
Our Harvest Cooperative: Building Community through a Worker-Owned Business Model
By Mike Templeton When we think about building and empowering communities, we often think in terms of two separate spheres of work. We look to businesses to offer employment, and we look to groups lik...
Urban Appalachian Artist and Advocate Michael London wins 2023 Ohio Governor’s Award for the Arts
By Mike Templeton For the Urban Appalachian Community, art and advocacy are deeply linked. How we speak on behalf of our communities has everything to do with how we represent urban Appalachians both ...
The 52nd Annual Appalachian Festival
By Mike Templeton The 52nd Annual Appalachian Festival will be held on May 13 and 14 at Coney Island. As in previous years, the festival coincides with Mother’s Day. The Appalachian Community ...
Mergoat Magazine
by Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has taken on environmental issues in a number of ways. You may recall our article about the litigation led by lawyer Rob Bilott against DuPo...
Katie Laur reads from Red Dirt Girl: Essays and Stories on April 30
By Mike Templeton There are those artists and writers the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition recognize as absolutely central to the cultural life of Greater Cincinnati, and Katie Laur is one of tho...
Second and Third Generation Urban Appalachians and the Story Gathering Project
by Mike Templeton The uses for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Story Gathering Project are seemingly endless. It stands out as an oral history of urban Appalachia in Great Cincinnati. On...
Eastern Kentucky Mutual Aid
By Mike Templeton The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition has presented articles on this blog in support of people in places like Eastern Kentucky after catastrophic floods. In these articles there ...
Mike Mitchell: Director at the Indiana School of Lutherie
By Mike Templeton When we at the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition talk about Appalachian music the focus is almost exclusively on the musicians and the music itself. Delving into the instruments ...
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Jensen Infuses Traditional Appalachian Music with the Spirit of Improvisation
By Mike Templeton Traditional Appalachian music has persisted for so long, and appeals to so many people, because it is continuously changing, much like the culture itself. There is the constant tensi...
“Georgia O’Keeffe, the Power of Place, & the Creative Ecosystem:” A Presentation at the Art Museum with Michael Thompson, Sherry Cook Stanforth, and Asa Featherstone, IV
by Mike Templeton Continuing through May 7, the Cincinnati Art Museum is offering a special exhibition of the photography of Georgia O’Keeffe at the Thomas R. Schiff Gallery. We are familiar wit...
Six Seniors at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill are Accepted at the Highly Selective Berea College
By Mike Templeton Oyler School in Lower Price Hill has gone through a legitimate transformation over the years. From an elementary and middle school that largely reflected the struggles of a strugglin...
The Disaster Unfolding in East Palestine
By Mike Templeton As Appalachians, members of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition are no strangers to environmental catastrophes and the resulting political and economic storms that surround the...