By Mike Templeton There are two crucial moments that defined my interests in literature. The first was reading Thoreau and Emerson as a teenager. The next was stumbling onto the Beats. I was never the...
by Pauletta Hansel I awoke Thursday morning, July 28, 2022, in my safe and comfortable house and, as I am wont to do, opened up my Facebook app. That week I was living vicariously through my writer fr...
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s focus on Appalachian culture leads us to shine a light on things that are not so obvious to people outside the Appalachian communities. This includes feat...
In a 1990 interview with Phillip Obermiller, Ernie Mynatt discussed some of the founding activities of the Urban Appalachian Council in Over-the-Rhine. Over the course of their conversation, Mynatt of...
Early last week, Matthew Smith, Public Programs Director at Miami University Regionals, attended a discussion at Reading Public Library featuring Christine Harper McKinney. McKinney is the 96-year-old...
Pioneer of Appalachian AdvocacyLouise Spiegel’s advocacy for Urban Appalachians goes back to the early 1950s. This was several years before our first indigenous leader, Ernie Myatt, migrated to Cinc...
Everyone has a story tell, the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Story Gathering Project would like to hear that story and document it. Melinda Grisco is an urban Appalachian who has quite a f...
In development for several years now, the Over-the-Rhine Museum will serve as a monument to the cultural history of Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. All of us at the Urban Appalach...
We have focused several articles on greater Cincinnati neighborhoods historically defined by the large urban Appalachian presence. Of particular interest to the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition i...
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s Story Gathering Project started in Fall 2021 as a way to both collect short histories of our people, and to connect urban Appalachians through the telling...
June is Pride Month, and the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition recognizes this by turning our attention to the literature of the LBGTQ communities whose work also comes out of the Appalachian trad...
The history of urban Appalachians is made up of many histories. We are not one unified thread, but a knitting together of many threads that led to the complex and constantly changing cultural network ...
We have focused our attention recently on visual art and poetry and the ways these forms can bring attention to issues of social justice and community through art. The Urban Appalachian Community Coal...
Culture and advocacy in the 21st Century require collaboration and communication among and between different groups and organizations. It is difference that has emerged as the cultural constant in our...
Urban Appalachian culture consists of many things, and much of which is not so obvious. Appalachians in greater Cincinnati have had a hand in every aspect of our culture, and so the Urban Appalachian ...
The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition places central importance on representations of who we were and are. There are not many opportunities to get a more complete picture of these representations ...
Members of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Research Committee are currently working on a project that is of vital importance to urban Appalachian history. The story of the Peck’s Addition ...
Author, educator and UACC Core Member Sherry Cook Stanforth grew up in Clermont County, Ohio, within eyeshot of the Ohio River. She would wander around on her family’s property pretending to be diff...
It is safe to say that the very heart of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is a commitment to public service. Advocacy, research, and education are the gears that drive the work of UACC. The r...
It has been about six months since we launched the Urban Appalachian Story Gathering Project. Take a look back with us to the beginnings of this project. Since the start, we have archived 25 (and coun...