The Urban Appalachian Leadership Project
The Urban Appalachian Leadership Project is envisioned as a coalition of students and young adults, community advocates, scholars, artists, and others who empower community members to acknowledge dive...
2018 Appalachian Studies Association Conference
Re-stitching the Seams: Appalachia Beyond Its Borders The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition is honored to serve as host for the 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference: Re-stitching...
The Bluegrass Music Heritage of Southwestern Ohio
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 ...
Appalachian Culture Month
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...
Community Engagement
UACC Community Engagement Community Engagement takes the form of a number of overlapping initiatives designed to bring people together to discuss, celebrate and participate in Appalachian cultural edu...
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...
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...
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...
What is Appalachian Culture?
by Michael Maloney Gene Wilhelm’s theory of Appalachian culture is that it is a way of life and thinking that developed in the 1700s when the Scotch Irish and other British Isles and German people c...
Cultural Resources Team
UACC Cultural Resources Team Our work within the Cultural Resources team is concerned with the gathering and dissemination of information about Appalachian history and culture, including an online cul...
Stewards and Action Teams
UACC Stewards The Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s work is created, organized, and developed by a large collaborative group of “Stewards.” We all consider ourselves stewards of a rich, ha...
Northside Square Dance
by John Bealle The Northside Square Dance arose some years ago as a sly witches’ brew of motives. Local callers who wanted to practice. Old-time musicians who loved playing together. Dancers w...
LPH Festival: Memories, Roots & Fun
by Nancy Laird The 38th Annual Lower Price Hill Appalachian Festival (formerly known as the “Mini Appalachian Fest”), hosted by the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, is an amazing feat. When ...
Urban Appalachia Lost and Found: An Identification of a Half-Century of Community Photographs
by Jeff Dey When the former UAC closed in January 2014, the organization’s collection of old photos were fortunately taken to the Berea archives for safe-keeping. These photos are to be catalogued s...
2015 Appalachian Culture Fest at Union Terminal
by Omope Carter Daboiku UACC garnered a highly visible collaboration in February with the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal as co-producer for Passpor...