In our Young Leaders Reflect series, UACC is sharing reflections from area students who participate in the Urban Appalachian Leadership Project (UALP). Through UALP, Appalachian Innovation Grants have...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
by Barb Childers In Appalachian tradition, old timers say “ringin’ in” is the proper way to bring in the new year. This could include anything sufficiently clamorous to chase away bad luck —...