Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t
Many Eastern Kentucky farmers and large-scale gardeners hit by the July 2022 flood have returned to their fields this season, despite devastating losses caused by the disaster. While some decided
Young Eastern Kentuckians shared their stories, ideas and hopes for the future of their communities at the 35th annual East Kentucky Leadership Conference in Hazard April 27-28.
Young Eastern Kentuckians shared their stories, ideas and hopes for the future of their communities at the 35th annual East Kentucky Leadership Conference in Hazard April 27-28.
I have known those who had left the mountains where they were born but eventually wended their way back again, homesick for the grandeur of tree-covered ridges.