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12-11-2008
Staff Members Explore Global Mountain Cultures
On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, the Appalachian Center hosted its inaugural Dinner on the Grounds lunchtime event, which included a presentation prepared and presented by Center staff titled “From the Appalachians to the Carpathians: Exploring Global Mountain Cultures." Read More...
12-08-2008
Annual Celebration of Traditional Music Provides Weekend of Family Fun
On October 16-19, 2008, the Berea College Appalachian Center hosted its 35th annual Celebration of Traditional Music. The weekend kicked off with a Stephenson Memorial Concert featuring the talent of David Holt and the Lightning Bolts. Holt, a four-time Grammy Award winner, has collected and performed traditional Appalachian music and stories for over 30 years. Read More...
11-21-2008 and 11-22-2008
5-14-08
Thank You from Wallins Elementary!
Cinco de Mayo proved to be to be an especially exciting day for a group of lucky sixth graders from Harlan County, Kentucky, who visited Berea College’s campus courtesy of Admissions and the Appalachian Center. The children were treated to a tour of the campus, including lunch in the Mitchell Room topped off with traditional Appalachian music featuring Deborah Thompson and Ashley Long. It seems that Hutchins Library was a big crowd- pleaser, as well as eating in food service! The following are thank you notes the children sent upon their return to Wallins Elementary. Read More...
4-30-2008
The Rain Barrel Festival Lives up to its Name!
By Kit Cottrell
Appropriately enough, the Berea Rain Barrel
Festival at Memorial Park was launched in a drizzling rain
as people sought dry shelter beneath tents, huddled under
brightly designed umbrellas, or simply gave in to Mother
Nature, strolling in the misty rain that fell for most of
the early afternoon. The festival could easily have been
a soggy disaster; instead a cheerful, almost celebratory
atmosphere prevailed as folks examined the rich, vibrant
designs on the sixty-eight rain barrels due to be auctioned;
either in a silent auction that morning or in a live auction
later that day. Read More...
3-13-2008
The Affrilachian Way: A Writing Workshop
By Kit Cottrell
Frank X Walker coined the word “Affrilachian” in 1991to describe people of African descent who are from the Appalachian region. Seventeen
years later, the word has taken on a life of its own; originating
a new entry in the Oxford American Dictionary, producing
the periodical PLUCK! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture, as
well as creating a collective of writers known as “The Affrilachian Poets” whose
members include acclaimed authors Frank X Walker, Kelly Norman
Ellis, Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney, and Bianca Spriggs.
3-3-2008
I Love Mountains Day 2008
By Beth
Bissmeyer
Last Valentine’s Day, I hopped a ride with two of my friends from Berea to go to KFTC’s I Love Mountains Lobbying Day in Frankfort. After navigating the icy roads and getting turned around a few times, we made it to the Capitol. I remember feeling intimidated by the place—I had never lobbied before and hadn’t been to Frankfort since elementary school—but
after an orientation, I joined a group of KFTC members
with lobbying experience and headed off to meet with legislators,
which proved to be worthwhile as a few of the people we
met with expressed interest in co-sponsoring the Stream
Saver Bill. Read More...
2-28-2008
Appalachian
Foodways – Food for Thought
By Kit
Cottrell
Biscuits and gravy for breakfast; beans and cornbread
for lunch; all topped off with sweet potato pie for dessert.
This scrumptious menu may serve to conjure up images
of dinner at grandma’s house, dining at the local country kitchen, or dishing out some delicious southern delights at moms house, but it’s actually the ingredients that made up “Appalachian Foodways”,
a short-term class taught by Natalie Moretz, Instructor;
Child and Family Studies, that explored the food history
of the Appalachian region.
11-26-2007
Gurney Norman Reads for Appalachian Heritage
By Kit Cottrell
Renowned Appalachian writer Gurney Norman, the featured author for the Summer 2005 issue of Appalachian Heritage, read in tribute to the Fall 2007 issue featuring Thomas Wolfe. The edition introduced three previously unpublished story fragments by Wolfe, as well as photographs and other writings.
11-15-2007
Identity and Diversity in Appalachia
By Kit
Cottrell
The college-wide symposium exploring identity
and diversity in Appalachia was a tremendous success
with more than 800 people attending the event. After
a brief prologue by Chad Berry, Director of the Appalachian
Center, the symposium got underway with brief presentations
from a panel of esteemed speakers.
10-10-2007
Sustainable Appalachian Communities Class Takes Field Trip to Mountaintop Removal Sites
By Kit
Cottrell
Richard Olson’s Sustainable Appalachian Communities class recently took a field trip to Eastern Kentucky to discover first-hand the effects of mountaintop removal, a mining technique that involves the removal of up to 1,000 vertical feet of a mountain, which is blasted away to get to the thin coal seams underneath. The
debris is typically scraped into adjacent river or creek
valleys and is known as valley fill. According to Olson, “The trip is an essential part of grounding theory in reality in Central Appalachia. It brings a lot of concepts to life.” Read More...
10-10-2007
Russian Environmentalists Visit Berea
By Kit
Cottrell
Eight Russian environmentalists visited Berea on
October 3rd to learn about the effects of coal mining
on the land and people of Eastern Kentucky. The visitors were chosen by the U.S. State Department Embassy in Russia to spend twenty-one days in various places of environmental interest in the United States. Our
distinguished guests included; Irina Nesvetaeva, Nadezhda
V. Storozhenko, Dmitry Ivanov, Ekaterina V. Kolesova,
Yan A. Tsygankov, Marina Ryzhenkova, Mikhail Samsonov,
and Vera Tankeeva.
10-2-2007
Silas House at the Appalachian Heritage Featured Author Reading
By Kit
Cottrell
Silas House received a warm welcome at the Appalachian
Heritage Featured Author Reading, which highlighted the
Summer 2007 edition of Appalachian Heritage honoring
founding editor Albert Stewart (1914-2001). House
is the author of such well-known novels as Clay’s
Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2002),
and The Coal Tattoo (2004), as well as the play The Hurting Part (2005). House
is also a two-time recipient of the Kentucky Novel of
the Year Award. Read More...
10-2-2007
BC-EKU Appalachian Centers’ Picnic
By Kit
Cottrell
Food, fun, and friendly conversation were in abundant
supply at the Appalachian Center picnic and the weather
cooperated by providing a gorgeous sunny afternoon for
the festivities. The event, held September
22nd, was organized and coordinated through the efforts
of a new Appalachian student organization whose purpose
is to raise awareness on the issues facing the Appalachian
region, as well as promoting the rich diversity of the
people in the region. Read More...
9-25-2007
Forty Faculty & Staff Attend Appalachian Seminar and Tour
By Kit
Cottrell
It has been more than forty years since the first
group of new faculty and staff to Berea College embarked
on a tour of Appalachia with the goal of gaining a deeper
knowledge of the Appalachian region, as well as an understanding
of the College’s Appalachian Commitment. Today,
the Appalachian Seminar and Tour is funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, recognition of the significance
and value of the tour. Read More...
9-25-2007
Writers Exchange Sparks Imaginations
By Kit
Cottrell
The New Mummer Group, a theatrical group based
in New York City, joined forces with local writers this
week to hold the first ever Writers Exchange on campus.
Six plays were performed throughout the day on June 10,
as well as the reading of nine poems. Read More...
9-25-2007
Brushy Fork holds 3rd Annual Institute
By Kit
Cottrell
Community and nonprofit leaders from the Central
Appalachian region gathered at Berea College September
12-14, 2007, for the third Brushy Fork Annual Institute. Approximately
135 area leaders took part in 11 different tracks on
community economic development topics ranging from leadership
and executive problem solving to website design. Read More...
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