Appalachian Center Spring Semester 2007 Events

12:00 p.m.

Berea
Student Kit Cottrell shows her photographs of mountaintop
removal sites, taken during last summer¹s writer¹s
tour in eastern Kentucky.

Location: Bruce-Trades
226

Students,
faculty and staff will be attending the “I love Mountains
Day” Rally
in Frankfort, Kentucky. To join the group contact Tammy
Horn (x3724); RSVP by February 9. Co-sponsored by ESE.

7:30 p.m.

Author Darnell Arnoult will read excerpts from her recent
works. She is the featured author in the Winter 2007
issue of Appalachian Heritage magazine. Arnoult is from
rural Smith County, Tennessee, and is author of the novel
Sufficient Grace. Her book of poetry, What Travels With
Us, won the 2005 Weatherford Award for the best in Appalachian
Fiction and Poetry. It also won the Southeast Independent
Booksellers Association award for poetry book of the
year 2006. All are welcome. Co-sponsored by the Department
of English, Theatre, and Speech Communication.

Location: Woods-Penn
Commons

Noon

A native of
Danville, Kentucky, Maurice Manning has written three books
of poetry: Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, which won the
Yale Younger Poets Award in 2007; A Companion for Owls: Being
the Commonplace of Daniel Book, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman & c,
published in 2004; and Bucolics, due in 2007. He is a professor
of Creative Writing at Indiana University.

Location: Frost 218

7:30 p.m.

A narrated slide show
introduction to MTR, with general information about issues
related to the process, including coal and electricity, community
and environmental impacts of MTR, reclamation and the Surface
Mining Reclamation Act of 1977.

Location: Trustees Room,
Seabury Center

4:00 p.m.

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining:
an information session with Patrick Angel from the Office
of Surface Mining and Reclamation and Rick Sweigard
from UK’s Mining Engineering Department

Location: Trustees
Room, Seabury Center

10:00 a.m.

Tony Oppegard
has worked as a mining safety advocate for 26 years as a
public interest attorney, a federal (MSHA) mining official,
a state
prosecutor of mine safety violations, and a private attorney
for wrongful death cases. Most recently, he has represented
the Darby miners’ widows. Steve Earle has been a United Mine
Workers member for 27 years. As representative of UMWA, he
lobbies state officials for health benefits related to black
lung victims, mine safety, and scholarships for children
of disabled miners. He will be speaking about United Mine
Workers
history in Kentucky. They will be speaking to Dr. Tammy
Horn’s
APS 299 class. All are welcome. Sponsored by SENS and ESE.

Location: Bruce-Trades 226

Many from
the Appalachian Center and Berea College will be attending
the 30th Appalachian Studies Conference. For more information
see Maryville
College’s Web site. Scholarships
are available for students, but the deadline for applying is
February 12.
See the Web site for an online application.

Kentucky artist Dobree Adams weaves rugs and tapestries
from her handspun yarns. She also photographs the landscape
that so powerfully influences and inspires her work. This
exhibit will include pieces that explore MTR’s affect
on the landscape and the artist.

Half of any sales will be
donated to KFTC.

Location: Hutchins Library

3:00 p.m. to

5:00 p.m.

Location:
Hutchins Library

Co-sponsored
by SENS, ESE. To insure a place or for more information,
contact Tammy Horn at (859) 985-3724.

Noon

In a lunchtime
session, Randy Wilson will discuss how spirituality informs
his environmental activism, sharing some of his music and
stories along the way. Randy has been active in the folk
music and dance communities of Eastern Kentucky and beyond,
as well as in the multi-issue activist group, Kentuckians
for the Commonwealth. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion
from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and a Master of
Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley,
California. He is currently folk artist-in-residence at the
Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky, and
has been a visiting artist in the schools throughout the
state. He plays guitar, banjo, lap dulcimer, hammered
dulcimer, concertina, and autoharp and is an inspiring, engaging,
and entertaining singer, songwriter and storyteller. Co-sponsored
by the Campus Christian Center.

Location: Bruce-Trades Room 226

10:00 a.m.

FitzGerald
graduated with a law degree from UK in 1980. Since 1984,
he has been director of the Kentucky Resources Council. He
has
received numerous awards for his service to the citizens
of Kentucky, most recently by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
in 2006. He will be speaking in Tammy Horn’s APS
229 Contemporary Issues Class about environmental legislation
history in Kentucky. All are invited.

Location: Frost 103

3:00 p.m.

This college-wide
convocation features community organizer, 2005 recipient
of the Compton Mentor Fellowship, and Berea College graduate
Tricia
Feeney. Feeney spent her fellowship year based in Boone,
North Carolina, strengthening grassroots efforts for local
change
and developing a Citizen’s Guide for Water Security
in Appalachian Mining Communities. This convocation event
is co-sponsored
with the Campus Christian Center and the Center for Excellence
in Learning through Service (CELTS).

Location: Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

Noon

Location:
Hutchins Library, Room 106

7:30 p.m.

Former Appalachian Music Fellow (2006), Erynn
Marshall, returns with friends for a concert as part
of a CD release tour to perform many of the tunes she
learned from her time studying in the sound archives
at Berea College. Lively, fun, and skillful fiddle, banjo,
and guitar playing with sweet harmony singing!

Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for Berea College students,
children, and youth (under 18). For more information,
call 859-661-6538.

Location:
Danforth Chapel in the Draper Building