Challenge And Change In Appalachia

Author : Jess Stoddart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813182810

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Challenge and Change in Appalachia by Jess Stoddart Pdf

The first and most successful rural social settlement school in the United States lies at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. Since its founding in 1902 by May Stone and Katherine Pettit, the Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health, and community services that have measurably improved the lives of people in the region. Challenge and Change in Appalachia is the story of a groundbreaking center for education that transformed a community. The School's farms and extension work brought modern methods to the area. At the same time, the School encouraged preservation of the region's crafts and music. Today, unique programs for dyslexic children, work in adult education, and cultural heritage activities make the School a model for rural redevelopment.

Author : Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820347523

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Kentucky Women by Melissa A. McEuen,Thomas H. Appleton Jr. Pdf

Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention. Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline Mc- Dowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in Kentucky Women, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky's relationship with the American South and the nation at large. With essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking. Contributors: Lindsey Apple on Madeline McDowell Breckinridge; Martha Billips on Harriette Simpson Arnow; James Duane Bolin on Linda Neville; Sarah Case on Katherine Pettit and May Stone; Juilee Decker on Enid Yandell; Carolyn R. Dupont on Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers; Angela Esco Elder on Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln; Catherine Fosl on Anne Pogue McGinty and Anne McCarty Braden; Craig Thompson Friend on Nonhelema Hokolesqua, Jemima Boone Callaway, and Matilda Lewis Threlkeld; Melanie Beals Goan on Mary Breckinridge; John Paul Hill on Martha Layne Collins; Anya Jabour on Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge; William Kuby on Mary Jane Warfield Clay; Karen Cotton McDaniel on Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fouse; Melissa A. McEuen on Nancy Newsom Mahaffey; Mary Jane Smith on Laura Clay; Andrea S. Watkins on Josie Underwood and Frances Dallam Peter.

Author : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781469617688

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The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris Pdf

Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : IND:30000098111036

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Appalachia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : CORNELL:31924019471824

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Appalachia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen L. Fisher,Barbara Ellen Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252093760

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Transforming Places by Stephen L. Fisher,Barbara Ellen Smith Pdf

In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations and events discussed by contributors. Transforming Places illuminates widely relevant lessons about building coalitions and movements with sufficient strength to challenge corporate-driven globalization. Contributors are Fran Ansley, Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, Dwight B. Billings, M. Kathryn Brown, Jeannette Butterworth, Paul Castelloe, Aviva Chomsky, Dave Cooper, Walter Davis, Meredith Dean, Elizabeth C. Fine, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Doug Gamble, Nina Gregg, Edna Gulley, Molly Hemstreet, Mary Hufford, Ralph Hutchison, Donna Jones, Ann Kingsolver, Sue Ella Kobak, Jill Kriesky, Michael E. Maloney, Lisa Markowitz, Linda McKinney, Ladelle McWhorter, Marta Maria Miranda, Chad Montrie, Maureen Mullinax, Phillip J. Obermiller, Rebecca O'Doherty, Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Anita Puckett, Katie Richards-Schuster, June Rostan, Rees Shearer, Daniel Swan, Joe Szakos, Betsy Taylor, Thomas E. Wagner, Craig White, and Ryan Wishart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : UVA:X006174106

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Appalachian Journal by Anonim Pdf

A regional studies review.

Author : Stephen Fisher
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877229773

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Fighting Back in Appalachia by Stephen Fisher Pdf

Author note: Stephen L. Fisher is Hawthorne Professor of Political Science at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.

Author : Rebecca Adkins Fletcher,Rebecca-Eli Long,William Schumann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813196954

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Engaging Appalachia by Rebecca Adkins Fletcher,Rebecca-Eli Long,William Schumann Pdf

Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity—defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities—and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In representing diverse areas, environments, and issues, three relatable themes emerge within a practice viewpoint that is scalable to communities beyond Appalachia: fostering student leadership, asset-building, and needs fulfillment within community engagement. Engaging Appalachia presents collaborative approaches to regional community engagement and offers important lessons in place-based methods for achieving sustainable and just development. Written with practicality in mind, this guidebook embraces hard-earned experiences from decades of work in Appalachia and sets forth new models for building community resilience in a changing world.

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385721394

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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O'Brien Pdf

John O’Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to understand both himself and the father from whom he’d become estranged. At once a poignant memoir and a tribute to America's most misunderstood region, At Home in the Heart of Appalachia describes a lush land of voluptuous summers, woodsmoke winters, and breathtaking autumns and springs. John O'Brien sees through the myths about Appalachia to its people and the mountain culture that has sustained them. And he takes to task naïve missionaries and rapacious industrialists who are the real source of much of the region's woe as well as its lingering hillbilly stereotypes. Finally, and profoundly, he comes to terms with the atavistic demons that haunt the relations between Appalachian fathers and sons.

Author : Appalachian Regional Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133481668

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Challenges for Appalachia, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources by Appalachian Regional Commission Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497647

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : IND:30000092806532

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Journal of Appalachian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff Young,Ohio Valley ReSource
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781982148874

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Appalachian Fall by Jeff Young,Ohio Valley ReSource Pdf

A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis. Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia’s troubles are just a taste of what the future holds for all of us? Appalachian Fall tells the captivating true story of coal communities on the leading edge of change. A group of local reporters known as the Ohio Valley ReSource shares the real-world impact these changes have had on what was once the heart and soul of America. Including stories like: -The miners’ strike in Harlan County after their company suddenly went bankrupt, bouncing their paychecks -The farmers tilling former mining ground for new cash crops like hemp -The activists working to fight mountaintop removal and bring clean energy jobs to the region -And the mothers mourning the loss of their children to overdose and despair In the wake of the controversial bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, Appalachian Fall addresses what our country owes to a region that provided fuel for a century and what it risks if it stands by watching as the region, and its people, collapse.

Author : Cassie Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984818935

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Hill Women by Cassie Chambers Pdf

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “Poverty is enmeshed with pride in these stories of survival.”—Associated Press Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Despite her poverty, she wouldn’t hesitate to give the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while Wilma was in college and after. With her “hill women” values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.