This article appeared in the Volume 3, Issue 3 Winter 2022 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue.
I hope everyone’s doing fine as 2022 wanes and winter approaches. Based on a number of conversations with you I know we’ve all been extremely busy this year. Here’s hoping you find some time for rest and relaxation over the Winter Holidays. As my Mom was fond of saying, here’s to finding time to “recharge your batteries.”
We have several articles of interest in this issue. Pauletta Hansel reports on the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition’s oral history program, which is up to 45 interviews and growing. Stewart Plein discusses WVU’s impressive newspaper digitization project, which has been systematically digitizing West Virginia newspapers since 2011. I write about UNC Asheville receiving the Bill and Alice Hart Collection that contains over 1200 carefully curated monographs and 25+ linear feet of manuscript and ephemera about Western North Carolina, collected over 50 years by the Harts. We also have a report from the ASA Special Collections Committee’s response to the flooding in Kentucky, as well Jinny Turman’s powerful first-person account of assisting with the flood relief efforts at Appalshop.
Do you have an update about your repository? A new initiative to share with the Appalachian archival community? A collection you’d like to highlight? New resources to share? We would love to hear from you and help you share your stories with your colleagues. If you have a story suggestion or want to submit an article, please contact Liz Harper (harpere@email.wcu.edu) or Gene Hyde (ghyde@unca.edu).
Gene Hyde
Liz Harper
