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. by Pauletta Hansel, Project Director; Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Core Member The Urban Appalachian Story Gathering Project is an activity of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, a small nonprofit which formed in 2014 when the decades old Urban Appalachian Council was disbanded. UACC traces its origin to the 1964 founding of Cincinnati’s Main Street Bible Center, which served Appalachian migrants chiefly in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. The Urban Appalachian Council was established in 1974 and provided services for forty years to urban Appalachians and their descendants…
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Featured Collection: Cincinnati’s Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Revives Historic Foster Library
This article appeared in the Volume 2, Issue 2 Fall 2020 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. Cincinnati’s Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Revives Historic Foster Library for a New Generation of Urban Appalachian Scholars, Activists and Enthusiasts By Shannon Gillie, Jeff Dey, and Michael Maloney “Urban Appalachians are not transplanted mountain people trying to live a mountain life in the City; they are a new community who have built a new life in the City. “– Jeff Dey Tucked in a multipurpose room in a Cincinnati neighborhood building are six bookshelves. They are tall and nondescript, but they house an intriguing…
