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Founded in 1976, Blue Apple Players is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit, theater company producing original musicals and educational theater programs for young audiences. Entertaining and inspiring, programs reach across social, economic, and geographical boundaries and use the power of drama to ignite children’s imagination and change lives. Blue Apple tours over 150 performances of its award-winning original musicals each year,
Keep readingBilly Hill & the Hillbillies quintet, live at Disneyland, in the great outdoors, on the streets of Frontierland, in front of the Pioneer Mercantile shop, during the fall ’06 Golden Horseshoe Saloon refurbishment, performing “The Blue Mountains of Kentucky” Pt. 1, daytime, CLIP 2, filmed on 09/26/06
Keep readingThis is a video I made featuring Jean Ritchie, The Mountain Queen, singing “Sweet William and Lady Margaret” from her 1961 album “Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition” Jean Ritchie is from Appalachian Kentucky. She was born in 1922 in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and has had a very accomplished career in music. She is a real American Treasure
Keep readingAfter serving on an ASP work crew in June 2009, I gave a recital to raise money for the groups’ work. ASP’s mission is to make homes “safer, drier, and warmer” for the people of Central Appalachia. I was very moved by the desperate need of the people I met working in the mountains of Kentucky. Our nation was built
Keep readingDonate today: www.donategreenpeace.com From the mountains of Kentucky, to the innercity neighborhoods of Chicago, the entire life cycle of coal is filthy – from disastrous mining practices like mountaintop removal, to toxic emissions. What is the true cost of coal on our planet, and on the lives and health of ordinary Americans? Hear firsthand stories from local activists Nina and
Keep readingThis is 17500 Acres for sale in the Beautiful Mountains of Kentucky! The infrastructure of Electric and 40 Ft. wide gravel roads are already on the property and in great condition! The property currently has over 60 million board feet of marketable timber ready for harvest and produces approx. 0000 per year from coal easement rights payable to the owner.
Keep readingThis is the local video describing Reclaiming Futures in the Mountains of Kentucky, one of 10 grantee sites of Reclaiming Futures, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Reclaiming Futures in the Mountains of Kentucky is affiliated with Kentucky River Community Care and is a new approach to helping teenagers caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol and
Keep readingI found this video online and thought I would share it… America’s Most Endangered Mountains – Benham and Lynch KY on Black Mountain Pledge to Help End Mountaintop Removal. Visit: www.iLoveMountains.org COMMUNITY STORY – – – Benham and Lynch are nestled in Harlan County at the foot of Black Maintain, Kentucky’s highest peak. Established as “coal camps” in 1911 and
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One of the things I have been gradually working my way through is defining the area each of these Mountain Dreams sites will cover. In general I am trying to adopt divisions of coverage within the states that already exist in some form on the different State Tourism Sites. In some states these divisions come naturally and consistently with our
Keep readingLife in the mountains of East Kentucky has been demanding since the early days of European (mostly Scotch-Irish and English) settlement. In the many isolated valleys and hollows, it is a hardscrabble life, even today. Yet many of the mountain folk wouldn't trade that life for the city, even when they could — isolation and self-sufficiency being primary reasons why
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