A companion to our WMMT report, this video visits Terry Creech and his orchard atop Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak at 4,100 ft. Creech is a rare breed, a second generation commercial apple grower in Harlan Conty, KY. In the fall Jeremy Williams, Harlan County Extension Agent, and Mitch Whitaker from the Letcher County Office […]
Benefits Fair – Help in Hard Times
Eastern Kentucky, like much of central Appalachia, has been hard hit by lay offs in the coal industry in recent months. Since the first of 2012, hundreds have lost their jobs. But in the midst of such uncertain and trying times, our communities have also been pulling together to support each other. That was clear […]
Mining Communities in Times of Change
In the 1960s Anthropologist Helen Lewis established one of the first Appalachian Studies programs in the country, at what was then Clinch Valley College in Wise County, Virginia. Here Helen joins one of her former undergraduate students, lawyer and community leader Frank Kilgore of St. Paul, Virginia, at the site of the new Dominion energy […]
New Energy Abundance in EKY
As the debate surrounding the continued operation of aging coal burning power plants continues, many are trying to figure out what our other options are for supplying all our energy needs. Downstream Strategies, an environmental consulting organization based in West Virginia, just released a report addressing this very question, “The Opportunities for Distributed Renewable Energy […]
