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Appalachia
Lunch with the Arts: Maurice Manning and Sue Massek – Appalachian Jack-Tales Through Poetry and Song
Art Center of the Bluegrass 401 W. Main Street, Danville, KY, United StatesMaurice Manning and Sue Massek come together to provide a Lunch with the Arts of poetry and music. This performance kicks off our Kentucky Humanities Cultural Connections Lunch with the Arts Series focusing on Appalachia. Manning will be reading narrative poems in the tradition of the Appalachian Jack-Tales. Jack-Tales often feature a trickster character, someone [...]
Lunch with the Arts: Robert Gipe – Writing and Organizing in Appalachia
Art Center of the Bluegrass 401 W. Main Street, Danville, KY, United StatesRobert Gipe won the 2015 Weatherford Award for outstanding Appalachian novel for his first novel Trampoline. His second novel, Weedeater, was published in 2018 and his third, Pop, was published in 2021. Gipe’s work as a writer grew out of his work as a community college teacher and arts organizer in Harlan County, Kentucky. Gipe [...]