Appalachia – Danville, Kentucky: Historically Bold

Lunch with the Arts: Robert Gipe – Writing and Organizing in Appalachia

By Kendall Clinton|2022-03-01T14:08:51-05:00March 1st, 2022|

Robert 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 [...]

Lunch with the Arts: Maurice Manning and Sue Massek – Appalachian Jack-Tales Through Poetry and Song

By Kendall Clinton|2022-01-12T15:00:59-05:00January 12th, 2022|

Maurice 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 [...]