Appalachian Heritage Month, 2008
The 2007 Appalachian Hertitage Month offers a spectacular line up of writers, thinkers, storytelllers musicians and examples of Appalachian crafts. Click on each link below for more information.
Monday, October 6
Kentucky Express with Max Reese
Down Home, Downtown marks the first event in Miami Hamilton’s celebration of Appalachian History Month. Featured musicians, Kentucky Express with Max Reese, will entertain us with rollicking tunes, with some short stories and tall tales thrown in for good measure. Feel free to contribute your own thoughts and memories to this lively, warm-hearted songfest as you laugh, remember, and enjoy the rich
7:00pm • Miami Hamilton Downtown
Monday, October 13
Krista Gibson, Jennie Hill & Joyce Kilgore
When The Alliance Writers Project: Voices brought creative writing classes to union employees in Norton, Virginia, the result was an insightful anthology, Coalfield Suite, published in 2006. Listen to readings by three of these authors, whose words help to enlighten, educate and empower
7:30pm • Harry T. Wilks Conference Center
October 13 & November 3
Mountain Mist, the original inventor of commercial filler products, became well-known for its original hand-drawn quilt patterns distributed in small catalogs and ads. Prized by collectors, some of the 100+ Mountain Mist patterns from the 1920s and 1930s are displayed in this traveling exhibit.
Harry T. Wilks Conference Center
Wednesday, October 15
Documentary Film
Directed by Elizabeth Barret and produced by Appalshop, Long
Journey Home explores the ethnic diversity of the Appalachian
region, the economic forces causing people to migrate into and out of the area, and the personal choices individuals make to stay, to leave, and to come back. Discussion and commentary will follow
the film, led by Dr. Roberta Campbell and Mark Shores, Assistant Director of Rentschler Library. Reception to follow.
7:30pm • Harry T. Wilks Conference Center
Saturday, October 25
Tony Rice spans the range of acoustic music from straight-ahead bluegrass to
jazz-influenced new acoustic music, and has been called “the greatest innovator in acoustic flatpicked guitar since Clarence White.”
8pm • Parrish Auditorium • www.tickets.muohio.edu
Monday, November 3
The United States of Appalachia
“ Appalachia needs no defense. It needs more defenders.”
Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer,educator, radio correspondent, and community organizer across the United States, Europe, India and Mexico. His award-winning stories have appeared on NPR, PRI, and in scores of travel, literary and music magazines, and national and foreign newspapers. He has been a commentator
on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and for Pacific News Service national syndication.
He is the author of In the Sierra Madre and The United States of Appalachia.
“Beyond its mythology in the American imagination, Appalachia has long been a vanguard region in the United States — a cradle of U.S. freedom and independence, and a hot bed for literature and music. Some of the most quintessential and daring American innovations, rebellions, and social movements have emerged from an area often stereotyped as a quaint backwater. In the process, immigrants from the Appalachian diaspora have become some of our nation’s most famous leaders.”
—from The United States of Appalachia
Sunday, November 9
The Del McCoury Band is the most honored band in bluegrass music. Winner of the coveted Entertainer of the Year Award a record nine times in the past 15 years, Del McCoury is celebrating 50 years of performing bluegrass music this year.
4pm & 7 pm • Parrish Auditorium • www.tickets.muohio.edu
Related Community Events
Thursday, October 30
The 49th annual O’Tucks dinner will be held at Receptions Banquet Center in Fairfield at 6pm, October 30. The event benefits the O’Tucks Scholarship Fund at Miami Hamilton. Tickets are $20 each with a cash bar. For information/reservations, call 868-2748 or 829-6975. For information or reservations, call 868.2748 or 829.6975.
