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Leverett, MA | Letcher county, KY

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Letcher County's Black Sheep Bakery Inspires Hope

5.13.2020

Leverett Hands Across the Hills visited the Black Sheep Bakery in Hemphill KY as part of our bridging project. This film from Freethink features HATH's Gwen Johnson who began the bakery, providing employment and healthy bread to the community hard hit by the end of the monocultu...

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Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America

3.28.2020

TIME Magazine Staff

Time Magazine has just published a feature "Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America". Among those 27 are Paula Green of Leverett, MA and Ben Fink of Letcher County, KY, key figures in the Hands Across the Hills bridging initiative that in 2017 partnered 22 Leverett reside...

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Building a bridge across the countryside for talking in polarized times

3.27.2020

John C. Clayton, The Fulcrum

Sometimes it seems the only thing blue and red voters share is mutual contempt. Organizations like Better Angels or Bridge the Divide try to promote civility by establishing rules for speaking together respectfully in a "safe" space. Their workshops, led by trained facilitators,...

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WGBY's 'Connecting Point' features Hands Across the Hills

11.7.2019

Ross Lippman, Connecting Point, WGBY

With polarization on the rise in the United States, Hands Across the Hills bridges divides by bringing groups from vastly different parts of the country together. Station WGBY in Springfield filmed us at our October 2019 gathering of eastern Kentuckians and residents of Leverett...

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Hands Across the Hills has a Message to Share

10.23.2019

Paula Green, Op-Ed, Hampshire Daily Gazette

Over the past two years, the Hands Across the Hills cultural exchange project has created strong bonds of friendship between conservative Kentuckians from Letcher County, Kentucky, and progressives in Leverett, Massachusetts.

For providing hope in a time of divisiveness, our proje...

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Hands Across the Hills: Conversation leads to collaboration

10.16.2019

Richie Davis, Greenfield Recorder

LEVERETT — The nation’s political divide may have widened, but the bond between Kentuckians and Leverett residents who met for the third time last weekend to bridge differences has deepened, members of the group said.

The Hands Across the Hills project, begun after the 2016 electi...

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Liberals and Conservatives from North and South Reunite in Western Mass.

10.16.2019

NEPR report by Karen Brown

A culture-crossing project borne of the 2016 election met for the third time this past weekend in Leverett, Massachusetts.

Hands Across the Hills includes a small group from Letcher County, Kentucky — a Trump stronghold — and another group from mostly-liberal Leverett.

The pr...

Events

Public Forum: Celebrating the Bridging of Two Communities

10.11.2019

Join Leverett's Hands Across the Hills and our HATH Friends from Letcher County KY
in a Public Forum:

Celebrating the Bridging of Two Communities

Sunday October 13th 3-5 PM

Leverett Elementary School, 85 Montague Road, Leverett, MA

Our eastern Kentucky friends are visiting us a sec...

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Kentuckians to visit Leverett again as part of dialogue project

9.30.2019

Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette

LEVERETT — A project that started two years ago to bridge political and cultural divides between Leverett residents and people living in Letcher County, Kentucky will continue during the Oct. 11-13 weekend.

Hands Across the Hills, formed in October 2017 as a means of getting peopl...

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Recent Posts

Letcher County's Black Sheep Bakery Inspires Hope

5.13.2020

Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America

3.28.2020

Building a bridge across the countryside for talking in polarized times

3.27.2020

WGBY's 'Connecting Point' features Hands Across the Hills

11.7.2019

Hands Across the Hills has a Message to Share

10.23.2019

Hands Across the Hills: Conversation leads to collaboration

10.16.2019

Liberals and Conservatives from North and South Reunite in Western Mass.

10.16.2019

Public Forum: Celebrating the Bridging of Two Communities

10.11.2019

Kentuckians to visit Leverett again as part of dialogue project

9.30.2019

Hands Across the Hills to Host Kentuckians for a Second Visit in Leverett

9.26.2019

America's Divided Soul

7.6.2019

Tackling Race through Dialogue: NEXT on NPR

4.11.2019

How to Talk When You Don't Agree

4.10.2019

Paula Green on Two Ventures in Immersive Dialogue at Bay Path University April 9 at 5:30-7:30 pm

4.3.2019

Anti-Racism Now: Chipping away at racism by talking face-to-face

3.13.2019

BBC Video: One Thing Americans Find Hard to Talk About

3.7.2019

Valley group talks race on S. Carolina trip

3.2.2019

CAN RED AND BLUE AMERICA EVER SEE EYE TO EYE? SHE’S BETTING ON IT

2.28.2019

America's Divided Soul

2.21.2019

Plunging into a New Dialogue Project

2.20.2019

Amilcar Shabazz and Paula Green discuss B4U on the Bill Newman Show

2.18.2019

Join us: 2/24 Reflections on B4U Dialogues in South Carolina on Race & Racism

2.15.2019

A Conflict-Resolution Expert on Whether Political and Racial Dialogue Have Value in the Trump Era

2.13.2019

Hands Across the Hills story spreads far beyond Franklin County

2.12.2019

They Have Worked on Conflicts Overseas. Now These Americans See ‘Red Flags’ at Home.

2.5.2019

Grateful Changemakers: Hands Across the Hills

1.25.2019

Bridge over troubled water

1.22.2019

AFTER COAL: Stories of Survival in Appalachia & Wales, & other good reads

1.20.2019

Talking Race In South Carolina

1.16.2019

Bridge Building in Divided America: One Small Step in Tikkun Olam, Repairing the World

12.27.2018

Conservatives in Kentucky, Liberals in Massachusetts Try to Bridge Political Divide

11.30.2018

Peacebuilder awarded for bringing divided US citizens together

11.25.2018

Paula Green's Talk Accepting First Domestic Award for Peacebuilding

11.19.2018

I Could Cry a River--new film capturing our stay in Kentucky in Spring 2018

11.17.2018

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Interviews Founder Paula Green

11.9.2018

Faith Matters: Together in the Tree of Life

11.7.2018

Boston Globe: A Unique Exchange Program between Red and Blue America

11.2.2018

The same hills, two Americas

10.29.2018

Group wins national peace-building award

10.18.2018

Domestic Peacebuilding Award to Hands Across the Hills

10.9.2018

Come Party with The Monday Project!

9.27.2018

European Public TV filmed HATH for Documentary to Air Before Our Mid-terms

9.25.2018

Kentucky, Leverett meetings teach lessons on bridging cultural, political divides

9.21.2018

Hands Across the Hills Going Global

8.17.2018

OPINION: TWO RURAL COMMUNITIES CROSS THE POLITICAL DIVIDE

7.13.2018

Podcast with Paula Green

6.13.2018

Report on the Kentucky Visit

6.1.2018

Mutual learning changes hearts and minds

5.30.2018

Connecting with Coal Country: What I learned visiting Kentucky with Hands Across the Hills

5.22.2018