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HATH — an experiment in cross-political dialogue — is ending
New England Public Media | By Karen Brown June 21, 2023 A cross-cultural project that began in 2017 after Donald Trump's election — and...

Hands Across the Hills
Jun 24, 20233 min read


Noble experiment built bridge across political divide
My Turn: op ed by Richie Davis, Greenfield Recorder, June 13, 2023 Coming together immediately after the pivotal 2016 election, 60...
Richie Davis, for the Greenfield Recorder
Jun 18, 20233 min read


Outreach ending: Leverett-Kentucky ‘Hands Across the Hills’ built bridges across political divide
By Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette LEVERETT — One of the folks in the first delegation from Letcher County, Kentucky in 2017 to...
Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Jun 18, 20234 min read


Podcast & Case Study of HATH by the Othering & Belonging Institute of UCal-Berkeley
HATH's Gwen Johnson and Sharon Dunn were interviewed in mid-July 2022 by the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI), of the University of...

Hands Across the Hills
Sep 28, 20221 min read


HATH RALLIES TO HELP FLOOD-STRICKEN EASTERN KENTUCKY
The Daily Hampshire Gazette recounts how Hands Across the Hills is facilitating flood relief in eastern Kentucky, where our HATH Kentucky...
Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Aug 5, 20221 min read


Front Line for Flood Relief
Hands Across the Hills member Gwen Johnson spoke to Robin Young of NPR's "Here and Now" about the losses suffered in the recent and...

Hands Across the Hills
Aug 2, 20221 min read


Hundreds attend memorial for Paula Green
The Daily Hampshire Gazette's headline: ‘An open heart that never closes up’: Peace seekers celebrate life of peacebuilder Paula Green...

Hands Across the Hills
Jul 18, 20221 min read


Paula Green, tireless advocate for peace, dies at 84
From the March 22, 2022 edition of The Boston Globe, this recognition of Paula Green: In a world beset with anger, conflict, and war,...
Bryan Marquard, The Boston Globe
Mar 22, 20221 min read


Tributes to Paula Green
Acclaimed international peacebuilder, Paula Green, died February 21 at the age of 84. Hands Across the Hills celebrates her as a founder,...

Hands Across the Hills
Feb 24, 20221 min read


Hands Across the Hills hosts 3-day Dialogue Across Divides workshop in Leverett
LEVERETT — A three-day training was held to help people from around the Northeast and beyond learn how to bridge widening divides in this...
Richie Davis, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Oct 14, 20214 min read


Boston ABC Affiliate Features Interview with Dr. Paula Green
On June 8, Boston’s ABC affiliate station, WCVB-TV, featured an interview with Hands Across the Hills lead facilitator Dr. Paula Green....

Hands Across the Hills
Jun 10, 20211 min read


Lowering the Temperature
When she retired in June 2015 from decades of traveling to war-torn parts of the globe in the aftermath of violent conflicts training...
Richie Davis, for the Greenfield Recorder
May 22, 20216 min read


CBS Evening News features Hands Across the Hills
On February 17, 2021 HATH was featured on the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell. Gwen Johnson of KY and Paula Green of MA spoke with...
CBS
Feb 18, 20211 min read


HATH lead story on front pages of two local newspapers
Two Pioneer Valley newspapers, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Greenfield Recorder, both ran HATH's upcoming feature on CBS Evening News...

Sharon Dunn
Feb 17, 20211 min read


Guest columnist Paula Green: Seeing ourselves in the eyes of others
“I am a staunch supporter on the right and have been filled of conflict and distress here in our Happy Valley with the full weight of the...
Paula Green
Feb 16, 20213 min read


How do we heal now?
President Joe Biden frequently calls for “healing the soul of our country.” Lincoln wrote of “binding up the nation’s wounds.” Has the...
Paula Green
Jan 19, 20214 min read


HATH writers in KY & MA on Taking Covid Vaccine, or Not
First in a series of dual op-eds on topical issues where HATH members from two regions have distinct viewpoints. Taking the Covid vaccine...

Sharon Dunn
Jan 11, 20211 min read


Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside TheateR
Ben Fink, HATH’s first organizing partner from Letcher County, tells the story of how he came to Kentucky, who he worked with there, and...
Ben Fink, TDR/The Drama Review
Dec 28, 20201 min read


Boston Univ School of Theology Explores Transformational Aspect of HATH with Green, Fink & Johnson
The Tom Porter Program for Religion and Conflict Transformation at BU invited Paula Green, Ben Fink and Gwen Johnson to detail HATH’s...

Sharon Dunn
Dec 13, 20201 min read


Appalachian Stories of Hope, Community & Creativity
It is in the creative reinvention of community — and not the pretense of bygone days or the magic of political investment that isn’t...
Tom Lee, The Bitter Southerner
Dec 3, 20201 min read
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