The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding interviewed Paula Green about Hands Across the Hills—a unique initiative formed across deep political...

We care about each other, every one of us. Hundreds held candles this week and walked through Northampton to Congregation B’nai Israel to...

LEVERETT — The potluck meals offered a bounty of careful dieting. A group of Leverett neighbors had invited some mostly conservative...

America is deeply divided on the way to the Congressional elections of 6 November. Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump do not...

LEVERETT — Hands Across the Hills, the grassroots project that aims to build bridges across a political and cultural divide that seems to...

HADLEY — “I thought you people never suffered,” said a woman from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to a group of visitors from Leverett, according...

LEVERETT — A European television crew is focusing on this town’s efforts to bridge the cultural divide as it produces a documentary about...

When Massachusetts and Kentucky residents from politically polar-opposite regions met, it was “love at first sight.” ​ Richie Davis'...

In this podcast episode Patricia Pearce interviews Dr. Paula Green, founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and 2009 recipient of...

View footage of the community gathering on 5/15/18, where Hands Across the Hills members shared their experiences of the KY visit in...

How is it possible to bridge the gulf between a group of Leverett liberals and red-state descendants of coal miners who voted for Donald...

“It’s like you’re going to a foreign country… Do you need a passport?” Letha Dollarhyde of Letcher County, Kentucky, said this — partly...

Sharon Dunn and John Clayton are members of the Hands Across the Hills project, an initiative to connect the people of Leverett, where...

LEVERETT — Even though many of them had already heard about the trip, about 200 people filled Leverett Elementary School Tuesday night to...

There were glimmers of hope in the recent visits and discussions between Leverett liberals and voters of Trump-leaning coal country...

https://soundcloud.com/whmp/the-bill-newman-show-may-7-2018 Buz Eisenberg sits in for Bill Newman. The first 30 minutes of the broadcast...

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Many of the questions are left unanswered, on both sides of the Leverett-Letcher County, Kentucky, divide that members...

WHITESBURG, Ky — Last week’s meeting of hearts and minds in this Appalachian city of about 2,200 represented the coming together of...

LEVERETT — Don’t expect bourbon, or even moonshine. But Leverett residents, including those recently returned from a cultural exchange to...

HEMPHILL, KY — No one expects the “Hands Across the Hills” exchange to lead Leverett, Mass. voters or their Letcher County, Ky....