WHITESBURG, KY — In the heart of coal country, about a dozen Leverett, Mass. residents and about as many of their counterparts from...

https://soundcloud.com/whmp/the-bill-newman-show-april-18-2018 Hands Across the Hill segment begins at 19:40 This broadcast features Jay...

Curious what the Leverett troop will learn from its trip to Kentucky? Stay tuned. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has provided a...

LEVERETT — The last thing these grassroots organizers of a cross-cultural dialogue expected to make part of their efforts was a trip to a...

On February 21 Paula Green and Danielle Barshak, were interviewed on New England Public Radio's NEXT program. View the broadcast here...

Public Televisions’s NewsHour featured a 9-minute segment on Appalshop, in Whitesburg, KY. Appalshop is the partner organization that...

It Begins in October 2017 All 18 of us in Leverett are excited and maybe a little nervous. We live in a small town — Leverett:...

LEVERETT — Anyone who looked at last fall’s unusual dialogue between a group of Kentucky natives and local people as a chance to erase...

The "Reflections" meeting on 12/11 was videotaped by Amherst Media. If you missed out on the event, you can view it here:...

Paula Green addresses dozens of people at Monday’s “Reflections: What We Learned from Our Kentucky Guests” event. GAZETTE STAFF/SCOTT...

Critical Conversations is a look at current topics and trends on both the local and national levels in an effort to begin a dialogue for...

LEVERETT — As a followup to a late October visit to Leverett by a group of Kentucky counterparts to bridge cultural and political...

The last weekend of October proved to be powerful and emotional for many of us in Leverett and surrounding communities. That was when 11...

Kentuckian Alyssa Helton, 17, speaks to a packed house at the Leverett Elementary School gymnasium during a community forum with 11...

Interview with Paula Green and Debbie Roth-Howe begins at minute 13:22.

Abigail Morris (left) from Amherst, Mass., with Alyssa Helton from Whitesburg, Kentucky, at a public forum in Leverett. CREDIT KAREN...

Do you ever wonder about people who voted for Donald Trump? Has the country become so polarized that we can’t imagine what motivates...

A 17-year-old Kentuckian, Alyssa Helton, speaks to a packed house at the Leverett Elementary School gymnasium during a community forum...

LEVERETT - There was a lot of despair in this town of about 2,000 following the election of GOP President Donald Trump in November of...

Shape-note singing in Letcher County, Ky —Submitted photos/ Malcolm Wilson LEVERETT — It’s planned to be just a small piece of this...