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THE POWER OF DIALOGUE: FINDING FRIENDSHIP & JOY IN UNPREDICTABLE RELATIONSHIPS

Mar 23, 20211 min read

THE POWER OF DIALOGUE: FINDING FRIENDSHIP & JOY IN UNPREDICTABLE RELATIONSHIPS

This discussion between Paula Green and Ben Fink, organizers of Hands Across the Hills, launched the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding's...

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SEE OUR STRUCTURED DIALOGUE PROCESS AT WORK

Sharon Dunn

Feb 19, 20212 min read

SEE OUR STRUCTURED DIALOGUE PROCESS AT WORK

Hands Across the Hills members, three each from Letcher County KY and Leverett MA, participated in an hour-long dialogue on Zoom in early...

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HATH lead story on front pages of two local newspapers

Sharon Dunn

Feb 17, 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...

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Paula Green

Feb 16, 20213 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...

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CBS Evening News will Feature Hands Across the Hills Feb. 17

Sharon Dunn

Feb 12, 20211 min read

CBS Evening News will Feature Hands Across the Hills Feb. 17

HANDS ACROSS THE HILLS will be featured on CBS Evening News on Wed., Feb. 17. Broadcast starts at 6:30 ET. It will include clips from a...

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Paula Green

Jan 20, 20214 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...

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HATH writers in KY & MA on Taking Covid Vaccine, or Not

Sharon Dunn

Jan 11, 20211 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...

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Health Professionals from Around the World Listen to HATH’s Story of Hope

Sharon Dunn

Jan 1, 20211 min read

Health Professionals from Around the World Listen to HATH’s Story of Hope

Six thousand attendees of the Institute for Healthcare Improvements’ 2020 31st Annual Forum heard the story of Hands Across the Hills....

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Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside TheateR

Ben Fink, TDR/The Drama Review

Dec 28, 20201 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...

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Boston Univ School of Theology Explores Transformational Aspect of HATH with Green, Fink & Johnson

Sharon Dunn

Dec 13, 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...

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Atlanta church reaches out to learn about Hands Across the Hills

Sharon Dunn

Dec 3, 20201 min read

Atlanta church reaches out to learn about Hands Across the Hills

“The tensions in our city are high,” says the Rev. Ed Bacon of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta GA, who reached out to Paula Green...

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Building a bridge across the countryside for talking in polarized times

John C. Clayton, The Fulcrum

Mar 27, 20204 min read

Building a bridge across the countryside for talking in polarized times

Sometimes it seems the only thing blue and red voters share is mutual contempt. Organizations like Better Angels or Bridge the Divide try...

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Hands Across the Hills

Sep 26, 20191 min read

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

Kentuckians from Letcher County, KY will visit Leverett the weekend of Oct 11-13 to continue the bridging project that brought them...

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Hampshire Gazette Op-ed by Paula Green

Feb 20, 20194 min read

Plunging into a New Dialogue Project

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin I’ve led dialogue groups in...

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

Tom Wolff

Dec 27, 20187 min read

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

The following talk was given by HATH member Tom Wolff at the Jewish Community of Amherst on December 15, 2018. It follows the form of...

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Paula Green's Talk Accepting First Domestic Award for Peacebuilding

sharonrosedunn

Nov 19, 20181 min read

Paula Green's Talk Accepting First Domestic Award for Peacebuilding

In October 2018 the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of over 100 organizations, gave its first Melanie Greenberg Award for Domestic...

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

sharonrosedunn

Nov 17, 20181 min read

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

I Could Cry a River, a thirteen minute film by David Rabinovitz, captures the spirit of Leverett's visit to Letcher County KY in April...

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Domestic Peacebuilding Award to Hands Across the Hills

sharonrosedunn

Oct 9, 20181 min read

Domestic Peacebuilding Award to Hands Across the Hills

The Alliance for Peacebuilding will honor Hands Across the Hills and its leader Paula Green with its first domestic peacebuilding award,...

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

sharonrosedunn

Sep 25, 20182 min read

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

In August two filmmakers commissioned by Arte TV, French-German public TV, filmed three days each in Leverett, MA and in Whitesburg, KY...

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Mutual learning changes hearts and minds

Paula Green, Op-Ed, Hampshire Daily Gazette

May 30, 20185 min read

Mutual learning changes hearts and minds

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...

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