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MLK Day Observance Brings Together KY and Western Mass
Hands Across the Hills' Sarah Pirtle organized a moving Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration with inspirational music and readings. The...

Hands Across the Hills
Jan 23, 20221 min read
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October Dialogue Training: “A life-changing experience"
"Life-changing": This is how one participant in our Hands Across the Hills Dialogue Across Divides training in October 2021 expressed...

Hands Across the Hills
Dec 13, 20212 min read
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Photos of Oct training
Photographs from our Dialogue Across Divides Training held in Leverett MA on October 9-11, 2021 are on view in our GALLERY on the bar...

Hands Across the Hills
Oct 25, 20211 min read
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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 15, 20214 min read
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October Training is Full-- Spring 2022 training in PLanning stage
This October Hands Across the Hills is offering its first training in dialogue and cultural exchange to approximately thirty individuals...

Hands Across the Hills
Aug 2, 20211 min read
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REMINDER: Deadline July 1 for October Training
Learn the skills to bridge the partisan and ideological divisions that threaten our democracy. Hands Across the Hills has developed an...

Hands Across the Hills
Jun 29, 20213 min read
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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
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Dialogue Across Divides: New Three-Day Training
Learn the skills to bridge the partisan and ideological divisions that threaten our democracy. Hands Across the Hills has developed an...
Hands Across the Hills
Jun 1, 20213 min read
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Watch Our Virtual Encounter on Trusting the Government
Four of our Hands Across the Hills members, two from East Kentucky and two from Western Massachusetts, talk about their experiences with...

Hands Across the Hills
May 28, 20211 min read
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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
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HATH writers in KY & MA on the New Administration
Editor’s note: Hands Across the Hills formed in Leverett after the 2016 election and bridged with Letcher County, Kentucky to foster...
Greenfield Recorder
May 21, 20213 min read
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Can We Trust Our Government? East KY meets Western MA
On Tuesday, May 25, at 7 pm Hands Across the Hills presents its second live virtual encounter on Zoom. This time Mike Gover and Gwen...

Sharon Dunn
May 16, 20212 min read
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We See in a Much Deeper Way
The Center for Nonviolent Solutions in Worcester MA invited Paula Green of MA and Gwen Johnson of KY to address their annual meeting....

Sharon Dunn
Apr 16, 20211 min read
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Guns, Coal, Vaccines, and Abortion: East Ky Meets Western Ma
Hands Across the Hills presented a live virtual encounter between members Kip Fonsh of Leverett, MA and Gwen Johnson of Letcher County,...

Sharon Dunn
Apr 7, 20212 min read
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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...

Sharon Dunn
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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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...

Sharon Dunn
Feb 19, 20212 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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...

Sharon Dunn
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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