President Joe Biden frequently calls for “healing the soul of our country.” Lincoln wrote of “binding up the nation’s wounds.” Has the...

First in a series of dual op-eds on topical issues where HATH members from two regions have distinct viewpoints. Taking the Covid vaccine...

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

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...

The Tom Porter Program for Religion and Conflict Transformation at BU invited Paula Green, Ben Fink and Gwen Johnson to detail HATH’s...

“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...

It is in the creative reinvention of community — and not the pretense of bygone days or the magic of political investment that isn’t...

Here and Now's 2020 Election Coverage: Two years ago, we brought you a conversation between liberals from western Massachusetts and conser

Leverett Hands Across the Hills visited the Black Sheep Brick Oven Bakery in Hemphill KY as part of our bridging project. This film from...

Time Magazine has just published a feature "Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America". Among those 27 are Paula Green of Leverett,...

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

With polarization on the rise in the United States, Hands Across the Hills bridges divides by bringing groups from vastly different parts...

Over the past two years, the Hands Across the Hills cultural exchange project has created strong bonds of friendship between conservative...

LEVERETT — The nation’s political divide may have widened, but the bond between Kentuckians and Leverett residents who met for the third...

A culture-crossing project borne of the 2016 election met for the third time this past weekend in Leverett, Massachusetts. Hands Across...

Join Leverett's Hands Across the Hills and our HATH Friends from Letcher County KY in a Public Forum: Celebrating the Bridging of Two...

LEVERETT — A project that started two years ago to bridge political and cultural divides between Leverett residents and people living in...

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

Regina Williams of South Carolina (left), Gwen Johnson of Kentucky and Paula Green of Massachusetts are interviewed about the January...

After the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Paula Green, founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, a US-based NGO focused on...