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....

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...

Two members of Hands Across the Hills in Leverett, Massachusetts, reflect on the shared purpose of the dialogue and cultural exchange...

Fourteen of us, members of Leverett’s Hands Across the Hills project, will travel to Letcher County in eastern Kentucky on April 19 for a...

We invite you to hear about our experiences in Kentucky! Tuesday, MAY 15, 2018 7:00-9:00 PM Leverett Elementary School 85 Montague Road,...

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...

Herby Smith, long-time filmmaker from Kentucky's Appalshop Culture Hub, shared these video clips from the October 28 public meeting of...

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:...

Thirty of us are participating in the January 2018 Dialogue Training Program with Paula Green under the auspices of Hands Across the...

Public Meeting featuring Dr. Paula Green Wednesday, January 17, 2018 6:00 - 6:30 Social hour with light refreshments 6:30 - 8:00 General...

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:...

UPDATE 12/17: The training series is currently full. Please sign up for the wait list and we'll let you know if a space open up. Adding...

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