Tuesday May 31st

Highlights:
Mining Museum
Hopefully Portal 31

Monday May 30th

Highlights:
PineMountain Settlement School
Lodging School House Inn, Benham
Benham Petticoat Mafia Ladies! 

Sunday May 29th

Highlights:
Traveling over Black Mountain
Church at Mt Siani Church  - Memorial Day Services
Relax till Monday at noon

Saturday May 28th

Highlights:
Gathering at the Gap Music and History Festival

Friday May 27th

Highlights:
Explore Whitesburg
Tour of Appalshop

Thursday May 26th

Highlights:
Hindman Settlement School
Visit with Velma
Visit at Nursing home singing with Randy
Learning to square dance

Wednesday May 25th

Highlights:

Explore Berea College and town
Go to Loyal Jones Appalachian Center
Days end we will be at the Hindman Settlement School

Tuesday May 24th

Highlights :
Historic walk in Lexington
Allicance Coal Headquarters to learn more about coal removal.
Tour of Gainesway Farm - race horses!
Staying at the famous Boone Tavern in Berea.  We will also talk with Loyal Jones here!

Dr. Galen describes our trip:

The purpose is to understand the rich culture of the area and to explode some of the myths as well.  Social Work has a focus on Person-in-Environment, and we will look particularly at how coal extraction has influenced the lives and life chances for people of the area.  We will also visit three continuing programs that were begun by women during the Progressive Era.  Hindman Settlement School and Pine Mountain Settlement School were part of the Settlement House movement.  The Frontier Nursing Service was the first nurse/midwifery program in the United States.  We will tour Appalshop--a center for media and documentary works on the area, and cross the border to Big Stone Gap, VA for a music/folk festival.  We will spend two days in Benham/Lynch, Kentucky--two coal company towns in the shadow of Black Mountain.  We will see the devastation of mountain top removal for coal extraction that has been wrought on the Virginia side and meet with local advocates who are trying to save the mountain on the Kentucky side.  

Subject: Appalmersion Agenda

Monday          May 23           En route Lexington. ETA 5:30pm. Lodging TBD.

Tuesday          May 24           10:00 Alliance Coal HQ, Harrodsburg Road, Lexington

                                                2:00 (?) Tour Gainesway Farm

                                                Lodging Boone Tavern, Berea

Wednesday    May 25           Explore Berea

                                                En Route Hindman

                                                Lodging Hindman Settlement School

Thursday       May 26           Hindman

Friday             May 27           Whitesburg; Appalshop

                                                Lodging Norton, Virginia

Saturday        May 28           Gathering in the Gap, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

                                                Lodging Norton, Virginia

Sunday           May 29           Travel over Black Mountain from Virginia side

                                                Pine Mountain Settlement School

                                                Lodging, Pine Mountain Settlement School

Monday          May 30           Pine Mountain Settlement School

                                                Lodging School House Inn, Benham

Tuesday          May 31           Portal 31

                                                Stanley Sturgill

                                                Lodging School House Inn, Benham

Wednesday    June 1             (?) Still at School House Inn or at Frontier Nursing

Thursday       June 2             (?) TBD

Friday             June 3             En route Eau Claire. ETA ?

WELCOME

"A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves." 
— Wendell Berry