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 Performances by Archie Edwards, Bing Brothers at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1995

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival.  Features blues guitarist Ar...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
608: College Students in a Pandemic

Kentucky college students talk about h...

Creating in Place Project Collection
A Day Around the Shop, 1971
Audio Visual Material

Color reversal footage found in collections, labeled "A Day at the Shop, 1971" in Herb E. Smith's...

Appalshop Institutional Records Collection
African American couple with three of their daughters

Exterior of family in front of foliage. Parents are sitting and holding three young daughters on ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Paper and Physical Object

Clippings, reviews, promotional images, screening information related to the distribution of the ...

Paper and other media - Kingdom Come School
Appalshop Family Portrait, 1976
Photographic Material

From left to right & top to bottom:

Right window - Jeff Kiser, Dudley Wilson, unkn...

Appalshop Institutional Records Collection
Appalshop promotional calendar, 1973
Paper and Physical Object

12-month promotional calendar created and published by Appalshop staff in 1973.

Appalshop Institutional Records Collection
BE the Mask!
Photographic Material

"This young man picked up food packs for his family each week of the summer food program. I wish ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Bed of hosta plants next to house

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Bottled itch relief medicine
Photographic Material

A bottle of itch remedy product is displayed partially out of its packaging. The label indicates ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Boy Meets Spider
Photographic Material

"Snow crushed our gazebo, but the frame still made a wonderful spider for our grandson." People d...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Boy standing beside large leaf plant

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Breonna Taylor memorial in front of Whitesburg City Hall

Photo from Black Lives Matter protest in Whitesburg, KY. Shared on Ins...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Cancelled Culture
Audio Visual Material

Alyssa Helton interviews Jim Bennett, Brandon ????, and Mitchella Ph...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Car stuck on flooded street
Photographic Material

Several men and a woman surrounding a car stuck on a flooded street outside of a Ford service sho...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Carcassonne Food Program
Photographic Material

"Carcassonne was part of the summer feeding program with the Letcher County Culture Hub , CANE Ki...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Carcassonne Tree 2020
Photographic Material

"Normally, we would have a tree inside the community center, but for the past two years we've pla...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Cars entering into Kentucky along U.S. 23 in Pound Gap

Two cars cross over the state line into Kentucky along U.S. Route 23. A Virginia state line sign ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Cat Poem, November
Electronic Record

"A poem, about a cat and refinishing an old chest, written during the winter of the pandemic." De...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Chase's Concert Band
Photographic Material

A predominantly brass concert band playing musical instruments. Reverse reads "Willie Quillen / W...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Chase's Concert Band group photo

Members of Chase's Concert Band posing for a group photograph outdoors with a building in the bac...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Chemical Valley production still

Mimi Pickering and Anne Lewis seated in a production studio. 

Chemical Valley materials, c.1991
Cherry tomato plant from porch
Photographic Material

Photograph of tomato plant taken from a porch in Whitesburg, KY. Caption: "Waiting on these cherr...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Christmas at Carcassonne
Photographic Material

"In spite of COVID, Carcassonne had a CDC guidelines Christmas Treat Drive-Thru. Over 130 treat b...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Close up of plant with pink flower

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Covid's effect on personal life; excerpt from interview with Amber Bailey

Creating in Place Project Collection

Cups filled with colorful beads on a pineapple tablecloth

Taken by Grace Owsley, age 11, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Daisy the groundhog
Audio Visual Material

"This is a groundhog I befriended in the summer of 2020. I used a motion sensor app on my phone t...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Discussion Guide to the film Belinda
Paper and Physical Object

A discussion booklet for high school students and adults, published by Appalshop and made availab...

Belinda materials, c.1992
Drawing of Spiderman on pineapple tablecloth

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Dumpster behind Paco's Mexican restaurant

View from the porch behind Paco's and Heritage Kitchen in Whitesburg, across the river to the wal...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Employee housing at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital

The north side of the original Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital campus as seen from the e...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Employee housing at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital, angled view

The north side of the original Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital campus as seen from the e...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
End of the Road
Photographic Material

My husband, Josh, trying to figure out how to get our family out of the holler as the water reced...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Entrance to Kentucky along U.S. 23 in Pound Gap

Landscape photograph of U.S. Route 23 in Pound Gap at the border between Virginia and Kentucky, f...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of Bussell's Grocery and Dry Goods Store

Exterior of Bussell's, a store selling groceries, meat, and dry goods. Two people, one appearing ...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of East Jenkins Army Goods Store and Whitaker Music Shop

Two men sit on ledges outside of East Jenkins Army Goods Store and Whitaker Music Shop respective...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of man in WWI uniform holding woman's hand

A man in uniform and a woman pose in front of a building. Reverse reads "Willie Belt and his sist...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Linda Collins materials
Exterior of Messenger Florist shop

A service vehicle for Messenger Florist, Inc., inscribed with the slogan "Flowers for all occasio...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Exterior of Whitaker's Cafe
Photographic Material

An exterior shot of Whitaker's Cafe with a bicycle parked in front. The cafe is adjacent to a dre...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Family portrait of Darwin and Ota Mullins with seven children

Darwin and Ota Mullins of Jackhorn, Kentucky stand with their seven blond children in front of wh...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Family sitting on porch
Photographic Material

Three people sitting on a bench on a house porch. Identified as Allie Frazier Fields (grandmother...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Father and son sitting on porch
Photographic Material

A man and a boy sharing a chair on the porch of white house. Identified as Raliegh Fields and his...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Gregory Fields materials
First Baptist Church congregants, Whitesburg, KY

First Baptist church congregants in coal mining community of Whitesburg, Kentucky.  Multiple gene...

Common Heritage Project Collection
First Sign of Spring
Photographic Material

"Signs of Spring like the early crocus always bring hope for brighter days." Description submitte...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Flyer for an Annual Seedtime Punk Show

Flyer for the annual Youth Bored Seedtime punk show. Line-up of bands: Peter Stubb; Tony Wain and...

Flyer: "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!"
Paper and Physical Object

Description by artist Derek Mullins: "The inside joke was all the different fonts (iron maiden, m...

Youth Bored Music and Art Collection
Four men next to a car
Photographic Material

Three men sitting on and one man standing next to a car. Reverse reads "Taken July 14thLinda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection

Frank Majority: Italian Stone Mason

Profile of Frank Majority, a stone mason of Italian descent living in Eastern Kentucky. Includes ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Gaining the "COVID-19"
Photographic Material

"Sheltering in place means breaking out the recipe files. Thanks to local groceries who offered c...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Garden wildflower bush
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Girl hugging a young boy on lawn

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Girl in t-shirt holding vegetable

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Greyhound bus in East Jenkins
Photographic Material

A Greyhound bus labeled with the destination "Jenkins" drives past Bussell's dry goods store in E...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Group of adults and children posing for photo in Jenkins park

A large group of men, women, and children posing for a photograph in a park. Reverse reads "May -...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Linda Collins materials
Group of people sitting in front of fireplace

Group of men and women sitting in front of a fireplace. Reverse reads "all People in this Picture...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Group of women and children posing for photo

A group of women and children posing for a photograph outdoors. Reverse reads "The Ladies are fro...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Group of women posing outdoors with a building in the background

A group of women posing outdoors with a building in the background. Reverse reads "May 5t...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and family

A group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and his family members: Andy, Alice, Alpha, Alta Mae, Alz...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and family (Banjo Haynes smiling version)

A group portrait of A.J. "Banjo" Haynes and his family members: Andy, Alice, Alpha, Alta Mae, Alz...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Group posing outside of Bussell's Grocery and Dry Goods Store

Three men and one child pose outside of Bussell's grocery and dry goods store in East Jenkins, Ke...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Hand holding a garden tomato
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Headwaters: Cratis Williams
Audio Visual Material

Appalachian Studies scholar and historian Dr. Cratis Williams discusses the immigration of Scotch...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Five Conversations about Violence

This program is comprised of five different conversations about violence in East Kentucky and Sou...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Gurney Norman
Audio Visual Material

This program is a profile of writer, professor, and documentarian Gurney Norman, from Grundy, VA....

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Intro Show, 2nd season

Introduction to / overview of season 2 of Headwaters, hosted by Michael Stamper. 

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Lee Sexton
Audio Visual Material

This program is about banjoist, fiddler, and singer Lee Sexton from Letcher County, KY. Includes ...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Local Poets
Audio Visual Material

A group of local (East Kentucky) poets reads from their work at the Appalshop building in Whitesb...

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984
Headwaters: Women Miners Training

Early Headwaters Television collection, 1980-1984

Height of Flood Waters in Whitesburg

Flood waters were at their highest at this time around mid-morning in downtown Whitesburg. Appala...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Highlander Research Center panel at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1998

Panel with Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan, Charles Neblett, and Ethel Caffie-Austin. Topics discusse...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Home movies of Christmas morning (silent)

Home movie of a family opening presents on Christmas morning. Focused primarily on gift-opening f...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Carol Baker materials
Home movies of toddler's birthday (silent)

Home movie of an indoors birthday celebration for a young boy. Focused primarily on the boy inter...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Carol Baker materials
House cat
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Ice on the Tanglewood Trail
Photographic Material

"The walking track, aka Tanglewood Trail, is a good place to be no matter the weather." Descripti...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Impact on social life and the service industry; excerpt from interview with Amber Bailey

Creating in Place Project Collection

Interior of Messenger Florist shop

Several varieties of houseplants are on display near a street-facing window within Messenger Flor...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior of Messenger Florist shop with view of service car through window

Houseplants are on display inside of Messenger Florist in Whitesburg, Kentucky. A neon sign readi...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior of Temporary Store - Jenkins, Ky. - May 15, 1912.

Postcard depicting the interior of a store with multiple men inside. Front reads "Interior of Tem...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Interior portrait of Arvid, Ethel, and Imogine Mullins

Arvid (left), Ethel (right), and Imogine (top) Mullins pose for a group portrait inside of a stud...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interior portrait of couple being married by preacher

Man in U.S. Army uniform and woman in white suit dress being married by an older preacher. A tele...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interview with Anne Caudill about strip mining and activism

Interview with Anne Caudill about strip mining and activism associated with the Appalachian Volun...

Stranger with a Camera materials, c.2000; Post Flood Digitization
Interview with Berea College sophomore Dayjha Hogg (FULL)

Creating in Place Project Collection

Audio icon

Oral history interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield of Dunham, KY.

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield (transcript)

Transcript of 1991 oral history interview with Collins and Effie Hollyfield. Conducted by Appalsh...

Creating in Place Project Collection

James Wiley Craft Bridge, after flood

James Wiley Craft Bridge with piles of debris left by the currents of the July 2022 flood. The br...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Jenkins Band
Photographic Material

Members of the Jenkins band posing outdoors with instruments. Reverse reads "[in blue ink] Later ...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Kitten on a porch
Photographic Material

Photo of Roland the kitten perched on an outdoor cat ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Lack of leadership during Covid: excerpt from interview with Amber Bailey

Creating in Place Project Collection

Audio Visual Material

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Audio Visual Material

Lee Sexton teaching young banjo student.

Line of people standing outside store

A large group of men and women standing outside a store. Reverse reads "at East Jenkins, Ky - tak...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Lonesome
Photographic Material

"This is me trying not to be sad, sitting at home by myself has been a rough one for a year, I tr...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Man and child at picnic; Ice, KY, 1922

Inscription on back of image reads: "Church Picnic, Ice, KY (below Whitesburg); 1922; Neon Union ...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman sitting on a bench on the porch of a white house

A man and a woman sitting on a bench on the porch of a white house with a road and other white bu...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman sitting on porch bench

A woman and a man sitting together on a bench on the porch of a white house with a road and anoth...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman standing in front of house

A man and a woman standing outdoors beside a white house with a highway in the background. Identi...

Carl Hampton materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man and woman standing together on front porch

A man and woman standing together on the front porch of a white house with another white house in...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man in casket with rose floral spray

A deceased man lies in a casket topped with a large rose floral spray. Around the casket are a se...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Man posing outside of Whitaker's Variety Store in East Jenkins

A man poses next to a service vehicle outside of Whitaker's Variety Store (at another point in ti...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Man posing with car in front of Radio TV Clinic in East Jenkins

A man stands next to a service vehicle in front of an East Jenkins business advertising radio and...

William R. "Pictureman" Mullins photography Collection, c. 1935 - 1955
Man standing outdoors with a white house in the background

Man standing outdoors with a white house in the background. Identified as Gregory Fields.

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Man standing outside building with moonshine at his feet

A man proping himself against the outside of a building with moonshine at his feet. Reverse reads...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Martha J. Wright funeral announcement
Paper and Physical Object

Funeral announcement for Martha J. "Mother" Wright.

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Monitor on porch railing displays virtual meeting

Photograph of a laptop monitor perched on a porch railing, displaying a virtual church meeting. I...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Morgan Sexton playing his first public performance

Morgan Sexton's first-ever public performance. Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival, 1988.

Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Mother and son sitting on porch
Photographic Material

A woman and a young boy sitting on a bench on the porch of a white house. Identified as Jean Luca...

Gregory Fields materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Mountain tree line
Photographic Material

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Mrs. Claus Zooms
Photographic Material

"Meg Caudill of Carcassonne has served as the Louisville Zoo's Mrs. Claus for the past several ye...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Mushrooms on Pine Mountain Trail

"Hiking became a past time during the pandemic. This is (one of many) mushroom photos taken near ...

Creating in Place Project Collection
Neon, bird's eye view
Photographic Material

From the family collection of Linda Collins. Photo print in frame of bird's eye view of Neon, KY ...

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
Neon, flooded Main Street. 1925
Photographic Material

Photograph in a cardboard frame of flooded Main Street in Neon, Kentucky. Men standing in front o...

Common Heritage Project Collection; Linda Collins materials
Newspaper obituary for John Wesley Wright

From the family collection of Linda Collins.  Headline reads: "Wright Funeral Held at Neon."

Linda Collins materials; Common Heritage Project Collection
No. 2 Bottom, Burdine, KY after the flood

This sign of hope and happiness was still in place after the flood waters receded from this home ...

Community Digital Archive Collection
Painted rocks in front of decorated concrete blocks

Taken by Elijah Owsley, age 9, as part of the Creating in Place Youth Photography project.

Creating in Place Project Collection
Performance by Ethel Caffie-Austin at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1991

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features pianist/singer Ethe...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Performance by Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1990

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features singers/guitarists ...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Performance by Phyllis Marks at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1989

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features singer Phyllis Mark...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Performance by Roan Mountain Hilltoppers at Seedtime on the Cumberland  1990

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features the Roan Mountain H...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Performance by The Hallelujah Singers at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1994

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features the Hallelujah Sing...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Performance by The Lee Sexton Band at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1988

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features the Lee Sexton Band...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features Lee Sexton Band fro...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features Lee Sexton Band fro...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
Performance by the Lee Smith Singers at Seedtime on the Cumberland 1989

Live recording from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. Features the Lee Smith Singe...

WMMT-FM collection, 1985-2005; Seedtime On The Cumberland Festival Live Recordings, 1987-2000 (audio)
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