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No moss on us this summer

ate-summer greetings, everyone. We welcomed our next NEH . L No moss has grown on us these Chair in Appalachian Studies, past few months, as a flurry of acclaimed author Silas House. Silas is changes have kept all of us busy. teaching Appalachian literature and a Entrepreneurship for the Public Good creative writing course to Berea (EPG) students have had a busy students and next semester will be .­ summer learning and working in teaching Contemporary Issues in Eastern . An even more . We all are delighted to colorful Appalachian Heritage continues have such a gifted and inspiring writer to be the venue fo r regional creative and GROW APPALACHIA and activist at Berea. nonfiction writing (the latest issue We've thanked Dr. William fearures the work of George Ella Lyon). themselves. Oh, the gardens it has Turner for his three years of teaching, Brushy Fork has just finished its sixth fostered! The produce continues to writing, and mentoring from the Annual Institute, welcoming to campus come in. You can learn more about all NEH Chair, but thankfully we've not a large group of committed leaders of these programs at had to say goodbye. Bill has been from around Central Appalachia. Chris www.berea.edu/ac. appointed Distinguished Professor of Miller has been working with summer We said goodbye to Genevieve Appalachian Studies and Regional students to plan and install new Reynolds, who retired after more than Ambassador. In addition to teaching, interactive exhibits in the Gallery. And four decades of service, and we Bill will work with the Willis D. we're just completing year one of an welcomed Sheila Lyons as our new Weatherford Jr. Campus Christian innovative new program- thanks to Administrative Assistant. Sheila is a Center, with the Admissions Office, the generosity ofJohn Paul DeJoria­ Berea alumna and has worked at the and the College Relations Office. called Grow Appalachia, designed to College more than 20 years; she's also an CELTS, the Center for Excellence teach and support the people of incredible gardener and quilter. We are in Learning through Service, will join Appalachia in addressing the tragedy of grateful for her experience, her in a closer relationship with the LJAC. mger in the region by learning to knowledge, and her commitment to the row their own food to feed Loyal Jones Appalachian Center (LJAC) . turn to page 2

SUMMER 2010 6-7 Health Insurance for All 8-9 BCAF Spotlight No moss on us this summer Ac;?ftjll~C~NTER continued from page 1

T radition. Diversity. ~, Although the identity of CELTS will filmmaker Mimi Pickering, and with \ remain, the coming together of the two Eastern Kentucky teachers, two will allow the centers to enhance Melody Skidmore and Hope Brown. the work already being done with We trust you will enjoy this new students, with service-learning, and attempt to bring issues and people with the Appalachian region. We are from Appalachia into public Summer 2010 grateful to Dr. Meta Mendel-Reyes, discourse. VO ~U1 m e 39 . Number 1 former director of CELTS, for her Finally, we hope you will join us leadership in establishing CELTS as a for the 37th Celebration of lLOYAUONES nationally-known center for student Traditional Music, October 14-17. AP'PAlLACHIAN CENTER STAFF and community engagement. Meta Special guests include Tim O'Brien Dr. Chad Berry, Director, Appa lachian Center; Director, CEl S; Goode Professor of has returned full time to the faculty. on October 14, and Riley Baugus, Appalachian Studi es; Professor of History We invite Kentucky residents to Gandy Dancer, Jim and Ada George Brosi, Editor, Appalachian tune in to a new program produced McCown, and Sister Lena Mae Perry by the Appalachian Center called October 15-17. We'll also pay David) Cooke, Program Coordinator, "Head of the Holler." The 30- tribute to the late Charlie Whitaker Entrepreneurship for the Public Good and i ec 0 , Berea Coll ege Appa lachi an Fund minute program began airing August with a dance called by Erin Stidham.

Beth C ll r~ i n - Webe r , Administrative 1 on the networks ofKET (the See www.berea.edu/ac/ctm/ Assis ant, Brushy Fork Institute schedule is available at ket.orgl schedule.asp for up-to-date Dr. Peter H. Hackbert, Moore Chair in tvschedules/series.php?id= information. lVI anagemen and Entrepreneurs hip, EPG KHEHO) with an interview with From all of here in the LJAC, we Ja ll1l e Hig)g) ins, Program Associate, Brushy For Ins i-ute Silas House. Successive episodes will wish you a peaceful and plentiful air with Dr. Bill Turner on October autumn. :'( Peter Hliile, Director, Brushy Fork Institute 13, and later in the fall with activist beU hooks, Di sting isned Professor in esidence in Appalachian Studies and artist Pat Banks, Appalshop -Chad Berry, Director Silas HO!lse, NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies She ila lyons, Administra-ive Assistant Christopher Miller, College Curator and Associate Director, Appalachi an Center Donna Morgan, Associate Dire ctor, Brushy Fork Institute Dr. Willia m Turner, Distingui shed P -esso of Appalachian Studies and egional Ambassador

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Berea Co llege and the Appalachian Center are co:nmitted to the betterm ent of th e peopl es of .~ppa l ac ia . The unique views and perspectives of individual authors in this Newsl etter, however, do not necessarily represent the vi ews and policies of Please tune in to the new television program produced by the Loyal Jones Berea Co llege. Appalachian Center, Head of the Holler. Episode one features novelist Silas House, and forthcoming episdoes w ill highlight Dr. Bill Turner, premiering October 13, as w ell as artist and activist Pat Banks, Appalshop filmmaker Mimi Pickering, and two teachers from Eastern Kentucky, Me!ody Skidmore and Hope Brown. For a KET schedule of air times, go to ket.orgl tvschedules/series.php?id=KHEHO. Out-of-state folks can watch episode II one on YouTube at youtube.comlwatch?v=7vfF7rpHOZw.

2 LOYAL JON ES APPALACHIAN CE NTER NEWSLETTER Kara George's father Got (organic) milk (cows)? and brother (above) espit~ the shado~s, it interactive, reciprocating with each other. My are D sure IS a pretty VIew brother and I do not want to lose all this. struggling around here. But agriculture has gone far, far away from the to save Our 60 Holstein cows charming silhouettes of farmsteads portrayed on so not just their THEVIEW look poetic as they graze many supermarket products. Agriculture has FROM HERE cows, but scattered along the landscape, become a hysteria of pressure on farmers to get their farm and I feel so good after bigger, to master agribusiness with factory farms. as well. stuffing the barn with the first There are three outcomes from this. The first , Kara cutting of hay. When it's time outcome is greater power to land moguls who, !George for hay, our family and friends with their hundreds and thousands of cows, are come to pitch in, and enormously guilty of problems such as animal everyone stays for a rewarding and refreshing trip welfare and water pollution. The second outcome to the swimming hole, followed by a bonfire under is best understood by seeing our neighbor's barn: it the stars. I love our small dairy farm, and I know looks as if the construction workers just stopped that we are doing things in the right ways here. It coming one day. This is a classic example of the sounds romantic, but that's because it's rare, very bankruptcy that strikes farmers in their attempt to rare. Indeed, family farms have been a dying breed compete, and losing a farm that has been in your for decades, succumbing to the effects of subsidized family for generations can present an unbearable factory farms. weight. The third outcome is our small farm-it But our farm has stayed strong through my simply cannot compete any longer with the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. I industry like it is. It is a heartrending truth couldn't have asked for a better childhood, having looming over us, and it is an agonizing reality to a parents who were keen and dedicated to our girl that has been connected to this beautiful way family, farm, land, livestock, community, and the of life for generations. quality of our milk. When I was a toddler, my At the core, I believe there is a lack of awareness father would always bring me along in his arms as of and support for small farms, which has resulted he walked our herd to its pastures. I continue to in severe misfortunes in our moral and physical admire him as he still cares for pregnant heifers, universe. I look out to our fields and see a beautiful delivering their calves in the subzero temperatures view, but I fear that the shadows are too close. What of harsh winters. Furthermore, he knows each of is the answer for our small farm? The view from our cows by name-a testament to our cows living here has me wondering: where do I look to next? :-: lO be four times as old as factory farms ' cows. Our farm is a productive, wonderful place where oUr Kara George, who grew up on the form in southern family, land, livestock, and community are New York state, is a 2010 graduate ofBerea College.

LOYAL JONES APPALACHIAN CENTER NEWSLETTER 3 One mind THE VIEW FROM HERE

Silas at a time House

imes are tough allover, and as always, this which it is deemed cool to be dumb. Look at T seems to be most evident right here in what's on our television sets and bestseller lists Appalachia. With all the problems facing and music charts these days: in short, things that our region, it's sometimes easy to romanticize the don't make us think so much as just entertain us. issues so that we lay the blame on everyone but Education is the way to fIght poverty, and ourselves. Yes, environmental industries are apathy, and even things as huge as corporations draining us dry. Yes, the media don't understand that have all the rights of individuals but none of us and paint us in the least attractive light the responsibilities. possible. Yes, there is a prejudice against anything This is something that the founders of Berea that sniffs at being "the other" in this country College knew and believed in whole-heartedly (with Appalachia being one of America's loudest way back in 1855. One of their major goals was beating hearts of darkness). to not only educate blacks and the mountain But as Appalachians, we are to blame, too, and poor, but to also educate others that slavery was it's high time we took hold of that if we're going wrong, to make it clear that all people are capable to start fIxing things. Appalachia has always been a of expanding their brains if given the chance, that microcosm of America, a sort of melting pot of all we are all worthy of and have the right to receive that is best and worst about our country. So of an education. course we Berea College has stayed true to those have a drug missions, and that's why I'm so proud to be part ··Sometimes, it seems problem, as of the faculty here. as if we have forgotten there is a Together, we can identify the problems and drug come up with the solutions instead of taking the that education is the problem easy way out and simply complaining about the key to everything. " throughout rough row we've been given to hoe. We can the land learn more ourselves while also educating today's today, and mountain youth. I'm particularly excited about the economy is in sad shape, as it is everywhere. teaching at Berea College because we truly do And of course we have grown apathetic, since have the opportunity to change the world. In apathy is a disease eating up America, and the fact, that's what Berea College has been doing world. But most of all, we have an education one student at a time for the past 155 years. ~ problem, just as the rest of the nation has. Sometimes it seems as if we have forgotten Silas House holds the NEH Chair in that education is the key to everything. Often it Appalachian Studies at Berea College. His latest even seems as if our country has become one in novel is Eli the Good.

4 LOYAL JONES A PPALACH IAN CE NTER NEWSLETTER IN FOCUS

I Grow Appalachia a Igodsend l

by David Cooke, '82 the hills of Eastern Kentucky: basic diet­ Grow Appalachia Project Director related health concerns, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease; limited availability of row Appalachia is a rural community high-quality fresh produce; generational loss Ggardening program administered of knowledge of gardening, cooking, and food . through the Loyal Jones Appalachian preservation skills; and widespread economic Center. The basic purpose of Grow Appalachia dependency and lack of autonomy. is to teach and support the people of Partnering with four non-profit Appalachia in addressing the tragedy of hunger organizations (Pine Mountain Settlement in the region by learning to grow their own School, Henderson Settlement, the Laurel food. In early 2009, Berea College received a County Mrican American Heritage Center, phone call from an individual who and Red Bird Mission) working in Bell, Clay, was interested in helping families Harlan, Laurel, Leslie, Letcher, Knox and Perry in the Appalachian Mountains counties in Kentucky and Claiborne County, grow more of their own food. This Tennessee, Grow Appalachia in the summer of gentleman was Tommy Callahan, 2010 assisted over one hundred families to not Senior Vice President of Training only grow more of their own food but also to and Development at John Paul learn to cook the garden bounty in heart­ Mitchell Systems (JPMS). Tommy healthy ways and preserve the vegetables for was inquiring on behalf oEJohn the cold winter coming. One family told the GROW APPALACHIA Paul DeJoria, co-founder and Appalachian Center that even though they CEO oEJPMS. John Paul, as a could not find paying work, Grow Appalachia businessman who had surmounted enormous helped them find a job--the garden that they odds in the process of building a vety large planted on land loaned to the project by the business organization, is a man who believes First Baptist Church of London. This couple strongly that "Success not shared is failure." had already canned 120 quarts of beans as well Tommy is from Harlan County, Kentucky, as large amounts of other garden produce. The one of the Commonwealth's distressed matriarch calls Grow Appalachia a "godsend." counties, and has a deep sensitivity toward the With the produce shared among family challenges that face Appalachian families every members and friends, over 600 individuals day. Acting on Tommy's advice and after have benefited from Grow Appalachia. receiving a proposal from the Appalachian Plans are underway for the expansion of Center, John Paul made a very generous Grow Appalachia into more areas in the 2011 contribution to be used to "help Americans growing season. X help themselves" by growing more of their own food. David Cooke is also Director ofthe Berea The grinding issues that Grow College Appalachian Fund, and Program Appalachia is attempting to address one Coordinator ofthe Entrepreneurship for the family at a time are no surprise to people in Public Good Program

LOYAL JONES APPALACHIAN CE NTER NEWSLETTER 5 Health insuranc'J Penetrating the punditry-keeping L THEVIEW FROM HERE he morning after the health care Now the smile was back, this time a wry T reform bill was passed, I went to the grin, "Well, ain't that a shame." clinic in a state of uncontainable joy. And so the morning went. One patient Beverly As on most Monday mornings, the lobby was thought she would only be able to get a May full. Patients were now quietly waiting their mammogram every five years but couldn't turn, some for two or three hours, but not a recall where she'd heard this. Another was soul would complain. So, time to get rolling. worried his taxes would go up. It was a The first patient was Jimmy, a cheerful complete surprise to several who didn't and intelligent man in his late 50s, a "keep up with the news." But not a one of "regular" for six years. Like most of my them knew or believed the reform would patients, he works a low-wage job, as does benefit them personally. This is remarkable, his wife. And to stretch that income, they considering that the clinic serves only the keep a big garden. Our visits usually end uninsured and homeless. They are among with a short exchange on the progress of our the 50 million Americans who suffer the peas or speculations on the last frost, but worst cruelties of profit-driven medicine, and today was different. History had just been they may not be who you think they are. made, and I couldn't resist letting the The majority of my patients work, b, question bubble out. "So, are you excited at jobs that don't provide health insuran "" about the health care bill passing?" A quick glance at the lobby where some His bright smile suddenly fell away. "I patients are in their work uniforms reveals don't know, I've heard a lot of different who these companies are: Applebee's, things. What's it mean?" McDonald's, Walmart, Taco Bell, Storm "It means you are going to have health Security. The list is long and bears a insurance, at least by 2014, if not sooner." troubling resemblance to the list of stocks "Me? I didn't know it had anything to that may be in your 401 (k). Many work for do with me." small businesses; they drive coal trucks, wait "Looks like about every patient in this tables, stand behind cash registers, and clinic is going to be insured. We'll still be repair cars. Some are self-employed at brick seeing folks like usual, but if I need to send laying or yard work. Some older patients you to the hospital for an x-ray or a stress who are much too ill for work of any sort test, I won't have to worry about them and have already "won their disability" but turning you away. And you won't have to must wait two years to also get Medicare; an worry about them wrecking your credit." entitlement some of them won't live long "Oh, then this is a good thing." enough to receive. Some have severe mental "I reckon it's the best thing that's illness but are denied Medicaid by the happened in a long time." arcane rules that govern Supplemental His eyes narrowed. "Who's going to pay Security Income (551). Many have recently for it?" lost good jobs, often because of an "Folks who make more than $200,000 a unforseen heart attack or other illness, and year and lots of dead-beat employers. Oh, so too, their health insurance. These and the insuran'ce companies are going to patients arrive in a state of shock, and th take a hit on their profits." first visits are hard going. Folks who

6 LOYAL JONES APPALACHIAN CENTER NEWSLEITER for Appalachians p with the 'news'-often difficult

thought they were secure members of the middle kinship, or community ties can help to counter class now find their families deep in financial the misinformation campaign. A good resource trouble and no longer welcome at their family for updates that can help folks understand and doctor's office. I often hear the words, "I've never navigate the changing health system is had to ask anybody for anything before." That's nhchc.org, the website of the National usually just before the tears break. Healthcare for the Homeless Clinicians Network. All of them are in the same leaky boat, and The reforms are just a beginning-getting access they have trouble believing it's really going to get to health insurance is not the same as getting patched up. And why should they? The last time health care, especially for the rural poor-but we a Democrat in the White House promised reform, are finally it was Bill Clinton; his version of welfare reform taking the first sent single moms to second jobs. They have seen shaky steps II .• • not a one of them • their real income chipped away over the years. toward a health knew or believed the The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), care system which was once a champion for fair compensation driven by equity [health care] reform and worker safety, has been dead in eastern and compassion. would benefit them T ltuCky for a generation. No wonder the poor Already one of uninsured, like the majority of Americans, my patients personally. This is have an essential distrust of government. learned her remarkable, Too many of my patients, and much of rural employer, America, are caught inside what Joe Bageant, Wendy's, is now considering that the author of Deer Hunting with Jesus, calls the providing clinic serves only the "America hologram." Rural folks are receiving insurance, and litde info rmation or ideas from outside their own July marked the uninsured and circle of family and acquaintances. Local end of "pre­ institutions such as public schools, churches, and existing homeless. " small-town newspapers tend to reinforce already conditions" as a commonly held beliefs. The Internet supplants barrier to from consultations with patients at print media with the unfortunate result that folks insurance. But the Little Flower Clinic in Hazard can access the news and opinions they choose for most of my rather than a broad range of offerings. So into the patients, 2014 is a long way off. Till then, and hologram comes Fox News and the handsomely­ long beyond, we should not forget the true goal is funded and well-organized campaign to stop any health care for all, including the rural poor. So challenge to the insurance industry. The result has keep talking-to your neighbors, to your elected been confusion, deep skepticism, and distrust officials, to the people you work with everyday. among the very people whose lives depend on an Let them know there's good reason to be hopeful. overhaul of the health care system that has been But don't be afraid to hope for more. :-: shutting them out. T his is certainly not the first time the Beverly May, ofFloyd County, Kentucky, has t, -,erican Left has failed to communicate with the been a fomily nurse practitioner for 15 years. She is king class, and it won't be the last. But those the clinical director ofthe Little Flower Clinic in of us who know the uninsured through work, Hazard, Kentucky.

LOYAL JONES APPALACHIAN CENTER NEWSLETTER 7 I 'Grandma's House-', East Tenn . center offers comfort BOO SPOTLIGHT cated atop a hill in the beautiful eat. My dad locked all of us kids ljAppalachian Mountains of rural East in a room at night to sleep. We ennessee, there is a quaint log didn't have any beds, so we all Tammy home in Scott County that has come to be slept on the floor on top of dirty Foster affectionately referred to as "Grandma's clothes and trash. Sometimes we House." Don't let the beauty of this got so cold we had to all get close quaint setting mislead you. If the walls together to keep warm, and we could talk, the stories they would tell. were hungry most of the time. Listen and you will hear Joe's story as told When we had to go to the to me by one of our licensed professional bathroom, we went in the corner counselors: of the room. Sometimes my dad would unlock the door at night As our therapist scurried to meet and get one of my sisters. I could the expressionless child waiting for hear her crying in the other room. words of encouragement and I tried to help, but he threw me hope, she could only guess what against the wall and told me he horrific events had stolen his would kill me. I didn't think innocence. The lifeless, hollow anyone in the whole world cared look in his eyes haunted her. This about us, and sometimes I cried blank, hopeless stare and asked God to let me die. The had become all too kids at school made fun of me, "In my two decades on familiar. That day and the teachers didn't like me during Joe's (this is either, because I stunk so bad. the bench, I have seen not his real name) One day some real nice ladies no program, no agency, counseling session, from your place [the Children's he began telling his Center of the Cumberlands] came no organization, that story. He picked up to my school and told me about has been the purveyor a doll and began child abuse. I asked the ladies to demonstrating how help me and my brother and of hope for abused his father often sisters, and they did." children like the CCC picked him up by the hair of his head The challenge of sustaining our life­ has been." and "slammed him altering services is only accomplished with into the wall." He the ongoing prayers and economic support Ju dge James L. Cotton, Jr. went on to say, "We of folks like you and organizations like the Scott County Court never too ked a bath Berea College Appalachian Fund (BCAF). in our lives, and I With grants, donations, and fund-raising don't have no efforts, the Children's Center of the friends, because my clothes stank Cumberlands (CCC) continues to provide so bad." Joe went on to describe a place of comfort for the abused, how desperate his home life was. neglected, and drug-endangered childre "We almost never have food to and families of Scott County, Tennessee.

8 LOYAL JONES APPALACH IAN CE NTER NEWSLETTER IIBerea College inspired me to public service in my home area of Appalachia. Working to improve the lives of children to abused children has been the most rewarding part of my career. The CCC Over the past 10 years, we have served continues to be a great over 2,000 clients through our professional medical and therapeutic intervention blessing, and Berea's support services provided by specially trained, is an important caring professionals. In addition to these services, each year the CCC provides part of that blessing. " personal body safety classes to over 4,000 children through a partnership with our William Paul Ph ill ips local schools. Our staff provides one-on­ Distri ct Attorney General one mentoring services and advocacy Tennesse e 8th Judicial District services to children and their families. The CCC surrounds children and their families with warmth and protection, much like the comfort of Grandma's handmade quilt. Haunting stories like "Joe's" continue to be exposed day-by-day. T. 1 ugh our interventions, these images ar ore often than not replaced by the satisfaction of knowing that our children will discover they are no longer "victims" but "survivors." The Children's Center of the Cumberlands was founded by District Attorney General W illiam Paul Phillips and a group of concerned citizens and professionals for the purpose of combating child abuse and providing comprehensive services to the impoverished and underserved children and families of Scott County. If you would like further information about how you can be a partner of he Children's Center of the Cumberlands, please call me at 423-569- 8900 or check us out on the internet at childrenscenterofthecumberlands.org. ~

Tammy Foster is Executive Director of the Center, which is an Affiliate ofthe Berea Above: the original "Grandma's House." ((I Ll-'g-e Appalachian Fund She is gratefol Top: What is referred to as the "new blessing"­ fi . e help ofK im bra McKinley, LCSW, in th e new home of the Children's Center of the writing this essay. Cu mberlands.

LOYAL JONES APPALACHIAN CENTER NEWSLETTER 9 Serving and remembering THE VIEW the forgotten FROM HERE

any people have heard of Kentucky, but later bought not only his Debra Bulluck M noteworthy Mrican­ freedom, but his wife's freedom as well. Americans, such as George Facts such as these became "real" to Washington Carver and Mary McLeod me while visiting historical sites such as Bethune, and the great impact that they Camp Nelson and Berea Hall. On the have made in history. However, if I other hand, I believe the climatic point mention names like Walker Newcomb of the summer was the day we hiked or Amelia Tucker, not too many people through the woods in Rockcastle would know of their contributions to County with a local historian, who the Appalachian region. To be honest, I guided us to a hidden, un-kept Mrican­ did not know who they were until I American cemetery and what was once a served as an undergraduate researcher church foundation. That day, I left and writer for the Kentucky Mrican­ with so many questions and very few American Encyclopedia (KAAE) during answers. Who were the tenants of the the summer of 2008. When Professor unmarked graves? Why wasn't it Andrew Baskin invited me to take part preserved after all these years? in this state-wide initiative to research Mter that enlightening day of field and record influential Mrican-Americans research, we learned that it was one of from the state, I knew that this one two Mrican-American cemeteries in summer research project would serve as Rockcastle that needed some major a great learning tool. But little did I cleanup. In this disheartening situation I know that our research would go found inspiration. With the help of my beyond the scope of the written entries peers and local government of Mount saved on our computers. Vernon, we were able to pay homage to In my journal reflection on my first the forgotten through a day of service. day as a researcher, I concluded that It was truly an honor to help preserve " .. . With this project, I think I will learn and acknowledge the struggles and more abour this state, the [Appalachian] accomplishments of Mrican-American region, the resilience of the black Appalachians through the KAAE community than what a typical project. :-.: classroom setting could offer." And resilience is what I discovered Debra Bulluck graduated from Berea daily through our research. Amelia College in December 2009, and while a Tucker, for example, was Kentucky's student she held a student labor position in first Mrican-American woman to be the Center for Excellence in Learning elected to the state legislature, and she through Service (CELTS). She is fought relentlessly for the integration of currently serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA public facilities. Walker Newcomb was member at Serve Wyoming, a non-profit born into slavery in Mount Vernon, organization in Casper, Wyoming.

10 LOYAL JON ES APPALACH IAN CENTER NEWSLETTER that have emerged to fight the varied social ~,,..~!!~~~:~!~~- ~e, and Global Justice, Herbert Reid and and environmental injustices taking place I Taylor propose a new direction for social throughout the world. These struggles Reid t eory, a project for building alliances and and Taylor collectively call the "global justice recl aiming "the commons"-both ecological movement," and they argue that it is within and civic-that have been enclosed by these struggles that we can find hope for corporate capit alism and neoliberal rebuilding "an intelligible and walkable globa lizat ion. Central to this book is a call for landscape between home and the political socia l t heorists to engage in the "positive square" (81). The local people involved in project" of t ending to the world. Specifically, these grassroots struggles have successfully they argue, soci al theory should be engaged "bushwhacked" their way from the home to wit h local communities fighting grassroots the political square and are creating a more struggles against the varied enactments of walkable landscape for others through their " ecologica l violence" (such as climate change, struggles. Thus, Reid and Taylor argue, local pollut ion, and f ood insecurity). Reid and Taylor struggles, and particularly the local people assert t hat within t he United States these social involved in those struggles, have much to and environmental crises are inextricably contribute to social theory. And social connected to a political system that theorists can make important contributions discourages-even blocks-true democratic to the global justice movement, tOO, through pa rticipation and civic engagement. Civic helping connect these varied, and often engagement is a nearly impossible process for isolated, groups to one another and to many people; citizens must practically "bushwhack their own additional sources of expertise. Central to Reid and Taylor's way out of t heir homes in order to connect their personal argument is that social theory should be understood as paths wit h ot hers" (81). Reid and Taylor suggest that the " collaborative stewardship of the civic and ecological cent ral cha llenge of restoring the environmental commons is commons" (17), a re-defining of social theory that requires f irst restoring t he civic commons, which, they argue, should that social theorists step out of the ivory tower and become be a project of soci al theory. more engaged with the community. The book is published The f irst step in this project is learning from and by the Un iversity of Illinois Press. engaging with t he het erogeneous, mostly-local struggles -Shannon Elizabeth Bell,

Thu rsday, October 14 2010 8:00 p.m., Phelps Stokes Auditorium. Stephenson Memorial Convocation Concert-Tim O/Brien and Bryan Sutton (Free to CELEBRATION all, public is invited) Friday, October 15 OF Noon, Appalachian Center Gallery. Symposium-"Searching for the High Lonesome Sound/" presented by Dr. Joshua TRADITIONAL Guthman, Assistant Professor of History, Berea College 6:30 p.m., Appalachian Center Gallery. Film screen ing-From MUSIC Wood to Singing Guitar, produced by Shawn Lind 7:00-9:00 p.m., Appalachian Center. Jam Session with festival musicians or start your own session

Saturday, October 16 1:00-3:00 p.m., Woods-Penniman Commons. Afternoon Concert and Open Mic 3:30-5:00 p.m., Woods-Penniman Commons. Afternoon Dance, called by Erin Stidham, in honor of the late Charlie Whitaker 7:30-10 p.m., Phelps Stokes Auditorium. Concert of Festival Musicians-Riley Baugus, Sister Lena Mae Perry, Jimmy & Ada McCown, Gandy Dancer For additional information and Sunday, October 17 scheduling, see 9:00-10:15 a.m., Union Church sanctuary. Hymn Singing with www.berea.edu/ ac/ctm festival musicians

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