Celebrating Heritage, Changing Lives
We are improving lives by addressing critical issues surrounding literacy, food insecurity, and access to traditional arts.
MEETING THE CHANGING NEEDS OF Central Appalachia
2022-23 ANNUAL REPORT
DISCOVER HOW YOU HAVE EMPOWERED HINDMAN TO CHANGE LIVES OVER THE LAST YEAR
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Honoring the past, improving the present, and planning for the future of central Appalachia.
Since our founding in 1902, Hindman Settlement School has evolved to meet the changing needs of the region. The Settlement’s work today includes education and service programs that address the critical needs of youth and families while promoting the rich traditional arts of Appalachia.
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What a fantastic day it was to host Ohio State Society Regent Susan Leininger and DAR members from Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina for a tour of campus, musical performance, and Appalachian feast! Some members even had the chance to clean photos from our archive. The Settlement was the first stop on their weeklong tour of DAR-approved schools across the south.
Thank you ladies for joining us and for your generous gift of books and Amazon gift cards!
Thanks to the generous donation of the Junior Membership Committee of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution at the 131st annual Continental Congress in honor of outgoing President General Denise Doring VanBuren, we have recently completed upgrades to our audio and visual systems in the Great Hall of the Mike Mullins Cultural Heritage Center.
We are grateful for the Junior Membership Committee’s gift that will help Hindman Settlement School ensure a robust experience for the participants of our life changing programs for years to come.
Learn more about the improvements on our blog at bit.ly/3ELAQPG!
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For #FlashbackFriday, we would like to remember former Governor Brerton C. Jones.
Governor Jones, who passed away on September 18th, had been a strong ally in our work to help meet the needs of children struggling with dyslexia in Central Appalachia. Acting as Lt. Governor, Brerton Jones was an ardent supporter of education reform in the state of Kentucky, including passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), the most comprehensive education reform in the state’s history. In his role as governor from 1991-1995 Jones continued supporting education in the state, including a visit to our campus at Hindman Settlement School in the spring of 1994.
We send our heartfelt condolences to his family and our thanks for his enduring support of our mission here at Hindman Settlement School and for his commitment to education in Kentucky.
Governor Jones visited the James Still Learning Center when it operated as a full time school. He was an enthusiastic supporter. He may have even had some dyslexic characteristics himself, as did Governor Bert Combs!
Open up a new world of opportunities with Jim Minick’s course "Essays that Open Doors." Beginning October 28th! Register at hindman.org/themakery!
Coming September 2024 from our Fireside Industries imprint with University Press of Kentucky: Troublesome Rising: A Thousand Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky!
In this visceral and powerful anthology, well-known and emerging Appalachian writers create an authentic space for processing and healing as they document and share the depth of the flood’s devastation. Through words and images, Troublesome Rising reveals the writers’ fears, desperation, sadness, and anger while detailing and examining the disaster’s causes, the need for solutions, and how flooding has historically impacted the Appalachian community and culture. In a shared, varied, and resounding voice, this compelling collection not only serves as a historical document and an in-depth investigation of the event, but also as a celebration of Appalachian strength, determination, and resilience.
Pre-order today from FiresideIndustries.org or from your favorite independent bookseller!
Join us November 3-5 for a fall writers retreat with novelist Wesley Browne!
Wesley Browne‘s 2020 debut novel HILLBILLY HUSTLE was named one of Merriam-Webster’s 17 recommended pandemic reads. His stories, essays, and excerpts have been published or are forthcoming in Appalachian Review, Appalachian Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Cutleaf Journal, Still: The Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and the annual Bouchercon Anthology of crime and mystery stories. He is a past recipient of the Gurney Norman Prose Prize and a Kentucky Press Association Award for his newspaper columns. He is represented by Alice Speilburg of Speilburg Literary. He founded and hosts Pages & Pints Reading Series at Apollo Pizza in Richmond, Kentucky. He lives with his wife and two sons in Madison County, Kentucky.
Register at bit.ly/44xiBI7
Last call! Only 1 spot remains for Planting Seeds: A Writing Workshop with Kari Gunter Seymour. Class begins on September 13th, plant your seed now by registering at hindman.org/themakery!
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📢Last call! Only 1 spot remains for Planting Seeds: A Writing Workshop with Kari Gunter Seymour. Class begins tomorrow, plant your seed now by registering at hindman.org/themakery before it’s too late!
Monic Ductan’s debut novel "Daughters of Muscadine" is, according to former Kentucky poet laureate, Crystal Wilkinson, "a great promise of what is to come from Monic Ductan." Available from our Fireside Industries imprint this November! In the meantime, you can learn more about that promise from Monic in her upcoming class, "Memory and the Imagination" through The Makery, beginning in August. Register at Hindman.org/themakery.
