Thanks to the generous donation of the Junior Membership Committee of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 2022, we have recently completed upgrades to our audio and visual systems in the Great Hall of the Mike Mullins Cultural Heritage Center. For decades, the Great Hall has been the primary gathering place […]
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At the most recent meeting of the Hindman Settlement School Board of Directors, four new members were elected to the governing body to serve three-year terms. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be introducing each of these individuals to you through a series of profiles on our blog. Meet Peggy Rasnick-Justice As a native of Pikeville,
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In late July we were delighted to celebrate the 46th Appalachian Writers’ Workshop. This year was unique because not only was it the anniversary of many of the writers experiencing and surviving last year’s devastating flood, but also it was a record-breaking attendance with half being first-time attendees. This year we welcomed over 100
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With our Dyslexia Summer Tutoring Program in the rearview and the new school year rapidly approaching, we had the opportunity to gather our ReadingCorps team and their families together for an end-of-summer celebration with a cookout and group painting class on the newly opened rooftop patio at the Appalachian Artisan Center overlooking historic downtown Hindman.
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Our 42nd annual Dyslexia Summer Tutoring Program concluded on July 14 after five weeks of intensive instruction in reading, math, and writing alongside special sessions in art, music, and literature from local artists, musicians, and writers for more than fifty students who were enrolled on campus and virtually. We are pleased to share that students
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We here at the Settlement School are extremely humbled and appreciative of the outpouring of generosity shown to us by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) this year at the 132nd Continental Congress! Hindman, one of five NSDAR-approved schools in the United States, was founded in 1902 by two Kentucky Daughters, May
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This program update was prepared by Sarah Kate Morgan, Traditional Arts Education Director. If you were to visit Moriah Warner’s Language Arts classroom at Cordia High School earlier this spring, you would have found her students wielding soldering irons and sheets of brightly colored glass instead of instead of pens and textbooks. The Artist-in-Residence Program
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The Orchard Shop, our on-campus and online gift shop, recently acquired a collection of beautiful and vibrant pottery made right here in Hindman by local artist Richard Kirk Banks. Kirk, a Whitesburg, KY native, is a multi-disciplinary studio artist and Master in Residence at the Appalachian Artisan Center. He practices in ceramic arts, printmaking, and
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This program update was prepared by Jack Latta, Reading Labs Coordinator. As May comes to a close, the Settlement’s Dyslexia Program is wrapping up our school-based Reading Labs for the academic year, both in-person and virtual after-school tutoring have concluded, and we are making final preparations for our 43rd annual Summer Tutoring Program.
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The Settlement’s new campus map, designed by our incredibly talented Community Engagement Coordinator Tyler Barrett, features a number of “easter eggs.” Hidden throughout the landscape are four ducks. Can you spot them all? (An answer key is included below should you need a little assistance!) Why ducks, you ask? Following last summer’s flooding four ducks from
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DAR-Approved School Since 1921
Tutoring programs are funded, in part, by the AmeriCorps federal agency through Serve Kentucky, the state service commission
