Stuart Robinson School was a settlement school in Blackey, Kentucky Blackey , Letcher County, Kentucky , established in 1913 as a Presbyterian mission. ref name UNCA cite url http toto.lib.unca.edu web exhibits settlement schools southern appalachians stuart robinson default stuart robinson.htm title Stuart Robinson School work Settlement Schools of the Southern Mountains author Helen Wykle date October 28, 2008 publisher D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina Asheville ref It closed in 1957, after graduating its last class in 1956. Establishment Stuart Robinson School was established in 1913 by Rev. Dr. Edward O. Guerrant. A physician and evangelist, Guerrant was the founder of several schools and churches in eastern Kentucky . ref name UNCA Guerrant is said to have been inspired to start a Christian mission mission in Blackey after he encountered some boys swimming in the nearby river on a Sunday morning in 1910 and discovered that most of the boys had never heard of Sunday school , much less attended one. ref name UNCA The school was named for Rev. Stuart Robinson pastor Stuart Robinson , who had been a pastor of Louisville, Kentucky Louisville s Second Presbyterian Church. Robinson was known for both his leadership role among Border states American Civil War border state Presbyterians during and after the American Civil War Civil War and his interest in mission work in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. ref name UNCA ref cite book url http books.google.com books about A kingdom not of this world.html?id wbhVxLWpySMC title A kingdom not of this world Stuart Robinson s struggle to distinguish the sacred from the secular during the Civil War author Preston D. Graham isbn 978 0 86554 757 5 date 2002 publisher Mercer University Press ref The school had 140 students when it opened. ref cite url http appalshop.org cbcaudill blackey.htm title Blackey publisher Appalshop accessdate January 8, 2012 ref Campus and facilities The school was l ... more details
Needs citations date November 2011 Arlene Goldbard is a writer, social activist and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, and spirituality. ref http www.amazon.com Arlene Goldbard e B001JS33UG Arlene Goldbard Biography ref She is best known as an advocate for cultural democracy and a creator of cultural critique and new cultural policy proposals. Arlene was born in New York, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After extended sojourns in Sacramento, Washington DC, Baltimore, Mendocino County and Seattle, she now resides in Richmond, California. ref http www.newvillagepress.net author ?fa ShowAuthor&Person ID 14 Arlene Goldbard New Village Press ref Work Arlene has addressed numerous academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe, on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organizations. She has also provided advice and counsel to hundreds of community based organizations, independent media groups, and public and private funders and policymakers. They include various nonprofits such as Appalshop , Global Kids, the Independent Television Service , the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art and foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media a score of state arts agencies and many others. Her recent projects include writing about artists working to heal the prison industrial complex a film about Rabbi Arthur Waskow and a campaign to create Cultural Recovery for the U.S., including a new WPA Works Progress Administration for artists. In May, 2009, she was one of the organizers of a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National Recovery, which brought more than 60 artists and creative organizers into dialogue with administration officials about their roles in bringing about cultural recovery and sustainable community. In October, 2009, the Cultural Policy Working Group for ... more details
Use mdy dates date April 2012 about the region in the United States other uses Appalachia disambiguation pp move indef File Appalachian region of United States.gif thumb right 350px Map showing U.S. counties included within the Appalachian Regional Commission Appalachian Regional Commission s charter. Appalachia is a term used to describe a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York state to northern Alabama , Mississippi , and Georgia U.S. state Georgia . ref name arc1 cite web url http www.arc.gov index.do?nodeId 2 title Appalachian Region publisher Appalachian Regional Commission accessdate November 27, 2008 ref While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle Newfoundland and Labrador Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S. state of Alabama , the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range. As of 2005, the region was home to approximately 23 million people. ref name abramson1 Rudy Abramson, Introduction to Encyclopedia of Appalachia Knoxville, Tenn. University of Tennessee Press, 2006 , pp. xix xxv. ref Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region s culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region s inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re examine and dispel these stereotypes, although popular media continue to perpetuate the image of Appalachia as a culturally backward region into the 21st century. ref name abramson1 While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long been associated with and struggled with poverty. In the early 20th century, large scale logging and coal minin ... more details
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