When one hears “Appalachian music,” they may be forgiven for the image accompanying it in their mind. If the genre inspires a vision of an old, bearded white…
Linsey Hogg ’12 knows injustice. She was raised in it. Now that she’s grown, Kentucky’s assistant attorney general takes aim at her childhood nemesis by protecting the state’s…
New Folklife Apprenticeship Program Takes Flight For millennia, stories have been the glue that holds cultures together. Tradition, information and culture are passed along in often surprising ways,…
All doors were closed. That’s why Melissa Benson ’11 came to Berea College. “I was in my 30s,” she explained. “I had never finished college, and it was…
When Jonathan “JJ” Johnson ’99 thinks back on his childhood in Fairfield, Alabama, in greater Birmingham, he remembers a life that was both loving and precarious. He grew…
Sidwell Ferguson-English wasn’t sure at graduation in 2011 where his political science degree would lead him. Turns out it was to the largest library in the world, the…
It may seem that Cory Schlesinger ’09 is living the dream, but he longs for 50 acres and some chickens. For now, he is leaning into his position…
Nay Kaw ’23 and his brother Ehku ’26 were born into a country that had been at war with itself for 70 years. And they were born into…
Deep in the quiet hills of Jackson County, Kentucky, a young Talina Mathews ’89 held dreams of being a math teacher. In a place where middle school drop-out…
In a historic courthouse nestled in Scottsboro, Ala., Judge John Graham ‘85 walks a different path than most who wear a robe. He greets defendants with questions, not…