These Two Friends Want to Document and Preserve Appalachian Culture

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The Appalachian Project is collecting stories through its Facebook page as well as through video taped interviews. If you know of someone who would be interested in participating in this project, please visit the link to the article or the Facebook page for The Appalachian Project.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting
The Appalachian Project
Sun July 6, 2014

These Two Friends Want to Document and Preserve Appalachian Culture
By Cecelia Mason

The Appalachian region has been reported on, documented and studied quite a bit in the past 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson came to the region to declare a ‘war on poverty.’

But two friends, Shane Simmons of Johnson City, Tennessee, and Jason Barton of Dickinson County, Virginia, are hoping to make a documentary showing what’s good about the area. They started The Appalachian Project, or TAP, earlier this year and are collecting stories from people who live in a specific part of Appalachia: the mountainous regions of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.

TAP is looking for articulate older people willing to share interesting stories that highlight the region’s heritage and culture. Simmons and Barton mention coal miners, nurses, loggers and soldiers as good candidates.

“Anybody that has that interesting back story that can shed some light on how Appalachia used to be and in a positive light,” Barton said....

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1. Here's another good article on T.A.P. (The Appalachian Project)

http://www.tricities.com/news/article_e5711b32-04ad-11e4-9b83-0017a43b2370.html