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From 2012 to 2014, "Appalachian" Kentucky—which includes all of the Eastern Coalfield and several counties in South Central Kentucky and a few in the eastern part of the Bluegrass region—had a three-year average unemployment rate of 9.8%, compared with 7.6% statewide and 7.2% nationwide. [14]
A cultural center known for documenting Appalachian life is cleaning up and assessing its losses from Kentucky's historic floods. Cultural center chronicling Appalachian life reels from Kentucky's ...
Eastern, rural Kentucky is a geographically isolated area, cut off from much of the country. [3]: 57 Prior to the creation of the Pack Horse Library Project, many people in rural Appalachian Kentucky did not have access to books. [4] The percentage of people who were illiterate in eastern Kentucky was at around 31 percent. [4]
A good bit of Appalachian history and arts got soaked in the record flooding in Eastern Kentucky.. In Whitesburg, water may have breached the vault at Appalshop, where the arts and media ...
Appalachian Americans, or simply Appalachians, are Americans living in the geocultural area of Appalachia in the eastern United States, or their descendants. [2] [3]While not an official demographic used or recognized by the United States Census Bureau, Appalachian Americans, due to various factors, have developed their own distinct culture within larger social groupings.
I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County. From its summit, during my frequent hikes as a teenager, I ...
In the late 1990s, the Appalachian lumber industry was a multibillion-dollar industry, employing 50,000 people in Tennessee, 26,000 in Kentucky, and 12,000 in West Virginia alone. [87] By 1999, 1.4 million acres were extinguished as a result of deforestation by natural resource industries.
Elk were reintroduced to the Eastern Kentucky mountains 30 years ago. Now, the hunters and eco-tourism they bring in is boosting the local economy. From extinct to tourism boom: Elk thrive atop ...