Appalshop lost more than $1 million in federal grants in 2025, prompting cuts WMMT needs $132,000 yearly after CPB elimination; Bridge Fund gave $112,000 Flood damage to archives and a 2025 staff ...

The lowest point inside Appalshop, a dark wooden three-story building perched on the edge of the Kentucky River’s North Fork in downtown Whitesburg, is its archival vault. When historic volumes of ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - When the floodwaters came, what was swept away in many of those places changed the fabric of those communities forever. In Whitesburg, flooding took with it Appalachian ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WATE) — A Kentucky-based production company that specializes in Appalachian history is recovering with the help of the community from the recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky. The ...

Appalshop, a cultural center in Kentucky, has recovered more than 13,500 items after a devastating flood a year ago. Many are being restored and digitized. A devastating flood in Whitesburg, Ky., last ...

MAN, W.Va. — Appalshop, a Kentucky-based media and education center, has proposed installing informational signage in several parts of Man to honor the 1972 Buffalo Creek flood as well as to highlight ...

Sweet Tater sat in front of a bank of computer screens, humming and singing as she chose which song to play next during her two-hour DJ stint at WMMT 88.7 FM on a Friday morning in November. "Oh this ...