Podcasts about mountain talk monday

Our region has incredible cultural assets, especially our music and dance, as well as traditional arts, crafts and foodways. In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, we learn about the Mountains of Music Homecoming happening throughout Southwest Virginia June 9-17. Its a project of the The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, which came into being to provide economic opportunities locally through showcasing the region's distinctive music, venues and musicians. Host Kelli Haywood and guest host Rich Kirby from WMMT’s Deep in Tradition speak with the MOMH assistant coordinator and professor of Appalachian Studies at ETSU, Ted Olsen on the upcoming 9 days filled with wonderful traditional music and cultural events. Find out more at www.mtnsofmusic.com!

In this Mountain Talk Monday, WMMT's Benny Becker takes us to a special gathering at the Appalachian Media Institute's Boone Motor Building Youth Drop-In Center to hear the story of death row exoneree - Randy Steidl. Randy Steidl spent 17 years in Illinois prisons, including 12 on death row, before his exoneration in 2004. He was wrongly convicted and sentenced to die for the 1986 murders of Dyke and Karen Rhoads. But an Illinois State Police investigation in 2000 found that local police had severely botched their investigation, and that the case was riddled with political corruption that led all the way to the Illinois Governor’s office.

f you’re on social media like us, you’ve likely heard about Standing Rock — the Dakota Access Pipeline and the water protectors who are working to stop it. We set out to educate ourselves on what’s going on and how we’re connected here in the mountains. For this edition of Mountain Talk Monday, we speak with Crystal Willcuts Cole, a Lakota woman living in Big Stone Gap, VA, with connections to Standing Rock; DL Hamilton and Karan Ireland, from Charleston, WV, both of whom recently returned from Standing Rock; and Christopher Boulay, a military veteran from Evarts, KY, who is in voluntary deployment to Standing Rock with thousands of other veterans. We also bring you a song from the camp and the latest on yesterday’s Army Corps of Engineers announcement and the response from Energy Transfer Partners (who own the pipeline). Join your hosts, WMMT Community Correspondents Tanya Turner, Jonathan Hootman, and Elizabeth Sanders for Mountain Talk Monday: Standing Rock.

Carrie Mullins joins host Kelli Haywood in WMMT studios for this edition of Mountain Talk Monday. Carrie’s debut novel, Night Garden, was released by the Lexington small publisher Old Cove Press in 2015. In Night Garden, Carrie tackles the issue of substance misuse and addiction in Appalachia from the eyes of 17 year old Marie Massey. Kelli speaks with Carrie about the process of writing her book, the realities of the Appalachian experience with addiction, solutions, and the importance of literature tackling the hardest issues working in our communities.

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, host Kelli Haywood welcomes to the studio representatives from Hospice of the Bluegrass. Novemember is Hospice and Pallitative Care Awareness Month, and the group discusses questions and concerns that families might have when their loved one is receiving or may need such care. The Hospice team describes their multifaceted form of care, all the services they provide, and the many volunteer opportunities for the community. Also, several great upcoming events are highlighted, including the “Before I Die” wall.

In this special edition of Mountain Talk Monday, host Kelli Haywood takes you on an exploration of an Appalachian Halloween! The episode begins with a general history of the holiday tracing it back to the Celtic New Year – Samhain, which was later transformed by the Catholic church into All Hallow’s Eve or Halloween. From there, you will hear tales of ghosts and mischief pulled from the WMMT archives and told by our staff and volunteer DJs. Add in a few good old-time murder and death ballads, and you got yourself one scary good time. Listen and share this episode with your friends! Happy Halloween!!!

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, host Kelli Haywood interviews author Willie Dalton from Duffield, VA about her debut novel – Three Witches in a Small Town. The pair talk of second sight, herbal cures, divining, prayers of protection, publishing with a small press, and much more.

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday learn more about the EPIC Program – Enhancing Programs for IT Certification that is being offered through the KCTCS community colleges in our area! Guest host Mimi Pickering speaks with Tracie Davis, David C. Dixon, and students Heather Smith and Mary Wilson who describe the many opportunities available to get job training and further your education.

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday learn more about the EPIC Program - Enhancing Programs for IT Certification that is being offered through the KCTCS community colleges in our area! Guest host Mimi Pickering speaks with Tracie Davis, David Dixon, and students who are participating in or are graduates of the program.

In this edition of Mountain Talk Monday, host Kelli Haywood speaks with Dr. Ellen Hahn who is a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and the Director of the Kentucky Center for Smoke Free Policy. Jean Rosenberg, a community advocate from Prestonsburg, Kentucky and a former consultant for the Floyd County Health Department also joins the conversation. The topic is local smoke free policy. What does it take to make your businesses and public spaces free of the harmful chemicals found in second hand smoke? Why should you advocate for smoke free policy in your community? Is smoke free policy discriminatory? Listen today and learn more! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kysmokefree Website: http://www.breathe.uky.edu Quit Line: 1-800-QUIT-NOW

In this edition of Mountain Talk Monday with host Kelli Haywood, Jenny Williams and Matthew Druen with the Kentucky Community and Technical College system come by the studio to discuss an exciting upcoming project for the 9/11 Day of Service – The Big Dip Redux. Learn how college students and community members from around the region will participate in water testing that will bring us real data on our water quality while boosting potential possibilities for future jobs in eastern Kentucky.

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, hear the voices of the 2016 Appalachian Media Institute summer interns. This year’s cast are all from eastern Kentucky! The work of AMI youth producers has been heard on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Sundance Film Festival. AMI helps young people explore how media production skills can be used to ask, and begin to answer, critical questions about themselves and their communities. This year’s interns tackled the issues of discrimination, the struggle to stay in the mountains, to whom does old time Appalachian music belong, and sexual/gender identity. In this hour, the interns discuss why they applied to AMI, how they chose their topics, the experience of the institute, and what they hope to see in the future of their Appalachia.

On July 14-18, Appalshop and Imagining America, a national consortium of 100 colleges and universities based at Syracuse University in rural upstate New York, co-hosted a gathering. 45 people — faculty, students, and community members — sponsored by nine institutions of higher education from Oregon to Ontario,Canada to Florida came to Whitesburg and Letcher County to learn about the economic revival just beginning in our mountains. The participants’ goal was to take lessons home. In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, some of those who made the trip speak about what motivates and challenges them to work for better economic, political, and cultural opportunities for everyone back in their home towns.

On June 22, 2016, Gov. Matt Bevin presented Kentucky HEALTH, a comprehensive plan to transform Kentucky’s Medicaid program, which he says will empower individuals to improve their health and well-being while simultaneously ensuring Medicaid’s long-term fiscal sustainability in the commonwealth. See the proposed changes here – http://chfs.ky.gov/…/0/62216KentuckyHEALTHWaiverProposal.pdf As a means of receiving public feedback, the administration held a series of public forums. WMMT reporter Mimi Pickering attended the forum in Hazard, Kentucky. This episode of Mountain Talk Monday presents the overview of that forum. Many Kentucky citizens are concerned that the proposed changes will be a drawback to the positive changes we’ve seen in coalfields, Kentucky and for those previously uninsured Kentuckians. The public comment period ends on July 22nd @ 5pm. Written comments on the Kentucky HEALTH waiver proposal can be mailed to: Commissioner Stephen Miller Department for Medicaid Services 275 E. Main Street Frankfort, KY 40621 Or via email to kyhealth@ky.gov.

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday get your dose of literary musings when as we feature the 2016 Seedtime on the Cumberland’s Southern Appalachian Writers’ Cooperative Literary Reading. Hear writers from Letcher County, Kentucky and all over southern Appalachia read their work.

In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, we welcome special guest hosts Tanya Turner and Willa Johnson with the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative. They interviewed four students involved in KVEC’s initiatives around the region’s schools about the effects that their participation has had on their educational experience in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. KVEC activities was one of the highlights of the 2016 SOAR Innovation Summit. They discuss everything from coding, student senate, creative writing, and the educational social platform – The Holler!

Are you thinking about getting a pet, or do you already own one? Spring is the season where we tend to see plenty of puppies and kittens around. So, it’s timely that in this episode of Mountain Talk Monday our guest is Dr. Dustin Anderson, DVM with the Animal Wellness Center in Pikeville, KY. Dr. Anderson and host Kelli Haywood discuss basic pet care, budget care, pet allergies and food, and the most common diseases of dogs and cats. Plus, listen to learn more about pet adoption and the efforts of the Appalachian SPCA.

In this edition of Mountain Talk Monday, host Kelli Haywood speaks live with the director of The Rising Center – Holly Combs. The Rising Center in Hazard, Kentucky located beside Appalachian Regional Hospital provides an array of services to adult and child victims of sexual assault, abuse and incest in Kentucky River Community Care’s (KRCC) eight county area. In doing so, it works closely with local health service agencies, criminal justice systems, and social service agencies to ensure a coordinated system of reliable and appropriate care. Throughout the show, the pair discuss what it means to be sexually assaulted, the feelings associated, what to do if it happens to you, and more.

In this edition of Mountain Talk Monday, we celebrate Women’s History Month. Women from our listening area in Kentucky and Virginia share the stories of the Appalachian women who inspire them to live boldly and to stand tall. Just like women the world over, Appalachian women are no two alike, but in navigating their collective history, culture, and lifestyle, they share a distinctive bond. Only a mountain woman knows what it really means to be a mountain woman.

Frank X. Walker from Danville, Kentucky is the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky and the first African American to hold the title. His groundbreaking first collection of poems published in 2000, Affrilachia, helped to “challenge the notion of a homogeneous all-white literary landscape in Appalachia.” Walker was a co-founder of the Affrilachian poets group and coined the term “Affrilachia” which is now used to describe a multitude of mountain-centric creations, philosophies, and activities. Walker is a professor at the University of Kentucky and has many publications. Recently, Walker spoke at a convocation given at Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. Mountain Talk Monday host, Kelli Haywood, was there for the address and reception where she talked with Walker about what it means to be Appalachian, what our future here holds, and more.

Crystal Wilkinson is a well known Kentucky author, owner of Wild Fig Books & Coffee in Lexington KY, and a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets. In this edition of Mountain Talk Monday, host Kelli Haywood with the help of WMMT’s Mimi Pickering interviews Crystal on the eve of her upcoming book release, The Birds of Opulence. Kelli and Crystal delve deep into what it means to be Appalachian and to write about Appalachia for the contemporary audience. Crystal tells the story of Frank X. Walker’s coining of the term “Affrilachian” and how it has grown from representing a very specific group of people to being the identifying term for those contributing to the world stage in a wide variety of ways. Crystal also reads from her newest book which will be released in early March. Find Crystal where she is the Appalachian Writer in Residence at Berea College, or at Wild Fig Books & Coffee in person or on the web. Come to Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival here on the WMMT/Appalshop grounds in June of this year to visit the Wild Fig Pop-Up Bookstore display!

Gary Bentley, Letcher County native and former undergroud coal miner, sits down with Mountain Talk Monday host Kelli Haywood to discuss his new column for the online publication The Daily Yonder, “In the Black.” Through his column Bentley tells his personal story of life underground, and addresses the stereotypes often portrayed in mainstream media of miners and mining, “King Coal”, and Appalachians in general. Bentley also speaks of the importance of telling one’s stories for the sake of posterity and a broader understanding of the current truth of the coalfields of Appalachia. Listen today for the rare opportunity to hear it like it is straight from the mouth of a miner. See Bentley’s writing on The Daily Yonder website. Each new column appears on Monday.