Mountain News & World Report

In this episode of Mountain News & World Report, we highlight two regional happenings-- the Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival here on the grounds of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky starting Friday June 3rd and going through Saturday, June 4th, and the SOAR Innovation Summit which will be held at the Pikeville Exposition Center on Monday, June 6th. In the Seedtime rundown you will hear a clip from the Tom Hansell film, After Coal which compares the Appalachian coalfields experience to that of the coalfields of South Wales who have already had to transition their economy away from mining. Also, in that segment, Appalshop Archive shares with us a clip of a 1981 Headwaters film of Lee Sexton and his former fiddle player, the late, great Marion Sumner. Then, to end the show, WMMT reporter Benny Becker discusses the future of the SOAR – Shaping Our Appalachian Region with Jared Arnett-- SOAR's executive director, and with Willa Johnson who works with youth through the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative