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HATH — an experiment in cross-political dialogue — is ending

Jun 24, 20233 min read

HATH — an experiment in cross-political dialogue — is ending

New England Public Media | By Karen Brown June 21, 2023 A cross-cultural project that began in 2017 after Donald Trump's election — and...

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Noble experiment built bridge across political divide

Richie Davis, for the Greenfield Recorder

Jun 18, 20233 min read

Noble experiment built bridge across political divide

My Turn: op ed by Richie Davis, Greenfield Recorder, June 13, 2023 Coming together immediately after the pivotal 2016 election, 60...

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Outreach ending: Leverett-Kentucky ‘Hands Across the Hills’ built bridges across political divide

Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette

Jun 18, 20234 min read

Outreach ending: Leverett-Kentucky ‘Hands Across the Hills’ built bridges across political divide

By Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette LEVERETT — One of the folks in the first delegation from Letcher County, Kentucky in 2017 to...

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Podcast & Case Study of HATH by the Othering & Belonging Institute of UCal-Berkeley

Hands Across the Hills

Sep 28, 20221 min read

Podcast & Case Study of HATH by the Othering & Belonging Institute of UCal-Berkeley

HATH's Gwen Johnson and Sharon Dunn were interviewed in mid-July 2022 by the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI), of the University of...

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HATH RALLIES TO HELP FLOOD-STRICKEN EASTERN KENTUCKY

Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette

Aug 5, 20221 min read

HATH RALLIES TO HELP FLOOD-STRICKEN EASTERN KENTUCKY

The Daily Hampshire Gazette recounts how Hands Across the Hills is facilitating flood relief in eastern Kentucky, where our HATH Kentucky...

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Hands Across the Hills

Aug 2, 20221 min read

Front Line for Flood Relief

Hands Across the Hills member Gwen Johnson spoke to Robin Young of NPR's "Here and Now" about the losses suffered in the recent and...

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Hundreds attend memorial for Paula Green

Hands Across the Hills

Jul 19, 20221 min read

Hundreds attend memorial for Paula Green

The Daily Hampshire Gazette's headline: ‘An open heart that never closes up’: Peace seekers celebrate life of peacebuilder Paula Green...

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Paula Green, tireless advocate for peace, dies at 84

Bryan Marquard, The Boston Globe

Mar 22, 20221 min read

Paula Green, tireless advocate for peace, dies at 84

From the March 22, 2022 edition of The Boston Globe, this recognition of Paula Green: In a world beset with anger, conflict, and war,...

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Hands Across the Hills

Feb 24, 20221 min read

Tributes to Paula Green

Acclaimed international peacebuilder, Paula Green, died February 21 at the age of 84. Hands Across the Hills celebrates her as a founder,...

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Hands Across the Hills hosts 3-day Dialogue Across Divides workshop in Leverett

Richie Davis, Daily Hampshire Gazette

Oct 15, 20214 min read

Hands Across the Hills hosts 3-day Dialogue Across Divides workshop in Leverett

LEVERETT — A three-day training was held to help people from around the Northeast and beyond learn how to bridge widening divides in this...

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Boston ABC Affiliate Features Interview with Dr. Paula Green

Hands Across the Hills

Jun 10, 20211 min read

Boston ABC Affiliate Features Interview with Dr. Paula Green

On June 8, Boston’s ABC affiliate station, WCVB-TV, featured an interview with Hands Across the Hills lead facilitator Dr. Paula Green....

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Richie Davis, for the Greenfield Recorder

May 22, 20216 min read

Lowering the Temperature

When she retired in June 2015 from decades of traveling to war-torn parts of the globe in the aftermath of violent conflicts training...

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CBS Evening News features Hands Across the Hills

CBS

Feb 18, 20211 min read

CBS Evening News features Hands Across the Hills

On February 17, 2021 HATH was featured on the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell. Gwen Johnson of KY and Paula Green of MA spoke with...

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HATH lead story on front pages of two local newspapers

Sharon Dunn

Feb 17, 20211 min read

HATH lead story on front pages of two local newspapers

Two Pioneer Valley newspapers, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Greenfield Recorder, both ran HATH's upcoming feature on CBS Evening News...

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Paula Green

Feb 16, 20213 min read

Guest columnist Paula Green: Seeing ourselves in the eyes of others

“I am a staunch supporter on the right and have been filled of conflict and distress here in our Happy Valley with the full weight of the...

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Paula Green

Jan 20, 20214 min read

How do we heal now?

President Joe Biden frequently calls for “healing the soul of our country.” Lincoln wrote of “binding up the nation’s wounds.” Has the...

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HATH writers in KY & MA on Taking Covid Vaccine, or Not

Sharon Dunn

Jan 11, 20211 min read

HATH writers in KY & MA on Taking Covid Vaccine, or Not

First in a series of dual op-eds on topical issues where HATH members from two regions have distinct viewpoints. Taking the Covid vaccine...

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Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside TheateR

Ben Fink, TDR/The Drama Review

Dec 28, 20201 min read

Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside TheateR

Ben Fink, HATH’s first organizing partner from Letcher County, tells the story of how he came to Kentucky, who he worked with there, and...

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Boston Univ School of Theology Explores Transformational Aspect of HATH with Green, Fink & Johnson

Sharon Dunn

Dec 13, 20201 min read

Boston Univ School of Theology Explores Transformational Aspect of HATH with Green, Fink & Johnson

The Tom Porter Program for Religion and Conflict Transformation at BU invited Paula Green, Ben Fink and Gwen Johnson to detail HATH’s...

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Appalachian Stories of Hope, Community & Creativity

Tom Lee, The Bitter Southerner

Dec 3, 20201 min read

Appalachian Stories of Hope, Community & Creativity

It is in the creative reinvention of community — and not the pretense of bygone days or the magic of political investment that isn’t...

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