Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Interviews Founder Paula Green
The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding interviewed Paula Green about Hands Across the Hills—a unique initiative formed across deep political...
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REV. SARAH PIRTLE Interfaith Minister
Nov 7, 20183 min read
Faith Matters: Together in the Tree of Life
We care about each other, every one of us. Hundreds held candles this week and walked through Northampton to Congregation B’nai Israel to...
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James Sullivan, Boston Globe Correspondent
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Boston Globe: A Unique Exchange Program between Red and Blue America
LEVERETT — The potluck meals offered a bounty of careful dieting. A group of Leverett neighbors had invited some mostly conservative...
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Bas den Hond, for Trouw, the Netherlands
Oct 29, 20189 min read
The same hills, two Americas
America is deeply divided on the way to the Congressional elections of 6 November. Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump do not...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Oct 18, 20183 min read
Group wins national peace-building award
LEVERETT — Hands Across the Hills, the grassroots project that aims to build bridges across a political and cultural divide that seems to...
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Luis Fieldman, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Sep 21, 20184 min read
Kentucky, Leverett meetings teach lessons on bridging cultural, political divides
HADLEY — “I thought you people never suffered,” said a woman from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to a group of visitors from Leverett, according...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Aug 17, 20185 min read
Hands Across the Hills Going Global
LEVERETT — A European television crew is focusing on this town’s efforts to bridge the cultural divide as it produces a documentary about...
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Richie Davis, for the Greenfield Recorder
Jul 13, 20183 min read
OPINION: TWO RURAL COMMUNITIES CROSS THE POLITICAL DIVIDE
When Massachusetts and Kentucky residents from politically polar-opposite regions met, it was “love at first sight.” Richie Davis'...
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Patricia Pearce, the Evolutionary Activist
Jun 13, 20181 min read
Podcast with Paula Green
In this podcast episode Patricia Pearce interviews Dr. Paula Green, founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and 2009 recipient of...
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Amherst Media videographer, Jody Jenkins
Jun 1, 20181 min read
Report on the Kentucky Visit
View footage of the community gathering on 5/15/18, where Hands Across the Hills members shared their experiences of the KY visit in...
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Paula Green, Op-Ed, Hampshire Daily Gazette
May 30, 20185 min read
Mutual learning changes hearts and minds
How is it possible to bridge the gulf between a group of Leverett liberals and red-state descendants of coal miners who voted for Donald...
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Sharon Dunn with John J. Clayton
May 22, 201812 min read
Connecting with Coal Country: What I learned visiting Kentucky with Hands Across the Hills
“It’s like you’re going to a foreign country… Do you need a passport?” Letha Dollarhyde of Letcher County, Kentucky, said this — partly...
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Valley Advocate Staff
May 22, 20181 min read
Podcast: Making a connection with coal-country Kentucky
Sharon Dunn and John Clayton are members of the Hands Across the Hills project, an initiative to connect the people of Leverett, where...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
May 17, 20182 min read
Hands Across the Hills shares its cultural exchange
LEVERETT — Even though many of them had already heard about the trip, about 200 people filled Leverett Elementary School Tuesday night to...
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Greenfield Recorder Editorial
May 11, 20183 min read
Editorial: KY visit brings lessons of listening, learning
There were glimmers of hope in the recent visits and discussions between Leverett liberals and voters of Trump-leaning coal country...
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The Bill Newman Show
May 7, 20181 min read
Jay and Sharon speak on Bill Newman Show
https://soundcloud.com/whmp/the-bill-newman-show-may-7-2018 Buz Eisenberg sits in for Bill Newman. The first 30 minutes of the broadcast...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
May 5, 20187 min read
In closing session of Hands Across the Hills visit, both sides agree to disagree on Trump
WHITESBURG, Ky. — Many of the questions are left unanswered, on both sides of the Leverett-Letcher County, Kentucky, divide that members...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Apr 28, 20186 min read
Cultural divide: Leverett residents find Kentuckians are less inclined to discuss political matters
WHITESBURG, Ky — Last week’s meeting of hearts and minds in this Appalachian city of about 2,200 represented the coming together of...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Leverett plans pop-up pub
LEVERETT — Don’t expect bourbon, or even moonshine. But Leverett residents, including those recently returned from a cultural exchange to...
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RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Apr 24, 20184 min read
Black Sheep Deli of Amherst gets a Kentucky counterpart
HEMPHILL, KY — No one expects the “Hands Across the Hills” exchange to lead Leverett, Mass. voters or their Letcher County, Ky....
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