This discussion between Paula Green and Ben Fink, organizers of Hands Across the Hills, launched the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding's...

Hands Across the Hills members, three each from Letcher County KY and Leverett MA, participated in an hour-long dialogue on Zoom in early...

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

“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...

HANDS ACROSS THE HILLS will be featured on CBS Evening News on Wed., Feb. 17. Broadcast starts at 6:30 ET. It will include clips from a...

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

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

Six thousand attendees of the Institute for Healthcare Improvements’ 2020 31st Annual Forum heard the story of Hands Across the Hills....

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...

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

“The tensions in our city are high,” says the Rev. Ed Bacon of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta GA, who reached out to Paula Green...

Sometimes it seems the only thing blue and red voters share is mutual contempt. Organizations like Better Angels or Bridge the Divide try...

Kentuckians from Letcher County, KY will visit Leverett the weekend of Oct 11-13 to continue the bridging project that brought them...

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin I’ve led dialogue groups in...

The following talk was given by HATH member Tom Wolff at the Jewish Community of Amherst on December 15, 2018. It follows the form of...

In October 2018 the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of over 100 organizations, gave its first Melanie Greenberg Award for Domestic...

I Could Cry a River, a thirteen minute film by David Rabinovitz, captures the spirit of Leverett's visit to Letcher County KY in April...

The Alliance for Peacebuilding will honor Hands Across the Hills and its leader Paula Green with its first domestic peacebuilding award,...

In August two filmmakers commissioned by Arte TV, French-German public TV, filmed three days each in Leverett, MA and in Whitesburg, KY...

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...