In this podcast episode Patricia Pearce interviews Dr. Paula Green, founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and 2009 recipient of...

View footage of the community gathering on 5/15/18, where Hands Across the Hills members shared their experiences of the KY visit in...

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...

“It’s like you’re going to a foreign country… Do you need a passport?” Letha Dollarhyde of Letcher County, Kentucky, said this — partly...

Sharon Dunn and John Clayton are members of the Hands Across the Hills project, an initiative to connect the people of Leverett, where...

LEVERETT — Even though many of them had already heard about the trip, about 200 people filled Leverett Elementary School Tuesday night to...

There were glimmers of hope in the recent visits and discussions between Leverett liberals and voters of Trump-leaning coal country...

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...

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Many of the questions are left unanswered, on both sides of the Leverett-Letcher County, Kentucky, divide that members...

REFLECTIONS: Dialogue & Discoveries in Rural Kentucky Tuesday, MAY 15, 2018 7:00-9:00 PM Leverett Elementary School 85 Montague Road,...

WHITESBURG, Ky — Last week’s meeting of hearts and minds in this Appalachian city of about 2,200 represented the coming together of...

LEVERETT — Don’t expect bourbon, or even moonshine. But Leverett residents, including those recently returned from a cultural exchange to...

HEMPHILL, KY — No one expects the “Hands Across the Hills” exchange to lead Leverett, Mass. voters or their Letcher County, Ky....

WHITESBURG, KY — In the heart of coal country, about a dozen Leverett, Mass. residents and about as many of their counterparts from...

https://soundcloud.com/whmp/the-bill-newman-show-april-18-2018 Hands Across the Hill segment begins at 19:40 This broadcast features Jay...

Curious what the Leverett troop will learn from its trip to Kentucky? Stay tuned. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has provided a...

LEVERETT — The last thing these grassroots organizers of a cross-cultural dialogue expected to make part of their efforts was a trip to a...

Two members of Hands Across the Hills in Leverett, Massachusetts, reflect on the shared purpose of the dialogue and cultural exchange...

Fourteen of us, members of Leverett’s Hands Across the Hills project, will travel to Letcher County in eastern Kentucky on April 19 for a...

We invite you to hear about our experiences in Kentucky! Tuesday, MAY 15, 2018 7:00-9:00 PM Leverett Elementary School 85 Montague Road,...