In Whitesburg, flooding took with it Appalachian history stored in an iconic building known as Appalshop. It’s a nonprofit that has been collecting, storing and preserving life in the mountains ...

The lowest point inside Appalshop, a dark wooden three-story building perched on the edge of the Kentucky River’s North Fork in downtown Whitesburg, is its archival vault.

Appalshop, a cultural center in Kentucky, has recovered more than 13,500 items after a devastating flood a year ago. Many are being restored and digitized. A devastating flood in Whitesburg, Ky ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — The raging floodwaters that left dozens dead or missing in eastern Kentucky also swept away some of the region's irreplaceable history. Appalshop, a cultural center known ...

At Appalshop—the Eastern Kentucky media arts nonprofit I lead — we had to leave our beloved building in Whitesburg, find temporary office space, and continue trying to be an anchor institution ...

Appalshop has been a cornerstone of Whitesburg, Kentucky, since 1969, working to tell stories about Appalachian people through art, film, music and more with a focus on their voices. Its theater ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WATE) — A Kentucky-based production company that specializes in Appalachian history is recovering with the help of the community from the recent flooding in Eastern Kentucky ...

This time, Appalshop was more prepared. In those 935 days, we had settled into a second-story office space in Jenkins, Ky, and built out a studio for our radio station on Whitesburg’s less-flood ...

Appalshop is waiting on information from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about a buyout of the flooded building in Whitesburg it had occupied since 1982. That will inform decisions ...

Water more than six feet high flooded the Appalshop main building, including the WMMT community radio station studio, in Whitesburg, Ky., last summer during a flood that devastated Eastern ...