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The poverty he observed in Appalachia planted the seeds of a vision that eventually became the Christian Appalachian Project. After ordination in 1949, Beiting was assigned to work as an assistant pastor in a northern Kentucky parish and as a math teacher at Newport Catholic High School.
The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is an interdenominational non-profit organization, based in Kentucky, US. Their mission is "building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ's love through service in Appalachia". CAP was established in 1964 by Father Ralph W. Beiting. The headquarters are located in Paintsville, Kentucky.
Eastern, rural Kentucky is a geographically isolated area, cut off from much of the country. [3]: 57 Prior to the creation of the Pack Horse Library Project, many people in rural Appalachian Kentucky did not have access to books. [4] The percentage of people who were illiterate in eastern Kentucky was at around 31 percent. [4]
Readers can access a wide variety of titles on Kentucky and Appalachian History, Agriculture, Architecture, Fiction, Poetry, Public Health and more. The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf is also ...
A good bit of Appalachian history and arts got soaked in the record flooding in Eastern Kentucky.. In Whitesburg, water may have breached the vault at Appalshop, where the arts and media ...
The Nunn Center contains over 14,000 oral history interviews featuring a variety of individuals and projects. Significant oral history projects include: the Family Farm Project, the Colonel Arthur L. Kelly Veterans Oral History Project, University of Kentucky history, African American history in Kentucky, [4] Kentucky writers, Kentucky's medical history, the history of professional baseball ...
Hensley Settlement is an Appalachian living history museum on Brush Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky in the United States.The settlement is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and it is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the park visitor center on Ridge Trail.
He taught in the History Department at the University of Kentucky from 1976 to 1984, and was named to the UK "Hall of Distinguished Alumni" in 1980. A common theme explored in many of Caudill's writings is the historic underdevelopment of the Appalachian region (particularly his own home area of southeastern Kentucky).