This year, ACP is partnering with High Rocks, a well-respected leadership program for girls in southern West Virginia, and as part of that partnership, five High Rocks high school age girls worked with WKU students for an afternoon of one-on-one shooting in downtown Lewisburg. Before heading out in the steady cold rain, instructor Josh Meltzer [...]
The American Heritage Dance Hall in Ronceverte, WV has been a labor of love that has been able to flourish because of the dedication of a few individuals. They took an abandoned roller rink and transformed it into a social hotspot through donations and hard work. The dance hall hosts open band jams every Tuesday [...]
The 2011 Appalachian Cultural project is coached by WKU Photojournalist-in-Residence Josh Meltzer and Washington, D.C. freelancer Mike Kleinfeld. Six Labbies joined the group to assist with cooking for the group, producing and publishing to the website and archiving the entire previous 8 years of stories from ACP, and 11 shooters from Meltzer’s Picture Story class [...]