Appalshop Channel

Education & the Internet: Key to Rural Future?

Educators, librarians and students from throughout East Kentucky talk about how using the Internet and going online is increasingly an essential part of teaching and learning here in the Appalachian Mountains, the challenges when schools and students don't have quality broadband, and what access to the latest technology could mean to the future of our students and the region.

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Using Ingenuity & Internet to Stay on the Farm

A video portrait of Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton, farmers in Scott County, Virginia, who have used the Internet to create a thriving market for their invention, the Avian Aqua Miser.

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Sharing the Spirit of Appalachian Kentucky: Dean Hill Photography

A visit with Morgan County, KY photographer Dean Hill and his wife and business partner Karen who are able to run a successful art photography business from their lovely, but isolated rural home with the help of high-speed Internet access.

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Be Smart, Live Simple: Elijah & Guylaine Collett

At the top of a winding Leslie County road, right on the edge of the Daniel Boone National forest, one innovative couple is proving that solar power does work here in the narrow hollows of East Kentucky.

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Solar Helps Sustain Williamson WV

On Feb 2, 2011, Williamson, WV, celebrated the arrival of a new energy source with the first solar installation on a downtown building.

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Seedtime on the Cumberland 2010

Video postcard from the 2010 Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival in Whitesburg, Kentucky

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