Join us for our second Conversations with Gurney event of the semester featuring University of Kentucky associate professor and award winning writer, Crystal Wilkinson, on Monday, November 11th at 5PM in the CM Gatton College of Business Woodward Hall Room 307. Reception to follow at the UK Appalachian Center 624 Maxwelton Ct.
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Gatton Business & Economics Building Woodward Hall Room 307
Join us for our first Conversations with Gurney event of Fall 2019! We are pleased to welcome George Ella Lyon, writer, poet, and teacher to the John Jacob Niles Gallery in the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library here at UK.
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John Jacob Niles Gallery in Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library
Robert Gipe, author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed novels Trampoline and Weedeater, joined the Appalachian Center's scholar-in-residence, Gurney Norman for a visit and reading. Since 1997, Robert has served as the Director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. Through his fiction and work with the community-theater project, Higher Ground in Harlan, Kentucky, Robert has tackled tough issues in the mountains including drug abuse, environmental degradation, mining, outmigration, and discrimination.
