Together for Hope Appalachia

Resources, Friends & Partners

Assett-BAsed Community Development

Practicing Community Development, by Donald and Doris Littrell
https://extension2.missouri.edu/dm7616

Community development is a radical profession. It is based on the belief that people can give purposeful direction to their collective future. How this occurs is based on the community, the issues, the current capacity of people and the resource base that is present. The focus is on the ethical and practical aspects of community development. It is full of examples of people coming together and working through challenges. The authors use their experience as a base from which to explore how to help community members implement their visions. This book is for community members and the people in agencies, government and nonprofit organizations who work with them. It can also be used as a textbook for beginning undergraduate and graduate courses in community development or other social sciences.

Missions

PilgriMission
https://books.nurturingfaith.net/product/pilgrimission/

PilgriMission is a resource that challenges us to connect both pilgrimage and mission into one. PilgriMission is a guide and journaling experience that encourages sincere, loving, cross-cultural relationships.

Appalachia

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, by Steven Stoll
https://www.amazon.com/Ramp-Hollow-Appalachia-Steven-Stoll/dp/0809080192/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ramp+hollow&qid=1599772832&s=books&sr=1-1

In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee owners―including George Washington and other founders―who laid claim to the region. Even as Daniel Boone became famous as a backwoods hunter and guide, the economy he represented was already in peril. Within just a few decades, Appalachian hunters and farmers went from pioneers to pariahs, from heroes to hillbillies, in the national imagination, and the area was locked into an enduring association with poverty and backwardness. Stoll traces these developments with empathy and precision, examining crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion, the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating “scramble for Appalachia.”

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
https://www.amazon.com/Appalachian-Reckoning-Region-Responds-Hillbilly/dp/1946684791/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=appalachian+reckoning&qid=1599772707&s=books&sr=1-1Reckoning

Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.

Uneven Ground: Appalachia 1945, by Ronald Eller
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Uneven+Ground%2C+Ron+Eller&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

Ronald D Eller has worked with local leaders, state policymakers, and national planners to translate the lessons of private industrial-development history into public policy affecting the region. In Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945, Eller examines the politics of development in Appalachia since World War II with an eye toward exploring the idea of progress as it has evolved in modern America. Appalachia's struggle to overcome poverty, to live in harmony with the land, and to respect the diversity of cultures and the value of community is also an American story. In the end, Eller concludes, "Appalachia was not different from the rest of America; it was in fact a mirror of what the nation was becoming."

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, by Elizabeth Cate
https://www.amazon.com/What-Getting-Wrong-About-Appalachia/dp/0998904147

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. The book analyzes trends in contemporary writing on Appalachia, presents a brief history of Appalachia with an eye toward unpacking Appalachian stereotypes, and provides examples of writing, art, and policy created by Appalachians as opposed to for Appalachians. The book offers a must-needed insider's perspective on the region.