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Hindman, Kentucky
Supporting Appalachian Art and Culture
Randy Wilson, folk arts education director emeritus, teaches a traditional Appalachian folk dance during a cultural exchange visit on our campus through the Mennonite Central Committee. This experience is part of the NEH-funded East Kentucky Food & Dance Trail. Image courtesy Hindman Settlement School.

Randy Wilson, folk arts education director emeritus, teaches a traditional Appalachian folk dance during a cultural exchange visit on our campus through the Mennonite Central Committee. This experience is part of the NEH-funded East Kentucky Food & Dance Trail. Image courtesy Hindman Settlement School.

The settlement school movement of the early twentieth century was a reform movement that sought to directly improve underserved communities by providing education and social services. The Hindman Settlement School, founded in 1902 in Hindman, Kentucky, was the first of these institutions to be located in a rural area and to serve the needs of Appalachians. Though the Settlement no longer operates as a full-time school, it retains its original mission of meeting people’s cultural, artistic, and academic needs. NEH funding, including a 2020 NEH CARES grant, has allowed the Settlement to develop programming that provides education and cultural enrichment while maintaining Appalachian heritage.

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