The Local Traveler™- Appalachian Artisan Center, Hindman Settlement School, Kentucky School of Craft
Miss Kentucky visits Hindman Settlement School
Miss Kentucky visits Hindman Settlement School
Hindman Settlement School
Hindman Settlement School on DVD
Hindman Settlement School - high tunnel greenhouse
Learning more about the benefits of high tunnel greenhouses is the focus of a grant between the University of Kentucky, the University of Minnesota, and Kansas State University. As a result, students from all three schools traveled to Eastern Kentucky to help build a high tunnel greenhouse this summer at the Hindman Settlement School, and take part in Family Folk Week at the school. It was a learning experience for the students who had never visited Eastern Kentucky before.
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Dumplins' and Dancin' at Hindman Settlement School
Special meaning behind the fresh food dinner.
Driving through downtown Hindman, KY
Driving through downtown Hindman Kentucky, 7/5/2013 around 2pm
Party in the USA/Hindman Kentucky!!!
This is what I did for my very last week living in Kentucky. Once I thought of it I just couldn't stop thinking about it!
Hindman to Hazard
Hindman to Hazard
Kentucky Memories
I did this short video a couple years ago following the death of my cousin Billy Joe Combs. It is the hollow where my grandparents were from. Knott County Ky.Their house is long since gone and the family cemetery sits on the side of the mountain near their home. My grand parent's and a couple uncles an aunt and a couple cousins rest eternally on this little plot of land.
Dulcimer player in Hindman, KY
Harley Davidson 48: GoPro ride through Whitesburg, Kentucky
This ride starts at the northwestern outskirts of Whitesburg, Kentucky on Ky-15 and proceeds through downtown Whitesburg to the southeastern edge of town, still on Ky-15. It's part of the London-Whitesburg loop ( The external mike didn't work so I had to add music. I do not own the copyright for the music. The music is from the album Clyde Davenport Volume Two by Clyde Davenport (
LCHS 2019 Tractor Day
LCTV Special Edition: Tractor Day 2019
Cari Norris
Cari Norris performs Glad Reunion Day on The Pickin' Ranch public access TV show in Louisville, KY. Produced by Dan Boone. Associate producer Joe Gibson.
Folk Arts: Square Dancing (May Valley Elementary)
Hindman Settlement School's Folk Arts Education Program, under the direction of Sam Gleaves, engages students in the music, art, stories of Appalachian culture.
In this video, dance caller Abby Huggins teaches square dancing to students participating in our after-school Pick & Bow Music Program at May Valley Elementary School in Floyd County, Kentucky.
12-4-2019 The Delmarva Dulcimer Players
I had the opportunity to record The Delmarva Dulcimer Players as they performer at Salisbury's Mac Center. The Appalachian dulcimer has many variant names. Most often it is simply called a dulcimer (also rendered as dulcimore, dulcymore, delcimer, delcimore, etc.). When it needs to be distinguished from the unrelated hammered dulcimer, various adjectives are added (drawn from location, playing style, position, shape, etc.), for example: mountain dulcimer; Kentucky dulcimer; plucked dulcimer; fretted dulcimer; lap dulcimer; teardrop dulcimer; box dulcimer; etc. The instrument has also acquired a number of nicknames (some shared by other instruments): harmonium, hog fiddle, music box, harmony box, and mountain zither
Few true specimens of the mountain dulcimer exist from earlier than about 1880, when J. Edward Thomas of Knott County, Kentucky, began building and selling them. The instrument became used as something of a parlor instrument, as its modest sound volume is best-suited to small home gatherings. But for the first half of the 20th century the mountain dulcimer was rare, with a handful of makers supplying players in scattered pockets of Appalachia. Virtually no audio recordings of the instrument exist from earlier than the late 1930s.
Loraine Wyman, who gathered folk songs in the field and performed them in concert halls, shown in the May 1, 1917, issue of Vogue holding an Appalachian dulcimer.
The soprano Loraine Wyman, who sang Appalachian folk songs in concert venues around the time of the First World War, created a brief splash for the Appalachian dulcimer by demonstrating it in concerts, and was portrayed in Vogue magazine (right) holding her instrument, a Thomas. But Wyman preferred singing with the more robust support of the piano. The instrument achieved its true renaissance in the 1950s urban folk music revival in the United States through the work of Jean Ritchie, a Kentucky musician who performed with the instrument before New York City audiences.[7] In the early 1960s, Ritchie and her partner George Pickow began distributing dulcimers made by her Kentucky relative Jethro Amburgey, then the woodworking instructor at the Hindman Settlement School. They eventually began producing their own instruments in New York City. Meanwhile, the American folk musician Richard Fariña (1937–1966) was also bringing the Appalachian dulcimer to a much wider audience, and by 1965 the instrument was a familiar presence in folk music circles.
In addition to Amburgey, by then winding down his production, influential builders of mid-1960s included Homer Ledford, Lynn McSpadden, A.W. Jeffreys and Joellen Lapidus. In 1969 Michael and Howard Rugg formed a company called Capritaurus. As well as being the first to mass-produce the instrument, they made design changes to make the instrument easier to produce and to play. The body was made larger, and they installed metal friction or geared tuners, rather than traditional wooden pegs, to making tuning easier and more reliable.
HSM - SUMMERBASH 2008 Highlight Video
HSM's (Hindman Student Ministries) longest running event has come and gone yet again. Here is the Summerbash 2008 highlight video.
Brent Hutchinson | Connections | KET
Renee Shaw welcomes Brent Hutchinson, executive director of the Hindman Settlement School that has a grade A track record in serving students with dyslexia and providing cultural enrichment and other educational programs and services in the region. Earlier this year, Mr. Hutchinson was named a 2019 Obama Foundation Fellow that recognizes outstanding civic leaders. The full interview airs on Sunday, July 7th, at 1:30 p.m. ET on KET and 6 p.m. ET on KET2.
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The Killing Rock
Today we hike the Red Fox Trail to the Killing Rock. This trail is located at the top of Jenkins/Pound section of Pine Mountain just off the Pine Mountain Trail.
Austin Hindman on life without Fab4, Sr season goals
Interview with Lafayette High School (Wildwood, Mo.) senior Austin Hindman on April 5, 2017 about running life without his FabFour teammates who have moved on to college and his senior season goals outside of the Arcadia Invitational 3200-meters.