Center of Appalachian culture to close in Cincinnati

This article is some three weeks old but I just found it this morning. Very sorry to hear this news.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/03/26/center-appalachian-culture-close-cincinnati/6939861/
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Center of Appalachian culture to close in Cincinnati
Carrie Blackmore Smith, csmith@enquirer.com
9:41 p.m. EDT March 26, 2014

Upon his arrival, Maloney “saw how his people were getting kicked around,” treated as second-class citizens. So he joined forces with a man named Ernie Mynatt and began fighting for social justice for the increasing number of migrants, eventually forming the Urban Appalachian Council in 1974.

Forty years later, the council, based in Price Hill, has closed its doors. The board of directors made it final with a vote on Sunday.

The nonprofit, which served thousands of Appalachians and their descendents though education, job readiness, substance-abuse counseling and cultural-awareness programs, just couldn’t come up with the funding to continue, said council President Debbie Zorn.

Some of UAC’s programs will continue, picked up by other social service groups in Price Hill, and an effort is underway to find a new path to keep the traditions and culture of Appalachia alive in Cincinnati, Maloney said.... MORE