Town of Appalachia Collaboration
In Summer 2015, CAS intern Tessa McCoy-Hall collaborated with University of Virginia Institute for Public History summer fellow Meredith McCool to collect oral histories of the residents of Appalachia, Virginia. Jointly sponsored by the CAS and the APPalachian Prosperity Project, McCool and McCoy-Hall spent weeks working within the community preserving its history. The UVa Today article can be read here.