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A music student at Appalshop (CBS photo) |
In response to President Trump's proposed budget cuts
CBS News's "Sunday Morning" looked at how one rural community would be hurt. The same story could be reported in many other communities.
Letcher County, Kentucky, which has been hurt by the loss of coal jobs, is also the home of
Appalshop, a non-profit media, arts, and education center that relies largely on funding from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Appalachian Regional Commission and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which would all be de-funded under Trump's proposed budget.
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Letcher County (Wikipedia map) |
"Applashop was a seed that grew out of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in the 1960s,"
reports CBS. "Programs were established in impoverished areas to encourage young people to develop new skills in the arts, like filmmaking. The film workshop has grown into a diverse and thriving arts center, where picks and shovels have been replaced by picks and bows."
"With grants from the NEA, Appalshop filmmakers have turned the local culture into indelible images," reports CBS. Its success has given Whitesburg renovated buildings and a 15,000-watt radio station.
Some people in the arts favor Trump's cuts. David Marcus, artistic director for a theater company in Brooklyn, N.Y., told CBS, “For 20,000 years human beings have been making art. That streak is not going to end in 2018 if the NEA goes away.” But he acknowledged that might not happen in Letcher County.
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