SHAPIRO: Audio recordings by artists like the West Virginia gospel singer Ethel Caffie-Austin. You know, they have thousands of hours of irreplaceable documentation of the region and audio recordings, you know, moving images of people and places. But, you know, our greatest concern are the media production archives. GIBSON: We have furniture made from Chester Cornett, a master chair maker, to quilts donated to us by Black coal miners whose families go back generations. It includes family relics that help tell the story of Appalachia. SHAPIRO: Appalshop's collection spans decades. So that was a stunning and jarring experience for sure. I'm six feet tall, and it was - the water was above it. And I remember walking by that sign so many times looking up at it. GIBSON: Then at some point, it was over our WMMT call sign of our radio station. SHAPIRO: Alex Gibson is Appalshop's executive director. And then it raised up higher, and then we're like, oh, well, it's definitely in the archive.
And we were thinking, oh, gosh, well, good thing we moved things off the bottom shelves and good thing we put the drains in. The floods also took a toll on Appalachian arts and heritage pieces, like those housed in the archive of Appalshop, an arts and media center in Whitesburg, Ky.ĪLEX GIBSON: The archive sat, you know, about 15 feet or so below the river.
It's been about a month since flood waters inundated eastern Kentucky, killing dozens of people and destroying many homes and businesses.
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