From helping artisans to hone their craft to providing an avenue to market their work, the Pine Mountain Letcher County Crafts Co-op played an integral part in the preserving and passing down of mountain heritage through the art of crafts making. Ann Bradley, Letcher County extension agent and founder of the Pine Mountain Letcher County Crafts Cooperative, joins a cast of quilters, woodworkers, basket makers and luthiers from across the region to talk about their work and what the co-op has meant for them and their communities.
Watch the full film on the @appalshop YouTube page here: https://loom.ly/05egjXM
🎥: Appalachian Media Institute, "The Business of Our Heritage," Melissa Hamilton, Jerry Boggs, and Neil Bedwell, 1993.
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