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Appalachian Memory Project
Appalachian Memory Project helps communities in Appalachia preserve their own history.
Oral histories, family photographs, and local traditions: the stories that make a place deserve to be kept.
Why it matters
Every community holds knowledge that cannot be replaced.
When memories fade, so do the details of daily life: local traditions, faith communities, farming practices, music, schools, and businesses. Appalachian Memory Project helps communities record and keep their own history.
Our projects
Communities preserving their own stories.
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Available Now Appalachian Memory ProjectCommunity Storytelling
Madison County, NC: Volume 01: Spring Creek
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Coming Soon Appalachian Memory ProjectCommunity Storytelling
Watch Us Take Care: Madison County in the Wake of Hurricane Helene
$25.00 Learn more
Story → Book → Archive
Preservation begins in the community.
Story
Memories, photographs, traditions, and lived experiences. We record interviews with the people who lived it, make transcripts of each one, and gather the photographs and documents that families share.
Book
A professionally published book that gives them lasting form. The community helps shape it, from the first interview to the final pages, and copies can be sold to support local causes.
Archive
Everything behind the book, kept for future readers, families, and researchers. Recordings, transcripts, and scans stay together, so the full record lasts beyond the printed page.
A living record of Appalachian life.
Appalachian Memory Project
Every story starts with a conversation.
Tell us about your community, and we’ll help you turn its history into a book.