Award-winning short film depicts Appalshop’s connection to Appalachian culture

Award-winning short film depicts Appalshop’s connection to Appalachian culture

Appalshop founder Bill Richardson came to Whitesburg, Ky. in 1969 with a grant from the War on Poverty to teach film to kids in Appalachia. (Anna Richardson White / kentcali.com/appalheads-film)In 1969, Bill Richardson and his wife uprooted their lives in New York City to move to Whitesburg, a small, rural town in eastern Kentucky. Richardson combined his filmmaking knowledge with a sizable federal grant to open Appalshop, a nonprofit arts hub f…