Appalshop at 50. Multimedia folk opera "The Way Forth." Historian Thomas Weyant on the cold war and Christmas 

DECEMBER 19 EDITION - FULL LENGTH 

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SEGMENTS 

ONE: Appalshop at 50: a conversation with an "original," filmmaker Herb E. Smith, and Willa Johnson, director of the Appalachian Media Institute. LISTEN 

TWO: Composer , pianist and arranger Rachel Grimes and filmmaker Catharine Axley discuss the original multi-media folk opera "The Way Forth." LISTEN 

THREE: Historian Thomas Weyant talks about his research into the influences of the cold war between the US and former Soviet Union on the modern American Christmas. LISTEN