Our speaker this morning, Kip Fonsh, will share his experiences as a member of “Hands Across the Hills,” a cultural exchange/dialogue project that brought together two rural communities with differing cultural, social, and political profiles: Leverett in western Mass, and Letcher County in southeastern Kentucky coal country .The first exchange in Leverett was in October, 2017 and the second was in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on April, 2018.