Dee Davis is president of the Center for Rural Strategies and publisher of the Daily Yonder. He began his media career in 1973 as a trainee at Appalshop, an arts and cultural center devoted to exploring Appalachian life and social issues. While he was Appalshop's executive producer, the organization created more than 50 public television documentaries. He lives in Whitesburg.
Sigmund Freud says we embrace mythical origin stories of leaders, warriors, and saints to disguise their true identity and to give them mystical powers or political agency. Freud gives the example of Moses in the Bible who grew up as a young man of wealth and privilege in Pharaoh’s palace. However we do not think […]
