Apple Shop is a media art and education center in Whitesburg that's been a major voice telling the stories of eastern Kentucky and Appalachia since 1969.

And now there are more ways than ever to hear those stories.

The details and our look at arts and culture each week that we call Tapestry.

If you really think about the way we view media and the way media has changed in just the last 15 years, it's astronomical.

So we've really been working this last couple of years, especially once the floods here of like, how do we make our stuff open and accessible to the community really, given that availability?

And so we are slowly releasing all of our catalog onto YouTube.

So every week you're getting two new Apple Shot films.

We're streaming through YouTube, but we've also been working with this really great company to really help us get out to larger distribution platform.

So we are now accessible on Amazon Prime to the Roku and more platforms are being added, hopefully as we speak that people are.

More interested in people than in ideas.

Initially.

It's been great.

It's been like really, really fun to see how excited and engaged people are.

Our numbers keep growing.

We really encourage anyone to subscribe to our YouTube channel because we celebrate the way we sound.

We celebrate our history, we question our history, we push.

But, you know, it's it is sort of hopefully creating a better understanding of who we are.

So it's just been really exciting to see so many different generations of people in engaging and interacting and sharing through social media.

I think it's important to pass down the traditions of the speech and the way we say things, because that's where it came from.

My mom and then it came.

From if we're ever supposed to be this melting pot or this patchwork quilt that we all we all are supposed to be a little bit different, and that's okay.

And so I think having media that represents us is pretty important.

And I also think like breaking down the stereotype of who we are is pretty important that it's not all white coal miners, you know?

There's a there's a diversity of people who live and thrive and work to make this place better.

Here it that they have.

Apple Shop has been working out of temporary offices in Jenkins following the floods of 2020 to.