Wayne Ewing began his filmmaking career in West Virginia in 1972 with his film about The McGraw Brothers, “If Elected.” In 2004 he made a second film about them called “The Last Campaign.” (more…)

Enda Cullen from Dublin and Ian Smith from Donegal drove from Nashville to Charleston on Monday after a week working with musicians in Music City.

They provided the opening song for the CD of music provided on the audiobook of “When Miners March,” called “Death of a Mountain.” Enda is a banker who is also a song writer; Ian is a professional musician well known in Ireland and Scotland. They came to tour the sites of the WV Mine Wars including Blair Mountain.

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Joe Geiger, Dick Fauss, Ed Hicks and other staff members of the WV State Archives at the WV Cultural Center have been posting many great clips of historic WV events at their website.

There are almost 50 historic clips up plus footage of some 13 WV governors plus several speakers including Dr. Fred Barkey, Terry Lively, Russ Barbour, Dr. Ken Baily, Debby Sonis and others talking about the importance of the WV State Archives. Joe has told me that they are always posting new film footage and new photos.