New 2009 Fall Goldeseal has three stories about Spanish in West Virginia
Luis Argeo came to West Virginia several years ago to make a film about his Asturian relatives who had moved to central West Virginia. With the help of Chip Hitchcock and WVPBS, he made his excellent film, “AsturianUS.” ( You can see clips of the film and on the making of the film if you follow the previous link.) The film had its world premiere in Madrid and US premiere at The South Charleston Museum as part of its WV Labor Series. Now John Lilly,editor of Goldenseal magazine, has taken an article by Mr. Argeo and two stories by Raymond Alvarez to show the lost lifestyle of those Spanish immigrants to came to our state so many years ago. I highly recommend reading Lilly’s introduction and the other three stories and obtaining a copy of the film from WVPBS TV. The same fall issue has my abbreviated list of new films on WV and Appalachia, listing about 18 of the more than 50 films I have discovered or rediscovered this year. Lilly says he will post my complete list at some time.
October 28th, 2009 at
[…] Luis Argeo is a Spanish-born filmmaker/author who came to WV several years ago and made his film, “AsturianUS,” about people from the northern province of Spain, Asturias, coming to the Clarksburg area in the early part of the 20th century. I worked with him on the film, and programmed the North American premiere after it had its world premiere in Madrid. The fall Goldenseal features a story by Mr. Argeo about his research along with three other articles about the Spanish in West Virginia. He will be flying in from Madrid to introduce his film on December 11th at 7 PM open the Clarksburg Pare Lorentz Film Festival. […]