Fast Food Women
FAST FOOD WOMEN 1992, 29:00An inside look at the lives of women who fry chicken, make pizzas, and flip burgers at four fast food restaurants in easter Kentucky. Documents the low…
Minnie Black’s Gourd Band
MINNIE BLACK'S GOURD BAND 1988, 29:00 Minnie Black is ninety years old but she's still making music and art out of the gourds she grows in her backyard garden in East…
Lily May Ledford
LILY MAY LEDFORD 1988, 29:00 Lily May Ledford--the original "banjo-pickin' girl"--led the Coon Creek Girls, the first all-woman stringband on radio. The program includes footage of Lily May performing and interviews…
Mud Creek Clinic
MUD CREEK CLINIC 28:30, 1987 Portrait of Eula Hall and a primary health clinic organized by a welfare rights organization in eastern Kentucky. "Eminently lucid and captivating....A sobering and compelling rendition…
Mabel Parker Hardison Smith
Mabel Parker Hardison Smith
MABEL PARKER HARDISON SMITH 1985, 28:30 African-American teacher in the coalfields for 35 years and gospel musician. "Smith articulately recollects the life of a black miner’s family while archival and personal…
Sarah Bailey
SARAH BAILEY 1984, 29:00 From Bledsoe in Harlan County, Kentucky, a portrait of e of Appalachia's finest weavers and corn shuck artists. "From her corn shuck dolls and flowers to…