“I can’t make old friends” NEW trailer for Hollow
Updates associated with an interactive documentary project that examines the future of McDowell County, West Virginia. Posts by Elaine McMillion, documentary storyteller and project director of HOLLOW. Interactive experience will launch in May 2013.
Informational Website: www.hollowthefilm.com
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Mary McKinney’s drawings of her “future McDowell.” Really inspiring documents here, folks. This is just a few examples of ideas for Keystone and Landgraff out of a whole package she gave me. I dare anyone to tell me the people of McDowell don’t have ideas for improving their communities. It’s time we take these ideas to those in power and make things happen in the coalfields.
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The photo above was taken in Coalwood, WV in December 2011. At one point in time, Coalwood was a booming coal mining town and home to many families and a thriving community. Coalwood reached its peak in the 1960s and finally shut down production on October 1, 1982…today it is left with the scars and skeletons of industry.
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Coalwood, West Virginia by Tom Hindman
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Children of Clabe Hicks, miner, Ten people, two adults and eight children live in a four room house for which they pay $11 monthly, plus $1 monthly for water and $2 monthly for electricity, 08/27/1946 (NARA)
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Flooding in Logan County
Photos by Craig Cunningham/Daily Mail
“On Elkhorn Mountain”
Photo by Alan Johnston, McDowell County resident and community blogger for Hollow.
Al Gravely had one of the few barber shops that I know of in the area. In fact, I can’t think of another one off the top of my head. His shop was located on McDowell Street in Welch, West Virginia. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to have captured this shot of Al not long before he retired. The man in the chair is Henry Paul, former mayor of Gary, West Virginia. This shot was taken in April of 2009. Last account I had someone else had re-opened Al’s barber shop.
Community Blog Post and Photo by Alan Johnston—Hollow
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Love flourishes for state’s longest-married couple
After 70 years together, the pair is still going strong and were recently declared West Virginia’s longest-married couple.
Both McDowell County natives, the two met in War in 1941 and were married six months later on Dec. 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
“I was from War and he was from Coalwood,” Juanita said. “We just met casually when we were both walking down the street in War. I was 17 and he was 19 years old. Our first date was to a place where people went to dance in War. We were together about six months before he asked me to marry him.”
