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Coalmining Women/In Ya Blood #103 [TV-G]
Interviewed at home and on the job, women coal miners tell of the conditions that led them to seek employment in this traditionally male-dominated industry and the problems they encountered once hired. And, the story of a typical young man from Appalachia in the summer after his senior year in high school. He must face the difficult decision faced by many Appalachian youth - whether to stay in the mountains or leave in search of a "better life."

• KETKY Tuesday, May 21 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, May 24 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, May 25 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, August 6 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, August 9 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, August 10 at 2:00 am EDT

Hand Carved #104 [TV-G]
Chester Cornett made chairs for Presidents and his work is displayed in museums across the country. In this film, Chester fells a tree on the site of his family's homeplace on the top of Pine Mountain in southeastern Kentucky and transports it back to his small apartment and workshop in inner-city Cincinnati. He uses simple hand tools to chop, whittle, and carve the wood into an exquisite, eight-legged, "two-in-one" rocker.

• KETKY Tuesday, May 28 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, May 31 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, June 1 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, August 13 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, August 16 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, August 17 at 2:00 am EDT

Buffalo Creek: An Act of God/Buffalo Creek Revisited #105 [TV-G]
On February 26, 1972, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. The disaster left 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. Interviews with survivors, representatives of union and citizen's groups, and officials of the Pittston Company are juxtaposed with actual footage of the flood. Filmed ten years after the Flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster, in which the survivors' efforts to rebuild the communities are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region's land and resources.

• KETKY Tuesday, June 4 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, June 7 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, August 20 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, August 23, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Strangers and Kin #106 [TV-G]
The film traces the evolution of the "hillbilly" image through Hollywood films, network news and entertainment shows, dramatic renderings of popular literature, and interviews with contemporary Appalachians to demonstrate how stereotypes are created, reinforced, and often used to rationalize exploitation.

• KETKY Tuesday, June 11 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, June 14 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, June 15 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, August 30, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Long Journey Home #107 [TV-G]
This documentary dispels this myth of a "pure Anglo-Saxon" Appalachia as it explores the ethnic diversity of the region, the economic forces causing people to migrate into and out of the area, and the personal choices individuals make to stay, to leave, and to come back.

• KETKY Tuesday, June 18 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, June 21 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, June 22 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, September 6, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category/Coal Miner: Frank Jackson/UMWA: A House Divided #108 [TV-G]
Nimrod Workman was born in 1895 and spent his life raising a family of eleven by working in the West Virginia coal mines. The film is an extended visit at his home as he and his family prepare meals, build an addition to the house, dig for yellow root, swap jokes with the neighbors, and enjoy each other's company. Next, an early Appalshop film juxtaposes coal miner Frank Jackson's personal recollections of union organizing and mining work with scenes of him in and around the mines. Also, a film of a speech given by W.A. Boyle, president of UMWA, at a miners' rally in Big Stone Gap, Va., in the summer of 1970 with scenes at a mine and interviews with working and disabled miners.

• KETKY Tuesday, June 25 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, June 28 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, June 29 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, September 13, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Harriette Arnow/Ourselves and That Promise #109 [TV-G]
In interviews filmed not long before her death, Harriet Simpson Arnow, author of the The Dollmaker, describes the basic biographical details of her life and reveals the difficulties of being a writer, a wife, and a mother. And. three contemporary Kentuckians, James Still, Robert Penn Warren, and Billy Davis, discuss their work and its relationship to the environment in which they live.

• KETKY Tuesday, July 2 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, July 5 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, July 6 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, September 20, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Sourwood Mountain Dulcimers/John Jacob Niles #110 [TV-G]
I.D. Stamper, a master dulcimer builder and player from Letcher County, Ky., and John McCutcheon, a young musician, play together, swap tunes, discuss musical traditions, and demonstrate the difference between hammered and mountain-style dulcimer. And, a portrait of John Jacob Nile, the adding machine repairman who came to eastern Kentucky in 1909 and became a much-noted "arranger, expander, collector, recorder, and performer" of traditional Appalachian ballads. The film shows Niles in concert, at home, at work arranging his music, and explaining the historical place of balladry in American music.

• KETKY Tuesday, July 9 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, July 12 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, July 13 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, September 27, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Beyond Measure #111 [TV-G]
Explores the interplay between culture and economy while looking at the economic history of the Appalachian region. Focusing primarily on current events, the film puts the challenges of large-scale job loss in historical context and documents efforts of citizens to rebuild their communities.

• KETKY Tuesday, July 16 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, July 19 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, July 20 at 2:00 am EDT
• KETKY Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, October 4, 2013 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 2:00 am EDT

Sunnyside of Life #101 [TV-G]
Celebrates the legacy of the country music dynasty the Carter Family by focusing on the Carter Family Fold in Maces Spring, Va., an old-time music hall founded in 1975 by Janette, Joe, and Gladys, the children of A.P. and Sara Carter. The film features Saturday night performances at the Fold by such artists as the Home Folks, Red Clay Ramblers, and Hot Mud Family. The film also includes a history of the Carter Family.

• KETKY Tuesday, July 23 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, July 26 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, July 27 at 2:00 am EDT

Big Lever #102 [TV-G]
In 1978 Richard Nixon chose Letcher County, Ky., for his first public appearance since resigning the presidency. Priceless footage of his visit introduces this incisive and sometimes hilarious look at the engines that drive American politics. The film explores the machinations of party politics in this rural and staunchly Republican county.

• KETKY Tuesday, July 30 at 7:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Friday, August 2 at 10:00 pm EDT
• KETKY Saturday, August 3 at 2:00 am EDT