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Nimrod Workman: To Fit My Own Category/Coal Miner: Frank Jackson/UMWA: A House Divided - S1 E8
Premiered On: 02/24/2011
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. A 2011 Production.
- Thursday April 4, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 4, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 4, 2024 1:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 4, 2024 12:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 4, 2024 6:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 4, 2024 5:00 pm CT on KETKY
Harriette Arnow/Ourselves and That Promise - S1 E9
Premiered On: 03/03/2011
In interviews filmed not long before her death, Harriette 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. A 2011 Production.
- Thursday April 11, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 11, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 11, 2024 1:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 11, 2024 12:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 11, 2024 6:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 11, 2024 5:00 pm CT on KETKY
Sourwood Mountain Dulcimers/John Jacob Niles - S1 E10
Premiered On: 03/10/2011
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 Niles, 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. A 2011 Production.
- Thursday April 18, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 18, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 18, 2024 1:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 18, 2024 12:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 18, 2024 6:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 18, 2024 5:00 pm CT on KETKY
Beyond Measure - S1 E11
Premiered On: 03/17/2011
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. A 2011 Production.
- Thursday April 25, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 25, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 25, 2024 1:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 25, 2024 12:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday April 25, 2024 6:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday April 25, 2024 5:00 pm CT on KETKY
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Long Journey Home - S1 E7
- Thursday March 28, 2024 11:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 28, 2024 10:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday March 28, 2024 2:30 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 28, 2024 1:30 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday March 28, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 28, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
Strangers and Kin - S1 E6
- Thursday March 21, 2024 11:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 21, 2024 10:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday March 21, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 21, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
Buffalo Creek: An Act of God/Buffalo Creek Revisited - S1 E5
- Thursday March 14, 2024 11:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 14, 2024 10:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday March 14, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 14, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
Hand Carved - S1 E4
- Thursday March 7, 2024 11:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 7, 2024 10:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday March 7, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday March 7, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY
Coalmining Women/In Ya Blood - S1 E3
- Thursday February 29, 2024 11:00 pm ET on KETKY
- Thursday February 29, 2024 10:00 pm CT on KETKY
- Thursday February 29, 2024 6:00 am ET on KETKY
- Thursday February 29, 2024 5:00 am CT on KETKY