Dr. Fred Barkey, president of the WV Labor History Assn. and board member of The South Charleston Museum, gives the key to South Charleston to Catherine Pancake at the world premiere March 11, 2006. Receipts from the event were given to the families of the Sago Mine Disaster.
Catherine Pancake, the WV born and raised filmmaker now living in Baltimore, is still showing her landmark film all over and winning more awards, most recently the Silver Chris from the Columbus International Film Festival. It will be shown in Columbus on November 9th. Just visit their “upcoming shows” webpage to see all of the places it will be shown . Ms. Pancake has done one of the best jobs promoting her film of any film I have seen in 30 + years of being a professional film programmer.
The film has already won the Paul Robeson and the Jack Spadaro Awards. It is also being distributed by Bullfrog Films, located in Oley. Pa. Various media including library media have written reviews, getting the word out to librarians and teachers. Hopefully it will be the film that pushs awareness of MTR over the “tipping point” into general awareness.
Ann Pancake, who worked with her sister Catherine on this film, has completed her novel about the effects of MTR – Here is a brief description and a list of events you may want to attend -
Hi everyone,
Please excuse the mass mail and the shameless self-promotion, but I’m
sending this book tour schedule to friends who might be within striking
distance of places I’ll be reading this fall from my new novel, Strange As
This Weather Has Been. It’s about a family struggling with the fallout of
mountaintop removal mining in southern WV and is being published by
Shoemaker & Hoard. If you can make it to any of the readings, I’d be
thrilled to see you. If you can’t, I certainly understand that, too. Feel
free to forward this to anyone else who might be interested, and many
thanks. Oh, and the novel will be available on September 28.
Best wishes,
Ann
Strange As This Weather Has Been: East Coast Events for 2007
September 28-29: Kentucky Women Writers’ Conference,
Lexington, KY. Reading in the Carnegie Center at 1:30 on the 29th.
October 22:
Marshall University, Huntington, WV. Reading at the
Marshall University Student Center at 8 p.m.
October 23:
Catawba College reading and community forum,
Salisbury, NC, at 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Literary Bookpost.
October 24: Appalachian
State University, Boone, NC. Reading at the bookstore at 2 p.m.
October 25:
Salem College,
Winston-Salem, NC. Reading in Shirley Recital Hall, Salem Fine Arts
Center, at 7 p.m.. (I’ll be reading from a short
story in the anthology The Surreal South, not from the novel, but the novel
will be on sale here.)
October 26: Malaprop’s Bookstore,
Asheville, NC. Reading at 7 p.m.
October 27: Taylor Books,
Charleston, WV. Reading at 5:30.
November 1: West Virginia Wesleyan,
Buckhannon, WV. Reading at 7 p.m.
November 5:
West Virginia University. Reading in the Robinson Reading Room
of the Main Library at 7:30 p.m.
November 6:
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA. Reading in the chapel at
7:30 p.m.
November 7:
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. Reading and question/answer session in Chuck Kinder’s class from 6:30-8 p.m.
Speaking of awareness of MTR – yesterday thanks to a MTR listserv I discovered a great MA thesis by Tonya Lynn Adkins written for Marshall University in 2003 evaluating some of the local media’s coverage of MTR. You can download it, almost 100 pages, here – http://www.marshall.edu/etd/masters/adkins-tonya-2003-ma.pdf
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