Box 6

Film depicts the First Annual Appalachian People's Music Fair held in High Knob, VA on September 12 and 13, 1970. Five musical segments of jug band, bluegrass, blue, and two special numbers - a strip-mining epic and the tragicomic "Ballad of Big Josie" - are shown.

Tells the story of county extension agents, children and adults and their part in the community action in a by-passed WV community.

Humble Oil travelogue showing cities and highways of WV, also road construction.

Shows severe economic depression of Appalachia fed by illiteracy, cultural isolation, exploitation and destruction of the land by coal companies. Shows condition which forced 2 million people to leave for industrial cities of the North. Examines the relationship of that migration to the urban crisis.

Explores the causes of poverty in rural areas of the Appalachian region, Deep South and the Southwest. Shows examples of successful attempts to solve problems Buckhorn KY Ayters Gap, VA.

Shows the important need for improved roads and additional markets, since dairy farming supplies one-third of the gross farm income of WV.