Director’s note: Welcome to 2014
photo courtesy of Robert Gipe, Harlan County, KY As we move into the new year, I want to provide a brief update on the After Coal project. The past year has been busy and exciting – our production team recorded more than 50 hours of interviews and location footage in the coalfields of central Appalachia and South Wales. Some highlights of this past year’s work on After Coal include traveling to Wales, recording a rehearsal of Cor Meibion Onllwyn (The Onllwyn Male Voice Choir), and a tour of the historic Tower mine site in south Wales. Closer to home in In Harlan County, Kentucky, we followed the Higher Ground project as they created the new community play: Foglights. Higher Ground 4: Foglights played to sell out crowds at four historic sites throughout the county. You can read project director Robert Gipe’s blog to learn more about this powerful project. […]