Kind Hearts, we finally got our due! After three years, PBS has scheduled both "The Outlaw, Lewis Redmond" and "The Prince of Dark Corners" on the same program. Following is the official PBS promotion:An evening with Lewis Redmond, Outlaw
on UNC-TV, October 8, 2009
9:30 pm THE OUTLAW LEWIS REDMOND
10:00 pm THE PRINCE OF DARK CORNERS
winner of the Bill Arnold NC Film Award
2008 Carolina Film & Video Festival
winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians
2008 Paul Green Multimedia Award
PREVIEW
INCLUDED WITH
THE PRINCE OF DARK CORNERS DVD
$22. + shipping
The true story of an American Robin-Hood. 'Major' Lewis Redmond, the character of history and folklore that inspired the play The Prince of Dark Corners, was the most famous outlaw of his day, outshining contemporaries Jesse James and Billy-the-Kid. In this documentary account of his life and times, folkorists, storytellers, historians and descendents recover the memory of this forgotten renegade, triangulating the real Lewis Redmond between the distortions of hero worship, tabloid fascination, and the savage depictions of the man in Northern newspapers.
Born to a poor farming family in the rugged mountains of Southern Appalachia, Lewis Redmond managed a bootleg network that ranged through three states, fought and eluded the lawmen sent to capture him, and helped poor mountain people pay their taxes and save their family land. The true story of this 'American Robin Hood' grants a privileged view into a turbulent, formative era of American history.An evening with Lewis Redmond, Outlaw
on UNC-TV, October 8, 2009
It looks like things are starting to turn around for you. That's great news about the PBS broadcast. Hopefully it will generate some sales of your videos.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHello Gary - been a while since I made it by here - working on VK2, had an awful angry appendix that is now somewhere in a jar or wherever they put those things they take out of us.
ReplyDeleteSo, how wonderful to come here and hear good news! *clap clap clap* Bravo!
I am thinking of old women on porches, though, this morning, who hear voices that are as real to her as any living person--and who are we to say they are not real?
I missed the show, but i will seek it out. Thank you all for keeping real AMERICAN HISTORY alive. for what is worth, a friend from texas clued an Ohion into this lost piece of our past (my family made some "medicine" in Tennessee)
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