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Life Stories - S1 E1

Premiered On: 01/06/2001

The lives of two African American women in eastern Kentucky: Mabel Parker Hardison Smith taught school for more than 35 years in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Evelyn Williams, coal miner's daughter and wife, domestic worker and mother of nine, battled to save her land from destruction by a large oil and gas firm. A 2001 Production.

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American Originals—Minnie Black's Gourd Band - S1 E2

Premiered On: 01/13/2001

"Minnie Black's Gourd Band," a 90-year-old woman made art from the gourds she grew and performed in a senior citizens' band. "Catfish: Man of the Woods," a fifth generation herb doctor, living near Glenwood, WV.

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Environment—On Our Land - S1 E3

Premiered On: 01/20/2001

"On Our Own" Land chronicles the citizens' fight to end strip mining without the landowner's consent in Kentucky. "Ready for Harvest: Clearcutting in the Southern Appalachians" documents a western North Carolina effort to change U.S. Forest Service policy.

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Economy - S1 E4

Premiered On: 01/27/2001

"Fast Food Women" is a film about women who are part of the nation's working poor. "Blue Grass/Black Market?" shows the underground economy of marijuana cultivation.

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Down-Home Artists - S1 E5

Premiered On: 02/03/2001

"Homemade Tales: Songs and Sayings of Florida Slone" celebrates a unique woman. "Morgan Sexton: Bull Creek Banjo Player" has been awarded a National Heritage Fellowship for his voice and banjo.

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Stranger with a Camera - S2 E9

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Coal Bucket Outlaw/Applewise - S2 E8

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Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song - S2 E7

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To Save the Land and People - S2 E6

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