From the Hills and Hollers: THIS IS PIKE COUNTY with Laura Paglin

Join us Thursday, November 12th at 7:00 p.m. As our Appalachian Stories Series continues with a haunting and unforgettable documentary about coming of age in a landscape that has been left behind! Admission is FREE - Tickets are required About the film This powerful, intimate, and multi-faceted documentary from filmmaker Laura Paglin delves into the day-to-day lives of the local residents of Piketon and Pike County, Ohio. As the story moves from person to person, an image emerges of a close-knit community struggling to keep its identity while factors like poverty, drug addiction, lack of opportunity, a constantly-shifting cultural landscape, the construction of a nuclear waste storage facility, and an unsolved murder all threaten to erase the values and quality of life that took generations to build. Though the future often looks bleak for Pike County, this film beautifully relates the struggle between the temptation to give up and the urge to hold on. About the speaker Laura Paglinis a documentary filmmaker whose more recent films have dealts pecifically with struggles of marginalized communities. No Umbrella-Election Day in the City, which brings us a street level view of election day chaos as it played out in one inner city poling location, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO. Facing Forward: A Student's Story, which follows a charismatic but troubled teenager at a strict new inner city charter school, aired nationally on PBS. Paglin's Unseen