A project that may interest a number of our readers and members:-

After Coal: Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities

" I am working to raise $5000 to support After Coal: Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities. This documentary film that explores how two mining cultures face the challenge of their dependence on fossil fuels. Currently the Appalachian coalfields are struggling with chronic unemployment and environmental degradation, while Wales has experimented with strategies to rebuild their communities after the mines closed. As the Appalachian coalfields enter their last generation of mining, this documentary project will help map directions to a sustainable future after coal ." .... more .

"As y'all may recall, this summer I took a class on Postindustrial Wales as my first graduate course at Appalachian State. For our final assignment, we were instructed by Billy Schumann to propose three sites for a proposed Appalachia/Wales documentary. I'd love to share my proposal with y'all (it is quite humorously cinematic), but it was handwritten when I submitted it this summer. I've become quite interested in Wales and am trying to find ways to incorporate what I've seen into my thesis.".... more .