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Article: Buffalo Creek filmmaker to speak at Cultural Center
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 23, 2006
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Mimi Pickering, a filmmaker from Appalshop Inc. in Whitesburg, Ky.
will speak at the state's Cultural Center in Charleston on Wednesday
evening.
Pickering's 1975 film, "The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man,"
was one of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry by
the Library of Congress last month.
After showing excerpts from two films she made about Buffalo
Creek, Pickering will give a talk entitled, "Do Social Documentaries
Influence Anyone?"
Jack Spadaro, former head of the U.S. Mine Health and Safety
Academy, will also speak. Spadaro, who lives in Hamlin, was staff
engineer for the West Virginia governor's 1972 inquiry into the
Buffalo Hollow disaster.
"The Buffalo Creek ...