Summary: A picturesque portrait of the nearly extinct mountain culture of Boone County, West Virginia, focusing on the unique character of Jesco White: mountain dancer, petty criminal, Elvis Presley aficionado.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Moviefish 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAN

Walls, Jeannette.

Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.82 WAL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLS

McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Republican Publishing Co. 1915

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 MCW
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 McWho

Summary: A shocking and outlandish year-in-the-life documentary about the White Family of Boone County, West Virginia's most notorious extended family, with shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing and using, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing. Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family glorifies their criminal behavior and lives an existence more like something from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2010

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WIL

Little, Barbara Vines

Contents: Research in West Virginia -- Early history and settlement -- Archives, libraries, and societies -- Major resources : aids to research -- Atlases, gazetteers, and maps -- Bible records -- Biographical guides -- Cemetery records -- Censuses and census substitutes -- Church records -- Colonial and state government records -- County formation and records -- Court records -- Directories -- Ethnic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2017

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3754 LIT

Walls, Jeannette.

Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLS, JEANETTE WAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B WALLS WAL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Walls

Messer, Leah

Summary: "Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV's groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen--from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Messer

Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEV

Tieck, Sarah

Summary: Presents basic information about West Virginia, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.4 TIE

Kaye, Anthony E.

Summary: "In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed, well over a hundred people, Black and white, lay dead or were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURNER, NAT KAY

Summary: Coal provides half of America's electricity. Examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, the heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BUR