Video of the Blue Ridge Parkway


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Blue Ridge Views

For the September 2008 installment of our ongoing Blue Ridge Views project, the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection presents the February 16, 1990 segment focusing on blues musician Turner L. Foddrell (1928-1995) of Stuart, Patrick County, Virginia.  He is interviewed at the country store he ran on Route 8.  The video also features Turner’s son, Lynn.

Television cameraman and traditional musician Chuck Hemrick produced this popular weekly news feature focused on cultural traditions, especially traditional music, of western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia. These two-to-three minute features were broadcast by High Point, North Carolina’s WGHP-TV FOX 8, as part of the Friday evening news, from February 1990 to September 1993. In October 2005, Mr. Hemrick donated the original studio tapes of all 101 Blue Ridge Ridge Views features, the original unedited camera tapes used to produce the segments, and other regionally-related footage he shot in the course of his career to the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.

A new episode of Blue Ridge Views will be featured on the Special Collections webpage each month.  Eventually, all the Blue Ridge Views episodes and other select video from Mr. Hemrick’s collection will be available as part of Documenting Appalachia.

For more information about Chuck Hemrick's collection of videos, please see Collection 395. Chuck Hemrick Papers.