I
Can Almost See the Lights of Home ~
A
Field Trip to Harlan County, Kentucky
PRODUCTION CREDITS AND AUTHORS' PROFILES
Credits:
"I Can Almost See the Lights of Home ~
A Field Trip to Harlan County, Kentucky
An Essay-In-Sound"
Writers: Charles Hardy III and Alessandro Portelli
Interviews: Alessandro Portelli
Musical recordings: Alessandro Portelli and Charles Hardy III
Producer/Engineer: Charles Hardy
Financial assistance provided by the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, the West Chester University
Faculty Development Program, the English Department of the Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza," and a grant from the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Special thanks to Annie Napier, Ron Grele, Mary Marshall Clark, Stig Hornshøf-Møller,
Steve Rowland, and the participants of the 1997 Oral History Research Office Oral History Summer Institute.
Our thanks to the University of Kentucky and Annie Napier for permission to reproduce photographs.
Web site design and multimedia production:
Gerald Zahavi and Susan McCormick
About the authors:
Charles Hardy III (B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1989, Temple University) is a professor of
history at West Chester University. An award-winning producer of both
public radio and video documentaries, Hardy was the principal project
historian and editor of The United States History Video Collection,
(Prentice Hall, 1998), a ten-hour American history textbook on videotape, and the first producer of Crossroads (1987), a national weekly radio
newsmagazine on multicultural affairs. His sound documentaries for public
radio include The Popular Culture Show (1982-84), I Remember When: Times
Gone But Not Forgotten (1983), Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration
(1985), and The Return of the Shad (1992). His audio art productions
include Mordecai Mordant's Celebrated Audio Ephemera (1986), and This Car
to the Ballpark (1988), a quadraphonic audio arcade produced from oral
histories, archival recordings, and sound manipulations. Dr. Hardy taught
in the Columbia University Oral History Research Office's annual Summer
Institute from 1995 to 1998. His awards include a Red Ribbon in
Educational Programming from the American Film and Video Association
(1990), a Public Radio Program Award (1983) from the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, and three Audio Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts.
Alessandro Portelli teaches American literature in the University of Rome
�La Sapienza.� In the field of oral history, he is the author of Biografia
di una citt�. Storia e racconto: Terni 1830-1985 (Torino: Einaudi, 1985);
The Death of Luigi Trastulli and other Stories. Form and Meaning in Oral
History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991); The Battle of Valle Giulia. Oral
History and the Art of Dialogue (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1997); and L� ordine � gi� stato eseguito. Roma, le Fosse Ardeatine, la
memoria (Roma: Donzelli, 1999), which won the Viareggio Book Prize for 1999. He has also
edited a number of long-playing records based on field research in oral
history and folk music in Italy and the United States.
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