Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon, “King Coal” closed this semester’s Cultural Enhancement Series on Thursday, April 11, at the Capitol. “A quilt of the community,” as Sheldon described it, “King Coal” weaves the scenery of Appalachia and the stories of people who live there together. The film follows several characters, one of.
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Elaine McMillion Sheldon writes, directs and narrates a documentary film about the cultural hold of coal in West Virginia, part of so many families’ histories, including her own