Take a Ride with Popcorn Sutton | Part 4

See the award-winning Popcorn Sutton book at suckerpunchpictures.com "beautiful" — Foreword Reviews "inherently fascinating" — Midwest Book Review "unlike anything else you’re likely to experience" — A Thin Slice of Anxiety Book Blog ____________________________________________________________________________ TAKE A RIDE WITH POPCORN SUTTON | PART 4 Raw footage from the documentary POPCORN SUTTON — A HELL OF A LIFE A documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Neal Hutcheson Recommended to use captions. Music by Joe Knowlton (from demos for A Hell of a Life) In this raw footage, Popcorn drives through Hemphill and takes it in. He thought he might not ever return again in his lifetime, and to the best of my knowledge, he never did. Most of the families he knew growing up there were all gone. “They didn’t move out, they died out,” he said earlier. By that time, most of the properties there were summer homes built by “Florida people.” We left Hemphill by Jonathan Creek and returned to Maggie Valley. Again, not a lot going on here, but underneath it there is a palpable sense of the tremendous transformations in the region in the twentieth century and a glimpse of a vibrant, deeply-rooted part of the mountain population (the part that is in fact most emblematic of Appalachian culture) diminishing in numbers. For other projects and collaborations with Hutcheson, visit www.languageandlife.org www.landandwaterrevisited.org www.talkingblackinamerica.org www.suckerpunchpictures.com ____________________________________________________ visit www.suckerpunchpictures.com