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May 5, 2010. ( 2010-05-05) (United States) Running time. 88 minutes. Language. English. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a 2009 documentary film directed by Julien Nitzberg chronicling the White family of Boone County, West Virginia .
Jesco White was born in Bandytown, a tiny community located in the Appalachian Mountains of Boone County, West Virginia, to an unknown family who abandoned him and he was adopted by Donald Ray White (1927–1985), also known as D. Ray White, and Bertie Mae White. White's adoptive father was profiled in the Smithsonian Folkways documentary ...
Julien Nitzberg. Julien Nitzberg (born 1965) is an American screenwriter, stage writer, lyricist, theater director and film director, best known in the film world as the director of the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. In the theater world, Nitzberg is best known for writing the book and lyrics for two musicals.
Mountain white. Mountain whites were white Americans (usually poor) living in Appalachia and the inland region of the Antebellum South. They were generally small farmers, who inhabited the valleys of the Appalachian range from western Virginia spanning down to northern Georgia and northern Alabama. [ 1]
He played professionally in the National Football League(NFL) and Canadian Football League(CFL). He played college footballfor the West Virginia Mountaineersand was selected by the Miami Dolphinsin the second round of the 2009 NFL draft. White was also a baseballoutfielder.
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. [ 1] Its county seat is Madison. [ 2] Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and ...
Location of Whitesville in Boone County, West Virginia. / 37.98139°N 81.53417°W / 37.98139; -81.53417. Whitesville is a town and former coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. [2] Whitesville was incorporated on August 15, 1935, by the Boone County ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]