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Robert Sayers Sheffey (July 4, 1820 – August 30, 1902) was an American Methodist evangelist and circuit-riding preacher, renowned for his eccentricities and power in prayer, who ministered to, and became part of the folklore of, the Appalachian region of southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia and eastern Tennessee.
William Thompson is a minister from the Deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth, a city woman. William is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock. The poverty and isolation of the region, and the everyday problems ...
Bascom Ray Lakin (January 5, [1] 1901 – March 15, 1984) was a Baptist preacher and evangelist. B. R. Lakin was born on a farm near Fort Gay, West Virginia, on the Kentucky border. His mother had prayed for a "preacher man" and had dedicated him to God even before he was born. Lakin attended a one-room schoolhouse in West Virginia through the ...
New Martinsville, West Virginia: The Millerson Case: George Archainbaud: 1947 Jefferson County, West Virginia: Roseanna McCoy: Irving Reis & Nicholas Ray: 1949 The Night of the Hunter: Charles Laughton: 1955 Moundsville, West Virginia [1] [2] Shenandoah: Andrew V. McLaglen: 1965 Hardy County, West Virginia: Holy Ghost People: Peter Adair: 1967 ...
View from the Split Rock overlook. The Appalachian Trail (AT) traverses the peak before descending its northwestern slope to the Shenandoah River and Harpers Ferry. A spur trail called the Loudoun Heights Trail (the original route of the AT) leads off the AT down the northern slope, passing by Civil War earthworks and providing good views of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah as well ...
Robert Pierce Shuler Sr. (August 4, 1880 – September 11, 1965), also known as "Fighting Bob", was an American evangelist and political figure. His radio broadcasts from his Southern Methodist church in Los Angeles, California, during the 1920s and early 1930s attracted a large audience and also drew controversy with his attacks on politicians and police officials.
While the Conference was in session, lasting several days, Taylor was invited to preach at the chapel on three occasions. He also once preached on the street, and once to the miners a thousand feet down in Dalcoath Mine. After the Conference Taylor visited Drogheda, Ireland, accompanied by Reverend William Crook and preached a week in his church.
Wally Cox, Virginia Gregg, Lillian Bronson, Whit Bissell and Dub Taylor also appear. The movie, although set in Wyoming, is an inspiration for the long-running CBS television series The Waltons (set in the eastern U.S., in the Appalachian, Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountain chain and the upper southern Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia).