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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.
After the opening credits, a narrator introduces the Pentecostal community in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. The narrator presents various activities the church partakes in, such as snake handling , speaking in tongues , and four- to six-hour-long meetings at the church multiple times a week.
Preacher Harry Powell is a serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. There he shares a cell with Ben Harper, who killed two men in a bank robbery for $10,000.
Logan County, West Virginia: Act of Vengeance: John Mackenzie: 1986 Charleston, West Virginia: Matewan: John Sayles: 1986 Mingo County, West Virginia [1] [5] [4] [3] Chillers: Daniel Boyd: 1986 Kanawha County, West Virginia: Big Business: Jim Abrahams: 1988 Fayette County, West Virginia: Rain Man: Barry Levinson: December 16, 1988 Huntington ...
The Devil All the Time is the debut novel by American writer Donald Ray Pollock, published in 2011 by Doubleday.Its plot follows desperate characters in post-World War II Southern Ohio and West Virginia, including a disturbed war veteran, a husband and wife who are serial killers, and an abusive preacher.
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The film score features Appalachian music of the period composed and performed by Mason Daring, who frequently works on John Sayles' films. [14] West Virginia bluegrass singer Hazel Dickens sings the film's title track, "Fire in the Hole", and appears in the film as a member of the Freewill Baptist Church whose voice is heard leading the ...
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 ...