A look at "the Meadow", where the great racehorse Secretariat was born at ten minutes past midnight, march 30, 1970.
A look at the retro countdowns that broadcast television stations once used to cue their anchors. Countdowns like this one were electronically spliced on the front of the footage to insure accurate timing as the director counted down the seconds to first video via what was known as an ifb device worn by the “talent” in their ears. In the pre-digital era, film and/or video tape could shrink or stretch due to atmospheric conditions. That required the countdowns to be specially produced for each ...
A look at the retro countdowns that broadcast television stations once used to cue their anchors. Countdowns like this one were electronically spliced on the front of the footage to insure accurate timing as the director counted down the seconds to first video via what was known as an ifb device worn by the “talent” in their ears. In the pre-digital era, film and/or video tape could shrink or stretch due to atmospheric conditions. That required the countdowns to be specially produced for each ...
Some pictures of "Covert Action", a grandson of the great racehorse Secretariat. He is a "rescued" horse and is shown here at the birthplace of Scretariat at the "Meadow" in Caroline County Virginia, and in the very stall where Secretariat lived when he was here in 1970. Thoroughbred rehabilitation
Johnny Philip Morris at the Winchester Virginia Apple Blossom Festival in 1964 or 1965
"The Meadow" in Caroline County, Virginia. Picutre and audio recorded at exactly 10 minutes after midnight on march 30, 2008.
A vintage piece about the wild pony round-up held every fall at Mount Rogers Virginia.
A vintage story about a legal moonshine still in Culpepper Virginia
An account of a coal strike that pitted the UMW against the mightly Pittston Coal Group centered in Southwest Virginia.