On Thursday, November 6, 2014, author, journalist, and documentarian Eric Douglas will present “West Virginia Voices of War: Oral Histories from West Virginia War Veterans” in the Archives and History Library in the Culture Center in Charleston. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
West Virginia Voices of War is a documentary weaving together the thoughts of 46 West Virginia war veterans on leaving for war and fighting to get back home afterward. The documentary includes veterans from World War II to Afghanistan. Douglas will show excerpts from the documentary and discuss recording oral histories.
Douglas has a degree in journalism from Marshall University and a certificate in the documentary arts from Duke University. He spent fifteen months interviewing West Virginia war veterans, collecting fifty hours of oral history material that he used in the making of the documentary West Virginia Voices of War. He is the author of Common Valor (2013), the companion book to his documentary. Douglas also has written a series of adventure novels, children’s books, and short stories.
For additional information, contact the Archives and History Library at (304) 558-0230.
