Tuesday, October 29, 2013

      We interviewed Helen Cable Vance (pictured here with daughter Lee Woods)
      about the North Shore Cemetery Association, and her recollections of leaving
      her home when TVA flooded the Little Tennessee River valley during WWII.
                           Lawrence Hyatt is a wealth of information on the North
                           Shore, and the Lauada cemetery.  Thank you, Mr. Hyatt!
                                            DP Brooks Lee, hard at work.
                 Due to the government shutdown, we were unable to film the interview
              with Lawrence Hyatt on Noland Creek, at the site of his family's old home.
                    Lake View Drive, AKA "The Road To Nowhere," in Bryson City, NC.

                            At Christine Proctor's house, with Lawrence Hyatt and  
                          Lost Souls of Lauada DPs Brooks Lee and Jess Marrano.
                    We did drive into the park on US-441 and up to Newfound Gap,
                           stopping at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, to see the elk.
                        At Graveyard Fields Lower Falls, on The Blue Ridge Parkway.

We returned to Bryson City the weekend of October 12, 2013 for the fourth shoot for Lost Souls of Lauada.  Due to the government shutdown, we were unable to film in the park.  We will have to wait until next spring to film the cemetery visitations off of "The Road To Nowhere."  We hope that Mr. Hyatt will be there, so that we can interview him at the site of his family's old home on Noland Creek.

We were able to interview Mr. Hyatt at the home of the ever gracious Christine Proctor.  On Friday, we stopped in Waynesville, to interview Helen Cable Vance at the home of her daughter, Lee Woods.  We were extremely grateful to have Lee invite us into her home, and Helen Vance was a very lively and enthusiastic interviewee for our film.  Thank you Helen and Lee!

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