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- In 1825, William Jenkins did the unthinkable. He crossed the rugged Appalachians to establish a Southern-style plantation on the wilderness fringe of Western Virginia. At its peak in the mid-1800s, the sprawling estate employed around eighty slaves working seventeen hundred acres of rich Ohio River bottomland. Being loyal Virginians, the family cast its lot with the Confederacy during the Civil War. Their actions would trigger a series of fateful events that ended the plantation lifestyle and nearly destroyed the family's once-proud legacy. Over a century later all that remained of this massive enterprise was the family home. With the support of the US Army Corps of Engineers, a team of archeologists turned a lot of dirt to rediscover the past and help interpret this lost era in American history.
- This film documents the birth of the TeleDrum program during the making of the short-feature film "Duara" in Tanzania, East Africa. The documentary chronicles the challenges faced by crews from two dramatically different cultures coming together in a short period of time to learn filmmaking.
- Red Salt and Reynolds interprets the historic archeology at the Marmet Lock Replacement Project, in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The excavations uncovered four salt furnaces, John Reynolds' mansion, the cabin occupied by his slaves and the cemetery where he and several family members were buried.