Collaborators

Media Production Personnel

Project Director & Producer/Writer, B.J. Sharp-Gudmundsson, of Lewisburg, WV, is a native of Pocahontas County. 

 

She attended West Virginia University, and was Station Manager of WVMR community radio in Dunmore, WV beginning in 1980.  Her work in independent production began with videos for community organizations producing the United Way of Greenbrier Valley in 1998.  Gudmundsson  now dedicates her time to preserving West Virginia history through film beginning with the video production of the Monroe Co. Bicentennial play, Women of Monroe.  Her most recent production is Out of the Storm which she also wrote and directed.  She continues as that Project’s Director giving public presentations and promoting the film.   She is currently Project Director of the Pocahontas Co. Free Libraries’ “Oral History Media Project.”

Co-Producer & Photographer, Doug Chadwick, of Hillsboro, WV, received his education in Oregon, Washington State and Rome, Italy and began working in West Virginia as a photographer for The Fayette Tribune and The Raleigh Register. 

 

In 1979 he co-produced the film documentary, True Facts in a Country Song, on the life of WV musician, Everett Lilly, which aired on WV Public Television.  He recently co-produced Out of the Storm, and continues in the promotion and presentation of that film.  Chadwick’s panoramic work has established him as one of the state’s premier photographers and his work has appeared in Goldenseal since the magazine’s first year. 

Co-Producer & Assistant Writer, Paul Rose, of White Sulphur Springs, WV, a graduate of  Alfred University and has lived in West Virginia for 30 years.  In 1980, Rose founded the “West Virginia Radio News Network” which became “Mountainet News.” He has 30 years of multi-media experience in directing, producing, writing, editing and investigative reporting.  His recent productions include United Way of Greenbrier Valley and he served as a consultant to Out of the Storm.

Historians

Dr. John A. Cuthbert -  Head of Special Collections and Curator of the West Virginia and Regional History Collection at West Virginia University and Director of the West Virginia University Art Collection.  

Dr. Cuthbert is curator of David Hunter Strother “One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses and is author of the recent book on West Virginia painters, Early Art and Artists in West Virginia.  He served as lead historian on “The Galford Lumber Co. Documentary Project”, Out of the Storm and is the recent recipient of the Charles H. Daugherty Award in the Humanities.

Dr. Robert S. Conte - Historian for The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV.  

Dr. Conte has served on the West Virginia Humanities Council, is a current Director of the West Virginia Archives and History Commission and serves on the board of the Monroe County Historical Society.  Mr. Conte is author of the book, The History of the Greenbrier: America’s Resort and is frequently interviewed on the resort’s history for documentaries such as The Secret Bunker, produced by The History Channel.

William P. McNeel - Editor of The Pocahontas Times in Marlinton, WV.  

Bill McNeel is a founding member of the Pocahontas County Historical Society and the Mountain State Railroad and Logging Historical Association.  He is  a member and officer of the West Virginia Historical Society and serves on the West Virginia Humanities Council.  McNeel is the grandson of the late Calvin Price and has devoted his life to the study of Pocahontas County history.  He is author of The Durbin Route, the history of the Greenbrier Division of the C&O Railroad and served as historian on “The Galford Lumber Co. Documentary Project”, Out of the Storm.

Editorial Consultant

Mr. Charlie Peters - Founder and retired Editor of The Washington Monthly,  national syndicated columnist and author of Tilting at Windmills.

Conservation Consultant

Dr. Char Miller - Senior Research Fellow for the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and author of the award-winning biography, Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism.

Gary Aide of Ronceverte, WV, graduated from Marshall University. He has worked for over 20 years doing radio, television and newspaper advertising.  For the past seven years Aide has worked as a freelance videographer using new DVcam digital production equipment producing programs and commercials for The Greenbrier, The WV Mining and Reclamation Assn., The West Virginia State Fair and others.  He was producer of the one-hour video, The Flood of ‘96 and his most recent accomplishment is that of Video Editor on   Out of the Storm.