The Fire: this picture features journalist Ernie Pyle (left/back) with two lads from the local area. Pyle was investigating the fire for an article.

The two boys have been tentatively identified as Donald E. Long and Robert C. Long.

Ned Watts, (98) talks about life in the old days as a Perry County offical, the fire and the moonshine.

He died about a year later.

Photo 2004 by Mark Stucker, at the New Straitsville History Group Museum.

Wanda Wallace Martin, with a picture of her mother. Wanda let tour groups (for one day) through the burning hills. She quit after one day, because it even though she had "been around the mine fires all (her) life", it scared her to go so deliberately close.

Photo 2004 by Mark Stucker, at the New Straitsville History Group Museum.

Paul Nutter, local resident and "oil man" sold maps to tourists as a kid.

"We'd get a dime or a quarter for just a hand drawn map showing them where they could see it actually burning," he says."

Photo 2004 by Mark Stucker, at the New Straitsville History Group Museum.

Rebecca Black from the Monday Creek Restoration Project explains Acid Mine Drainage, and why the stream is orange.

Photo 2006, by Valda Lewis, at Jobs Hollow.

Gary Willison, from the Wayne National Forestry Service waits to be interviewed.

Jim Merkl (sound) and Mark Stucker (Dir. of Photography) ready the set.

Photo 2005 by Valda Lewis at the Wayne National Forestry Service HQ

Candy  Witham, from Rural Action, gets prepared to be interviewed.

On the set at Eclipse Company Store.

Photo 2005 by Valda Lewis, Eclipse Company Store.

Cheryl Blosser, research manager and assistant to the producer, sits in the "hot seat" while the crew adjust the lighting and sound.

Jim Merkl sets up the boom mike.

Photo 2005 by Valda Lewis, at the "Spicy Yam" Video workspace.

The Crew with Geoff Buckley, at Eclipse Company Store

L to r Mark Stucker, Director of Photography, Geoff Buckley, Professor of Geography, Ohio University Athens,
Cheryl Blosser, Assistant to the Producer, Jim Merkl, Field Sound Engineer.

Photo 2005 by Valda Lewis, Eclipse Company Store.