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    Videos



  • | Eli Kaplan

    Fred and Margaret Merida, both in their early 70s, have been married for 45 years.

  • A Band of Opportunity | Benjamin Drummond

    For Joey Gutierez, a senior at Mayfield High School, picking up a trumpet and joining the marching band ...

  • An open exchange | Amy Patterson

    The Mayfield Auction Barn is a community gathering place. Ricky Morris, 55, knows most of his customers, and ...

  • It’s All About Apples | Joanie Tobin

    As owner of Mathis Orchard, Coleman Mathis, 75, deals with much more than one apple a day. However, ...

  • Juggy's Holy Smoke | David Smith

  • Loyal Lumberman | Velvet S. McNeil

    For more than 50 of his 76 years, Frank Coble has worked at C.B. Goodman & Sons lumber ...

  • Old Meets New | Paul Dot

    The vintage Hammond B3 organ hums as it warms up, soon to be tickled by Mayfield native Steve ...

  • Passion for pompoms | Minny Lee

  • Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere | Jack Gruber

    David Meeks has been growing pumpkins for family and friends for nearly 20 years on his northern Graves ...

  • St. Francis of Mayfield | Mike Cohea

    A near-fatal accident allowed Joseph Lacewell, of Wingo, to leave his job as a chemical engineer and dedicate ...

  • The broom man | Britney McIntosh

    Richard Henson, owner of Henson Broom and General Store in Symsonia, is a third-generation broom maker. He makes ...

  • The buzz about bees | H. Darr Beiser

    Kent Williams says he had every intention of turning a couple of bee hives behind his home into ...

  • The faithful walk | Kevin Martin

    A love of song and a belief in God are the pillars for 82 year-old Cynthia Wiggins. Cynthia ...

  • The good loser | Todd Spoth

    Wilker Harrison "Mickey" Stubblefield, 82, signed a 1947 contract making him the first African-American ever to play Kitty ...



  • Slide shows



  • A Balancing Act | Djamila Grossman

    Wherever Virginia Garrott, goes during her busy day of errands and social gatherings, people stop her to chat. ...

  • A Brother Apart | Philip Andrews

    Jordan and Ashlyn Dowdy have an unusual relationship for siblings. She is active in school and preparing for ...

  • A Cut Above | Lance Booth

    Charles Ray Harris has been a barber in Mayfield for nearly half a century. He's cut generations of ...

  • A Different Kind of Heart | Travis Garner

    Addi Pervine, 19 months old, was born with an underdeveloped left20heart. The Pervine family has shaped their lives ...

  • A Life of Service | Alyce Henson

    Cathy Steddum is always on the go. In addition to caring for her son, Robbie, she teaches kindergarten, ...

  • A Mother to Many | Scott McIntyre

    Lisa West said she was called by God to build a ministry, but it’s not a church. She ...

  • A Player on Many Fields | Patrick Fallon

    High school has been the center of Alex Adams’s life. The Mayfield High School senior is a cheerleader ...

  • Animals Best Friend | Cody Duty

    Dr. Charles Badger has practiced at the Mayfield Veterinary Clinic for 16 years. He never knows what he’ll ...

  • Circulating Care | Crista Chapman

    Sandy Alderice, Mayfield's bookmobile librarian, provides books and companionship throughout Graves County.

  • Committed to Community | Curtis DeGidio

    Mayfield Mayor Arthur Byrn’s life revolves around community. A proud leader who knows his town, its people and ...

  • Continuing a Legacy | Brendan Sullivan

    Kay Bell was an English teacher at Mayfield High School for 35 years before she retired. Now, her ...

  • Corner Gas No More | Thomas Simonetti

    Tince Burton and his son, Scotty, are closing the family business – Burt on Gas and Oil – ...

  • Farmer Undaunted | Daniel Houghton

    Despite being paralyzed from the waist down in a tragic car accident in 2005, farmer Jacob Wooley continues ...

  • Football Doesn't Define Him | Alonso Nichols

    Luke Guhy has all the trappings of a high school jock – quarterback of the football team, popular ...

  • Fractions, Family and Faith | Matt Schauer

    Katherine Brown may have taught pre-algebra and algebra for 30 years at Mayfield High Schoo l, but it’s ...

  • Good Neighbors | Russell Kuhner

    Mayfield is a town that welcomes explorers.

  • Head of the Heard | Aaron Rosenblatt

    Jeff Riley is president of Riley Livestock Inc., a second-generation cattle-trading business. Riley has an eye for what ...

  • Home Away From Home | Jenny Kane

    Ten migrant workers from Mexico live together in a house on a Graves County farm. Their labor is ...

  • Home Life | Benjamin D. Norman

    For Lisa Woods, her husband and their three children, family time, learning time and play time all happen ...

  • Kay Moves On | Shane Noem

    As she packs boxes of antiques that decorated her grocery store and restaurant, Kay Saltsman thinks back on ...

  • Lasting In Love | Jake Stevens

    Leon and May Carter began dating while she was still in high school. That was more than 72 ...

  • Lifetime of Compassion | Merissa Ferguson

    Ruth Tucker has given her love and compassion to Graves County for most of her 95 years of ...

  • Making Music Happen | Lindsey Greer

    Laura Hill commutes two hours a day to teach Graves County pupils how to make music. Under her ...

  • Nothing Slows Her Down | Micah Booth

    Traci Kendall has a husband, three dogs and too many horses to count. In her spare time, she ...

  • Practicing What He Preaches | Andrei Pungovschi

    Ronnie Stinson has been a preacher at Trace Creek Baptist Church in Mayfield for the past 36 years. ...

  • Round Peg | Chris Fryer

    Derek Watkins’s reading skill has advanced six years in his three years at Shedd Academy for children with ...

  • Second Chance at Love | Armando Sanchez

    Shirley was married for 43 years before her husband died of pneumonia. Sam had lost his wife of ...

  • Style and Sustenance | Leah Nash

    For the past 20 years, the little yellow house on Broadway has been a place where ladies in ...

  • Teaching, Living, Learning | Kyle Kurlick

    Daily life on Fountain Fresh Farm provides a practical, reliable curriculum for educating Terry and Cindy Trout's seven ...

  • The Law in These Parts | Matt Fields-Johnson

    Andy Griffith has nothing on John Davis. Graves County sheriff for nine years and a 20-year Mayfield police ...

  • Working for Home | Elio C. Pajares Ruiz

    Javier Gonzales heaves tobacco leaves into a stack as the sun sinks on Marty Freezor's Melber farm. A ...

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The Mountain Workshops are three concurrent programs, the Photojournalism Workshop, Picture Editing Workshop and the Multimedia Workshop. The workshops offers a hands-on learning experience in documentary-style photojournalism.

Questions?

Jim Bye | Coordinator

The Mountain Workshops Western Kentucky University

jim.bye[at]wku.edu

270-991-1999

past years

  • « Mayfield, KY 2008
  • « Danville, KY 2007
  • « Madisonville, KY 2006
  • « Lawrenceburg, KY 2005
  • « Lebanon, KY 2004
  • « Bardstown, KY 2003
  • « Cave City, KY 2002