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  • Coming Home To Mayfield - Mayfield, Ky. 2008 | Mountain Workshops

    A product of Western Kentucky University's Mountain Workshops held in Mayfield, Ky.

  • About the Mountain Workshops - Mayfield, Ky. 2008 | Mountain Workshops

    A behind the scenes look at the 2008 Mountain Workshops in Mayfield, Ky.

  • Sponsors - Mayfield, Ky. 2008 | Mountain Workshops

    We can say thanks to the sponsors of the 2008 Mountain Workshops, but that wouldn’t be enough.



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...

  • About the Mountain Workshops | Mountain Workshops

    A behind the scenes look at the 2008 Mountain Workshops in Mayfield, Ky.

  • An open exchange | Amy Patterson

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

  • Coming Home To Mayfield | Mountain Workshops

    A product of Western Kentucky University's Mountain Workshops held in Mayfield, Ky.

  • 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 ...

  • Sponsors | Mountain Workshops

    We can say thanks to the sponsors of the 2008 Mountain Workshops, but that wouldn’t be enough.

  • 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 ...

About

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

Elizabethtown, KY 2010
Murray, KY 2009
Mayfield, KY 2008
Danville, KY 2007
Madisonville, KY 2006
Lawrenceburg, KY 2005
Lebanon, KY 2004
Bardstown, KY 2003
Cave City, KY 2002

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