"You can't realize history when you're living it," he says. They built the stage, the backdrop, which still stands today, and a tunnel area behind it in 32 days. His parents and their friends contacted Earl Hobson Smith, an English professor at Lincoln Memorial University, to write the play.
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The 1936 movie varied greatly from the book and "it left a horrible taste in the Fox family's mouths." "They had been so disgruntled with the "Hollywoodization' of the movie from the book, that my parents almost had to sign an affidavit that they would stay strictly by the book," McClanahan says.
They also got in touch with John Fox's sisters about adapting the book into a play. Viewing it from a child's eye view, I can see my mama poking pappy in the ribs going "Tell her, tell her about what Virgil Q said.' That got the ball rolling."Īt the new year, his family went to the Tolliver House which was "a mess." A group got together and began to fix the house.
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"The gym was full of flower arrangements. In December, McClanahan and his parents went to a garden Christmas show organized by Clara Louise Kelly. That needs to be in Big Stone.' That was in the fall of 1962." came in up there and said, "Jack, there's an outfit down in Kentucky that's wanting to make an outdoor drama of that book John Fox wrote. My father was commissioner of revenue for Wise County. "He had a little Super 8 movie camera, and he filmed every new gas pump at any little gas station and every little minute detail. Wacks had a variety show at 9 on WCYB every Sunday morning," he remembers. McClanahan remembers the germination of the drama. "I felt obligated to carry forward with the things my parents had spent half their lives with," he says. He was a child when his parents helped get the drama started and was in the first cast. This has been her life's blood," he says. "We couldn't have carried it on all these years without her.
Barbara Polly served as its president from 1963 until January of this year. He's only the second president of the organization. McClanahan has played every male role in "Trail of the Lonesome Pine," is the president of the Lonesome Pine Arts and Crafts Association, and works tirelessly to develop sustainable opportunities in the region. This passage describes John (Jack) Hale's feelings about Big Stone Gap, Virginia, but it could also describe Jack McClanahan's love for his hometown. The two forks of the river ran around it- he could follow their course by the trees that lined the banks of each- curving within a stone's throw of each other across the valley and then looping away as from the neck of an ancient lute and, like its framework, coming together again down the valley, where they surged together, slipped through the hills and sped on with the song of a sweeping river." - John Fox Jr., The Trail of the Lonesome Pine "It was the heaven-born site for the unborn city of his dreams, and his eyes swept every curve of the valley lovingly.
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