In a message dated 9/13/2000 12:59:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, info@aths.com writes: << Ancestral Trails Historical Society Ancestral Trails Members In Action: Documentary on KET examines unique history of Ft. Knox and the communities it displaced Known throughout the world as the site that guards the United States’ gold depository, Ft. Knox is a place with a history as rich as its holdings. Over the course of five decades and two World Wars, as the necessity for military training facilities heightened, Ft. Knox grew to its present size of 100,000 acres or 170 square miles. Yet as the army facility expanded, once thriving communities—situated in the heart of some of the state’s choicest land—were lost. The Land Called . . . Fort Knox, airing Thursday, Sept. 14 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET and Saturday, Sept. 16 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET2, documents Ft. Knox’s growth and explores the history of the many Kentucky communities, including Stithton, Garnettsville and Pitts Point, that dotted the land before the base’s major periods of expansion in 1918, 1940-41 and 1951-52. Almost nothing of these small towns remains except their cemeteries. Yet, producer-director Cory Lash illustrates how the spirit of these communities survives even today through local citizens—such as 99-year-old Agnes Rice—who visit gravesites of their relatives on Memorial Day. On this one day each year, the army base is opened to the public so that descendants may visit the lands that their parents and grandparents once called home. Several ATHS members appear or are heard in the program, including Gary Kempf, Agnes Rice, Clifford Culver, and the voice of Paul Urbahns. Producer Cory Lash is making copies of this video and the previous special on US31W, in which numerous members appeared for sale on VHS for the following complete with a library style hardcover case. The cost of each half hour program will sell for $7.95. Shipping and handling will run $5.00. The entire tape and handling will cost at $12.95. To combine both Fort Knox and Route 31W on one tape or as two separate tapes when purchased at the same time will be $19.95, including shipping and handling. Video tapes are available from: Cory Lash Productions, Inc., 912 State Street, Suite 201, Bowling Green, KY 42101. (270) 843-8300. Email address: LashFilms@aol.com >>