Tom Hindman: The People, Places I've Photographed
- By: Tom Hindman
Bob Thompson on piano.
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Hockey - By: Tom Hindman
West Virginia University Mountaineer club hockey team plays Mercyhurst University at the BOPARK Ice Arena in Morgantown, WV
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- By: Tom Hindman
Coaches Bill Stewart & Don Nehlen have a laugh together at a function in Charleston.
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Gov. Underwood - By: Tom Hindman
Gov. Underwood at his home in Charleston, WV in 2007
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Rod Thorn, Jerry West, Fritz Williams, and 'Hot' Rod Hundley at the Charleston Civic Center.
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Jovan Smith, 14, gets a big smile from her new friend Rany Moss at the the Community Center on Charleston's East End.
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Artist Robert Dafford's mural on the floodwall in Point Pleasant is enhanced with sound, telling the story of the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Alex Jackson, whose hair was styled in a swirl at Tray's Barber Shop, spoke during his cut about the presidential race. 'It would be nice to have a black president, but if you're into making the world a better place, I'm into it,' he said.
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John Rowe on the conveyor pulls plastic that can be sent to a different section of the facilty for proper recyling at the Slack St. Recyling Center
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Matt Shamblin, Project Supervisor for BBL Carlton, with a carved float plane he whittled from scrap wood while at the Triana Energy project on Virginia Street, formerly the Boll Building. Shamblin carves night and day, he says.
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Although this woman wouldn't give her name, she did give me what she called her famous 'grinch' look.
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A horsewhisperer works with horses, and confessed it was more about the owner's relationship with the animal.
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David Osburn has blown glass for Blenko for 32 years. The red hot, molten glass at the end of the blowing tube is heated to 2,500 degrees and then shaped into a melon.
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William Douglas Goebel at his studio working on a cityscape of South Charleston.
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Bob Black brings in the wash that he had drying on the clothesline in his backyard in Poca.
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Mr. Lee Lewis in his Parkway Super Market that he operated before retiring.
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The Presidental Cadilac driven from Washington, D.C. picked-up President Bill Clinton who was flown in on Air Force One hellicopter, is driven to the Israeli-Syrian peacetalks, which were held at the Clarion Hotel and the National Conservation Center and Shepherd College in Shepherdstown.
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Mayor Bob of Richwood.
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Pinch area barber Dorsel sits in the chair where he has cut so many heads of hair. Family members Rachel Shuler, Bradly Hansen, Linda Hale and Rita Dalle stand inside his shop.
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Sonny Fleming, who played basketball with Paul Popovich in high schools, gets a picture taken with Josh Delawder. Josh broke the state's high school scoring record against Mount Savage in 2000.
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Lester Reed, a 91-year-old with an infectious smile, sits in a chair and waits with them. To Walnut Street drivers, they might look like regular old grocery store tomatoes. But these ones are special. For Reed they are family and tradition and a reason to stay on his feet. 'Around here they call them Reed tomatoes,' he said. For 45 years he has collected the seeds and planted them in the spring.
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Tami Busse, also known as the clown named Daisy, stayed busy with ballons at the St. Albans RiverFest.
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Marlena Mullins, sister to Terry Lee Peck, confronted Annette Teel, a mother of an abused wife, during a demonstration in front of Clendendin City Hall. Looking on is Danielle Sams and Cristinia Crihfield.
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Marvin Johnson of Jefferson, along with his 11-month-old Pit Bull, King, were in training along Rt. 60 in Jefferson. King, at my estimate, had pulled the block tied around his neck by a towing chain about three-quarters of a mile.
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Lindsay McCormick, or Tahira, which is her stage name, did some belly dancing, but the rains picked up and she sought shelter from the elements at FestivAll.
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Jesco White stands outside his home in Boone County. Jesco said he had resorted to carving walking sticks for income, because he was tired of everybody ripping him off.
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Commuters wait at the bus stop on Laidley Street in downtown Charleston.
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Cindy Barnhart a master gardner at Berry Hills Country Club has been a gardner there for two years. She said it was nice to love what you do. She was spending her afternoon pruning the gardens.
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The capitol rotunda chandelier is back & hanging after being restored. AcuBright, a chandelier restoration company out of NH cleaned & restored 10,000 beveled crystals. The 4,000lb, 77yr old 1.5 million dollar chandelier has a 54 ft brass stem that is attached at the top of the rotunda. Oh & that is RC Byrd doing the pointing
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Nitro Mayor Rusty Casto.
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A two-car pile-up at the junction of Kanawha Terrace and Rt. 60 backed up traffic for a while. I got there after everything was cleared up, but found these ladies necking from one of Jefferson's finer dance halls.
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A fan corners a Rough 'N' Ready girl for some personal photos.
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Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster and Mayor Danny Jones stand under one of the city's first video cameras, perched high atop the East End community center.
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While doing a story on more people taking the bus these days because of high gas prices, these two ladies asked me to put them on TV. I explained who I was, but it made no difference. To quell their shouting, I took a photo of them.
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Tony White took some time to exercise his pets, Baby Girl and Bull, tossing sticks into the Kanawha River for them to swim out and retrieve. With the higher than normal temps, it proved to be a refreshing afternoon on the river.
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Windy McClung, with a musket handmade by George Sutor of Williamsburg. Windy, whose given name is Fuller, says he got the name because he was never shy about talking.
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A stripper holds a sign in protest in front of Shockers. The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department closed it, along with all the other strip clubs in Jefferson, otherwise known as the Badlands.
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Wallace Horn does a soundcheck before he tapes a radio show. It airs 8:30-9:30 a.m. Saturdays on 101.9 FM and 1290 AM, and has for the last 41 years in his Chapmanville TV Shop. Wallace was honored at the first West Virginia Music Hall of Fame held at the Cultural Center.
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Walter 'Bruiser' Cole, 83, of Scrabble Creek is somewhat of a local legend. He has a personal fishing paradise, plunked down where the New and Gauley rivers come together to form the Kanawha, has remained a fixture in this quaint Fayette County town for 53 years.
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Retired teacher Bob Cross, 70, stands outside of his home on Brynwood Drive in Mink Shoals that burned to the ground. He said he blames the Pinch Fire Department for his home's demise. He said it took them one hour to get there.
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Charles Cox, barber and ballroom dancer, practices in his shop in South Charleston after he closed the shop. Sweeping the floor, with the mirrors on the wall, is an excellent oppurtunity to see yourself, he said.
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Brian Brumfield helps to stack the tobacco in the field at the Jordan Farm, where the crop will cure on the pole and later be transferred to the barn.
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Dennis Ross, soon to be 86 years old, said he can do just about anything. The retired Union Carbide Metals senior said with the high cost of gas, it only made sense to overhaul this 3-cylinder Metro engine. He said once it's finished it will get over 50 miles to a gallon.
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Sonny Sheuman, 77, steers the main car through the Beckley Exibition Coal Mine.
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Ulrika Browning, of Rock Cave in Upshur County, carries on a family tradition of carvers. She follows in her father Wolfgang Flor's footsteps. Handcrafted in West Virginia at Ulrika's Hollow Woods, she creates works of art from various trees using scrap end boards and short end pieces that otherwise would have been discarded.
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Jim Walker, 39, of Walker's Farm, in Mason County, says he has kept his crops going with irrigation from city water.
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