Moundsville: PBS Film & Magazine

    Every time I report in an American small town, I am drawn to its newspaper building. I like to drop in, buy a

One extraordinary thing about Moundsville’s old West Virginia state penitentiary, which closed in 1995, is how much it was integrated into the lives of residents.

We spent last week touring the movie, and meeting new audiences. On Monday, we screened “Moundsville” at America Magazine headquarters in mid-town Manhattan. America is

Fresh and valuable… The Moundsville film, by Miller and Bernabo, presents the results in a way different from most other documentaries I’ve seen… worth watching.

Although I discovered Moundsville on a reporting trip for the Wall Street Journal in 2013, and wrote a fun front-page story about a paranormal hot-dog

I have an essay in Sunday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that tells the story of premiering Moundsville in Moundsville, WV. It also tackles the T word. One