![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Laikyen, whose mother, Fantasy, works at a gas station to provide for Laikyen and her older sister, also feels her mom’s pain. “ I try not to show my feelings because I know it will be overwhelming and it makes things worse.” ![]() “What makes me the saddest about all this is seeing my mom like this,” Kyah says. As an escape, Kyah watches video tours of houses online, imagining that her family will one day have a home of their own. ![]() Now, rather than entering the shelter system, they’re experiencing “hidden homelessness”-with all three of them temporarily living in a single room at a relative’s house as Becky looks for work and a home they can afford within Kyah’s school district. And the family lost many of their cherished possessions when they could no longer make payments to the storage company holding their belongings: “I lost important things like pictures that I can't get again,” Kyah says. Becky was supposed to start a new job in March, but it fell through due to the pandemic. She, her mother, Becky, and her older sister, Kelia, became homeless when Becky became unable to pay their rent. It’s a dilemma that’s familiar to 14-year-old Kyah. He feels the need to protect his mother from his fears about the family’s struggle: “If I feel sad or something, and I expressed to my mom, that would make her feel sad, and so I just keep it to myself.” “My mom stretches the money that she gets to last out the whole month, but some things I can’t get that I want,” Shawn says.Īt the trailer where they are living through government assistance, Shawn helps to care for his toddler sister, striving to be a positive role model for her: “I mean, it’s a lot of pressure on me, but I try to do my best,” he says. Including food stamps, Crystal takes home the equivalent of $885 each month, an amount that leaves them unable to fix their car when it breaks down. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC.Thirteen-year-old Shawn fears that his mom, Crystal, who keeps working at the local Salvation Army food pantry throughout the pandemic, will catch the virus. The Rural America Documentary Project The Darlene Chronicles.īoston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. “The Rural America Documentary Project The Darlene Chronicles.” Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, “The Rural America Documentary Project The Darlene Chronicles,” Broadcast Date Asset type Episode Media type Moving Image Program."-1995 Peabody Awards entry form. O'Connell in 1976 and featured Darlene in its very first "Enclosed for your consideration please find articles about WPSX-TV's publicĪffairs series, 'The Rural America Documentary Project' which was created by Through it all, Darlene remained as open asĮver in allowing the most personal details of her life to be recorded. Indoor plumbing, but Darlene's personal life was as complex as ever as a newĬompanion had entered her life and her grandchildren began growing up in the "Then, in 1995, as Darlene moved form the tumble-downĬabin into the deteriorating home she spent decades saving to buy, O'ConnellĪssembled a 25-year chronicle of Darlene's life. ![]() Presence, recording their day-to-day lives without the intrusion of outside Longitudinal study matched only by the '7 UP' series, O'Connell returnedĪgain and again to Darlene and her family. Grew up, moved away and became estranged from their mother. O'Connell (author of Robert Drew and theĭevelopment of in America), followed Darlene as her children To understand the personal dimensions of poverty. Universities, secondary schools and community groups since 1970 in efforts Visiting has been used by hundreds of colleges, Visiting With Darlene was the first of three programs produced aboutĭarlene's rich and complex life-a life with her husband, 5 children, and In a converted hunting cabin without running water or indoor plumbing. Project.' "Darlene (27 years old when we first meet her, in 1970) lived It is part of WPSX-TV's long running publicĪffairs series on rural life titled 'The Rural America Documentary Observational documentary shot over a 25-year period about an Appalachian Was lived, year by year, over many years. Series Description "Most documentaries capture a moment in time. ![]()
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