Southern Culture Films (Page 3)

Songs Inside The Box is a film that takes viewers to a concert of cigar box guitar music and introduces people who build and play cigar box guitars. Since the 1800s, craftsmen have been lovingly forming trash into treasure by making musical instruments from disposable cigar boxes. The Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza in Huntsville, Alabama brings enthusiasts from across the US together.SHOW ME NOW

Doors that open and close mysteriously. Lights that glow where there is no electric power. The sound of footsteps on a staircase when no one is there. All of these things can be experienced in Selma, Alabama. Is this city haunted? The city is filled with antebellum houses but some people have experienced things that cannot be explained by the settling of old structures.SHOW ME NOW

Eric Miller and his son, Steve, are continuing a tradition begun in 1865 by Abraham Miller, a Pennsylvania man who moved to Alabama at the close of the Civil War. The Millers dig clay from a pit in Perry County, mill it, turn it, and fire it into pitchers, churns, piggy banks and other items in Brent, Alabama, carrying on the tradition for five generations.SHOW ME NOW