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Listen to Homer Describe his latest Novel Red Helmet -filmed by Steve Date. http://www.homerhickam.com/books/RedHelmet.mov Put a New Yorker in the coal mines of West Virginia! I know it is on our list of must read. We visited the annual October Sky Festival or the Rocket Boys Reunion as it is know up there in Coalwood West Virginia. For those that aren't familiar with this event, it is an annual reunion of folks from Coalwood , the folks from the movie October Sky, and the actual Rocket Boys themselves. Our visit includes segments of Homer Hickam signing autographs, Homer is the best selling Author of The Rocket Boys, later made into a movie by Joe Johnson called October Sky (the one with Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern) also Scott Miles, who played Homer's (Jake's) older brother in the movie there were also NASA astronauts, Virginia Tech Students, children with rockets from all over and the townsfolk as well.

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Uploaded: October 29, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Author: dmccoig

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Tags: american tourism homer springs gyllenhaal joe coal mountains virginia coalwood hickam west scott miles Rocket Boy

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boomchickawowwow24 (Thursday 17th of July 2008 04:26:59 PM)
i went to the festival. it was so much fun. homer hickam is my hero. ive read all his books. hes thre coolest ever. im only 12 lol.
SuRihtanil (Monday 14th of July 2008 10:06:52 AM)
Coalwood is still a small town and has people living there... not alot there its a very small town.
cowbubbles (Saturday 7th of June 2008 12:01:38 PM)
no lot of people live their so think before you speak an don't lie i was their last mounth on a job site of my dads comp
cowbubbles (Friday 6th of June 2008 09:42:54 AM)
you would not like it
cowbubbles (Friday 6th of June 2008 09:42:31 AM)
no its still their good lot of poeple still live their
markbart7 (Friday 6th of June 2008 03:35:38 PM)
hmm... at the end of Rocket Boys, he said that the mine was flooded, the town was emptied, and basically it was a ghost town, with the tipple standing...
cowbubbles (Saturday 7th of June 2008 12:03:47 PM)
no lot of poeple live their dont lie to me either i was on a job site of my dads comp 'he owns'
markbart7 (Saturday 7th of June 2008 02:20:59 PM)
Holy crap man, calm down. I was just going off of what Homer Hickam wrote at the end of Rocket Boys- he said it was being shut down.
tigerluv15 (Thursday 5th of June 2008 04:08:12 PM)
me and my grandma are visiting Coalwood next week. I can't wait!
dmccoig (Thursday 5th of June 2008 05:22:09 PM)
very cool tigerluv, let us know what your trip was like.