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From ‘The Office' to the Shaggs: Belleville's Ken Kwapis takes on a new story
A documentary about a sister group whose album has been called one of the worst of all time is an unusual starting point for a first film. But Belleville native Ken Kwapis has never shied away from a professional challenge. He helped bring “The Office” from British television to American audiences, directing 13 episodes, including the pilot, the 100th episode and the finale. Now, after more than 40 years in Hollywood , he’s returning home with his first documentary, “We Are the Shaggs.” Kwapis will present the film at the 35th annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival on Saturday, Nov. 7. “I’m excited to bring this to my home turf,” he said in a Zoom interview. The 98-minute music documentary is about sisters Dorothy, Betty and Helen Wiggin, who lived in a small New Hampshire town and were forced by their father, Austin, to become a rock band after he received a prophecy. He bought them two cheap guitars and a drum kit. In 1969, they recorded an album, “Philosophy of the World,” in a studio near Boston. Kwapis discovered the album in 1980 at a Los Angeles record store. “It was on the wall with new releases, the
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Dave Wilson from Imperial, MO joined the Real Rock Army today!
Dave thinks he should be a member of the Real Rock Army because he’s had the qualifications for years: he listens every day, loves that KSHE keeps the classic rock format, and feels close with the DJ’s. Dave’s first concert ever was in 1977 at Styx with April...
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Another Rauh Who Migrated to Alva, Oklahoma
Our museum has what might be a rather unexpected set of church records from Zion Lutheran Church in Alva, Oklahoma. We have them partly because they contain so many entries of people who had their start in Perry County before migrating to Alva. A few of us at the museum refer to churches such as Alva, Oklahoma as “Perry County suburbs” because so many Perry County natives migrated there and helped establish that congregation. I will tell another Alva, Oklahoma story today. We begin with the groom.