United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt arrive in an open car at West Point, New York. Cavalry unit on horseback leads their car. Cannons can be heard firing a salute to the Commander-in-Chief. President Roosevelt, along with Major General Connor,Superintendent of the academy, reviews cadets. The Cadets in white uniforms march in formation. General Connor gives a brief speech to welcome President Roosevelt to United States Military Academy, West Point. The President responds.
Historical sites of westward expansion of United States. Building of San Juan Capistrano Mission in California. Man surrounded by white pigeons. Statue of Father Serra and Native American Indian boy at San Juan Capistrano Mission. The bells of San Juan Mission. The interior of San Juan Church in California.
President Rutherford Birchard Hayes' house in Ohio, United States. View of President Hayes's tomb. View of President James Abram Garfield's house in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Tomb and statue of President Garfield. View of the birth place of President William McKinley at Niles, Ohio. Scene shifts to Queen Liliʻuokalani at Royal Parade in Honolulu Hawaii. (Her throne was relinquished to the United States in 1893.) Men, women and children participate in the parade. Queen Liliuokalani reviews the parade and greets dignitaries. Sanford B. Dole, first Governor of Hawaii, views the parade. Hawaiian soldiers parade, followed by United States armed forces. A mounted band plays on horseback.
Part of documentary "Below White Top" depicting missions of the Lutheran Church in southern Appalachian areas of the United States. View of rural homes and shacks in amongst the Appalachian mountains of Smyth County Virginia. A man and woman seated on a front porch while three boys in front play with a puppy dog. A young man wearing overalls is busy crafting a fiddle or violin. Parts of the fiddle lay beside him. View of mountains and a stream flowing over rocks.
Depicts rural families in southern Appalachian regions like Smyth County, Virginia after the industrialization of the early 1900's came to an end and widespread unemployment set in, especially during the Great Depression. A large factory cog coming to a stop. A giant saw blade coming to a stop. Barren areas with tree stumps from a clear cut. Vacant industrial sites. Stream flowing through part of mine works. Men out of work, outside, some carving, some just sitting. Women and children stand outside houses. Woman holds toddler in arms. Men dig grave in cemetery. A rural preacher preaching.
Depicts life near the southern Appalachian region of Marion, Virginia in Smyth County, and specifically the path of Kenneth G. Killinger from being a mill operator to becoming a mountain missionary of the Lutheran Synod of Virginia. Man carries sack of corn to a water powered mill. Sign "Corn Ground." Young man actor portraying Kenneth G. Killinger weighs the corn with a simple scale and then pours it into the stone grinder. He gives the ground corn to the customer, along with a booklet that reads, "The Augsburg Sunday School Teacher, 1910." Close view of the contents page of the booklet. The young man standing at the edge of the mill, water wheel turning beside him. Scenes portraying two memories from his youth: A woman taking a paddle to a boy as punishment. Next scene is a group of teenage and younger boys gathered together and taking drinks of moonshine whiskey alcohol from a bottle. They cringe from the taste and pass the bottle around. Scene of men digging a grave in a graveyard beside a rural church. Killinger reenters the mill. Scene of young Killinger sitting on the porch of a rural home, reading to young children. Killinger counseling a bed-ridden elderly woman. On screen text reads, "Kenneith G. Killinger. 'The Mountain Missionary' of The Lutheran Synod of Virginia. Marion, Virginia. July 24, 1921." View of Killinger in 1921, preaching to congregation sitting under a tree. The congregation entering a small makeshift church building. The congregation entering an abandoned rail car turned into their church. The congregation later in a larger church building. Killinger preaching. Rural children singing from hymnals. Churchgoers exiting the church.
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