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This site gives a peek into some of the movies we have made about people. This first to go up is:

The Long Runway Home
Honoring Col. John and Ruth Gwinn

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel John W. Gwinn was born in 1915 in Lockbridge, West Virginia. He was 14 years old when the stock market crashed in 1929. They say that were in the worst economic times since the Great Depression Gwinn says. I lived through the Great Depression and I know all about it.

Ruth Tolley was born in 1919 near the once-booming coal town of Winding Gulf in Raleigh County. Her mother died when Ruth was 12 years old. The W.P.A. built an airfield on her familys farm in Summers County. I didnt learn to drive, Ruth says. I learned to fly! She soloed at age 16.

Colonel Gwinn flew 56 combat missions in WWII while Ruth stayed home and trained pilots that eventually joined the war effort.

Col. Gwinn completed his distinguished military career in 1964. After moving to Lewisburg he accepted the monumental assignment of building a commercial airport that served, along with the community, the famed Greenbrier Bunker.

Ruth Tolley Gwinn took to the air again teaching people to fly - and operating the family airport at Pence Springs. She holds the distinction of being the youngest woman in West Virginia to obtain a pilots license, which was in 1937.

Release Date: April 6, 2009. Honor Colonel and Ruth Gwinn by ordering a copy of this documentary movie on DVD. See the Website link below.

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