Before the city was named Roanoke, it was the town of Big Lick. And before she became the Grand Old Lady on the Hill, she was a bleak structure on a barren hill, on the wrong side of the tracks.

For a young filmmaker Brent Donaway excellently portrayed the history of this wonderful old vaudeville/film theater. It was exciting to see "behind the scenes" of this long closed building. Brent was ...