Jeremy Butler's Vanity Page

Genealogical Materials

• Family Stories: Butler, Goar, Wells, White
  • The Artwork of F. C. Wells, Jr.
  • The Christmas "Broadsides" of F. C. Wells, Jr.
• A Butler Family Coat of Arms
• Butler-Gore Family Documents
• White-Wells Family Documents
• White Family Home Movies
• Butler, Gore, Wells and White Genealogy
• Butler Patrilineal Line: Jeremy Gaylord Butler (1954-) to Roger DeAlbini (1040-1084)
• Memorial Service for Franklin Chamberlain Wells, Jr. (1969)
• Oral Histories: Roger Butler's Stories

Jeremy's Photography (see also Media Projects page of my official Website)

• Solo show: "The Churches of Tuscaloosa County, at Night," Lorrie Lane Studio, February 2025. (Prints available online. Select image below to enlarge.)
  
• Group show: West Alabama Juried Show, January-February 2025. Two photographs from the "Churches of Tuscaloosa County, at Night" project (above).
• Second place, Jefferson County Conservation District Photography Contest: “Rivers, Lakes, and Streams." Photograph displayed at the Hoover Public Library, December 2023. (Print available online. Select image below to enlarge.)
  
• Group show: Tuscaloosa Juvenile Court Lobby Gallery, April 2019.
• Group show: Double Exposure Photography Exhibition, February 2018. Two photographs from the 1970s in black-and-white.

Jeremy's Books

• Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture (formerly, Television: Critical Methods and Applications)
• Television Style
• The Sitcom
• Star Texts

Jeremy's Film Work (see also the Northwestern Kaffeeklatsch)

• Unlucky Strike (1975)
• Threshold of Boredom (1977)
• Hommage Kit (1978)
• Intro to Film History and Criticism (1978)
• Washday (co-directed with Lilly Boruszkowski, 1979)
• Tuscaloosa: It's Unique (1981)
• BFC 140 Film Fundamentals (1981)
• Elevator Doors (1982)
• Man with a Video Camera (1983)

Jeremy's Radio and Music

• WVUA "Progressions" Promos (available as MP3 files)
  • WVUA radio (aka, V-91) at the University of Alabama hosted a punk/new wave specialty program titled, "Progressions." Founded by George Hajidakis around 1978. It was also hosted by myself and Lang Thompson. And it lasted until about 1987 or so.
  • Copeland Kids: "We're Back"
  • Copeland Kids (1986): "Mr. Leroy's Music Appreciation Class"
  • Copeland Kids (1987): "The Kids Spell 'Progressions'"
  • "New Wave Music: It's Uses and Abuses"
  • "Hey, Peitsch," with Biz and Peitsch
  • "Psychedelic Progressions," with Jeremy and George Hadjidakis
  • "Summer - Agressively Hip"
  • "Summertime"
• Club Wig's "Butler Barrel Polka"
  With excerpts from WVUA's "Progressions"!
  2 mins., 43 secs.; from 1987. Listen to MP3 version. Learn to play it yourself with this lyrics and chord chart (key of C; good for ukuleles! Original is recorded in E.).

  Club Wig, "The Butler Barrel Polka" (1987) on Vimeo.

Archival Material: Central High School and Madison Rose Lane Elementary School

Videos, 1970-1971

Footage shot at Central High School, Phoenix, Arizona, December 1970 - November 1971. Includes Sharman Apt, Dewey Brown, Mark Mignella, Dennis Mitchum, Mike Neils, Gloria Price, Suzanne Rabe, Andy Schefman, and me -- in short, Central's counter-cultural community. Silent, from an 8mm original.

And there are two more parts on YouTube!

• Part Two
• Part Three

Central High School Echoes (Newspaper)

• PDFs of issues from 1968-1972

Madison Rose Lane Firebird (Newspaper)

• PDFs of issues from 1966-68

Dream Home II: The Day After Hurricane Katrina (30 August 2005):

• Quicktime format
• Windows Media format

Tuscaloosa Tornado - April 27, 2011

Panorama of Forest Lake Destruction (click image to enlarge as a still image; click here to view moving panorama)

Minecraft Tutorials: Created by Jeremy and His Son, Ian