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From the Small Farm to the Big Box
Using Harrisonburg, VA as an example, this documentary traces the changes small towns across the U.S. experience as their traditional economies, landscapes, communities & cultures are threatened.
Upcoming Screenings
3/17/09, 6:00 pm: Nashville, Indiana, Lotus Petal Cinema
3/26/09, 6:00 pm: University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Herter Hall Annex, Rm 227
3/26/09, 6:00 pm: University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Herter Hall Annex, Rm 227
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Harrisonburg & Virginia Links
- Valley Conservation Council
- Mennonite Recipes of the Valley
- Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: gateway to Virginia's beautiful and historic Shenandoah Valley
- The Vanishing Farms Project & Valley Changes Series
- Rocktown Info Shop & Freespace
- Hburg News Blog
- WXJM JMU's College Radio Station
- Eastern Mennonite University Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
- Book of Kills, music by Jim Shelley aka Jim Nipe
- Harrisonburg Blog Aggregator
- Glick & Phillips--Satirical Songsters
- Virginia Organizing Project
Paper City Films links
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4 comments:
Hi Leslie!
I would like to talk with you about showing Rocktown to our Sustainable Shenandoah group here in Luray. Jim *Book of Kills* passed on this info about the documentary.
Thanks in advance!
Deanne
This looks like a terrific film. You appear to explore and tie together the fundamental issues that individuals from Freeport, Maine, to Phoenix, Arizona, are becoming conscious of and are uneasy about. Have you captured the zeitgeist? We have to address these issues now, and it looks like this film can be a catalyst. I can't wait to see it.
-Steve in New Hampshire
(I removed my previous comment due to glarring typos that bother me. Here's the correction:)
I haven't seen the film yet, but want to. I do want to say that the facts you posted in your trailer about Blacks Run are incorrect. I'm not a fish/wildlife biologist, but I do work with water quality issues in Harrisonburg. Blacks Run is not "dead" and there are definitely more than "leeches and crayfish" living in Blacks Run.
In June 2008, a group of biologists from the VA Department of Game and Fisheries noted that "At Purcell Park the group found a staggering 226 fish, species including: Bluehead chub (18), blacknose dace (49), fathead minnow (11), redbreast sunfish (14), common shiner (44), green sunfish (2), white sucker (16), bluntnose minnow (66) and banded killfish (6)." Please read this for more info: http://hburgnews.com/2008/07/20/fish-in-blacks-run/.
I'm not denying that there are problems and that there is more work to be done (because there is!), but by saying that Blacks Run is a "dead stream" (which it is not) I feel that it makes too many people not care, i.e. they think "why bother?, its too late."
There are are lot of people in the community working together to make the stream healthier, and have seen very good support and results. See this recent story as an example: http://hburgnews.com/2009/01/18/purcell-park-stream-restoration-begins/
Also, I'm not 100% sure about this, but I don't recall anyone reporting any leeches in the stream.
If you want to learn more about Blacks Run visit www.cleanstream.org or contact the Stream Health Coordinator Brad Fink at bradf@harrisonburgva.gov. Thanks.
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