The program features the classic 1939 documentary, The City , produced by the Roosevelt Administration to promote it model towns. The original musical score is by American composer Aaron Copland. The City will be followed by Which Playground for Your Child: Greenbelt or the Gutter, produced in 2000 by the Greenbelt Museum. It features original residents from the 1930s. The program concludes with another short documentary, Alaska Far Away, the fascinating saga of another new town and the 200 destitute families who volunteered to leave their homes in the Upper Midwest to start a new community in the far north. The town is Palmer, Alaska.
Discussion follows the movie program.
Parking is available at the front and the back of the church.
Light refreshments will be served.
