PLACE IN THE LAND, A
(c) Guggenheim Productions
20th Anniversary Environmental Film Festival Retrospective
A PLACE IN THE LAND (USA, 1998, 30 min.)
Protecting Wild Lands
George Marsh, Frederick Billings and Laurence Rockefeller were three influential figures in the history of conservation. Born generations apart, with very different lives, the three were connected by a shared vision and a place. They occupied the same house and surrounding land in Woodstock, Vermont – a place that instilled in each of them a determination to preserve America’s natural resources and to live in harmony with nature. The film explores the legacy of these three men and the land in Woodstock that inspired them. This history is now preserved at the Billings Farm and Museum, a museum of Vermont’s rural past and a working dairy farm, and the Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Park, the first National Park in America dedicated to teaching the concept of land stewardship. Directed by Charles Guggenheim. Executive Producer, Grace Guggenheim. 1998 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Short.
Discussion with filmmaker Grace Guggenheim, President, Guggenheim Productions, and David Donath, President, The Woodstock Foundation, Inc.
Shown with WILD BY LAW: THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE CREATION OF THE WILDERNESS ACT and THE WILDERNESS IDEA: JOHN MUIR, GIFFORD PINCHOT AND THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE FOR WILDERNESS
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