Sat. May 6th at 4:00 in the Roxbury Town Hall

Film Screening of Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind and Q & A with Filmmaker Nora Jacobson

Please plan to join us at the Town Hall today for a screening of this Vermont based documentary. We are grateful to have the filmmaker, Nora Jacobson, joining us for the screening and to answer questions from the audience.

Film trailer: https://youtu.be/ymSXAyK3plY

Details: Film run time is 77 minutes
Ruth Stone was a promising young poet, living an idyllic life with her beloved husband Walter Stone, a poet and professor when he died unexpectedly by suicide in 1959. Already a published poet with one book out at the time of Walter's death, Ruth found a way to continue writing while raising her three young daughters and teaching at various universities around the country as an itinerant poet. Nora Jacobson chronicles Stone's heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher in a 76-minute film that leaves its viewers inspired, enlightened, entertained, and uplifted. A visually compelling film as well, enhanced with animation by Ruth's granddaughter Bianca Stone and rare archival footage, it captures the rural grist of Stone's heroic career, leaving no question as to why she has become both a Vermont and national treasure.–

Chard DeNiord, Vermont Poet Laureate

?'s: librarian@roxburyfreelibrary.org or 485-6860
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