Feb. 20 6:30 PM

We still have about 10 spaces available at this Friday's screening and discussion of Part 2 "Under the Surface" of "Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie." If you are interested in coming, please make sure you RSVP as soon as possible.

Part Two deepens the journey, digging beneath the surface of Vermont’s bucolic image to explore labor wars, eugenics experiments, the McCarthy era, and progressive Republicanism. Covering over a century—from pre-Civil War to 2009—it chronicles the rise of unions and quarry work, Barre’s Socialist Labor Party Hall, the marketing of Vermont, the state’s reaction to New Deal policies, George Aiken’s gentle populism, and Republican Ralph Flanders’ heroic stand against Joe McCarthy during the Red Scare. Emigrés from urban areas, “back-to-the-landers” like Helen and Scott Nearing and filmmaker Nora Jacobson’s father, Nicholas Jacobson, came to Vermont in search of an alternative lifestyle.

For more information about this event, please visit Wilder Memorial Library's website: http://wildermemoriallibrary.org/thevtmovie/