Media Advisory
For Tomorrow • Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Contacts: Vickie Devenport, WSIU Outreach Coordinator, (618) 453-6148, vickie.devenport@wsiu.org
Film Screening of The Dust Bowl is Tomorrow
Hosted at Artstarts in Marion, Ill.
Carbondale, Ill. – Reporters, photographers, and camera crews are invited to cover a free film screening and discussion of the new Ken Burns documentary THE DUST BOWL on Tuesday, October 23 at 7pm at the Artstarts building at 104 S. Van Buren in Marion, Illinois. The screening is co-sponsored by WSIU Public Broadcasting and Artstarts.
Mindy Scott, District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will facilitate a discussion after the film. Ms. Scott has a special interest in the history of the Dust Bowl and professional experience in conservation practices.
Special guests are Ivan Dozier, Illinois State Conservationist for USDA’s NRCS, and Ron Ziehm, Illinois NRCS Assistant State Conservationist for Area 1 in Southern Illinois.
THE DUST BOWL, a new four-hour documentary by Burns, will air nationwide and locally on WSIU-TV 8.1 and WUSI-TV 16.1 on November 18 & 19, 2012 from 7-9pm, with repeats at 9pm the same night.
The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history. A preview is available at www.pbs.org/dustbowl.
For more information, contact Vickie Devenport at vickie.devenport@wsiu.org or call (618) 453-6148.
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