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Contents
Late Fall 2026
12 • art • Tom Frost Black Bear Film Festival Schedule 18 • Main Stage 20 • Showcase Venues 24 • food • Food & Film 28 • history • Rachel Carson 32 • life • Into the Yucatán 36 • nature • On the Bank of the Brook
6 • journal entry 7 • poem 10 • around the towns 38 • signs
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Journal Entry
Celebrate Fall Craft shows and apple fests; film festivals and harvest sets. Pumpkins and pinecones; falling leaves from aging trees. Clean up, clean out; broken rakes and garden stakes.
scent of autumn kisses. Pies in, oven’s on; fireplace lit and pillows to sit.
The Hunter’s Moon just before Halloween. Ghosts and skeletons and little witches cross paths with Spider-Man, dinosaurs, and bigger fishes.
Cider donuts and cider mills; Gala and Granny Smiths until you’re full.
Find an orchard to pick your own or get lost inside a corn maze for a day. Hayrides, bike rides, balloon rides, riding high. Warm cinnamon and pumpkin loaves; peppery ginger and spicy cloves. Cobblers and crisps; the
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The symphony of smells fill a room.
Leaf peepers seeking gold. Orange, yellow, and ruby views as maples turn to deep red hues. Sweaters and boots, leather and suede. Pumpkins are carved and campfires made. Fall is my time of year.
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Poem
The Woman She didn’t look the same as she did when I first knew her. Not that time hadn’t etched lines on our faces from the wind and rain of life’s experiences. Those were deserved, like crow’s feet from good jokes or smiles from happy times. There was a sense of sadness now, something not wished for, an ache from regret or too much love given but not returned. It wasn’t so much growing old but more like some undeserved consequences that had eroded her cheeks from past tears. -Brody Butler
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Community Awards Banquet. Inn at Woodlock, Hawley, PA. Recognize individuals who have made a lasting impact on the Northern Poconos. Hosted by the Chamber of the Northern Poconos. $90. Info: 570.226.3191, www.northernpoconos.org.
October 3rd Saturday 10 a.m.–2 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Car, Bike & Craft Show. Dingmans Ferry United Methodist Church, Dingmans Ferry, PA. Food, drink & music. Info: 570.828.2288, www.dfumc.com.
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. & 2:00–3:30 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Dramatic Production: Laurel Hill Burial Ground Walk. Grey Towers, Milford, PA. Guided historical walk through Milford’s original town graveyard. Light refreshments. $5–$25. Tickets required. Info: 570.296.9625, www.greytowers.org.
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Port Jervis Art Walk October 17th GROOVE-PORT PRESENTS: Emedin Rivera’s “Tropical Turbulence” October 31st • 7pm
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Black Bear Film Festival. Milford, PA. Info: blackbearfilmfestival.org. See pages 18–22 of The Journal for film schedules.
October 9th–12th Friday–Monday ––––––––––––––––––––
Family Camp Weekend & Harvest Festival. PEEC, Dingmans Ferry, PA. $270. Hikes, crafts, animal presentations & more. Harvest Festival on Saturday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Info: 570.828.2319, www.peec.org.
October 10th Saturday 10 a.m.
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Toast to Milford. Milford, PA. Free nibbles & beverages. Hosted by Milford Presents. Info: milfordpa.us.
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Harvest & Heritage Day. Honesdale, PA. Hayrides, pumpkin painting, crafts, live music & more. Hosted by the Greater Honesdale Partnership. Info: 570.253.5492, www.visit honesdalepa.com.
October 10th–11th Saturday–Sunday
Applefest. Warwick, NY. Crafts, food, music, children’s carnival & more. Hosted by Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce. Info: www.warwickapplefest.com.
Heritage Weekend. Sussex County, NJ. Tour of historical sites, museums, farmers’ markets. Sponsored by the Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council. Info: 973.383.0027, www.scahc.org/heritageweekend.
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October 7th Wednesday 5–9 p.m.
10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Grown Here. Barn at Villa Venezia, Middletown, NY. Farm-to-table experience, silent auction & more. $150. Hosted by Boys & Girls Clubs of Town of Wallkill. Info: 845.342.8833, www.bgcorange.org.
October 8th Thursday 8 a.m.
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Skylander Golf Outing. Crystal Springs Golf Resort, Hamburg, NJ. Golf, lunch, awards. Hosted by SCCC Athletic Dept. to benefit athletic teams.$135. Info: 973.300.2100, www.sussex.edu.
October 9th Friday 7 p.m.
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Ghost Tours. North Main Street, Honesdale, PA. Guided tour of haunted spots, starts at 10
October 9th–11th Friday–Sunday
October 4th Sunday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
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the Wayne County YMCA. $20. Also October 16th. Hosted by the Greater Honesdale Partnership. Info: 570.253.5492, www.visit honesdalepa.com.
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Harvest Festival. Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm, Stroudsburg, PA. Historical demonstrations, crafts, food, music. $18. Info: 570.992.6161, www.quietvalley.org.
October 11th Sunday 11 a.m.–4 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Fall Festival & Car Show. Spring Street, Newton, NJ. Vendors, live music, food. Hosted by Town of Newton, NJ. Free. Info: newton townhall.com.
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Children’s Book Festival. Warwick Valley Middle School, Warwick, NY. Book signing, food, crafts, music. Presented by Albert Wisner Public Library. Info: warwickchildrens bookfestival.org.
Noon–4:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
Van Campen Day. Van Campen Inn, Walpack Township, NJ. Free tours, historical activities. Hosted by the Walpack Historical Society. Info: 973.362.5211, walpackhistory.org.
Americans by Turns. Columns Museum, Milford, PA. A reading by the author, Chuck O’Neil, Poet Laureate of Milford. Info: 570.296.8126, pikemuse@ptd.net.
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Astronomy Lecture. Lusscroft Farm, Wantage, NJ. Brian Deis, Mr. Star Guy, will discuss celestial objects visible in the fall sky. $5. Info: lusscroft.org.
1–3 p.m.
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Fall on the Farm. Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, NY. Explore fall farm activities: harvesting, canning, cider making & more. Info: 845.985.7700, www.timeand thevalleysmuseum.org.
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Mostly Beethoven: Kopelman/Rostad/Feiglson. Great Room, Grey Towers, Milford, PA. Trios by Beethoven & music by Mozart, Breval, and Reger. $50. Presented by Kindred Spirits Arts Programs. Info: 570.390.8699, www. kindredspiritsarts.org.
October 14th Wednesday 5:30 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Funding Their Future. Perona Farms, Andover, NJ. Cocktails, entertainment, silent auction. Hosted by Sussex County Community College Foundation. $100. Info: 973.300.2121, www.sussex.edu (Funding Their Future).
October 17th Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Sussex County Harvest, Honey & Garlic Festival. Sussex County Fairgrounds, Augusta, NJ. Free. Celebration of agritourism, arts & heritage. Live music, food, artisans, vendors. Info: www.sussexfarmvisits.com.
October 21st Wednesday 6 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Local Harvest: Foodshed Alliance Gala. Perona Farms, Andover, NJ. Celebrating local food and supporting local foodshed. $150. Info: 908.362.7967, foodshedalliance.org.
October 24th Saturday 10 a.m.–3 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Barn & Christmas Cottage Sale. Lusscroft Farm, Wantage, NJ. Proceeds benefit restoration of Lusscroft Farm. Info: lusscroft.org.
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
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October 25th Sunday 3–6 p.m.
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45th Anniversary of Thomas Edison Film Festival. Sussex County Community College, Newton, NJ. Selected shorts of the 2026 season. Presented by SSCC & Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council. $10–$25. Info: scahc.org.
October 29th Thursday 2:00–7:30 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Business Expo & Mixer. Swing, Galleria at Crystal Run, Middletown, NY. Connect & collaborate. Hosted by the Orange County Chamber of Commerce. Info: 845.294.1700, www.orangeny.com.
November 5th Thursday 6–9 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Ambassadors in Faith Gala. Tom Quick Inn, Milford, PA. Fundraiser to support Church of St. Patrick and honor individuals who have contributed in significant ways to the parish and the community. $175. Info: 908.451.1206, saintpatricksmilford.com.
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Art Affair: Encore. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Chester, NY. Celebrate enduring power of the arts. Dinner at 6 p.m. Hosted by Orange County NY Arts Council. $150–$175. Info: 845.202.0140, ocnyartscouncil.org.
November 7th–8th Saturday–Sunday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
Explore Warren: History Trail. Warren County, NJ. Free self-guided tour of historic sites. Info: www.warrenhistorytrail.org.
November 12th Thursday, 5–9 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
State of the County Dinner. Inn at Woodloch, Hawley, PA. An evening of collaboration & insight into the future of Pike County. Hosted by the Pike County Chamber of Commerce. Info: 570.296.8700, www.pikechamber.com.
November 14th Saturday 6–8 p.m. ––––––––––––––––––––
1–2 p.m.
November 21st Saturday 3 p.m.
An Afternoon with Edgar Allen Poe. Grey Towers, Milford, PA. Dramatic reading by American Readers Theatre. $5–$25. Info: 570.296.9630, greytowers.org.
New Sussex Symphany Program. Sparta High School, Sparta, NJ. Faure and Sibalius. $10– $15. Info: 973.579.6465, www.newsussex symphony.org.
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November 7th Saturday 6:00–9:30 p.m.
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Artisan Market. At Peace by Piece Community Center, Sparta, NJ. Food truck, crafters, vendors. Info: 973.500.8408, www.peaceby piecenj.com.
On Fauchère OnView View at at Hotel Hotel Fauchère
Game Dinner. PEEC, Dingmans Ferry, PA. $50. Enjoy the bounty of the season Info: 570.828.2319, www.peec.org.
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Climber, Tom Frost, El Capitan, September 1961. Photos provided by Frost – NACHA Archive
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By Will Voelkel
At the Black Bear
Tom Frost: The Story of a Lifetime In 1990, director Tom Seawell met Tom Frost, only to learn decades later that he was a legendary climber. In 2010, a small team of flatlanders began documenting Frost’s life for the next decade. Trust and friendship grew, and what developed is THE STORY OF A LIFETIME.
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o begins the inspiring, yet intimate, historical documentary film, Frost: The Story of a Lifetime, about Tom Frost, a pioneer in mountain climbing and a humble American legend. Directed by Tom Seawell of Flatlander Films LLC with partners Jeff Wiant and Craig Flax, the film will be featured at the 26th annual Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA, on October 10th. A flatlander is a regional term used by people in hilly, mountainous, or high-altitude areas to describe an outsider or newcomer who comes from a flat region or a low-altitude city, and in Tom Frost’s case, a non-mountain climber. Tom Frost consistently called the producers flatlanders, so naming their company was easy.
“Tom was an amazing and talented man in many different areas,” explains Mr. Seawell. At various points in his life, Frost was an engineer who designed and built products that revolutionized not only the climbing world but the filmmaking industry as well; an artist whose iconic photography documented the most notable first ascents in Yosemite; and an environmentalist who, along with Royal Robbins and other renowned mountain climbers, engineered the “Clean Climbing” movement in the 1960s and 70s by encouraging the use and preservation of the natural features of the rock. “It was one of the first environmental movements that succeeded because it was fun!” states Seawell, “and ‘fun’ could have been Tom Frost’s middle name.”
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Art “I first met Tom Frost when we were working together at the Chimera warehouse, where he manufactured lighting equipment for the motion picture world,” says Seawell. “He was hardworking and friendly, but also a private person, and never once did he mention his climbing career.” Years later, through a mutual acquaintance to whom he confided that he always wanted to do a documentary about an inspiring person, Tom Seawell connected with Tom Frost. “This friend, Bill Holshevnikoff, insisted that I call Tom Frost. I was pretty humble at the time, so Bill had to push me to make the call. I didn’t realize until those first conversations with Tom that there was such rich content to be mined, both personally and professionally.” Seawell asked his fellow filmmaker and close friend Jeff Wiant to join him, and Flatlander Films was born. Tom Seawell started his career at the age of 25 as a still photographer in San Francisco. After a decade of getting his business off the ground, he was invited to team up with his favorite client at Lyon & Associates in San Di-
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ego at a separate company to produce commercials. “I enjoyed still photography, but I felt I couldn’t say enough with still images, so I began to develop an interest in filmmaking. I was also interested in exploring ways to inspire people with storytelling. From that point on, I wanted to document inspirational stories.” To Mr. Seawell, Tom Frost was the perfect subject for an inspirational story. “He was bigger than life but always humble, which was especially appealing to me. Tom was patient and kind, and he inspired people to work harder, to always do their best and be their best. Yet he was also the most vulnerable person I had ever met.” From the start, the producers decided to edit the film in black and white. “I like black and white when it’s used in the right way,” explains Seawell, “and Jeff Wiant has always loved black and white. Wiant incorporated over 600 images from Frost’s still photography archives from the 1950s and 1960s when he started climbing, and naturally that was in black and white. Also, when you’re climbing
Tom Frost later in his career
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Black Cave bivouac, El Capitan, October 1964
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on Yosemite granite, you look up and you look down, and almost everything you see is a palette of grays. Emotionally, black and white also seemed like a logical choice because Frost was an engineer, and he believed that less is more. We are discovering from audience reactions that our choice was spot on.” Once they got Frost’s agreement to film his story, the producers faced the usual filmmaker financing challenges. They dug into their own pockets as well as those of friends and family and the community of climbers that wanted to bring Frost’s story to life. They also found a group of committed sponsors in Mesa Rim Climbing Center, Yosemite Conservancy, Royal Robbins Clothing Company, and Alta Journal, all of whom allowed them to make the film the way they wanted.
man took over. Grossman was an amateur, but passionate, historian to whom Frost gifted his treasured photography archives. In addition, Jeff Wiant was the editor and Flatlander Films partner since day one and proved to be another invaluable resource. Despite all the research and production work that went into the creation of the film, the filmmakers were not satisfied with the initial product. “We wound up creating a puff piece about a bunch of men who were expert mountain-climbers, but it was nothing more than that—puff.”
“That was an important consideration in accepting funding,” states Seawell. “We were determined to tell Tom Frost’s inspiring story on a very intimate level in our way.”
Frost died in 2018, and Marna Frost, his daughter, granted the filmmakers an interview at the tail end of Covid. “Ten minutes into the interview, I knew we were capturing the story Jeff and I wanted to tell,” explains Seawell. They slowly and meticulously got back to work by rewriting 80% of the film. “Marna gave us the pieces we really needed to tell Tom Frost’s full story. That interview was a true gift.”
Research took years. Early research in 2012 and 2013 was conducted by Mark Maynard, and in 2014 Steve Gross-
Tom Seawell laughs as he recounts how Tom Frost fired him after two days of filming because the interviews with
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Frost were getting too personal. Frost wanted the film to be about the golden age of mountain climbing, not about him. “That was typical of Tom: very private and very humble.” Ultimately, in Mr. Seawell’s opinion, they were able to make a film that honored the profession and the man. “Over time, we got to know Tom and he got to know us. As audiences experience in the film, Tom began to open up, which brought out his personal side. He was an imperfect but extraordinary man, and that combination of emotional resonance and incredible achievement contributed greatly to the success of the film.” And speaking of success, the film was released on May 1st, 2026, with its world premiere at Mountainfilm in Telluride and has already played at and garnered awards at the Yosemite Film Festival, where it won both the El Capitan Award for best picture and The Camp 4 Audience Choice Award. In late August, the team screened the film to a full and enthusiastic house for a fundraiser at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco and headed to the Breckenridge Film Festival in September, while putting the final touches on agreements with Mountainfilms in Arequipa, Peru. Clearly, momentum is building!
“As producers, we are also grateful to smaller communities for showcasing the film. Intimate stages build community, and this is what Tom Frost loved,” adds Jeff Wiant. The film was instantly intriguing to the Black Bear Film Festival committee that previewed and selected it. “Frost: The Story of a Lifetime is a wonderful story, and the film relates to many things about Milford’s location with its access to national parks and recreation,” says Darian Rivera, President of the Black Bear Film Festival. “It captures so many things about an amazing person. It’s not just about mountain-climbing.” Mr. Seawell and Mr. Wiant will be present on Saturday, October 10th at 5 p.m. at the Black Bear Film Festival’s Main Stage to present the film and answer audience questions. “Our goal is that during this 104-minute experience, audiences will be entertained and moved,” say the producers. “We hope the Black Bear audience will come out to join us and experience Tom Frost’s story for themselves.” Will Voelkel is a former Executive Director and board member at Black Bear Film Festival and a regular contributor to The Journal.
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Schedule
FRI | SAT | SUN • OCTOBER 9th - 11th • 2026
MAIN STAGE
MILFORD THEATER • MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA ( General Admission: Golden Pass or $20 per film, unless otherwise noted. )
Friday, October 9 OPENING NIGHT 2:00 PM • Golden Pass pick-up & pre-parties in-town 6:00 PM • Opening Reception: Tom Quick Inn & Restaurant
7:30 PM • Opening Feature: The Floaters (101m) Directed by Rachel Israel. A struggling musician, Nomi accepts a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara: mentoring misfit campers, the “Floaters,” at their childhood Jewish summer camp along the Delaware River near the northeast Pennsylvania border and New York’s southwestern edges of the Catskills. Note: Locally filmed along the Delaware River in Barryville, NY. Reviews: “Within its first few frames, The Floaters is effortlessly likable.” –B. Johnson, Film Focus “The Floaters is more than just a comedy—it’s a love letter to summer camp, friendship, and the resilience it takes to chase your dreams.”–Paul Salfen, AMFM Magazine
Saturday, October 10 [Doors open 10:30 AM.]
11:00 AM • Women of Film The Miracle of RNAi (5m) Directed by Jess Burgess The cell’s natural pathway to disruption and one of the men, Dr. Craig Mello, who discovered it.
Resume of Regrets (11m) Directed by Lori Hammel, Tom A. Capps A job interview quickly unravels when a woman confronts her unfinished projects.
(Some)day (13m) Directed by Benjamin Burt Sisters Winnie and Penny were once inseparable. Years later, they meet again for a conversation they may have had before. But this time, something is different.
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The Sea & She (22m) Directed by Tyler Shortt Raised in the rhythm of the ocean, teenager Sunny Kazama grew up with surfing as both playground and teacher, absorbing lessons in patience, humility, resilience, and change. Narrated by 5-time World Champion surfer Carissa Moore, this poetic short film is a coming-of-age surf documentary about Sunny, a young woman from Hawai’i whose journey reaches far beyond the waves.
12:00 PM • After Talk:
The Women of Film Panel (30m) [Lunch break 12:30 PM. Doors reopen 1:30 PM.]
2:00 PM • “A Community Tribute to Local Cameraman Ken Ferris” – Field of Dreams
CLASSIC MOVIE: Field of Dreams (102m) After Talk: Hello from Dwier Brown of the film! “Let’s Have a Catch” – A special catch interview!
5:00 PM • Documentary:
Frost: The Story of A Lifetime (104m) Directed by Tom Seawell A historical documentary about a humble American legend: Tom Frost. –An engineer who designed and built products that revolutionized the climbing and filmmaking industries. –An artist whose iconic photography documented the most notable first ascents in Yosemite. –An environmentalist who engineered the “Clean Climbing” movement in the 1960s/70s. One of the first environmental movements that succeeded because it was fun! –A conservationist who personally saved the historic Camp 4, the iconic Yosemite American basecamp for climbers worldwide.
7:15 PM • Feature: 60 Miles North (81m) Directed by Edward Crawford and Jack Mulcahy After losing the role of a lifetime, an aspiring actor retreats to his hometown. When he encounters a woman who has Lyme disease, an unexpected friendship develops, forcing them both to make life-altering decisions. Note: Locally filmed in Orange County, NY, and New York City.
8:45 PM • A fter Talk: The Making of Local Films (30m)
Tickets: Blackbearfilmfestival.org
Sunday, October 11 [Doors open 10:30 AM]
11:00 AM • Film Segment: MERIDA TO MILFORD Living Treasures of the Yucatan (22m) Directed by Ken Vose Host Bill Rosado explores the Yucatán Peninsula and the city of Mérida where we are introduced to knife sharpener, Ramon Cervantes Avila, and other Living Treasures of the Yucatán who tell their own fascinating stories; stories which, in many cases, transport us back to the time of the ancient Maya.
11:30 AM • PMVB’s Choice: Local Films & Student Films
Key{stone} Lime{stone} (4m) Directed by Anne Ciecko This experimental piece explores the histories and memories of industry in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Cement manufacturing, domestic labor, immigration, and family are entwined in a merging of narrative poetry, stop-motion animation, and documentary-style video footage.
Where’s Safe Keeping? (15m) Directed by Kristopher David Russin After failing his dorm-room inspection, a grieving student must find a place to store his late father’s possessions before he’s kicked off campus. This student filmmaker is from Glen Lyon, PA.
Dreams To Believe In (10m) Directed by Ethan Baron A hopeless romantic has a dream to find the love of his life. He decides to go on a pursuit to find the one meant for him. This student filmmaker is from Bethlehem, PA.
Muscle Memory (15m) Directed by Reylan Alexis Lawrence, a former amateur boxer with dementia, fights for his tie to his own identity, while his daughters grapple with the decision of whether it’s time to put him in a nursing home.
Radio Silence (15m) Directed by Ryan James Fogler A young, disenchanted radio DJ working a night shift wakes up to discover that he is stuck inside of his booth with no one to help him get out. This filmmaker is from Matamoras, PA.
The Renaissance Man (16m) Directed by Estelle Collette Barbieri Jo grew up learning everything about art, music, and family tradition from her grandfather Pop. Now living with him while attending college, she must become his caretaker as his worsening dementia makes him unable to live alone.
Friends of Duke Lake (16m) Directed by Lindsey Aranson When coal mining drains their beloved lake, a grieving rural community begins a decades-long fight to reclaim what was lost, or redefine what remains, before their park’s legacy fades into mud and memory.
12:30 PM • 2026 BLACK BEAR AWARDS [Lunch & after-party 1:00 PM]
Tickets: Blackbearfilmfestival.org
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Schedule
SHOWCASE VENUES
Café Wren
611 Broad St. Milford, PA [Admission free; donations accepted. Seating is first come, first served.]
Saturday, October 10 10:30 AM • Live Music: The Lucky Ones – Environmental Music 11:00 AM • DOCUMENTARY FILM The River Raisin: A Comeback Story (60m) Directed by Bradley M. Egen A documentary detailing the extensive remediation, restoration, and revitalization efforts of the River Raisin in Monroe County, Michigan, over the past four decades. The River Raisin’s legacy is explored through the narrative of its history from the indigenous Potawatomie peoples to the largest battle of the War of 1812 to major industry and manufacturing pollution, to a labor strike that wrought national attention, and much more.
12:00 PM • Live Music: The Lucky Ones – Experimental Music 12:15 PM • EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Water Knows The Way (8m) Directed by Zeping Sun This experimental piece is a representation of the director’s contemplation of life’s destination. In this work, the journey is not about finding an answer, but about following a path that reveals itself through movement.
Crossings (8m) Directed by Darian Rivera A short documentary about two artists – one a photographer, Thomas Mezzanotte, who makes photographs that look like paintings, and the other a painter, Juan Garcia-Nunez, who makes paintings that look like photographic negatives.
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12:30 PM • STUDENT SHORT FILMS The Sea & She (22m) Directed by Tyler Shortt Raised in the rhythm of the ocean, teenager Sunny Kazama grew up with surfing as both playground and teacher, absorbing lessons in patience, humility, resilience, and change. Narrated by 5-time World Champion surfer Carissa Moore, this poetic short film is a coming-of-age surf documentary about Sunny, a young woman from Hawai’i whose journey reaches far beyond the waves.
Key{stone} Lime{stone} (4m) Directed by Anne Ciecko This experimental piece explores the histories and memories of industry in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Cement manufacturing, domestic labor, immigration, and family are entwined in a merging of narrative poetry, stop motion animation, and documentary-style video footage.
Where’s Safe Keeping? (15m) Directed by Kristopher David Russin After failing his dorm room inspection, a grieving student must find a place to store his late father’s possessions before he’s kicked off campus. This student filmmaker is from Glen Lyon, PA.
Wilt Chamberlain: 100 Point Game (10m) Directed by Neda Toloui Semnani This film examines why there have been false claims and persistent skepticism surrounding the night Wilt Chamberlin set the NBA record for scoring 100 points in one game. The documentary takes place in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This student filmmaker is from Bellefonte, PA.
Radio Silence (15m) Directed by Ryan James Fogler A young, disenchanted radio DJ, working a night shift, wakes up to discover that he is stuck inside of his booth with no one to help him get out. This filmmaker is from Matamoras, PA.
Bears in Hot Tubs (17m)
Tickets: Blackbearfilmfestival.org
Directed by Claire Musser, Maddie Bear This is a tender, emotionally resonant short film co-created with Maddie Bear and her wild kin, who move through the suburban landscapes of Los Angeles with curiosity, intelligence, and quiet grace.
Sunday, October 11 [Seating is first come, first served. Limited to 40 people.]
11:00 AM • SPECIAL FEATURE ***
For those who want to see more (or who missed the festival on Friday and Saturday), this is your chance to see a surprise feature at the café! This full-length piece is the story of a lifetime…and makes you want to reach the top!
Wait For The Moon (19m) Directed by Isabel Joy Wolk, Keilah Grace Wolk, Michael Scott Wolk Two sisters on the run set out on a desperate journey to freedom. Dangers from the past haunt them as they face challenges and find connection on their search for the way home.
Columns Museum 608 Broad St. Milford, PA Friday, October 9 3:00 PM • Mayor’s Reception 4:00 PM • SHORT FILMS Milford Silent Films
Saturday, October 10 11:00 AM • Live Music: Dave Kunz 12:00 & 2:30 PM • SHORT FILMS Historic Sci-Fi & Milford Silent Films 1:30 PM • America 250 Film Warriors Beyond The Battlefield: African Americans in the Armed Forces (25m) Directed by Dave Messic
SHOWCASE VENUES A documentary highlighting the untold stories from multiple generations of brave African American soldiers who have served in the United States military since the Civil War.
2:00 PM • After Talk: Buffalo Soldiers, America250 & Film History Panel (30m)
Goodfella’s Pizza Italian Restaurant 111 Hulst Dr. Westfall, PA Friday, October 9 3:00 PM • Pre-Party & Silent Films 5:30 PM • Live Music: by Nick Collins & Count Rockula 6:00 PM • SHORT FILM The Final Table (14m) Directed by Gil O’Brien Does a Halloween heist in Vegas stay in Vegas? We’ll have to find out.
6:15 PM • LOCAL HORROR FEATURE Mr. Hush (85m) Directed by David Madison How does a man react when he loses everything he loves? Mr. Hush has an answer with brutal, terrifying violence. A frightening throwback to the slasher films of the 1980s, this is a classic horror flick that is hard to shake. Note: Locally filmed in the Poconos and Milford, PA. Stars: Brad Loree, Edward X. Young, and Stephen Geoffreys.
7:45 PM • After Talk: With local director David Madison & friends
3:30 PM • Live Music: Nick Collins & Count Rockula 4:00 PM • LOCAL HORROR FEATURE Full Moon Fever (85m) Directed by David Madison Hunter Dunne is a loving husband and father. But after a brutal attack one fall evening, his world is turned upside down, filled with nightmares and hallucinations, culminating in a horrific confrontation on Halloween night. Note: Locally filmed in the Poconos and Milford, PA. Stars: David Lee Madison, Scott Schiaffo of Clerks, and Marianne Hagan of the Halloween movie series.
5:15 PM • After Talk: With local director David Madison, Scott Schiaffo & Friends 6:00 PM • HORROR FEATURE: CLASSIC MOVIE: Demon Knight (92min.) Stars: Billy Zane, William Sadler, and Jada Pinkett Smith
7:30 PM • After Talk: With William Sadler of Demon Knight, Shawshank Redemption, and Die Hard 2
John H. Wallace House Bed & Breakfast 120 E Harford St. Milford, PA Admission free, donations accepted. Seating is first come, first served.]
Saturday, October 10 11:30 AM • Live Music: Nick Collins on accordion 12:00 PM • SHORT FILMS
Saturday, October 10
Murphy (8m)
2:00 PM • SHORT FILMS Director’s Choice—Film POP-UP Short Selections & After Talk
Directed by Rich Drees When he oversleeps, Murphy finds an array of obstacles in his way as he races to an important rendezvous.
Tickets: Blackbearfilmfestival.org
Invasion ’53 (14m) Directed by Danielle Weinberg A man-eating alien crashes a suburban cocktail party.
Never Too Late (17m) Directed by Colleen Davie Janes When Cliff’s only companion— a virtual assistant—shuts down in a future where the air itself is becoming unbreathable, an asthmatic 70-year-old man’s cry for help to a faraway support desk becomes a haunting search for meaning and human connection.
Uninvited Guests (14m) Directed by Emily Rund Telling the stories of invasive plants in our neighborhoods, Professors MacVean and Rund designed a cross-disciplinary collaborative project for their students in York, Pennsylvania. This film is a combination of four student group projects combined with testimony from Aaron Jacobs, who helped guide the local Rotary Club of York in the removal and replacing of invasive Bradford Pear trees in the downtown section of the city.
I Wanted To Hear Your Voice (12m) Directed by James Pellerito After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son struggles through their daily care routine. Recorded voicemails serve to show the progression of the disease.
ABRAZOS (Hugs) (4m) Directed by Kaiyu Sun Embrace is more than a gesture; it is an exchange of intention, care, and presence—an act of giving and receiving, an expression of love.
Reaping Nature’s Bounty: Land and Sea (23m) Directed by Ken Vose Host Bill Rosado visits Margarito Canula Coa, who lives and works in Kinchil, practicing his trade as a Huano Palm worker, building and repairing roofs, a job he began when he was nine with his father. Second, there are only two places in the Yucatán where naturally produced sea salt is found and one of them is Celestún, home to Felipe Chan, one of the last independent salt harvesters.
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Schedule Schedule
SHOWCASE VENUES Sunday, October 11
Tr(ace)y (9m)
[Doors open 12:45 PM. Seating is first come, first served. ]
Directed by Julia Editz A young woman garners interesting reactions when explaining her sexuality to her dates. Through these experiences, she comes to realize that being authentic to herself is ultimately more valuable than being accepted by society or potential romantic partners.
1:15 PM • SHORT FILMS Fletcher Street (35m) Directed by Jannat Gargi, David Darg In the heart of North Philadelphia, where violence and instability are a daily reality, the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club offers something rare: a safe haven.
Return to Aquicuana (27m) Directed by Brian Sachson Kay Pacha’s return to the Aquicuana Reserve comes in the wake of the worst wildfire season in the region’s history, which devastated large areas of the Bolivian Amazon and deeply impacted nearby communities. The urgency to defend the Amazon has never been greater.
TriVersity 201 W Harford St. Milford, PA [Admission free, donations accepted.]
Saturday, October 10
We Are Not Unicorns (14m) Directed by Valentina Y. Quintero A documentary short that melts together the experiences of five queer women, whose stories bring awareness to what a lesbian space looks like, and its vitality to connection.
Jaylah (9m)
goes into the real world for the first time, only to find trouble.
Flor De Soto (22m) Directed by Xavier T Hooper Three Bolivian farmers venture out onto private property to harvest coveted and rare wood formations from Soto trees.
The Renaissance Man (16m) Directed by Estelle Collette Barbieri Jo grew up learning everything about art, music, and family tradition from her grandfather Pop. Now living with him while attending college, she must become his caretaker as his worsening dementia makes him unable to live alone.
Directed by Christina Batte After receiving a text from her crush, Jaylah, a naive, 17-year-old, must decide between looking after her grandmother or losing her virginity.
1:45 PM • FEATURE Snow Falling on Pumpkins (97m) Directed by Jeff London When Michael is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at 43, his world begins to unravel. Searching for meaning, he finds healing in the wisdom of a Cherokee spiritual guide and the unwavering love of James, the man who becomes his husband.
12:30 PM • Live Music: Ralph Poyer 1:00 PM • SHORT FILMS It Is Not Dirty (4m) Directed by Ulysse Patrick Thevenot In the intimacy of his daily life, Didier recounts his memories of love and loneliness. The film questions how memories build our identity, while raising awareness of the struggles and hardships that LGBT seniors face throughout their lives.
Getting Almost Naked (23m) Directed by Austin Lee Bunn A hairdresser, custodian, college administrator, queer composer, and mother — sign up for a 10-week “burlesque bootcamp” in upstate New York leading to a nerve-wracking public show and discover what it means to be seen.
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505 W Harford St. Milford, PA [Admission free, donations accepted. BYOC, Bring Your Own Chair & pick a spot on the lawn. Free popcorn.]
Saturday, October 10 6:00 PM • Live Music: Ava Aston 6:30 PM • SHORT FILMS A Dummy Story (15m) Directed by Josh Whiteaker When a crash test dummy sees a beautiful woman visiting the lab, he escapes and
Tickets: Blackbearfilmfestival.org
Warriors Beyond The Battlefield: African Americans in the Armed Forces (25m) Directed by Dave Messic A documentary highlighting the untold stories from multiple generations of brave African American soldiers who have served in the United States military since the Civil War.
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Food
By Marlaina Donato
Film, Food, and Our Collective Human Experience
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e live in strange yet wondrous times. With the help of our technological goto girl, Alexa, we can find almost any film ever made since the dawn of cinema. The only problem is that modern marvels come with side effects including “Scrolling Coma,” an affliction that comes after forty minutes trying to land on something of interest, which can lead to not settling on anything at all. I don’t know about you, but choice overload flattens my wanna-watch-something urge quicker than Audrey Hepburn’s unrequited love soufflé in the classic romantic comedy-drama, Sabrina. For those of a certain age, watching a film before the streaming era was a glorious pastime that included anticipation from the first few seconds of a movie trailer to getting the best seats at the theater. With a ticket stub and colossal order of popcorn smothered in imposter butter in hand, we’d scuffle into our seats just before the lights turned down and hope the person in front of us would move their big head in time for the opening credits.
We may live in an age of instant gratification, but there is something magical about settling into a darkened space with hundreds of other souls and experiencing a movie on the big screen. The drive-in generation had it even better with the wide-eyed privilege of watching Paul Newman scarf down fifty hard-boiled eggs in an hour in Cool Hand Luke while viewers safely snuggled up with a date in the front seat. Food has been part of our cinematic entertainment since slapstick, when someone’s face met a cream pie head-on in the 1909 silent film Mr. Flip, and we never saw dinner rolls quite the same after Charlie Chaplin’s whimsical “fork dance” in The Gold Rush. By the time the 1980s rolled around, the merging of food and romance got us hot and bothered with iconic scenes like Meg Ryan’s orgasmic performance at Katz’s Delicatessen in When Harry Met Sally, with most of us agreeing, “I’ll have what she’s having.” Cultural favorites surely have won the hearts of film fans, and it began with a back-alley candlelit dinner in Lady Continued on next page
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Food and the Tramp, when a steaming plate of spaghetti helped to get the girl. We loved it when gangsters took time out to give impromptu cooking lessons, namely, Clemenza’s secret spaghetti sauce scene in The Godfather, “…shove in your sausage, and your meatballs, and a little bit of wine and a little sugar.” Mobsters who can cook, though, can’t hold a candle to Sophia Loren dishing out Italian food and plenty of sex appeal for the locals in Grumpier Old Men. Gen Xers came of age right along Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Matt Damon, and Annabeth Gish with Mystic Pizza, and a few of us still wonder what the heck Leona put in that pizza. The differences between cultures and generations tickled us pink with the back-and-forth confusion between future mothers-in-law over a bundt cake in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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Who didn’t love free spirit Juliette Binoche for turning a French village upside down with her handmade confections in Chocolat? And very few of us didn’t feel both a sense of evil justice and compassion for Alfred Molina playing the pious adversary who falls from grace and wakes up humiliated after gorging on chocolate the night before Easter. Food on the big screen isn’t all romance, and there’s nothing like that fat dead rat on a platter served up by Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane to give us a delightful case of the shivers. Fried Green Tomatoes dishes out a dark twist of vigilante justice wrapped up in the southern comfort of lifelong friendship between women. Cult fans of Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula still feel a twinge of amusement when Gary Oldman snarkily tells Jonathan Harker, “And I never drink…wine.” Robert De Niro’s violent table flip over an overcooked steak in Raging Bull made us jump back and flinch. The iconic will to survive in the iconic line, “I’ll never be hungry again,” uttered by Vivien Leigh as Scarlet O’Hara in Gone with the Wind drove home how film mirrors, celebrates, and forgives life. Going to the movies has helped generations through their own historical ordeals: depressions, famines, wars, assassinations, and rapidly changing times. Most of us are feeling our own ambiguous place in “the Big Picture” as we witness the leaps and bounds of technology. Entertainment is still a solace and a beacon, our escape into lives different from our own yet alike enough to move us to tears, hope, and even activism. Cinema itself has provided food for our hungry hours for over one hundred years, yet sources claim that the art form as we’ve known it is dying, soon to be replaced by AI actors and generated music scores. The rest of us who have been impacted by the world of stories and moving images agree to disagree, knowing too well the value of human creation and experience. “Synthetic content is the way of the future,” they say, and to that, the rest of us can just quote Rhett Butler, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” and keep watching and creating what makes us human. In honor of food and the timelessness of the silver screen, why not land on something in that eye-glazing menu and make a night of it? Make a plate of spaghetti, turn down the lights and watch two canine characters fall in love. Find a decadent chocolate truffle recipe and share the result with a few people who might need a little magic in their lives. Invite a few girlfriends over and bingewatch chick flicks over a potluck dinner. Life is meant to be lived, and going to the movies—at the few theaters that survive, at film festivals, or even in the comfort of home—can show us how to do it in style.
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History
By Joseph Blanco
A Sense of Wonder
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring “If I had influence with the good fairy over the christening of all children, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible it would last a lifetime.” ~ Rachel Carson
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his is a story of a remarkable woman. A woman who embodied a sense of wonder. That’s how Rachel Carson lived her life—in wonder of the natural world around her.
Rachel Carson. Photos courtesy of Rachel Carson Council
For those of us old enough to remember, 65 years ago there was no environmental movement, no awareness of how we were affected by chemicals and toxins. And there were no laws governing chemical pesticides. No government agency was charged to look out for the air we breathed and the water we drank. No national debates about our impact on this earth and the sky above us. Rachel Carson changed all that. She wrote a book that woke us up, opened our eyes, and challenged us to save this planet we call home. It was the fall of 1962 and the book, Silent Spring, was a bracing account of America’s alarming use of pesticides following World War II. Pesticides developed for wartime use were now being sold and widely used by American homes and farms for killing insects and weeds. For years the dissemination of these toxic chemicals went widely unnoticed and unchecked. The book also documented the chemical industry’s practice of providing inaccurate information and the government’s policy of accepting that information unquestioningly. When Rachel Carson’s book appeared, it was like a clap of thunder. She showed us the harm these chemicals were doing to our health and our world. The book instantly became a best seller, and the industry she indicted just as quickly began to take down the woman who wrote it. She was subjected to vicious attacks. But she stood her ground and the modern environmental movement was born. It’s hard to overstate Carson’s impact on our world today. Time magazine called her one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. And she was posthumously awarded our country’s highest civilian honor—the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Rachel Carson grew up near Pittsburgh, PA. Guided by her mother, she was taught at a young age to love and cherish nature and to release, in her mother’s words, “a sense of wonder” about the world. That sense of wonder was expressed first as a writer and later as a student and teacher of marine biology. Rachel was the solitary sort of girl who greeted the birds on the way to school every morning, and was partial to the companionship of books. At the age of eight, she was writing stories of her own; at ten, at her mother’s urging, Rachel entered a contest sponsored by the then popular children’s magazine, Saint Nicholas, and became a published author; by fourteen she was submitting her work to magazines for sale. When Rachel won a writing scholarship to Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham), her mother sold off lots of family items to cover her daughter’s college expenses. Rachel was the star pupil. Students and faculty liked her and realized what a talented writer she was. Everyone believed it was her ambition to be a writer, so it came as a great shock when Rachel fell in love with biology after taking a single required science course. Her sense of wonder of studying living creatures struck such a strong chord in her that doing anything else but exploring life was out of the question. Thrilled by the prospect of the natural world she was learning to observe closely, Carson changed her major from English to science and announced her intention to go on to graduate school to study marine biology. She received her Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1932 and eventually taught there after leaving government work. Rachel Carson’s first true interest revealed itself when she landed a coveted research spot at the Marine Biology LabContinued on next page
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History
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oratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. And for the first time in her life, she laid eyes on the ocean. She was hooked.
but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
In 1936, she began a 15-year career in government service as a marine biologist and writer and rose to become editor-in-chief of all publications for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She wrote pamphlets on conservation and natural resources and edited scientific articles.
Disturbed by the overuse of synthetic chemical pesticides affecting her beloved sea, wildlife, and humans, Rachel Carson changed her writing focus to warn the public about the long term effects of misusing these toxic substances. Silent Spring challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and called for a change in the way we viewed the natural world. The book was widely received by the public and was read by President John Kennedy and many members of Congress.
In her free time, at the urging of her boss, she channeled years of research into wonderful prose as nature articles for the Atlantic Monthly. Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, was published in 1941. Ten years later, The Sea Around Us became a best seller—followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955. This sea trilogy was, and still is, a much loved and read biography of the ocean. It made Rachel Carson famous as a naturalist and science writer for the public.
Testifying before Congress in 1963, she called for new policies to protect human health and the environment. During her testimony, she stated: “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and the realities of this universe about us, the less taste we shall have for its destruction.” Silent Spring then prompted a presiden-
Collecting specimens
As one who has read Carson’s sea books, I can attest that her style is both informative and wonderfully poetic. It’s obvious to the reader that she had a writing gift. However, when asked about her poetic style, Rachel Carson would respond humbly: “The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is poetry in my books about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there,
Rachel Carson was attacked by the chemical industry and in some government agencies as an alarmist. But she continued speaking out, suggesting human beings are a vulnerable part of the natural world and affected by the same damage as the rest of the ecosystem.
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tial commission with corresponding action endorsing her findings and shaping a growing environmental consciousness nationwide. Within a decade of Rachel Carson’s death in 1964, and influenced by her research and testimony, Congress passed this nation’s first major environmental laws including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act. Legislation restricting and regulating the use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals soon followed. Rachel Carson advocated the “wise” use of insecticides. “It is not my contention,” she wrote in Silent Spring, “that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend, however, that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potential for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to come in contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.” Groups ranging from government institutions to environmental and conservation organizations to noted scientists have celebrated Rachel Carson’s life and work since her death. In addition to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Great American series postage stamp was issued in her honor and several countries have since taken action to celebrate her life.
Top: At the microscope. Bottom: Testifying before Congress
Rachel Carson concludes Silent Spring by suggesting “only within the present century has one species, man, acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery not over nature, but of ourselves.” The Rachel Carson Council is the national environmental organization envisioned by her and founded in 1965 to carry on her work after her death. It promotes Rachel Carson’s ecological ethic that combines scientific concern for the environment and human health with a sense of wonder and reverence for all forms of life in order to build a sustainable, just, and peaceful future. For more information, contact the council at rachelcarsoncouncil.org. Rachel Carson’s legacy is all around us. She is a woman to whom we owe so much. Even now, she challenges us to protect and preserve our natural world. Even now, she calls from us a sense of wonder. Historian Joseph Blanco does a program on Rachel Carson by telling her story through two reenacted interviews during the last year of her life as she battles cancer and her critics in the wake of publishing Silent Spring, an exposé on America’s overuse of chemicals. Using Carson’s own writings, Blanco provides an intimate glimpse of Rachel as she’s thrust into the role of controversial public figure. Contact him at historian@ outlook.com for more information. 31
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Knife sharpener, Ramon Cervantes Avila. Photos courtesy of Bill Rosado
Life
By Marilyn Rosenthal
At the Black Bear
Living Treasures of the Yucatán
S Bill Rosado interviews Ramon Cervantes Avila
o, you’ve been to Mexico, but have you been to the Yucatán? The Yucatán Peninsula is a distinct geographic region in the southeastern part of Mexico, historically developed by the Mayans. It is culturally, geographically, and linguistically proudly different from the rest of the country. The region’s food is distinct as well. Indeed, many area residents have travelled to Mérida, the capital of the state of Yucatán, and it has a magical connection to expats from the US. There are about 4,000 registered US citizens living there, with many more just visiting. Perhaps the number of people in the area with second homes in Mérida may have been the incentive for why the Black Bear Film Festival (BBFF) is showing selected episodes from a twelve-episode film series called The Living Treasures of the Yucatán, developed and hosted by Bill Rosado, owner of several Milford businesses, including La Posada & Felix’s Cantina restaurant, which specifically features food of the Yucatán. The series gives great insight into the people and places of Yucatán and transports us back to the time of the ancient Mayans. It tells the personal stories of a group of men and women who work at jobs or practice customs that continue ancient Mayan traditions, many of which are
essentially unchanged from the way they were performed 100, 200, even 500 or more years ago—traditions which, in some cases, will disappear when these last few practitioners are no longer with us. Episode 1, “Welcome to Yucatán,” will be shown on the Main Stage at the festival. It features, among other things, an old indigenous knife sharpener, Ramon Cervantes Avila, who travels on his motorcycle practicing the ancient art of knife and scissor sharpening. In the film, Avila actually remembered Bill from years ago. They talk about his work, and you can see Avila’s love for his craft. His face is craggy, and his clothes are plain and wrinkled. One can virtually “see” the map of the Yucatán and the ancestry of the ancient Mayans across his face. He proudly shows Rosado the ancient machine he made himself for knife sharpening. Avila loves his work and dealing with his customers. Rosado captures the essence of this man and his craft, which may soon die out totally or be replaced by some hi-tech gadget. In this episode, Rosado also takes us to the market, the cultural hub of the city. He shows how people come from small towns to shop and to socialize as well, and how it is a significant part of the culture. Continued on next page
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“Reaping Nature’s Bounty: Land and Sea,” Episode 10, is to be shown at the John H. Wallace House on Harford Street during the BBFF. We see Rosado in conversation with Margarito Canula Coa, who practices his trade as a Huano palm worker, making and repairing thatched roofs on houses called palapas, open-sided outdoor structures made from dried palm leaves. Coa has been doing this all his life, and once again, the work is his craft. He’s not in it for the money. The Huano leaves are huge, and Coa has Rosado actually harvesting some with his machete. In the next part of this episode, Rosado talks with a man who harvests salt from the ocean by hand. The work is backbreaking, but the worker loves it. “This is one of the best examples of the living treasures of the Yucatán,” Rosado exclaims.
He came to Milford, PA, when he was 15 and grew up here. He quickly became a star soccer player at Delaware Valley High School, brought here by his brother, Felix, who was a strong father figure for him. (Rosado’s father died when he was 2). Felix owned a restaurant in Pike County, and his name is honored as part of the current La Posada restaurant. Rosado is truly linguistically and culturally ambidextrous, in both Spanish and English, and feels totally at home both here and in the Yucatán. He actually speaks each language about 50% of the time, but he says he’s more comfortable in English. “I’m Mexican by birth, American by choice, and a human being by heart,” he always says. 34
Huano palm worker Margarito Canula Coa
Bill Rosado is the perfect person to have developed this series.
Rosado has always been interested in film, not necessarily as a career, but as a passion. As a young man, he developed an interest in compelling storytelling. “It has to be informative and real,” he said. As he developed his love for independent films, he started to collaborate with Ken Vose, an independent filmmaker well-known for writing Greased Lightning with Richard Pryor in 1977. Rosado and Vose developed the Yucatán series. Vose and Rosado wrote the series, Vose was also the editor, and Rosado produced it. Rosado has strong feelings for the series: “To me, the treasures of the Yucatan are the people,” he says.
Harvesting salt from the ocean by hand
Rosado’s collaboration with Vose includes the film, My Brother, My Hero Forever, about local Milford twins, one with Down syndrome, the other a semi-pro baseball player, which documents their lives together. Vose and Rosado wrote the film, Vose directed it, Bill Rosado produced, and Steven Rosado narrated. It has been shown at the Milford Theater and was very well received. Rosado is intent on making more films in the future, particularly along with his bride, Janeth Carvahal Rosado. He is thinking about more hidden treasures of Mexico, describing the incredible number of Catholic churches or perhaps the cenotes of Mexico. Cenotes are big water holes people can actually swim in, and they are plentiful in the Yucatán. Whatever lies ahead for Bill Rosado will be a product of his great passion for storytelling, independent filmmaking, his endless curiosity, and his love for the Yucatán. As he warmly says in the series, “Mi Yucatán es su Yucatán!” 35
Nature
By Bob Romano
Forgotten Trout
The sound of the current grows louder as my wading boots leave indentations in the thick layer of low-growing vegetation that spreads across the bank of the brook. Even now, in early October, there are beads of water on rocks and lichen. I can almost grab the humidity with my hand. The last time the state stocked these waters was in the 1970s. The descendants of those dull-witted, hatchery-bred fish have developed into a strain of self-propagating, wild brook trout that have staked their claim to the upper reaches of this rivulet. Their flanks are bejeweled 36
with blue-and-yellow circles, the occasional blood-red dot in the center, a splash of scarlet across their bellies. They lack the lighter hues found in brook trout of other waters. Instead, their backs are uniformly black. I like to think it is because they spend their hidden lives under the shadows cast by the massive stand of hemlocks. It’s the shade provided by these trees that ensures the temperature of Bonnie Brook remains cool enough to sustain this wild strain of forgotten fish. Without the hemlocks, the brook trout are doomed to perish. It may be just a matter of time. The stream slips nearly unnoticed into a bigger river. It is only six miles long from its primary source, a small pond found along a ridge in the foothills of a mountain range that is part of the Appalachian chain. The low-growing blueberry bushes that spread down to the water’s edge make it difficult to hike around the pond’s shoreline. Farther back, scrub oak, white pine, and Norwegian spruce grow tightly together. Gnats, black flies, and mosquitoes are a bother, while deer ticks can be a worry, but it is the
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ooking up at the hemlocks, one would never guess they are dying. These trees, many over seventy-feet tall, are plagued by the hemlock wooly adelgid, an exotic pest infesting many stands throughout the East Coast. At first glance, the trees appear strong, but a closer inspection reveals many of their needles have turned gray. I suppose I should be grateful that it has been a slow process, each season a few more trees falling to the forest floor, others losing their needles.
rattlesnakes that are the real concern. Rumor has it that they are as big as your fear will allow. The brook descends from the pond for a short distance, its depth no more than inches, sliding around boulders lush with lichen and moss until it passes under a single-lane road, its macadam chipped and in places broken, closed by the Park Service during the winter months. A few hundred yards downstream, a second smaller rill trickles down out of the east to join the current. A quarter-mile from the road, runoff from the hills that rise up along the brook’s western flank descends through a ravine adding more volume whenever it rains. As the gradient increases, riffles are interspersed with plunge pools formed wherever the little stream slices around or over larger boulders, fallen limbs, and other debris. In places, the runs are now as deep as two and three feet.
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In this manner, the hidden brook falls for another mile or so before emerging from the forest. Passing through fallow fields, brambles and barberry, honeysuckle and wild rose replace taller trees. It is here that rainbow trout will sometimes dance on their tails, a crimson sash draped across their sides glistening as they break through the surface to grab my fly. The stream leaves the fields as it descends through a shale gorge where brown trout join their cousins. These secretive fish rarely leave their lairs, requiring supreme stealth, precise casts, and a fly that meets their epicurean standards to entice them to the surface. The reward, a hard fighting fish with pumpkin-colored spots sprinkled across flanks the color of golden honey. The current eventually enters a swamp, its current bending languidly in a serpentine course reminding me of a black snake spread across the warm pavement on a summer’s afternoon. Not long after, it slips unnoticed into the larger, well-known river. Like Hemingway’s Nick Adams, I feel the fishing here “would be tragic,” and although like Nick, I’ve told myself there are plenty of days coming when I could fish it, I never have. Standing here in this uncertain light, my calves resist the pull of the current. A few feet downstream, a fingerling turns to capture a caddis larva dislodged by my wading boot. I flip a wet fly, its tinsel worn, body ragged from its previous encounters with the fish of this stream. It slips toward a small glide along the edge of the far bank where a scarlet flash streaks through the surface. I can feel hook bite sinew, but then the trout is gone, my line slack.
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RETURN TO RANGELEY by Robert J. Romano, Jr.
Join Nathaniel Palmer, George Anne Brady, and company as they seek meaning in an increasingly troubling world among the vast lakes, unrestrained rivers, and those RETURN RANGELEY – A little rills found only by followingTO a logging road through the heart of western Maine.
Now, I’ve always had a fondness for moving water. Can’t help but look over each bridge, stop by every creek, gully or ditch. Most fishermen might not think of casting their flies in this small stream, preferring the certainty of bigger fish in the many put-and-take rivers and lakes that are a few-minutesdrive from here. But I’ve discovered a secret hidden under the shade cast by this hemlock forest, tucked deep between the banks thick with prickly bushes and brambles, at times hiding in the current falling through the shale gorge, and on occasion, glimpsed through the swamp’s tannin-stained waters. Beyond the mid-point of my life, I’ve learned that within the current running through forest and field, ravine and swamp, a man may remain suspended in place and time, however briefly, with yesterday of no consequence, tomorrow of little concern. It is for this reason, that these woods, this stream, draw me back to cast my flies to forgotten trout for as long as a dying forest will cast its shadows.
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Signs
Planet Waves by Eric Francis
Aries (March 20-April 19) – What do you notice you’re doing when you don’t think about what you’re supposed to do? Most of the time, that’s what you want to be doing in some greater sense. Your power of imagination is the most potent it’s ever been, though it’s also easy to drown in foggy notions of what is possible. Go quickly from idea to substance and you will shift your direction in a positive and life-affirming way. Taurus (April 19-May 20) – The way to resolve any creative frustration is to take action rather than to hesitate. Don’t concern yourself with whether you’re doing perfect work or good work or even whether what you’re doing is useful; just get busy. One action-based step will lead to another and you will find yourself engaged in something productive, if unexpected, and that will settle your mind. Notice how your experience differs and if you get lost, guide yourself back to yourself. Gemini (May 20-June 21) – You have seen how tricky the social realm is, and how people can conceal their true identity while claiming the best intentions. This has nothing to do with anyone’s appearances and everything to do with the feeling in your body that tells you when you’re in danger and when you are in good company. The essential lesson is that you learn how to tune in deeply enough, and for long enough, to trust yourself. Cancer (June 21-July 22) – For Cancer, what you do is integrally connected to who you are. Others may be able to dodge this; they may be able to build their career on motives like earning a living or seeming important. You do not have this false luxury. But you’re in an extended moment where you must believe in yourself. Don’t let anyone throw you off of your own scent or commitment to your truth. Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) – Leo is the ultimate “look at me” sign, though you seem reluctant to have people see that you might attempt something and fail or even display imperfection. Whatever you do going forward will require both the risk of leadership and of standing alone — or at least seeming to. What do you do if you feel the need to have more freedom of movement in the world? The answer is: Be honest with yourself. And it is probable that those around you are having similar sentiments — and that you share common ground. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) – Recent events in your birth sign will get you past certain limitations you’ve been dragging around since childhood — more consciously than ever. You tend to encounter them when you want to do something for fun, creativity or pleasure. It’s that nagging sense of guilt that you’re supposed to be doing something else. You can confront that head on, or you can step over it like a fence that is knee-high. The only problem is when you don’t see the barrier and trip over it.
Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) – Some colors go better together than others. Is this just a matter of opinion, or is it a natural truth? Is what you see objectively real? Is it something revealed by your point of view? Is it the changing of the seasons showing you something that stands just behind the boundaries of linear time? It could be any of those things, though beauty is never an illusion; and respect for beauty is reverence for existence. No matter at all if you’re the only witness. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) – With Jupiter arching across the top of your solar chart, the trap to fall for is your own authority. The remedy is curiosity. For every statement you make, I suggest you have a strong component of “this is the part I don’t know about, and I’m planning to find out.” With Jupiter now in Leo it’s difficult to have any semblance of humility. Yet that’s your only hedge against falling into a trap, or an open sidewalk grate. Look where you’re going and emphasize what you don’t know. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) – You have a way of living — or a mode of living — where you take on the whole planet like you have the world by the balls. Unless of course you’re paralyzed by insecurity. If the former, I suggest you tone down the “I do what I want when I want and play by my own rules” thing. Your sign may contain the core of our galaxy. But you are a human being walking among the other mortals, and within our critically fragile ecosystem. Gentleness of approach is called for. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) – You want the world to be a better place, but it’s not that easy to make it so. It’s easy to give up; and a temptation to retreat into cynicism and a defeatist attitude. But you know better, you’re capable of more, and you understand that giving up in any way defies your inherently social and relational nature. You’re on this planet with a commitment and a purpose, so do your part every day to make the world a little more beautiful. Just a little — not a lot. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Pluto in your sign is a bit of a loaded gun. You have the power. You may be a badass mofo and you want the world to know it. Then there’s that other thing where you don’t want anyone to see you, to notice you, to be too aware of your presence. That could spell trouble. You surely don’t want to challenge authority or tell your friends they’re full of shit even when you know they’re clueless. There must be more to life than holding your breath. Shake it up. Get moving. Get in the face of the world. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) – I’m not usually the “fake it till you make it type.” But if I may make a suggestion, muster up all your confidence and come on strong, stronger and strongest. Act like you have not a care in the world — and you will triumph over the concerns that you have. Most of those are emotional and not material; and to the extent that you gain control over your emotional life you will have mastery over the material. Stay tuned — to yourself.
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