If you have any still pictures of the girls I would love to see them as I
can't watch the program. I am happy that they are saving the courthouse.
Mary Tout
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gina Richardson" <richardson69(a)comcast.net>
To: <inrandol(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB
Sorry All,
WOOPS!
It is on Thursday, I keep thinking today is Thursday.
I have had my days mixed up! All the running back and forth to the
hospital
and out of town has me all confused, don't know if I am coming or
going!
<G>
The show is on tomorrow, Thursday, July 31st.
Gina
----- Original Message -----
From: <unicorn1945(a)comcast.net>
To: <inrandol(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB
> Instead of Thursday like the paper said?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gina Richardson
> To: inrandol(a)rootsweb.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:39 PM
> Subject: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB
>
>
> For those interested, the documentary will be on WIPB tonight.
>
> There is a website about the Courthouse Girls with a store where you
can
> order calendars, T-shirts or a replica of the courthouse.
Proceeds
from
> any
> sales go to a Save the Court House Fund.
>
> The link to the website is
www.courthousegirls.com
>
>
>
> MUNCIE -- By now, you know the story.
> Seven old ladies showed some skin, posed for a calendar and caused an
> uproar
> in Randolph County.
> You've read about them, and the even older courthouse they worked to
> save,
> for what seems like forever. And this week, you can see them (fully
> clothed)
> in your living room.
> On Thursday, the Courthouse Girls of Farmland, a 51-minute documentary
> that
> showcases the women's fight, will air at 9 p.m. on WIPB, Muncie's PBS
> station.
> It's a story WIPB helped tell, as the station was hired to film it.
> Farmland
> native Jeff Crone, a videographer for WIPB, is one of the film's
> photography
> directors.
> "People come to us with ideas but it usually fizzles out," said Alice
> Cheney, general manager of WIPB. "This is probably an exception
because
> there was something happening of importance, which was saving
the
> courthouse, and we like to cover local things that will appeal to our
> viewers."
> For months covering the story meant Crone spent Monday mornings at
> meetings
> of the Randolph County board of commissioners. He stood in the corner
> with
> his camera and filmed the debate.
> But just as the documentary is about more than commissioners'
> decisions --
> first to demolish the courthouse in June 2005, then to reverse that
> decision
> in March 2006 -- Crone and his camera went outside the commissioners'
> meeting room as well.
> There's a singing scene from the courthouse lawn, tours that show the
> bubbled paint and disrepair of the building and footage of events in
> Farmland that proves this town will try anything once. There's a cameo
by
> former First Lady Judy O'Bannon and music (the song Naked
People) by
> Muncie
> native songstress Jennie DeVoe.
> And yes, there are interviews with the Courthouse Girls, as well as
> members
> of their families who were shocked with what their mothers and
> grandmothers
> agreed to do.
> There also are interviews with a few who don't like what "The Girls"
have
> done. Convincing those people to appear on camera was one of
director
> Norman
> Klein's biggest struggles. Klein, a friend of executive producer
Angela
> Soper (a Farmland native whose mother, Eileen Herron, 89, is
Miss
> October),
> joined the project late and spent a week in Indiana pulling loose ends
> together.
> "I thought that this movie would not be revolutionary, but it would be
> cute
> and I thought it would attract an audience, and not a younger
audience,"
> Klein said. "These women were doing what most of us have
stopped
doing.
> They
> were getting involved in their community."
> The documentary already has premiered at two film festivals, and last
> month
> was judged the top audience pick at the Breckenridge (Colo.) Festival
of
> Film. The airing on WIPB will be its television premiere, but
executive
> producers Soper and Larry Francer (co-owner of Tanglevine
Crossing in
> Farmland) hope other PBS stations, especially the seven others in
> Indiana,
> pick up the film.
> Brent Molnar, program manager for WTIU in Bloomington, said his
station
> will
> air it this fall. A date hasn't been chosen.
> The fact that the documentary showcases both the pros and cons of The
> Girls'
> fight, from both liberal and conservative points of view, is one
Molnar
> expects to speak to viewers of the station at Indiana
University.
> "It's nice to see how they got involved in the process and how they
were
> able to expose -- maybe that's not the right word to use --
they were
> able
> to bring the issue to light," Molnar said. "Anything that looks like
it
> has
> a local or regional tie in, I definitely look at and give a serious
> consideration."
> Contact Henry and Randolph county reporter Joy Leiker at 213-5825.
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