Farmsteaders

The March film in the 2020 series will be the documentary, Farmsteaders which will be shown on Friday, March 6^th and Sunday, March 8^th. Director Shaena Mallett writes, “When I began filming the Nolans in 2011, it felt like home.” Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us. Mallett describes the film as, “…the story of many Americans straining against the ebb and flow of an uncertain economic system. I made this film to exalt the farmer, to challenge the stereotype, to celebrate the working class hero – the one who fights for sovereignty of labor and mind.

Shaena Mallett

There will be two screenings of Farmsteaders, Friday, March 6^th, at 7:00 pm and Sunday, March 8^th, at 2:00 pm. The film is 59 minutes. This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS’ award-winning nonfiction film series. For more information about POV, visit the website at https://www.pbs.org/pov/.

For more information call 309.837.2750, text 309.837.2613, or email info@wimuseum.org. The Western Illinois Museum is located at 201 South Lafayette Street, one block south of Macomb’s Courthouse Square.