Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 4-5 at 3 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—Billings Farm and Museum will present the film, “Whitman Brook: An Apple Orchard and the Nature of Time,” directed by Ben Silberfarb, in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater.
“This film is about life’s pace. It’s about our place in time, environmental stewardship, and it’s a love story,” said Ben Silverfarb.
When Terry Dorman moved to Quechee in 1980, his plan didn’t include rescuing an abandoned, 100-year-old apple orchard. His mind was on the farm he and his wife, Sara, were planning to build, an idea rooted in the loss of his family’s land in Massachusetts decades earlier. But there it was—rows of gnarled, drooping trees in danger of being reclaimed by the forested hillside. So, he began to experiment with restoration pruning and grafting and soon he was in the orchard in every season, in every kind of weather.
“Whitman Brook” is the story of an orchard, and also its stewards—Dorman and the others who work among the trees. It’s the story of love, of loss, and of rejuvenation through the act of caring for a place that will continue long into the future. And it’s a call to pay attention—to the natural world, to the passing of time, and to each other.
There will be a question and answer session with filmmaker Ben Silberfarb and Whitman Brook Orchard’s Terry Dorman following the Saturday screening.
Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
For more information, visit: billingsfarm.org.
Courtesy whitmanbrookfilm.com
Director of “Whitman Brook: An Apple Orchard and the Nature of Time,” Ben Silberfarb (above) and Whitman Brook Orchard’s Terry Dorman will be on hand for a question and answer session after the film screening on Saturday at Billings Farm and Museum in Woodstock.
