[Vision2020] Daily News June 10, 2005: INK: Christ Church documentary film premieres Thursday

Kit Craine kcraine at moscow.com
Sat Jun 11 14:21:02 PDT 2005


Today’s Daily News had a small, buried correction to this story.

“My Town” will be shown a week from Thursday on JUNE 23 (the day after 
MCA’s party in the park).

Kit Craine

On Jun 10, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Saundra Lund wrote:

> The following appeared in Vera White's INK column in today's Daily 
> News.  I
> know where I'll be Thursday evening  :-)
>
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to 
> do
> nothing.
> Edmund Burke
> _____
>
> INK: Christ Church documentary film premieres Thursday
> By Vera White, Daily News staff writer
>
> Theater-goers will be treated to a star-studded cast Thursday when 
> Michael
> Hayes' documentary, "My Town," premieres at the Kenworthy Performing 
> Arts
> Centre.
>
> In the 70-minute film, the associate professor at Washington State
> University's Department of Teaching and Learning, explores the 
> controversy
> that erupted in late 2003 over Christ Church Pastor Doug Wilson's 
> pamphlet
> "Southern Slavery As It Was," and the history conference Wilson's 
> Credenda
> Agenda magazine staged the following February on the University of 
> Idaho
> campus.
>
> "My Town" features interviews with Wilson, brother Evan Wilson, Roy 
> Atwood
> and other kirkers, as well as community activists such as JoAnn 
> Muneta, Bill
> London and Rosemary Huskey.
>
> The showing is sponsored by the Auntie Establishment (Joan Opyr) and 
> Brother
> Carl (Carl Westberg Jr.) Show, which is broadcast every Sunday from 5 
> to 7
> p.m. on KRFP Moscow, 92.5 FM.
>
> "Explosive" is the term Opyr used to describe the film to the INKster
> Wednesday. "A revealing documentary about small-town politics and wide
> cultural differences."
>
> Hayes told the INKster his goal shifted after he started the project in
> October.
>
> "I started out to make an exposé of the pamphlet after a colleague 
> gave me a
> copy," Hayes said. "But then I shifted for a look at the cultural wars'
> controversy in Moscow."
>
> Huskey, who saw the film this week, found the interview with Evan 
> Wilson,
> pastor of All Souls Christian Church in Moscow, interesting.
>
> "Generally, Evan addressed Doug's notion of redesigning Moscow along 
> the
> lines of Oxford, or other major British universities, with New St. 
> Andrews
> College as the anchor piece, perhaps with a downtown cathedral and 
> related
> businesses," Huskey noted in an e-mail.
>
> The Thursday showing of "My Town" begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 
> general
> admission; and $3 for students, senior citizens, children under 12, and
> those on fixed incomes. Anyone wishing to make an additional donation 
> to
> help defray the cost of screening may make a deposit to the Auntie
> Establishment account at American West Bank. Proceeds will be donated 
> to
> support low-wattage broadcasting in Moscow.
>
> <snip>
> INK is penned by Vera White.
> To contribute to INK, call (208) 882-5561, ext. 251, or e-mail
> vwhite at dnews.com; or vnwhite at cableone.net.
>
>
>
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