A Home on the Range – Documentary Film

EHST member, Greta Dorfman, will show a film, A Home on the Range,  a documentary about the unique Northern California community in which she grew up, where the older generation of Jewish residents, who were immigrants from Eastern Europe,  lived on small farms and supported themselves raising chickens.  The community was partly cooperative, and fully self-sustaining,  with a rich, vibrant cultural life, while engaging in social action and progressive politics.  The documentary discusses how industrialism made this self-sustaining lifestyle obsolete, and what has become of it today.  Because the 52-minute film will not leave enough time for questions or discussion, a discussion will be held one week later, on April 2nd.