Celebrate 2025 Heritage Day with us! Join us for a screening of Village Reels student films, followed by the award-winning documentary Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad.

PROGRAM

12:30 PM – Village Reels Screenings

Featuring three short films created by students from Northwood High School and Montgomery Blair High School as part of the Village Reels Intergenerational Program by Docs In Progress.

Northwood HS

Featuring Victoria Antoinette Rose: A Culture Filled Life

Montgomery Blair HS

Featuring Helena Fabry (Title TBA)

Featuring John Wilkinson (Title TBA)

2:30 PM – Documentary Film Screening

Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role In the Underground Railroad

by Lauren Giordano and George Burroughs [25:27 Min.]

In this award winning film historian Anthony Cohen guides a journey through Adkins Arboretum, revealing how self-liberators used knowledge of nature to find freedom.

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