If you have any still pictures of the girls I would love to see them as I can't watch the program. I am happy that they are saving the courthouse. Mary Tout ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gina Richardson" <richardson69@comcast.net> To: <inrandol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB > Sorry All, > > WOOPS! > It is on Thursday, I keep thinking today is Thursday. > > I have had my days mixed up! All the running back and forth to the hospital > and out of town has me all confused, don't know if I am coming or going! <G> > > The show is on tomorrow, Thursday, July 31st. > > Gina > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <unicorn1945@comcast.net> > To: <inrandol@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:50 PM > Subject: Re: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB > > >> Instead of Thursday like the paper said? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Gina Richardson >> To: inrandol@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:39 PM >> Subject: [INRANDOL] Courthouse Girls to air on WIPB >> >> >> For those interested, the documentary will be on WIPB tonight. >> >> There is a website about the Courthouse Girls with a store where you can >> order calendars, T-shirts or a replica of the courthouse. Proceeds from >> any >> sales go to a Save the Court House Fund. >> >> The link to the website is www.courthousegirls.com >> >> >> >> MUNCIE -- By now, you know the story. >> Seven old ladies showed some skin, posed for a calendar and caused an >> uproar >> in Randolph County. >> You've read about them, and the even older courthouse they worked to >> save, >> for what seems like forever. And this week, you can see them (fully >> clothed) >> in your living room. >> On Thursday, the Courthouse Girls of Farmland, a 51-minute documentary >> that >> showcases the women's fight, will air at 9 p.m. on WIPB, Muncie's PBS >> station. >> It's a story WIPB helped tell, as the station was hired to film it. >> Farmland >> native Jeff Crone, a videographer for WIPB, is one of the film's >> photography >> directors. >> "People come to us with ideas but it usually fizzles out," said Alice >> Cheney, general manager of WIPB. "This is probably an exception because >> there was something happening of importance, which was saving the >> courthouse, and we like to cover local things that will appeal to our >> viewers." >> For months covering the story meant Crone spent Monday mornings at >> meetings >> of the Randolph County board of commissioners. He stood in the corner >> with >> his camera and filmed the debate. >> But just as the documentary is about more than commissioners' >> decisions -- >> first to demolish the courthouse in June 2005, then to reverse that >> decision >> in March 2006 -- Crone and his camera went outside the commissioners' >> meeting room as well. >> There's a singing scene from the courthouse lawn, tours that show the >> bubbled paint and disrepair of the building and footage of events in >> Farmland that proves this town will try anything once. There's a cameo by >> former First Lady Judy O'Bannon and music (the song Naked People) by >> Muncie >> native songstress Jennie DeVoe. >> And yes, there are interviews with the Courthouse Girls, as well as >> members >> of their families who were shocked with what their mothers and >> grandmothers >> agreed to do. >> There also are interviews with a few who don't like what "The Girls" have >> done. Convincing those people to appear on camera was one of director >> Norman >> Klein's biggest struggles. Klein, a friend of executive producer Angela >> Soper (a Farmland native whose mother, Eileen Herron, 89, is Miss >> October), >> joined the project late and spent a week in Indiana pulling loose ends >> together. >> "I thought that this movie would not be revolutionary, but it would be >> cute >> and I thought it would attract an audience, and not a younger audience," >> Klein said. "These women were doing what most of us have stopped doing. >> They >> were getting involved in their community." >> The documentary already has premiered at two film festivals, and last >> month >> was judged the top audience pick at the Breckenridge (Colo.) Festival of >> Film. The airing on WIPB will be its television premiere, but executive >> producers Soper and Larry Francer (co-owner of Tanglevine Crossing in >> Farmland) hope other PBS stations, especially the seven others in >> Indiana, >> pick up the film. >> Brent Molnar, program manager for WTIU in Bloomington, said his station >> will >> air it this fall. A date hasn't been chosen. >> The fact that the documentary showcases both the pros and cons of The >> Girls' >> fight, from both liberal and conservative points of view, is one Molnar >> expects to speak to viewers of the station at Indiana University. >> "It's nice to see how they got involved in the process and how they were >> able to expose -- maybe that's not the right word to use -- they were >> able >> to bring the issue to light," Molnar said. "Anything that looks like it >> has >> a local or regional tie in, I definitely look at and give a serious >> consideration." >> Contact Henry and Randolph county reporter Joy Leiker at 213-5825. >> ******************************** >> Please Visit The Randolph County INGenWeb Project >> http://www.ingenweb.org/inrandolph/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.7/1581 - Release Date: 7/30/2008 >> 6:56 AM >> >> >> ******************************** >> Please Visit The Randolph County INGenWeb Project >> http://www.ingenweb.org/inrandolph/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.7/1581 - Release Date: 7/30/2008 >> 6:56 AM >> >> > > ******************************** > Please Visit The Randolph County INGenWeb Project > http://www.ingenweb.org/inrandolph/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------