BUTTE, AMERICA
A documentary film, at Seattle University's Pigott Auditorium, Saturday, October 10, at 7 pm. Tickets $10 pp.
This documentary tells the remarkable history of Butte, Montana, once "The Most Irish City in North America". Former Montana Congressman Pat Williams and film co-writer Edwin Dobb will introduce the Seattle U screening and answer questions afterwards.
SHOWTIME: Saturday, October 10, 7 pm
(turn into Seattle U off 12th Ave at E Marion St)
TICKETS: $10 pp, festival seating. Also at the door unless sold-out
Mail checks to: IHC, P.O. Box 75123, Seattle, WA 98175
Narrated by 2009 Golden Globe winner Gabriel Byrne, Butte, America recounts the sometimes glorious, often sorrowful, but always fascinating story of the most lucrative hard rock mining town in United States history. In Butte, the Industrial Revolution collided with the romance of the frontier, corporate capitalism battled organized labor, and human appetite laid waste to land and water, yielding vast fortunes for a few and a tragic environmental legacy for the people left behind. Those people are the heart of the film--miners, their families, the working class neighborhoods they created amidst danger and hardship. In a copper crucible, they forged a community whose toughness and solidarity speak to what's missing in America today. Butte, America combines historic fact and first-person narrative to bring to life the highly compelling but largely untold story of this legendary city.
The film will also be shown nationwide on PBS TV later this Fall.
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