Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival 1994
Sharp & clear footage of the 1994 Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, especially the gospel choir.
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Summer Flowers, Add to Maine II
Summer flowers, Maine.
Driftwood, Add to Maine II, Early 1940s
Driftwood & seaweed on a stony shore.
Corea Harbor, Add to Maine II
A beautiful portrait of Corea Harbor.
A Toast at the Shore
Ruth Storm brings glasses to three friends gathered on a lawn & they toast.
Spring Gardening
Filmmaker Ruth Storm joins a young woman who is turning soil to prepare a garden while an older couple observe
Smokies
Storm & a group of women friends visit tourist spots along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Maine II
Corea has become a lively community of intellectuals & artists. Marsden Hartley is in residence & appears in this reel. Mabel & Ruth have bought adjoining lots on the water; Ruth is having a cabin built. Two local young women, Louise Z. Young and Miriam Colwell, have become warm friends with Ruth, Chennie, and Mabel.
Maine III
After Mabel’s death, Ruth sold a parcel of Mabel’s land to the Lord family which features in this reel as do several summer neighbors, and Mimi and Chennie, now a couple. Wonderful footage of the Ellsworth Falls archaeological dig, too.
World’s Fair & Jones Beach, c. 1939
Ruth Storm’s 1939 World’s Fair footage includes construction footage shot before the fair opened as well as a visit to Jones Beach, which also opened in 1939.