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The Wisconsin Humanities Council is grateful to everyone who attended the Making It Home Film Festival and to the local presenters:
- UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
- Aldo Leopold Foundation
- Al. Ringling Theatre
- Wormfarm Institute
- Sauk County Land Conservation Department
- Youth Environmental Projects of Sauk County (YEPS Program of UW-Extension)
- International Crane Foundation
- The local Girl Scouts
- We would also like to thank local sponsors Culver's, Glacier Rock Restaurant and The Clarion Hotel!
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 Liz Nevers with Milly and Woody Zantow. Milly Zantow, 86, is a resident of North Freedom,WI and an environmental hero whose work led to a national recycling policy and a true revolution in plastics. She was honored at the opening night of the Making it Home Film Festival tour in Baraboo, WI. Watch a short film about Milly Zantow by Liese Dart. |
Baraboo is well-known as the home of the Ringling Bros. circus and Wisconsin's most visited state park, but people are less familiar with its legacy as the backdrop for one of the most celebrated American nature books ever written, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. In the years since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold's importance in Wisconsin and nationally has continued to grow. Each year on the first weekend in March, communities across Wisconsin come together to celebrate Aldo Leopold life and ideas, marking the state's official Aldo Leopold Weekend.
We have such a strong environmental legacy here in Baraboo. Showing a wide variety of films here about the relationships between people and land can help the community to reconnect to nature and our unique landscape. Offering the films as part of Aldo Leopold Weekend also helps us to remember an important piece of our local history. -Jeannine Richards, Communications Coordinator for the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
This Making it Home film festival was presented by University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Wormfarm Institute, the Land Conservation Department, UW-Extension YEPS Program, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
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