"Green Towns USA:  A New Deal"
Saturday, February 28, 2009, 1 p.m.
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Reiman Visitor's Center, Historic Downtown Greendale

Join the Greendale Historical Society for special Greendale screening of the new, acclaimed documentary, "Green Towns USA: A New Deal."

Associate producer Glory Southwind, who grew up in Greenhills Ohio, worries that her town is threatened by demolition and unsuitable redevelopment. She travels to the other two "greenbelt towns" built by the Roosevelt Administration as affordable housing for the working poor, to find out how they are surviving into the 21st century. She interviews residents and town leaders, attends festivals, and learns that each one of the New Deal towns faced challenges that it met one way or another. A case study in the history of city planning, architectural preservation, community participation and democratic involvement, and the attachment to home.