It’s been a busy winter, and this update is long overdue. We returned to the UP in late February, in search of snow and to complete principal photography on the Calumet story. We’dd been to Calumet in December, but everybody there told us that if we really wanted to see…
Great News from the Great Lakes: 1913 Massacre receives IHC Grant
Recognizing the significance of the Calumet story for the entire Great Lakes region, the Illinois Humanities Council has awarded 1913 Massacre a major grant.
NYSCA grant, and a fifth shooting trip to Calumet
This update is long overdue, but we’ve been traveling and shooting and writing grants, so there hasn’t been much time for the website in the past few months. Time to catch up. On the fundraising front, we’ve just gotten great news: 1913 Massacre has been awarded a grant from NYSCA,…
In Memory of Tom Katona
We mourn the passing of Tom Katona, union organizer and activist, avid amateur historian, descendant of an Italian Hall survivor, and guardian angel of our endeavor. Tom was only 49 years old when he died suddenly and unexpectedly of a stroke in May. We never met Tom in person —…
An Afternoon with Odetta
We recently spent a wonderful afternoon talking with a living folk legend: Odetta. Our interview ranged from her memories of Woody, to his children’s music, to her music, to Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Will Gere, and the Greenwich Village & Topanga Canyon folk scenes. Many thanks to Odetta’s manager Doug Yeager…
Puffin Foundation Support & a visit with Dan Zanes
We’ve just gotten word that 1913 Massacre has been awarded a grant from The Puffin Foundation. The Puffin Foundation is dedicated to “continuing the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people.” The Foundation’s generous support will help us explore and document, online and in our film, the music of Michigan’s Upper…
Back from Calumet, Woody Guthrie Artist Grant
We traveled again this month to Calumet, where we shot the Arlo Guthrie concerts on September 23rd and 24th at the historic Calumet Theatre. Before Friday’s show, we also took a walk to the site of Italian Hall, where we talked on camera with Arlo about Calumet, about music, and…
Support from the Jerome Foundation
We’ve just learned that 1913 Massacre has received a generous grant from The Jerome Foundation. Created by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), the Foundation makes grants to support and encourage the “vigorous and distinctive voices” of “emerging artists” whose works “challenge our thinking and add meaning to our lives.”…
The massacre makes news… again
We’ve returned from a two-week trip to Calumet, where we shot forty hours of new material, including beautiful imagery of Calumet and Laurium from the back of a pickup truck, fourth of July at Lake Linden, a visit to the Quincy Mine and the old site of Electric Park, and…