| VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL:
Sun, Feb 15, 3 pm; Plainfield Town Hall, Rte 2, Plainfield.
Narrated by special guest, Vermont State Representative, Janet Ancel.
Read by Susannah Blachly, Tom Blachly, Ellen Keene, Bob Rosenfeld,
David Schutz, and Mary Wheeler.
Reading of Spencer Smith's adaptation of Svetlana Alexievich's
award winning book, "Voices from Chernobyl" about the
worstnon-military nuclear disaster in history -- the melt down of\
the Ukrainian nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 26, 1986.
The short, readers' theater play weaves together true stories told
by survivors of that nuclear meltdown that occurred only forty miles
north of Kyiv, thecapitol, and city of three million people. Over
485 villages had to be abandoned forever. Even today approx. 2.1
millionpeople, (including 700,000 children) live on contaminated
land and still suffer the health consequences of radiation exposure.
Info: VYDA at 476-3154 or Jacquith Library at 426-3581
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