GREENE – Film producer Fran Reidelberger of Grayling, Mich., will be on stage at the Sawyer Memorial to narrate his film on Alaska.

The free presentation will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5.

The film will feature travels from Ketchikan to Kotzebue and Prudhoe Bay to the Pribilof Islands. Aerial views of Mt. McKinley and close up scenes of wildlife in Denali National Park are among the film highlights.

Reidelberger was raised in Nashville, Ill., and studied history and journalism at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., and Central Michigan University. He served in the U.S. Navy and that gave him an opportunity to travel. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor for two years, and it was there he began a 14-year career in daily newspaper work. He ended up as editor of the Decatur, Ill., Herald and Review. He won a number of awards for writing, editing, newspaper design and creative use of news photos.

The Sawyer Memorial is at 371 Sawyer Road. Doors open one hour before shows and the film length is about 80 minutes. For more information, call 946-5311 or go to the Website at http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.


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