GREENE – Dale Johnson will be at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road, to narrate his film, “Venture to Alaska,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9.

This will be the last program of the year. Admission is free, and doors will open one hour before shows.

After finishing a stint in the Army Security Agency, Johnson traveled throughout Central America, living for a time with the Choco Indians in lower Panama in the jungles near the Colombian border. He did his first filming on this trip.

On returning to the United States, he took a degree at the University of Texas. While engaged in studies there, he began working in the commercial film business in Dallas where he filmed hundreds of commercials, documentaries and two theatrical features.

He worked on television specials, which aired on CBS and ABC. He then spent two years directing and filming the outdoor television series, “The Lone Star Sportsman,” which took him all over the United States and several foreign countries.

Johnson joined the film unit attached to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, producing public relations and documentary films on the space program. As a writer/producer, several of his films collected awards. He spent five years at NASA, working on many films during the Skylab era.

Moving to Alaska, he formed Trailwood Films, producing television commercials, films and documentaries. He has been profiled in National Wildlife magazine. His most recently completed films have been a widescreen production for the National Forest Service which won a Gold Medal at the New York International Film Festival, and a National Geographic Special about wolves in Yellowstone National Park.

Dale and his wife, fellow travelogue artist, Sandy Mortimer, now reside in Shelbyville, Kty.

The audience will visit Anchorage, Fairbanks and the capital of Juneau, probably the only capital city that cannot be accessed by auto.

The Women’s 4th of July Race up Marathon Mountain near Seward on the Kenia Peninsula, will be shown as will grizzly bears as they frolic and fight in pursuit of salmon on Admiralty Island.

For more information, call 946-5311 or visit http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.