Eagle Peak Media presents a Midway Pictures production of a David Bettencourt film, ON
THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, about the tuberculosis epidemic of the 1900s -- and today. In conjunction with the movie, producer G. Wayne Miller and
Bettencourt are joining with public-health experts to sponsor a series of TB Awareness Days around the country, beginning in Pittsburgh in October and continuing through 2009. Details will be posted here.
Now on sale: Tickets to the New England premiere of ON THE LAKE, set for 8 p.m. on February 13, 2009, at the famed Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. RESERVE YOUR TICKETS!
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Now on sale: Tickets to the New England premiere of ON THE LAKE, set for 8 p.m. on February 13, 2009, at the famed Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. RESERVE YOUR TICKETS!
Click here for a preview of the movie.
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On
November 6, 1905, a man by the name of George Barrows
stepped off a train that ran through the remote woods
of northwest Rhode Island. A horse-drawn wagon
brought him along a rutted road to a cluster of new
buildings on the shore of pristine Wallum Lake. The
next day, six women arrived. All suffered from
tuberculosis, the number-one killer of the time.
And so began the Rhode Island State Sanatorium, one of hundreds in America, where the sick and dying were sent in hopes of being cured.
And so began the Rhode Island State Sanatorium, one of hundreds in America, where the sick and dying were sent in hopes of being cured.
