Town Hall Theater Presents:

From Earth to Earth: The Lost Art of Dying in America

Followed by Q&A with the founder of Vermont Forest Cemetery .

Wednesday, September 24 at 6pm in the Doug and Debby Anderson Studio

This short, 20-minute documentary describes natural burial and its benefits through stories from the people who worked to make it legal in Vermont. It also discusses natural burial’s environmental benefits, the comfort this ritual provides to loved ones struggling with grief, and the ways in can help us contemplate our own mortality. The film includes scenes from the Vermont Forest Cemetery, the first and still only cemetery devoted to natural burial in Vermont and from Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve outside of Ithaca, NY.

The documentary, which won a number of awards in US and Europe, including a Webby Award for Best Short Form Documentary Film, will be followed by a Q&A session led by Jim Hogle the President and Communications and Outreach Coordinator of the Vermont Forest Cemetery, and by Michelle Acciavatti, Founder of the Vermont Forest Cemetery.