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<DIV>To our friends in Oregon archaeology:</DIV>
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<DIV>Tonight the Eugene 4J School Board will make a key decision that could
decide the fate of Eugene’s historic Civic Stadium. Whatever that decision
turns out to be, ALI intends to make a documentary film about Civic so that
future generations will know what we had. We have launched a Kickstarter
campaign (<A href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1620684417/civic-stadium-what-we-had?ref=live">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1620684417/civic-stadium-what-we-had?ref=live</A>)
to fund this project and we are looking to spread the word on that to all those
who may want to see this effort move forward.</DIV>
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<DIV>That’s the short version. Read on for more details.</DIV>
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<DIV>In the summer of 2009, we organized a team of 11 videographers and other
volunteers to capture on film the last season of baseball at Civic
Stadium. During that time, we shot nearly 20 hours of footage.
Images and sounds from 2009 includes many interviews with fans, players,
coaches, and owners as well as documentation of the multiplicity of
baseball-related game-night sights and sounds in every part of the stadium,
including the hand-operated scoreboard. Documentation includes
never-before-revealed inscriptions and graffiti from past decades on the walls
and benches within the player and umpire locker rooms and the food-preparation
area. We expect to have access to additional hours of footage shot by
others that season as well as archival footage, recordings and stills,
interviews with those remembering years gone by, images of other stadiums from
other places and times, and historical images of Eugene. Using these
resources, we intend to tell a story that puts the inanimate structure of the
stadium into a meaningful human context. We want to capture the meaning of
this place for this community and put it out there for the world to see.
People in other communities will recognize the relevance of this story for their
own efforts to protect cultural legacy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Our Director for the film is Teal Greyhavens, a talented young film-maker
currently living in Los Angeles who went to South Eugene High School and has a
strong personal attachment to the stadium. Our nonprofit organization,
Archaeological Legacy Institute, based here in Eugene, for 11 years has been
dedicated to using media to tell stories about the human cultural
heritage. For us, the story of Civic Stadium and its place in our
community is just as important in its own way as the story of Stonehenge or the
Roman Colosseum.</DIV>
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<DIV>It will take us about a year to complete the film, a one-hour program
suitable for broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting. We plan for its
screen debut to be in Civic Stadium in front of the home crowd, then distribute
it on cable TV, online, and on DVD for the largest possible audience to see it
and to keep it in circulation forever.</DIV>
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<DIV>Our Kickstarter campaign is posted at <A href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1620684417/civic-stadium-what-we-had?ref=live">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1620684417/civic-stadium-what-we-had?ref=live</A>.
Take a look. We have a short trailer video there as a sample for you to
see. We have until July 1 to raise $50,000 in pledges. If we don’t
reach our funding goal by that time, just 30 days from now, nobody pays
anything. But if we succeed, those who step up and make a pledge (even
just one dollar) will have made it possible for us to memorialize a place
beloved by thousands and whose loss we will mourn, but whose rescue we may have
a chance to celebrate.</DIV>
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<DIV>Please share this will all those you know who may be interested.
Thank you.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rick Pettigrew</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard M. (Rick) Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA<BR>President and Executive
Director<BR>Archaeological Legacy Institute<BR>4147 E. Amazon Dr.<BR>Eugene, OR
97405<BR>USA<BR><A href="mailto:Rpettigrew@aol.com">Rpettigrew@aol.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org">www.archaeologychannel.org</A><BR>541-345-5538<BR>541-338-3109
(fax)<BR>Skype: rick.pettigrew</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>