Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind, a film about the poet Ruth Stone, will be screened on May 12, 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30), at FIRST CHURCH IN CAMBRIDGE 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 0213. All are welcome!
The filmmaker, Nora Jacobson, will be in attendance and there will be a Q & A following the showing. The showing is free, and donations will be accepted.
About the film
Ruth Stone was a promising young poet, living an idyllic life with her beloved husband Walter Stone, a poet and professor when he died unexpectedly by suicide in 1959. Already a published poet with one book out titled In An Iridescent Time at the time of Walter’s death, Ruth found a way to continue writing while raising her three young daughters and teaching at various universities around the country as an itinerant poet.
Nora Jacobson’s film Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind chronicles Stone’s heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher in a 76 minute film that leaves its viewers inspired, enlightened, entertained, and uplifted. A visually beautiful film as well, Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind captures the rural grist of Stone’s heroic career, leaving no question as to why she has become both a Vermont and national treasure.
About the filmmaker
Nora Jacobson is an award-winning filmmaker of documentaries and narrative films. Her films include The Hanji Box, the 6-part collaborative film Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie; My Mother’s Early Lovers, Nothing Like Dreaming, and Delivered Vacant. Her films have screened at many festivals including Sundance, the New York Film Festival and shown on PBS.