"Displaced: The Unexpected Fallout From The Cold War," is a new documentary produced by filmmaker Mark Albertin of Augusta's Scrapbook Video Productions. The film will debut during a free screening, which is open to the public and is to be held March 20, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at the Etherredge Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken Campus, Aiken, SC.
Around 6,000 residents of Ellenton, Dunbarton and other hamlets in South Carolina were forced to leave for "the bomb plant," as the Savannah River Site was known was in its embryonic phase. Over a three-year period, Albertin has interviewed dozens of ejected Ellentonians in an effort to catalogue the stories of these aging individuals and what he describes as "their heroic act of patriotism" so it would not be lost to time.
The project has been sponsored by the SRS Heritage Foundation through grants from Fluor Daniel and a grant from Aiken County. For more information and snippets of interviews from the film go to www.displaced.us.
Aiken Standard: http://www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0223Displaced
Around 6,000 residents of Ellenton, Dunbarton and other hamlets in South Carolina were forced to leave for "the bomb plant," as the Savannah River Site was known was in its embryonic phase. Over a three-year period, Albertin has interviewed dozens of ejected Ellentonians in an effort to catalogue the stories of these aging individuals and what he describes as "their heroic act of patriotism" so it would not be lost to time.
The project has been sponsored by the SRS Heritage Foundation through grants from Fluor Daniel and a grant from Aiken County. For more information and snippets of interviews from the film go to www.displaced.us.
Aiken Standard: http://www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0223Displaced
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