{"id":5174,"date":"2013-11-04T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2015-10-25T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:29:03","slug":"of-some-fair-place-the-figgyhobbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5174","title":{"rendered":"Of Some Fair Place & The Figgyhobbin"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

We are getting pretty excited about the Driftless Film Festival<\/a>, which starts this Thursday.\u00a0 I thought it would be hard to top last year’s opening night, the magical Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em><\/a>, but I’m even more excited about the film opening this year’s festival: Of Some Fair Place<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Of Some Fair Place<\/em>\u00a0is the story of the artists and artisans that saved Mineral Point from both figurative and literal decay.\u00a0 They bought and restored old buildings in the town, saving a precious part of Wisconsin’s history and bringing new\u00a0life and energy to the community and the economy.<\/p>\n

Eve Studnicka, the filmmaker, is the child of two Mineral Point artists, and her grandparents were among those that bought and restored the crumbling buildings in town.\u00a0 If you don’t know Eve, by the way, meeting her is reason enough to come to the screening.\u00a0 She’s an old soul if I’ve ever met one, and\u00a0I can still hardy believe she’s barely even a college freshman (studying filmmaking at Columbia College in Chicago<\/a>).\u00a0 She’s a great example of the new generation of creative people who grew up influenced by\u00a0the Mineral Point dreamed up by the subjects of Of Some Fair Place<\/em>.\u00a0 To read of Eve’s thoughts on the documentary, check out the November Voice of the River Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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