Mimi Pickering Award Winning Documentary: Buffalo Creek Flood - An Act of Man

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Visiting filmmaker Mimi Pickering brings her award winning documentary work to the Appalachian State University Campus March 2.
 
To commemorate the 39th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Flood, filmmaker Mimi Pickering will present her award winning film on the disaster in the Great Hall of the Living Learning Center (LLC 207) at 7:30 pm the evening of March 2nd. 
 
Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act Of Man portrays the impact that the February 27, 1972 collapse of a coal-waste dam had on the West Virginia communities it devastated. A wall of sludge, debris and water tore through the valley below, leaving in its wake 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. The Pittston Company, owners of the dam, maintained that the disaster was “an act of God.” Interviews with survivors, representatives of union and citizens’ groups and officials of the Pittston Company are juxtaposed with actual footage of the flood and scenes of the ensuing destruction.
 
Date & Time:
Wednesday, March 2, 2011. 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Great Hall of the Living Learning Center (207)  [Map link]
Contact: Tom Hansell
Contact: hansellts@appstate.edu
Contact: 828-262-7730
Admission: Free
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"Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." - Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, United Nations, 11 December 1987.

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