Getting Crankie at the Floyd Radio Show
Students at Springhouse Community School created a story script and crankie show based on an interview with a local farmer who recently placed his farm under a conservation easement with the New River Land Trust. They built the crankie, an old time instrument for scrolling art and screening shadow puppets, with the help of project advisers and community mentors. They also arranged and performed a song written by the farmer, which is shown in video #2. More about Springhouse, a project-based high school at the Floyd EcoVillage HERE. You can read a recent post about the September Floyd Radio Show HERE. Watch for a story on the students performance in this week’s Floyd Press.
October 8th, 2014 11:36 pm
[…] 12. Last week the students at Springhouse Community School that my husband co-founded performed at the Floyd Radio Show, doing a multi-media presentation of narrative, crankie puppetry and song. The creative performance was based on an interview of a local farmer who recently put his farm in a conservation easement to assure it would remain as farmland. In telling his story, the farmer shared that he was drafted during Vietnam. Before going to war, he traveled the country, saying, “I figured if I was going to die for my country, I might as well see it.” He also told the students, “The war took the fun out of me.” See HERE. […]