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SUMMARY:Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic Talk
DESCRIPTION:Joe Blotnick and Jill Higgins spent two years in The Dominican Republic as Peace Corps volunteers. They will be sharing a film that shows some of the work they did and they will be talking about and sharing photos of their time in the Dominican Republic during a talk at the Jesup Memorial Library on Friday\, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. \n\n \n\nHiggins worked doing environmental education and special education\, while Blotnick worked with a cooperative of cacao growers. He helped the growers have their cacao certified organic and set up direct marketing to the United States so they could get fair prices for their products. During Blotnick and Higgins time in the country\, their son Robin\, who was studying film\, visited and made a short film about the cacao cooperative\, called "Chocolate Country." The film subsequently won Best Short Documentary at the Seattle Film Festival. They will be showing the whole 30-minute film during their talk. \n\n \n\nFor more information on the talk\, contact the Jesup at 207-288-4245.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Joe Blotnick and Jill Higgins spent two years in The Dominican Republic as Peace Corps volunteers. They will be sharing a film that shows some of the work they did and they will be talking about and sharing photos of their time in the Dominican Republic during a talk at the Jesup Memorial Library on Friday\, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. </span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Higgins worked doing environmental education and special education\, while Blotnick worked with a cooperative of cacao growers. He helped the growers have their cacao certified organic and set up direct marketing to the United States so they could get fair prices for their products. During Blotnick and Higgins time in the country\, their son Robin\, who was studying film\, visited and made a short film about the cacao cooperative\, called &ldquo\;Chocolate Country.&rdquo\; The film subsequently won Best Short Documentary at the Seattle Film Festival. They will be showing the whole 30-minute film during their talk. </span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">For more information on the talk\, contact the Jesup at 207-288-4245.</span></span>
LOCATION:Jesup Memorial Library\, 34 Mt. Desert St.\, Bar Harbor\, ME 04609
UID:e.3061.16262
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DTSTAMP:20260419T155740Z
URL:https://www.visitbarharbor.com/events/details/peace-corps-in-the-dominican-republic-talk-16262
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