The Grange Presents:
BIG SUR: THE WAY IT WAS
Saturday August 23rd
Potluck 4pm, Film 6pm
Join us for a Potluck and viewing of the 1972 documentary Big Sur: The Way It Was. This film is the first documentary made of Big Sur, its natural beauty, artistic community, and counterculture ways. It includes interviews with writers, artists and intellectuals, such as Henry Miller, Eric Barker, Emil White, Harry Dick Ross, Emile Norman, as well as hippies, musicians, bikers, hitchhikers, tourists and your every-day rugged individualists who call Big Sur home. It was filmed and produced by Robert Blaisdell, a native filmmaker of the Monterey Peninsula, who shot the footage of Big Sur and its inhabitants throughout the 1960s.
https://www.bigsurstories.com/big-sur-the-way-it-was-1
The Way It Was was first released in 1995 on VHS and later on DVD before it disappeared from view. Now thirty years after its debut, the 55 year old film is available again thanks to the efforts of Bob Franco, a Pacific Grove filmmaker who assisted in the restoration of the 1972 documentary. Bob will join us to share the film, and will be available afterwards to discuss his current project. Bob’s is collecting stories from and about local artists and residents regarding their work and life experience in Big Sur as part of his Big Sur Stories project:
https://www.bigsurstories.com/
Kate, this sounds wonderful! I looked on the website but don’t see if it will be streamed or made available to those of us from afar. (If Santa Cruz is afar.) I’ll pose that question to him. Meanwhile, it’s great to have the documentary back!
and Berley Farber and maybe even Howard Welsh … those were the days!!