Chapter Meeting July 11

 

     The Buffalo River is born in the Ozark Mountains, springing from the hills and into rock framed valleys carved by weather and ageless time. It is our first national river—a place folks fought to preserve. “Save the Buffalo,” was the cry. “Don't let her be drowned by her own waters!" They won that battle, and federal protection. And today there is a future that mirrors the past, because the Buffalo flows."

 

Join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday July 11 at the San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.

     The Buffalo Flows is a one-hour documentary film written and produced by three-time Emmy award winning filmmaker Larry Foley, Professor of Journalism at the University of Arkansas. The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon, an actor and film director who calls Little Rock home. Trey Marley of Fayetteville does a masterful job of capturing the river's magnificent beauty over four seasons, while Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Dale Carpenter, also a professor at the U of A, lends his talent as the film's editor.

     Larry Foley will Skype into the chapter meeting to answer questions from the audience. This is a first for our San Gorgonio Chapter meetings.

     "People know of the river as a canoe stream, and it's one of the best. But the Buffalo is so much more, and the film captures exactly what it is we protected. This story is about the bluffs and the trees, the flowers and the birds and the giant elk. It's about hiking and floating and camping and fishing. And it's also about the people who make their home in Buffalo River country year-round, and have for generations," Foley said.

     Foley specializes in writing and producing films on cultural history. His PBS credits include The Buffalo Flows (Mid America Emmy-Writer), Saving the Eagles, The Lost Squadron and When Lightning Struck: Saga of an American Warplane (Mid-America Emmy). His work has also been nationally broadcast on ABC, CBS, and ESPN.

     Foley returned to his alma mater in 1993 to teach, produce documentaries, and build and direct a center for the teaching of television reporting and production. In 1996, he founded and is faculty advisor for the campus television station, UATV. In October 2003, he was inducted into the Lemke Department of Journalism's Hall of Honor, the highest award bestowed upon journalism graduates of the University of Arkansas. In 2009, Professor Foley taught a team of young documentary filmmakers who received a Mid-America Emmy Award for best student produced program (KURM Radio-Soapbox of the Air).

     Before coming to the U of A, Foley spent nine years at the Arkansas Educational Television where he worked his way up the ladder to the network’s number two position. He is a former reporter, morning news anchor, assignment editor and producer for KATV Channel 7, Little Rock.