FARMVILLE HISTORY
THIS CONVERTED RAILWAY NOW SERVES AS ONE OF FARMVILLE’S MOST POPULAR HIKING LOCATIONS
The High Bridge Trail
“Cows on the Cover: Regionalism, Wisconsin and YA Literature”
“Taming the Ouija Heebie-Jeebies: The Talking Board in Material Culture”
“Cinderella’s Princely Ever After: Post-Feminist Cinderella Adaptations for Young Audiences”
Doc Brock / Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais
BASED ON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE SERIES, THIS FANTASY SHOW AIRED FROM 2011-2019
Game of Thrones
FARMVILLE IS HOME TO THIS LOCATION, WHICH IS THE 10TH OLDEST COLLEGE IN AMERICA
Hampden-Sydney College
Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity
“Love, Pity, and Deception in Othello”
“Richard Barnfield’s Petrarchism”
Dr. Shawn Smith
BASED ON THE DYSTOPIAN WORKS OF SUZANNE COLLINS, THE FIRST FILM IN THIS FRANCHISE WAS RELEASED IN 2012
The Hunger Games
ON APRIL 23, 1951, BARBARA JOHNS, A 16-YEAR-OLD STUDENT, LED HER CLASSMATES IN A STRIKE TO PROTEST THE CONDITIONS AT THIS LOCATION, CLAIMING THEY WERE “VASTLY INFERIOR” TO THOSE ATTENDED BY WHITE STUDENTS AT NEARBY FARMVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Robert Russa Moton High School / The Robert Moton Museum
ORIGINALLY PENNED AS TWILIGHT FAN FICTION, THIS SERIES RECEIVED SEVERAL FILM ADAPTIONS STARRING DAKOTA JOHNSON AND JAMIE DORNAN
Fifty Shades of Grey
WHICH WRITER AND PRODUCER OF SHOWS SUCH AS “BREAKING BAD” AND “THE X-FILES” GREW UP IN FARMVILLE AND ATTENDED A LABORATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RUN BY LONGWOOD
Vince Gilligan
THIS FILM MARKED THE FIRST INSTANCE WHERE A STEPHEN KING BOOK WAS ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN
Carrie (1976)
IN THE LATE 1800S, THIS LOCATION IN FARMVILLE WAS KNOWN FOR SELLING ITS “HEALING MINERAL SPRING WATER,” WHICH WAS SAID TO CURE GOUT AND KIDNEY STONES
Lithia Springs
Dancing on Water
As Details Become Available
Masters of War
Craig Challender (come see him next week at the Authors Series!)
ADAPT-INCEPTION! THIS BOOK, LARGELY BASED ON A FILM ADAPTATION OF A CLASSIC CHILDREN’S SERIES, REIMAGINED THE VILLAIN AS A SYMPATHETIC FIGURE AND WAS LATER ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE. THIS STAGE ADAPTATION WAS THEN ADAPTED INTO A FILM.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West