Thursday, July 24, 2025

A documentary video about Roger Conant?



On Woodbury Wide Awake Festival’s website you can view an attractive video documentary which tells us about botanist William Keble Martin’s achievements together with highlighting the dangers facing our natural environment today. 

Created by local artist and film maker Jemma Cholawo it uses images of beautiful East Devon scenery as well as interviews with both local residents and environmentalists.  

Surely something similar could be made to promote awareness of East Budleigh’s Peacemaker.  The  final slide? Maybe something like a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: ‘An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.’

If you are interested in the history of early America, and Roger Conant as a peacemaker in troubled times you can join the Devon Peacemaker Festival Facebook group at 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/700424602802079

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