Posted: Jan 22, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 22
This screenshot is taken from the film In Search of Wendell Beckwith. The film is narrated by Beckwith’s grandson, Tyler Beckwith Evans, who never met his grandfather, but learned about his life through the film and visiting the cabins.(photo: Thunder Bay museum)
A new documentary film focuses on the life of an American scientist who became a legendary part of northwestern Ontario folklore.
The film, In Search of Wendell Beckwith, has just been released online by the Thunder Bay Museum.
The production is a partnership between the museum and local filmmaker Jim Hyder and it examines the life of Beckwith, an American inventor who lived alone on remote Whitewater Lake, between 1961 and his death in 1980.
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Even before the pandemic hit, Mirtha Rivera knew what it was like to feel isolated.
As a member of Regina’s older 2SLGBTQ community, she knew the typical challenge of loneliness seniors face is only compounded for 2SLGBTQ seniors and she noticed others in her community struggling to connect as well.
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“It’s a part of our community that wasn’t visible, and I started hearing from a few of my friends at that time that we were feeling it. We were feeling lonely. We didn’t have any place to go anymore,” Rivera said.