Vermont Humanities Council announces the world premiere of Ken Burns's "The Address"

Ken Burns's The Address will have its world premiere April 2nd at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro, Vermont. This special event will support the Vermont Humanities Council, the Greenwood School, and Latchis Theatre.

At the tiny Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages of 11 to 17, are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic, and social progress extremely challenging.

After embedding camera crews at the school for a semester to chronicle the boys’ struggle to learn Lincoln’s immortal words and deliver them in a final public recitation, acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns has created a fascinating and inspiring documentary that shows them heroically confronting past failures and humiliations, ultimately opening the door to what the President himself called “a new birth of freedom.”

Interweaving the history of this most famous of American speeches with the contemporary journey of the boys at Greenwood, The Address reveals the timeless resonance of Lincoln’s words, while culminating in the triumph of the human spirit.

Watch a preview of The Address.