Proceeds from locally made film help Afghanistan

Posted on January 14, 2010 |

• Bridport
• arts

By Kathryn Flagg

BRIDPORT — Jill Vickers still remembers walking into the small hotel in a remote town in northern Afghanistan shoulder-to-shoulder with a handful of other young American women. Snowdrifts, she remembered, had accumulated in the halls of the hotel, and when the women made their way to their door, they realized they would be spending the night in their sleeping bags on the floor in an unheated room.

Welcome to Afghanistan in 1969.

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