Film documents a boys' rite of passage
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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MIDDLEBURY NATIVE PETER FERLAND shows a young boys’ rite of passage when he screens his new documentary film “Tending Fires” at Bridge School this Saturday evening.
Photo by Lauren Thomas, New Paltz Times
MIDDLEBURY — Picture this: 12- and 13-year-old boys heading into the Catskill Mountains to tend a fire alone for 24 hours.
It might sound like a rite of passage from an earlier age, a challenge set for boys who might one day live on the animals they trapped or the edible plants they gathered.
This scene, though, takes place in August of 2009 and forms the central narrative of Peter Ferland’s documentary “Tending Fires,” which he will screen at Bridge School in Middlebury this Saturday at 7 p.m.
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