'Remarkable' Film to debut at LaCrosse festival

A new film debuts at this weekend’s Farmers Festival in LaCrosse . “Remarkable People and a Remarkable Land: A World of Fire and Ice” is the feature film for the new Ice Age Flood Museum, which opens Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Besides showing on a loop in the museum, the film is scheduled for special community screenings at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the LaCrosse Market Gathering Place.

The 33-minute film begins with the geologic history of massive lava flows and Ice Age floods that are unmatched in scale anywhere on the globe. These dramatic geological forces remain evident today, from the rock houses built along Main Street during the tough years of the Great Depression, to the nearby vertical cliffs where floodwaters created a rugged channel for the Palouse River and, on the eastern edge of town, the rolling hills of fertile farmland. The film explores the story of the Palouse Indians, the first to arrive, of mule packers, sheepherders and wheat raisers who followed―remarkable people and a remarkable land.

The story is told in a dramatic video narrated by Alex McGregor in a collaborative achievement between LaCrosse Community Pride, Whitman County Library, the Palouse Falls Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute, Whitman County .09 Economic Development Funding and Mortimore Productions of Spokane.