Stories And Stones

Film chronicles skill of Narragansetts with stone

© The Westerly Sun - Photo by MATHIAS OPPERSDORFF

Stone mason Russell Spears poses in front of his work

An article appeared in the Thursday, November 2, 2006 edition of the Wood River Press, a newspaper owned by The Westerly Sun in Rhode Island, about a documentary that was screened in West Kingston, RI Tuesday evening.

The film took six years to complete. It was filmed by Wakefield, RI resident Marc Levitt with co-producer and co-director Lilach Dekel of Transformation Films. Narragansett Tribal Council member John Brown is Executive Producer of the film.

Tribal Medicinewoman Ella Brown said, “This film could bring awareness to people not familiar with our history, our ways.”

John Brown said, “Stones are the bones, the skeleton of the earth. I have never felt a stone that was cold. They are filled with spirit.”

The documentary points out that, "becoming a mason is a choice that allows free­dom of movement, freedom from inside work, from work­ing for others and the free­dom to join a long and illus­trious line of ancestors."

There are no immediate plans to give the film a wider release, however several proposals are in the early stages, including one to PBS.

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