A Story for Our Times

Seabrook Farms Documentary to be Shown at Landis Theater, Filmmaker and Descendant of Charles Seabrook on Panel

Wednesday, March 25
VHAS March Book Club.
Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, 108 S. Seventh St., Vineland. 6 p.m. Book is The Spinach King by John Seabrook, with the author on Zoom. discovervinelandhistory.org 

Sunday, April 12
The Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society will present The Paradox of Seabrook Farms at the Landis Theater on Sunday, April 12 at 2 p.m. 

It’s an engrossing documentary by Dutch Estonian filmmaker Helga Merits, which tells the story of Seabrook Farms, the biggest industrial vegetable producer in the United States in the 1950s, where a diverse workforce of post-World War II European refugees, interned Japanese Americans and African Americans lived and worked. The stories of those laborers, and the vibrant multicultural community it both harbored and exploited, are highlighted in the film.

Merits will lead a panel discussion following the screening with Masaru Nakawatase, Helle Gawrylewski, Gloria Kates, and a descendant of patriarch C.F. Seabrook, will participate. Signed copies of John Seabrook’s book, The Spinach King, will be available for purchase.

Doors open at 12 noon to allow audience members to mingle and visit cultural and heritage organizations that will be participating in this event.

Tickets are $15.

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