I don't know what to say except please take some time and watch this. Vermont, The Mad River, Childhood, Memories . . . Anais and Michael Chorney contributed the music.

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directed by Daniel Houghton
written by Dana Yeaton
music by Michael Chorney, Anais Mitchell
animated by Miles Abadilla, Krista Duke, Marcella Houghton, Norah Jones, Dylan Redford, Graciela Sarabia, David Seamans, Sam Tolzmann, Dan Whateley
produced by Middlebury College Department of Film and Media Culture
2012
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In this moving story told by characters representing three generations of a Vermont farm family, Dana Yeaton uses the Great Flood of 1927 as a central metaphor to show the profound effects of both sudden and gradual changes in the Vermont landscape, family dynamics, and rural way of life since then. The play weaves back and forth in time through the voice and memory of Angus, who is played both as a young boy and an old man. Old man Angus returns to the top floor of his family's barn, where young Angus watches his father drown as he attempts to cross the rising Mad River, which separates the barn from the family home. Eventually the house gives way and the river claims the rest of Angus’s family as well. The unresolved trauma of that day haunts Angus through the ghost of his father, whose persistence appearance interacts with Angus’s present day family relationships. Together with his nephew and daughter-in-law, Angus struggles to come to terms with the past, and make decisions for his future. 