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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:00 PM

Baldwin City documentary to premiere

By The Herald Staff

BALDWIN CITY — A film about a Baldwin City professor who led the town to stand up to electric power companies at the turn of the 20th century will debut Friday.

The documentary “Bauer, Baker and Baldwin City: Electrifying a Small Town’s Identity” will be shown at 5 p.m. Friday at The Lodge, 502 Ames St., Baldwin City.

The eight-minute documentary captures the story of Professor W.C. Bauer, Baker University and Baldwin City being forever linked in 1906 when the young academic “electrified” the university and then the entire town.

“The documentary focuses on the impact an innovative chemistry and physics professor had on the Baldwin City community at the turn of the century,” Joanne Tolkoff, project director and the director of marketing and communications at Baker, said in a news release. “Professor Bauer provided a service, encouraging the community to be independent and not to cave in to the corporate power utilities at work at that time.”

A research paper by a Baker University student Tracy Light last year inspired the documentary.

The program will be followed by a panel discussion, which will be led by John Richards, assistant professor at Baker.

He will be joined by Light; Loren Litteer, former Baldwin City mayor; Julie Mulvihill, executive director of the Kansas Humanities Council; Brad Roszell, of Hometown Collaborations; and Susan Emel, professor of communication at Baker.

A grant from the Kansas Humanities Council supported the project as part of its Kansans Tell Their Stories Program. The Lodge and the Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce will serve as hosts of the screening.

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