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Article: Local Documentary Gets Statewide Premiere on Michigan Public TV.
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- Entertainment Newsweekly
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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While thousands have visited Ann Arbor's Traverwood Branch Library, few realize it is Michigan's only library to reuse diseased ash trees throughout the building. Viewers of "Up From Ashes," will relive every aspect of the building experience including the creative design process and stressful crunch of deadlines. The film includes perspectives from the architects, the library director and skilled craftsmen. Developers took a unique approach by harvesting hundreds of ash trees that were devastated by the Emerald Ash Borer and reused the trees in the building.
The "Up From Ashes" story was researched and chronicled in a documentary produced by KDN Films Inc., in ...