Talking Across the Lines - A Listening Event

The Nelson Legacy Project invites you to a listening event: An hour-long audio documentary about Wally and Juanita Nelson followed by discussion. After decades in the civil rights and antiwar movements, Wally and Juanita Nelson lived just south of the Vermont border in Franklin County, Massachusetts starting in 1974. ###. They lived there until they died, Wally in 2002 and Juanita in 2015. They had a significant impact on our region through their advocacy for local agriculture, land trusts, war tax refusal, and simple living. Eyes on Freedom is an audio tapestry that weaves together voices of people who knew and were influenced by the Nelsons. ###. The audio documentary includes recordings of the Nelsons themselves. Nonviolence was the umbrella concept that underscored everything they did.