Regional brief

Date published: 9/1/2005

More showings slated for film on Crow's Nest

"Crow's Nest: Stafford County's Last Refuge" debuted to an overflow crowd Tuesday night at its first public showing.

The 12-minute documentary about efforts to preserve the environmentally significant peninsula in Stafford County drew about 175 people to the Central Rappahannock Regional Library headquarters in downtown Fredericksburg, according to writer and director Archer Di Peppe.

"I'm extremely happy with the turnout and the discussion that followed," Di Peppe said yesterday.

Stafford supervisors are considering ways to acquire the nearly 4,000-acre privately owned tract between Potomac and Accokeek creeks.

Additional free showings of the video will be take place Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. at Porter Library in Stafford; at a Battlefields Sierra Club Group meeting Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. at Fredericksburg United Methodist Church on Hanover Street; and at the Sept. 20 Stafford Board of Supervisors meeting. The time for that last showing has not been determined, but it will be simulcast on Cox's and Adelphia's cable-TV channels, Di Peppe said.

--Rusty Dennen

Date published: 9/1/2005