I’m coming through mid-coast Maine this weekend, and I’m trying to learn if there’s a good way to get in touch with Dan Brown?

I’m a student at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (http://www.salt.edu/) and I’m interested in doing a multimedia piece on the food sovereignty ordinance movement in mid-coast Maine. Our goal at Salt is to document important events like this through human-based storytelling for posterity, to commemorate Maine history. Which is only to say, this isn’t a “reporter” reaching out.

I’m from Maine (my boyfriend’s actually from the Blue Hill area), and I’ve been following the movement for a couple years. I know there’s been lots of small articles written already, that Dan Brown got a good amount of national attention during the case, and that folks worked to put together a longer documentary film while Dan Brown’s case was in process.

I’ve actually been a member of groups in support of Dan Brown since 2013.

I’m interested in the fact that the movement has persisted in the post-Dan Brown ruling era. The case against him was obviously a test case, so I’m interested in how everybody’s feeling in the wake of all that (including Dan). I’d like to talk about the responses at the State level, what this interim period has looked like for individual farmers, and what’s at stake going forward.

I know more towns have enacted ordinances even since then, and that the state is letting it go ahead by not addressing the ordinances directly. It’s such an interesting grass roots movement! I’d like to document it for posterity.

My hope is that I’ll be able to write an article for my final student project at Salt about the ordinances in general, but I need to include some multimedia bits and visuals too. I’d like to pepper the article with some individual accounts of farmers and their farms to highlight the storytelling.

I know Dan’s been really generous giving interviews, and I’m in touch with G.W. Martin and Heather Retberg, but I think I probably really need to connect with Dan, too, to make the storytelling work.

Can you help put me in touch with Dan? Or help pass my contact information on to him to see if he’s willing to be involved? I’m excited to make something different than what’s been done up until this point, and I think his involvement is key.

Thanks for considering!

Jenn Corey
(207) 329-8089
okrocinante@gmail.com