Shepherd's Common Reading Program presents free showing of "King Corn"

ISSUED: 21 August 2009
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(Shepherd's Common Reading Program presents free showing of "King Corn")

Shepherdstown, WV--Shepherd University's Common Reading Program will be presenting a free public showing of the movie "King Corn" in the Erma Ora Byrd Auditorium on Wednesday, August 26 at 7 p.m. A discussion led by Dr. Ed Snyder, director of Shepherd University's Institute for Environmental Studies, will follow.

Behind America's dollar hamburger and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that quietly fuels our fast-food nation: corn. "King Corn" depicts recent college graduates Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis leaving the east coast for rural Iowa, where they decide to grow an acre of corn.

For more information, contact Judi McIntyre at 304-876-5396.

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