A lively evening celebrating life in rural Vermont featuring film, staged readings, and live music, with performances by singer-songwriter Kris Gruen and actors Rob Donaldson and Ethan Bowen. A family-friendly show, it's down-to-earth entertainment the night before Vermont's biggest celestial event. Presented by Phantom Theater.

Written and directed by Kate Youngdahl-Stauss, A Hill Farmer's Story is a short documentary based on the hundred year old journals of Granville farmer and legendary woodsman, Riley Bostwick.  

Kris Gruen makes music that is as organic as his Worcester VT farm with fresh lyrics and captivating tunes. As Seven Days says: "Gruen's tunes foster all of the most thrilling feelings — joy, triumph, catharsis, heartbreak." 

Rob Donaldson, has performed in some of Phantom Theater's most popular productions including Jaws  and Alien as well as Samuel Beckett's Krapp;s Last Tape.  Ethan Bowen is the founder of Rochester's Bald Mountain Theater and has been featured in productions by Lost Nation, Vermont Stage and the White River Valley Players. Together they will be performing poignant excerpts from Kathy Mehuron's anecdotal history of the Mad River Valley, Take Me Back.