Alice Baker Memorial Library - Film Screening and Discussion

The Alice Baker Library will host a film screening of "The Genius of Marian" to educate and raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease. The film is a visually rich, emotionally complex story about one family's struggle to come to terms with Alzheimer's disease. After Pam White is diagnosed at age 61 with early-onset Alzheimer's, life begins to change, slowly but irrevocably, for Pam and everyone around her. Her husband grapples with his role as it evolves from primary partner to primary caregiver. Pam's adult children find ways to show their love and support while mourning the gradual loss of their mother. Her eldest son, Banker, records their conversations, allowing Pam to share memories of childhood and of her mother, the renowned painter Marian Williams Steele, who had Alzheimer's herself and died in 2001. Official selection of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Jennifer Harders from the Alzheimer's Association of SE Wisconsin will speak about Alzheimer's and Library Director Alli Chase will facilitate a short discussion about the film. This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS.