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Hometown Water: The Lifeline of Pleasanton

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  Summer 2020 was a busy time for producing content. I am incredibly proud of the Hometown Water: The Lifeline of Pleasanton documentary created by the college and high school interns at Go Green Initiative . The goal of this documentary was to explore the past, present, and future of water in Pleasanton. This past week, on April 21, 2022, we held the official in-person screening of the film at the Firehouse Arts Center. Pleasanton's Museum on Main and our local Tri-Valley Television  are excellent partners for this project. The Museum helped with the history research and interviews - if you watch the film, you will see the Museum's curator Ken MacLennan featured. In 2014 he published a book about the history of Pleasanton , and I have heard him describe how one of the main throughlines of Pleasanton's history is water. In fact, the Museum on Main had a special Smithsonian exhibit Water/Ways , during the summer of 2020, and you can watch Ken's entire presentation and ...