2020 – A Year We Will Never Forget

2020 is the year we’ll never forget.

Tell us how COVID-19 has affected your community and compare it with other national crisis, the Spanish flu, the Great Depression, AIDS. You can even interview a senior citizen who has lived through these hard times.

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Submitted by: Mary Hilbrink, Former Student Filmmaker
Grade: H.S. Senior 

Cary, Illinois

Mary Hilbrink’s film is a general overview of the history of Cary, Illinois submitted for a hometown profile featured in 2015 at ‘The American History Film Project Exhibition’ in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. Hers was one of four films selected for the national film festival. She decided to film it with the help of some of her peers who live in Cary; the thinking was it is a short film by a young person “starring” young people. Her friends really enjoyed being included in the project.

Submitted by: Mary Hilbrink