SitemapWORLD Channel may need to change the name of its documentary series “America ReFramed” to “Mahoning Valley ReFramed.”
Last week, the series featured a documentary on the closing of the General Motors Lordstown plant and the impact on its workers and their families. This Tuesday at 8 p.m. the program takes a look at the younger generation of Youngstown residents working to revitalize their hometown with “The Place That Makes Us.”
It is the documentary feature debut of Karla Murthy, who has worked as a producer, camera operator and correspondent for various PBS news magazines over the last 15 years.
It was a PBS assignment that first brought the Brooklyn, N.Y., resident to the area, and what she found didn’t fit the narrative that normally accompanies national media coverage of the area. One of the places she was taken by Ian Beniston, executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, was the waterfall by Lanterman’s Mill in Mill Creek MetroParks.
“This is incredible. You can live near this beauty of Mill Creek Park? That was the first thing that really shocked me,” Murthy said.
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