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Jay Craven is a Vermont film director, screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College.
Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets, adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film. He often casts from a regular troupe of Vermont actors including Tantoo Cardinal and Rusty DeWees, but has also worked with Rip Torn and Kris Kristofferson. Craven founded and runs Kingdom County Productions and recently launched Catamount Arts performing arts program, New England's largest independent arts producer and presenter. He is married to Bess O'Brien, who is also a co-founder of Kingdom County Productions.
Craven attended Boston University for undergraduate studies, where he developed a lifelong friendship with Howard Zinn. He later went on to Goddard College. He lives in the Northeast Kingdom with his family .
Craven is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England centred on the market town of Skipton. In 1974, Craven district was formed as the merger of Skipton urban district, Settle Rural District and most of Skipton Rural District, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It comprises the upper reaches of Airedale, Wharfedale, Ribblesdale, and includes most of the Aire Gap and Craven Basin.
The name Craven is much older than the modern district, and encompassed a larger area. This history is also reflected in the way the term is still commonly used, for example by the Church of England.
Craven has been the name of this district throughout recorded history. Its extent in the 11th century can be deduced from The Domesday Book but its boundaries now differ according to whether considering administration, taxation or religion.
The derivation of the name Craven is uncertain, yet a Celtic origin related to the word for garlic (craf in Welsh) has been suggested as has the proto-Celtic *krab- suggesting scratched or scraped in some sense and even an alleged pre-Celtic word cravona, supposed to mean a stony region. In civic use the name Craven or Cravenshire had, before 1166, given way to Staincliffe. However the church Archdeaconry has kept its name as Craven throughout.
Coordinates: 42°50′20″N 72°43′54″W / 42.838842°N 72.731681°W / 42.838842; -72.731681
Marlboro College is an intentionally small, coeducational, academically rigorous liberal-arts college located in Marlboro, Vermont, USA with 235 students. Students at Marlboro create an individualized course of study in collaboration with faculty members and participate in a self-governing community. Students pursue a self-designed, often inter-disciplinary, Plan of Concentration based on their academic interests that culminates in a major body of scholarship.
Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by Walter Hendricks on Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont, and many of the first students were returning World War II veterans. The school's operation was initially financed using money received from the GI Bill, as well as loans from Brattleboro Savings and Loan. The campus incorporates the buildings of two old farms that once operated on the college site. Marlboro has grown slowly but steadily since its inception, and about 200 students currently attend, with an average enrollment of 250 students.
Sir Howard George Frank, 1st Baronet, GBE, KCB (1871 – 10 January 1932) was an English estate agent and public servant.
Frank was born in Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He was educated at Marlborough College and then entered the estate agency profession, in which he remained all his life, eventually becoming recognised as the "head" of the profession in Britain. He was head of the firms of Knight, Frank & Rutley of London and Walton & Lee of Edinburgh and was president of the Estate Agents' Institute from 1912 to 1914.
In 1916 he was appointed honorary adviser to the Ministry of Munitions on land valuation. The following year he became Director-General of Lands to the War Office and Air Ministry as well as the Ministry of Munitions, holding the post until 1922. After the First World War he also served as deputy chairman and then chairman of the Disposals Board, which was charged with disposing of surplus war materiel. He served on a number of public committees and Royal Commissions in the 1920s and 1930s.
Gouverneur Frank Mosher (1871 – July 19, 1941) was Episcopal Missionary Bishop of the Philippine Islands. He was born at Stapleton, New York (Staten Island) and studied at Union College, Schenectady and Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut. He served as a missionary priest in China from 1896 to 1920, and was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Philippine Islands on February 25, 1920, in the Church of Our Saviour, Shanghai. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.
Since 1941, legendary musician Jay Craven has been entertaining people with his clarinet. For health reasons, Jay decided that May 15th 2015 would be his last performance with the Chattanooga Clarinet Choir, a group that he founded in 1998. This is a recording of his last performance with the CCC.
Discusses the Vermont indie film Producer's most recent film as well as his other movies, and his work with students at Marlboro College.
Jay Craven plays Moon River at Memorial Hospital.
While interviewing the great Jay Craven of Chattanooga Tennessee, I requested a favorite song of mine. Jay had also played for my Papa while he was ill at memorial Hospital. Thank you Jay for your service to many! ~ Jen Jeffrey
Audience Q&A; with Writer/Director Jay Craven following a screening of his film "Peter & John" at Red River Theatres, in Concord, NH
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http://www.movies.marlboro.edu Indie filmmaker and Marlboro College professor Jay Craven sat down with author Howard Frank Mosher to discuss their past projects together, and their newest venture: turning Mosher's novel, "Northern Borders", into a feature film. It's all part of a new venture called "Movies from Marlboro." The Project An innovative hands-on film practicum for eight professionals and 20 college students, to produce a feature film based on Howard Frank Mosher's award-winning 1994 novel, Northern Borders. The film will use professional actors, working under a Screen Actors Guild contract - and it will be produced for national release. Student Crew Positions Students will earn college credit and professional film credit, working in substantial film crew positions, b...