Filming at Duke: Volker Schlöndorff's 'The Handmaid's Tale' (1990)

Volker Schlöndorff's 1990 cinematic adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale was partly filmed at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, in 1989. Here are a few snapshots that document the event.  

A hanging scene was filmed on the other side of this barrier. 

The Commander's convoy, ready to roll. I was working at Perkins Library at the time, in the Public Documents & Maps Department, specializing in state and international documents. 

Donald Delbert France: Business Cards, 1980s-1990s

Qualex, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
3000 Croasdaile Drive
Durham, NC  27705

Donald D. France
Senior Vice President
Sales & Marketing, Retail Trade

The Fuller Brush Company 

DONALD D FRANCE
NATIONAL ACCOUNT SALES

PHOTO MARKET MAKERS
Donald D. France, President

Durham, North Carolina  27705
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PHOTO MARKET MAKERS
(In Japanese). 

Donald Delbert France Business Cards: 1970s-1980s

DONALD D. FRANCE

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

[COLORCRAFT CORPORATION: A FUQUA COMPANY]

3000 CROASDAILE DRIVE

DURHAM, N.C. 27705

TELEPHONE 919/383-8535

Territorial Vice President

DON FRANCE

Colorcraft Corporation . . .

PHOTO MARKETING ASSOCIATION
PMA

International Headquarters

603 Lansing Avenue

Jackson, Michigan  49202

(517) 783-2807

Casualties at Clapp's Mill

Earlier this year during Memorial Day week, my Dad took me over to the Clapp's Mill battlefield site. It's very nicely marked now. This heavy skirmish took place on March 2, 1781, after Pyle's Massacre and before Guilford Courthouse, but part of the same campaign. Here's a link to a site with the complete text and more: http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=28062

It also provides a footnote in the Harvey Mitchell family story. Somewhere I'd come across a mention that two of Mitchell's relatives had fought at Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781, and that Harvey Mitchell's uncle William Harvey had died there. Here on this marker (above) we see that, in fact, William Harvey of the Botetourt County Virginia militia was killed at Clapp's Mill on March 2, 1781, about two weeks before Guilford but during the same campaign.  

Chapel Hill Sit-in, June 12, 1985: Part III

"Fearing a new Vietnam in Nicaragua" was not what it was about. More aptly, the Reagan Administration feared a new Cuba. Now Ronald Reagan is long gone and get this: "(Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a socialist former guerrilla leader, cruised to a landslide re-election victory after drawing broad support for his anti-poverty programs." (Reuters, November 7, 2011).

Mit Luftpost

The First Snow is Fallen

Note dated November 16, 1981, with accompanying watercolor.

You Cannot Imagine Such Difficulties

Letter dated November 20, 1983.

I Am Full of Suspense

Letter dated April 30, 1983.

The Little Poem is Lovely

Letter dated January 15, 1983.

Now I Have Bought a New Camera

Letter dated December 5, 1982.

If We Meet in East Berlin

Letter dated April 5, 1982.

Send Me Some Picture Post Cards

February 9, 1982.

A Letter from Behind the Iron Curtain

With the passage of time, this first handwritten letter sent to me thirty years ago today by Anita K, an East German Meissen Ware artist and volunteer tour guide, is now of historical interest. The original will be housed in the university archives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. We met in 1981 during a UNC international summer class led by Professor James R. Leutze, and corresponded for a couple years thereafter. The DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) part of the class journey included stays in Dresden and East Berlin.