On The Lake

Life and Love in a Distant Place

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NOTED TB EXPERT JOINS OUTREACH PROGRAM
Updated Monday, 21st July 2008

As Eagle Peak Media moves forward with plans to help raise awareness of tuberculosis today, we are pleased to announce that Dr. E. Jane Carter, senior consultant for the RISE Clinic at Miriam Hospital and a leading TB expert, has agreed to join our efforts. Before heading off to Kenya last week, where she is engaged in the global battle against the disease, we met with Dr. Carter and found her to be not only knowledgeable (we expected that) but also excited about the TB cause and the role OTL will play through its TB Awareness Days, which get a trial run this fall at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School and begins in earnest early next year. The program is still being designed, but Dr. Carter will bring great authority to it. So, welcome, Dr. Carter? and a safe trip to and from Kenya.

The RISE clinic, sponsored by the Rhode Island Department of Health, is the state?s TB treatment center, recording some 8,500 patient visits every year ?? most by people who carry the TB bacterium, but have not developed the disease. But the clinic does treat active cases ?? including a man who is in the movie.

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Eagle Peak Media presents a Midway Pictures production of a David Bettencourt film, ON THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, about the tuberculosis epidemic of the 1900s -- and today. Producer G. Wayne Miller and Bettencourt, director of YOU MUST BE THIS TALL: The Story of Rocky Point Park, want to hear from you.

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On November 6, 1905, a man by the name of George Barrows stepped off a train that ran through the remote woods of northwest Rhode Island. A horse-drawn wagon brought him along a rutted road to a cluster of new buildings on the shore of pristine Wallum Lake. The next day, six women arrived. All suffered from tuberculosis, the number-one killer of the time.

And so began the Rhode Island State Sanatorium, one of hundreds in America, where the sick and dying were sent in hopes of being cured.