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Written by Donovan Henderson
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
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 Some retirees spend their sunset years playing shuffle board and checkers.
Not Stan Walsh.
Nope. The retired engineer travels the world with trusty film camera in hand, producing travelogues, those fun flicks that give viewers an up-close look at different places, the culture and the people.
Walsh’s latest, “Corsica and the Rivieras,” will show at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins and is about, well, that famous Mediterranean island and the coastlines of Italy and France. Walsh will be on hand at the showing, as is common for travelogue filmmakers to travel the country with their work.
The Union Colony Civic Center will also play host to a travelogue this week. “Ireland: Celtic Myths and Splendors” will be showing and its filmmaker, Sandy Mortimer, will be present.
 Walsh first got the globetrotting bug while an engineering student at the University of Southern California. He was a projectionist for such legendary adventurers as Burton Holmes, father of travelogues, Lowell Thomas and Sir Hubert Wilkins.
Walsh and his family lived for a time in Italy where he made his first film. After retiring from his career as an engineer, he “jumped right in with both feet” making travelogues.
On his latest work, he first visits Corsica, the third largest island in the Mediterranean. There he explores the history of the island, which he points out was Napoleon’s home. Such historical tidbits are an integral part of his work.
“We find something that inspires us. The history, the scenery and the people. (The people) are the highlight. The customs, their culture and,” he said with emphasis, “the food.”
As he travels the Rivieras, he happens upon a village that is celebrating a World War II victory, a valley in the Marble Mountains where the chipped shards from the mountainside makes it looks like it has snowed, and a kayak basketball game in Lerici’s harbor, named the Harbor of Poets in honor of Shelley and Byron.
It’s stories like these that Walsh enjoys sharing not only in his films—which he writes, edits and researches himself—but in person at the showings.
“Meeting the people, that’s the reward because it’s not a million-dollar business,” Walsh said.
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TRAVELOGUES
“Corsica and the Rivieras”
7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22
Lincoln Center, 417 Magnolia St., Fort Collins
$9. Call 221.6730 or www.lctix.com
“Ireland: Celtic Myths and Splendors”
3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21
Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave., Greeley
$7.50
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