About: Burton

Mennonites have long held an infatuation with land - both its ownership and its cultivation. With that in mind, we'd been wondering if Mennonites were expressing any concern about one of the major topics in the news these days - Climate Change. We found a Mennonite-related web site with an interesting name - the Center…

COVID19 has created havoc in the film community. So, how has it affected "Being Mennonite in America?"Fortunately, to this point, it has had only a marginal effect.Why? Because over the past year Mary and I, along with our crew, have been very busy recording interviews. Interviews that needed to have the video format converted from…

Reedley, California Police Chief Jose Garza spoke with me about his policing model for this documentary. Mennonite Central Committee and a number of other local agencies have formed a successful partnership with the police department to implement a restorative justice program in the local school.  He offers an alternative way to think about the role…

We recently recorded video at the Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale. It reminded me of the time I made a film on the California Mennonite Relief Sale which then was held in a fruit packing shed. California lays claim to hosting the first relief sale. It was a spontaneous  auction held in June 1922 in response…