[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9893]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO NORA JACOBSON

  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I want to congratulate Nora Jacobson, a 
documentary film maker from Norwich, VT, who recently was awarded the 
2016 Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts.
  Herb Lockwood, originally from upstate New York, moved to Vermont in 
1982 where he became widely respected for the extraordinary breadth and 
depth of his artistic talents. He was a painter, writer, woodworker, 
sculptor, cartoonist, and a master guitar player who inspired people of 
all ages, and his untimely death from a workplace accident in 1987 at 
the age of 27 led his friends and fans to publish his music and 
writings and led to his brother Todd to create the prize that bears 
Herb's name.
  Each year, the prize is awarded to a Vermonter whose work 
demonstrates a high level of artistic achievement, coupled with 
originality, innovation, and imagination; whose creativity, drive and 
philosophy serve as inspiration to other artists; and who has had a 
beneficent influence on the Vermont community. The prize includes a 
cash award of $10,000. The Burlington City Arts Foundation administers 
the prize through the generosity of private donors.
  I commend Todd Lockwood for honoring his brother's life in this way 
and am very pleased that Nora Jacobson is this year's prize winner. 
Nora grew up on a hilltop farm in Norwich, and with the exception of a 
few years away, she has spent her life in Vermont. She has produced a 
number of documentary films, some of which took as long as a decade to 
shoot and edit, like ``Delivered Vacant,'' about gentrification in 
Hoboken, NJ, and ``Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie,'' a unique 
portrayal of memorable periods and individuals in Vermont's 225-year 
history. The film is the product of the collaboration of dozens of film 
makers, conceived and directed by Nora, and it was shown in town halls 
and other locations around the state.
  Throughout her career as an independent film maker, Nora Jacobson has 
demonstrated the same passionate devotion to film and recognition of 
the importance the arts have for Vermont communities that people so 
admired in Herb Lockwood. She is a well-deserving recipient of this 
year's Herb Lockwood Prize.

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