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The Road to Galena traveled its own challenging journey through a global pandemic – finding its voice at a time when the industry had been silenced by COVID-19. Once health protocols had been established and a compliance program confirmed, we set out on a six-week, masked, shielded, tested, bubbled and sanitized adventure through Maryland’s Eastern Shore and into the reawakening hustle and bustle of the Nation’s Capital in May 2021.

Our Galena family was housed and fed by the remarkable staff at Pecometh Retreat Center, and welcomed warmly by the rural Maryland communities of Chestertown, Galena, Church Hill and the surrounding counties of Kent and Queen Anne. The residents of these communities went to great lengths to provide for and join our sets in a COVID-friendly manner. Having pushed the production from October of 2020 to April/May of 2021, our greatest obstacle was weather. With the pandemic already putting our independent production to the test, we had little capacity to withstand a wash-out, an all-too-likely event in the mid-Atlantic in spring. Miraculously, in 32 days of shooting 一much of which on location and outdoors 一 we had not a single rain delay.

Ultimately, the story of our production was its remarkable team. A dedicated and highly experienced crew that approached each day with optimism and enthusiasm, and a talented cast that rallied around a story in which each of us found a piece of ourselves.