Bluegrass Museum to screen Thomas Merton film

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting a screening of Kentucky filmmaker Morgan Atkinson’s documentary on Thomas Merton.

The event on March 11 will feature the film, "The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton."

Merton was an American Catholic writer and Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Nelson County. His most famous work is the 1948 autobiography "The Seven Storey Mountain."

Atkinson’s film focuses on Merton in the last year of his life when Merton traveled to Asia for meetings with the Dalai Lama and other spiritual seekers.

Atkinson is a documentary producer based in Louisville.

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