SYNOPSIS
The documentary “Return to Castle Dome, Part-1” is about a group of people who came from Sandpoint Idaho to spend the winter in a remote area more than an hour’s drive north of Yuma, Arizona. The group lived on 26 acres of private land near the base of Castle Dome Mountain within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The group was part of the Lord Our Righteousness Church and each member owned a third of the land located on a mining claim. Johnny Miller was among them and spent 20 years with the group. The documentary explores how church members shared their virtues with the world through the internet and how they were taught by God himself in preparation for the light that was to come. The documentary also explores how members deprogrammed themselves of all religious thoughts and ideas in order to recognize the second coming of Christ when he would return to this earth in the fullness of time.
WHAT IS LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS CHURCH
The Lord Our Righteousness Church is a religious community near Clayton, Union County, New Mexico that originated with a group of about eighty adherents who migrated to the area from Sandpoint, Idaho in 2000. The community consisted of approximately fifty people in 2008 (1). The name “Lord Our Righteousness” is a name for God that occurs twice in the Bible, in the book of Jeremiah (2).
WHO IS JOHNNY MILLER?
Johnny Miller was among the members of the Lord Our Righteousness Church who came from Sandpoint Idaho to spend the winter in a remote area more than an hour’s drive north of Yuma, Arizona. He spent 20 years with the group and lived with them on 26 acres of private land near the base of Castle Dome Mountain within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.
WHAT IS CASTLE DOME MOUNTAIN?
The Castle Dome Mountains are a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona, within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Castle Dome Peak, the high point of the range, is a prominent butte and distinctive landmark (1). The Castle Dome mining district is one of Yuma County’s oldest and most productive mining locations (1).
WHAT IS KOFA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE?
The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is located in Arizona in the southwestern United States, northeast of Yuma and southeast of Quartzsite. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect desert bighorn sheep, encompasses over 665,400 acres of the Yuma Desert region of the Sonoran Desert. Broad, gently sloping foothills as well as the sharp, needlepoint peaks of the Kofa Mountains are found in the rugged refuge. The small, widely scattered waterholes attract a surprising number of water birds for a desert area. A wide variety of plant life is also found throughout the refuge. Kofa Wilderness takes up 547,719 acres of the refuge, making it the second largest wilderness area in Arizona (1).
VIDEO FILE INFO
File type: AVI
Size: 136 MB
Resolution: 720p
Aspect: 16:9
Run time: 14 minutes, 44 seconds
Frame rate: 29.97
Audio:
Bit rate: 128 kbps
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Audio sample rate: 44.100 kHz
NOTES
- This project was originally shot on Mini DVD tape format. The raw footage may still be available.
- Archives also include .mp4 and .m4v versions of this video.