B.Major's class has been studying the Reconstruction Era. Last week I read a review in the Times of a new film,"Banished". It is a documentary about three communities from which all the black residents were expelled in the early twentieth century.
We journeyed in to the Film Forum on Sunday to see it. It was fascinating. B.Major seemed to "get" it. Of course the shots of the St.Louis Arch and the occasional freight trains whistling through town kept him interested. I did have quibbles with some of the legal (real property) claims as well as some historical events which did not make it into the film (remember "Black Migrations", if you took sociology or American history in the late '70s?) but it was a very sobering and thought-provoking documentary over all.
It is always fun to go to the city. We are planning another trip on Veteran's Day to see a film about the making of a Steinway piano. B.Minor may have to be dropped off at dad's office though.
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