Reading and Roaming
RECENT FILMS POISON GLOW Radium Girls (Netflix) Based on history, this is the heart-tugging story of several young women who work in a New Jersey factory painting luminous numbers on clock faces. It’s 1925, and the “girls” are told the brush point is finer if they dip the brush in the paint, lick it, and then paint. Paid …
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Happy Valentine’s Day! It seems appropriate to present a mix of films and fiction that capture different kinds of love. Romantic love and longing, platonic friendship, and married love. ON THE SCREEN Loving (Netflix) This historical film about Richard and Mildred Loving is a testament to love and devotion through hardship and ostracism. In 1958, Richard, a white man, …
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RECENT VIEWING Black Politics One Night in Miami (Amazon Prime) Set in February 1964, One Night in Miami brings together four Black men on the cusp of fame or notoriety. It’s the early days of the Civil Rights era. Boxer Cassius Clay has just defeated Sonny Liston, and this gathering of friends is partly a celebration of that victory. It’s …
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MEMOIRS: OF GEOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small town of Mexico, Maine, adjacent to neighboring Rumford and home to an active paper mill. Like the river Androscoggin that runs through the region, her memoir meanders along a nonlinear path. We learn about her immediate family and her …
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