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Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town | dG1fbVJHZnhqZ29hOVk
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00:01Hello, hello.
00:03Thank you for coming to Glenfield.
00:05My great-grandfather bought this house.
00:07Bought it in 1865.
00:10No, he didn't.
00:12What did he buy? Excuse me.
00:141840?
00:15Mother, 1880. Are you okay?
00:19Blanche is just the oldest settlement
00:21on the Mississippi River.
00:23Our pilgrims, as we lovingly call them,
00:25come from all over the world to see these beautiful homes.
00:28What y'all doing?
00:29We visited.
00:30I ain't got no damn Yankees on here.
00:32This gonna be a good tour.
00:34The people that own these homes,
00:36they're part of our personalities.
00:38Look at the teeny tiny hip skirts.
00:40Isn't that cute?
00:42I feel like I have stepped back
00:44in this lovely way to a lovely world.
00:49We both just have our own ideas
00:52and then we just do whatever we want.
00:54There must be an argument.
00:56I don't want to do that.
00:57Oh, no.
00:58Okay.
01:02Natchez is a complicated little town.
01:04God, have you made me a woman?
01:06I'm a woman.
01:07It's got a very old, rich, deep, peculiar,
01:10and I do mean peculiar history.
01:13If it's a fairy tale, that's one thing.
01:15But if you then decide if it's truth, that's dangerous.
01:19That land literally has our blood in it.
01:22Our blood.
01:23Our blood.
01:24How long did I stretch my hand to me?
01:31People can be so cruel.
01:32They know we will find.
01:35They don't know where their body is.
01:40If it's a bad bad thought, don't remind them of it.
01:42remind them of it.
01:43Let me finish.
01:44This is what Natchez is right here.
01:57Y'all come back now, you hear?
02:12This is what Natchez is right here.
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