The Local: Winter Garden—June 2022

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Reel I History

Witness the power of ordinary people in extraordinary times at this Garden Theatre special event. 10

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remember that so vividly. That’s the day that changed my life.” So begins the trailer for History Speaks: The Diary of a Generation, a feature-length film compiling stories from the WWII generation. No narrators. No academic experts. History Speaks is a stunning, first-hand

account from the people who faced the reality of living in and through a world war. Enlisted soldiers. Fighter pilots. Female marksmen. Navajo soldiers. Japanese internment residents. POWs. Compiled and directed by local resident Susan Cummings and Shari Doran of Pony Tale Films,


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