Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Long and Short Review Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge, where bloggers write on a common theme every Wednesday. This is my second year participating. Today’s topic is books, movies, or tv shows set in my town or nearby.
I’ve lived a lot of places in my life, but my current home is in Richmond, VA.
The only example I actually knew of before the google search is the Kay Scarpetta series written by Patricia Cornwell. I’ve only read the first book in the series, and it shook me so much I never picked up another one. While I like mysteries with female leads and pathologists as the main protagonist, I just could not move behind that first book. I don’t read to be scared and it scared me. But the series mostly takes place in Richmond, although doing an internet search to confirm that (since I read it decades ago), indicates Kay does move around over time.
A google search did not net me a lot. The challenge is that movies and shows may be filmed in or near Richmond, but the stories are not necessarily located there. Since I had not seen anyone of them, I could not be sure. However, there are two movies, based on historical, true stories, that I think I can honestly add because I know that at least some of the story did take place here. The first is Loving, the story about the inter-racial couple arrested for getting married in Virginia, and ended up with a Supreme Court Decision. Because Richmond is the capital of Virginia, some of the legal events had to occur here.
The second is Lincoln, because Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, and Lincoln did come here during that period.
The available movie choices tell us much I think about Richmond’s history. And my life here, even during a pandemic, bears that out since history lives in buildings, in bricks on road, in monuments – those that are there and those that are not – in food, in music, in laws. Change is slow – too slow. Even when its urgent. Especially when its just.
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I agree with you on how painfully slow change can be!
Someday I should watch Lincoln.
I love the history of places, and especially the historical buildings. I find them beautiful. My post, if you want to stop by, is here
I Maury, my book based on the life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, much of it is set in an around Richmond. He was born near there and developed the naval mine and electric torpedo there during the war. I’d love to visit the area sometime.
The capital building in Richman is offend used in movies as a replacement for the White House. I’m from Va too and I got to take a tour of Richman to see all the historical places.
It’s always interesting when a city has that much history. Both of those movies sound good though.
My post.
I’m a little surprised that there aren’t more things set there, but I love the historical angle to answering this question.