The House at the End of the Road

Sep 22, 2009

Fall for the Book Festival

W. Ralph Eubanks talked about his book The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South (Smithsonian; May 19, 2009). This memoir/history of his bi-racial family focused on the forbidden marriage of his white grandfather and black grandmother in Alabama. He also talked about .. Read More
W. Ralph Eubanks talked about his book The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South (Smithsonian; May 19, 2009). This memoir/history of his bi-racial family focused on the forbidden marriage of his white grandfather and black grandmother in Alabama. He also talked about memoir-writing and his previous book Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past. He talked about his explorations of race and identity and read passages from his book. He also responded to questions from members of the audience. This event of the Fall for the Book Festival was held at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, at the City of Fairfax Regional Library. It was sponsored by the Friends of the City of Fairfax Regional Library.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:35 Unidentified Speaker GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY. IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO COME OUT HERE...
00:34:53 Unidentified Speaker YOUR SIBLINGS--
00:34:57 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE THREE SISTERS.
00:35:01 Unidentified Speaker WAS IT HELPFUL TO YOU? [INAUDIBLE]
00:35:07 Unidentified Speaker IT IS INTERESTING, MY SISTERS WERE VERY INTERESTED IN THE BOOK, BUT I AM REALLY KIND OF THE PERSON...
00:38:05 Unidentified Speaker DID USS THE FAMILY TREE OF BOTH OF YOUR GRANDPARENTS AND OF SO HOW FAR DID YOU GET?
00:38:12 Unidentified Speaker MY GRANDFATHER'S FAMILY REALLY GOES, THEY WERE BRITISH LOYALISTS, WHO SETTLED THERE IN THE LATE 1700'S...
00:40:52 Unidentified Speaker IN MY OWN FAMILY MIGRATE GREAT-GRANDFATHER WHO WE ALL THOUGHT WAS WHITE WAS NOT WHITE, WAS ACTUALLY...
00:41:12 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT IS VERY TRUE. WHEN I WAS AT PENN STATE THE DAY FOR THE RACE RELATIONS CLASS THAT THEIR...
00:41:58 Unidentified Speaker MY GRANDMOTHER'S SIBLING-- YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S SIBLINGS, AS FAR AS YOU KNOW DID THEY MARRIED WHITE PEOPLE?...
00:42:06 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS ONE RELATIVE I FOUND THAT LIVE TOURMOBILE WHERE MY MOTHER WENT AFTER HER MOTHER DIED. AND,...
00:43:59 Unidentified Speaker IN A MOBILE PHONE BOOK, THEY WOULD LIST SO YOU WOULD KNOW WHO WAS KOEHLER DENHILL WAS WHITE. I ALSO...
00:44:48 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS PREVALENT THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH, THE DEMARCATION. UNTIL THE JIM CROW LAWS, THAT USHERED IN...
00:45:19 Unidentified Speaker MOBILE WAS, THE PLACES WHERE THERE WERE A LOT OF THESE MASSAGE IN NATION CASES TOOK PLACE IN MOBILE...
00:46:04 Unidentified Speaker UTAH BASARICH BAHN THIS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI AND YOU WANTED YOUR CHILDREN TO KNOW WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE...
00:46:48 Unidentified Speaker WELL, IT IS A VERY COMPLICATED THING AND I THINK MISSISSIPPI IS A PLACE THAT DRAWS YOU IN. THERE...
00:49:52 Unidentified Speaker AS A TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION-- [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE]
00:50:01 Unidentified Speaker I AM WILLING TO SIGN COPIES AND I WOULD WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT, FOR LISTENING...
00:50:18 Unidentified Speaker RALPH EUBANKS IS THE LIBRARY

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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