Her Name Was Hester

Her Name Was Hester, premiered at the Desoto Theater tonight and we were there.  It was a sold out show.  If you get a chance see this film. Brian Campbell, the director (and also an environmental science professor at Berry College) has produced an important and thought-provoking film.

It is the story of a young woman, Stacie Scoggins Marshall, who has inherited her family farm in Dirttown Valley in Chattooga County Georgia. She discovers that her family kept seven people enslaved in the period before the Civil War. One of those was Hester who was purchased to be a wet nurse for the Scoggins family. This documentary deals with the relationships Stacie develops, especially with her neighbors Betty and Melvin Mosley, as she struggles with how to deal with that fact and what she discovers along the way.

I know Stacie as a storyteller. She won a second place award at our last Big Fibbers Contest in 2019 and she helped me with some of my YoungTales storytelling lessons in the schools in 2020. 

Click on the movie poster above to read about it in the Rome News-Tribune. 

I know Stacie Scoggins Marshall as a storyteller. She won a second place at our last Big Fibbers Contest in 2019 and she helped me with some of my YoungTales storytelling lessons in the schools in 2020. 

Sheila and I got to the theatre tonight at about 6:45 for a 7p.m. show to find
big lines out the doors onto the sidewalks.

It was a sold out show and few seats were left when we got there.
We actually took a couple of remaining seats on the front row.