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- Laura Wiens
- Username: lauraw
- Location: , US
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- "Civil War Widows"
- Summary: Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.
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Review of Civil War Widows
Laura Wiens
Posted on February 27, 2005 at 12:33 PM
The voices of the women are really incredible--brought tears to my eyes-- their accents, their choices of words are really emblematic of another era and place. The producer does a great job mirroring their two stories, reminding us that despite the great divide between North and South, black and white, the joys/comforts of marraige and the hardships of the Great Depression were shared across the country.The other reviewer is right is saying that it's really not a piece on the Civil War, but rather a very honest portrait of two women-- the story of 20-some year old women marrying 80+ men in the early 1900s is inherently pretty fascinating. My only criticism is that I would have preferred a shorter narrative lead in and lead out.