Community Screenings of The American Road to Victory

In partnership with the North & South Carolina Humanities councils, we are conducting screenings of our American Road to Victory trilogy at libraries, museums and theaters across both States. The purpose of these screenings is to allow members of the public to experience our films, which combine history with travel and to interact with our dwindling band of WWII veterans. As our tour continues we will update this blog with photos.

Bennettsville Library

Last week we conducted a screening of The Americans in The Bulge at the Marian Wright Edelman library in the historic town of Bennettsville, South Carolina. The event which was well supported by the community and attended by a significant number of WWII veterans was a great success.

With Bill Kinney on his walking tour.

Before the screening we were treated to a delicious Southern lunch and a lively tour of historic Bennettsville, South Carolina's 1st Great Town, by local historian and press baron, Bill Kinney.

Bill's knowledge of local history and architecture is impressive. We must return to Bennettsville some day soon, to capture his tour on film.

Library Director Virginia McCraw, and board chairperson, Pat Henegan, whose high standards are apparent throughout the magnificent library complex, worked tirelessly to organize this event.

Greeting a WWII veteran

WWII WAC Pat Smith and Director Richard Lanni

The Audience were fully engaged.

" We were very privileged yesterday to host a viewing of "Americans in the Bulge", a documentary by Livingbattlefied.  Someone from the State Library put out information about this some time ago and I can highly recommend that you take advantage of this awesome programming opportunity.  We are all talking about how good we feel about this since getting to work this morning and we heard only positive comments when people were leaving last evening.

"Heidi Mehltretter and Richard Lanni spent the afternoon and early evening with us.  They left us greatly enriched by their personalities and their art.  Their purpose is to preserve history by documenting battles, filming onsite and at the time of year actual events took place.  We felt like we were actually there... "

Virginia McCraw
Director
Marian Wright Edelman Public Library

The American Road to Victory has aired more than 1000 times on PBS stations since Memorial Day 2011.
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Livingbattlefield's community events are organized by Livingbattlefield of South Carolina, a 501(c)3 non profit educational foundation.