Riding the Rails to Hero Street
Thursday, February 27th at 1-2 pm
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Riding the Rails to Hero Street
“Riding the Rails to Hero Street” is a 30-min documentary by award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films. The program is free to the public and includes a discussion with the filmmakers and others following the film.
“Riding the Rails to Hero Street”, part one in the Rundles’ Hero Street documentary series, tells the story of the immigrants’ journey from Mexico to Cook’s Point in Davenport, Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad train yards and boxcar homes in Silvis, Illinois. The families experienced both acceptance and discrimination in their new communities.
Around the time of the great depression, the families were removed from the rail yards and some moved box cars or built new homes on 2nd Street in Silvis. Only a block and a half long, the street lost six young men in World War II and two in the Korean War, more than any other street in America.
Hero Street, as it is now known, has provided over 100 service members since World War II.
The Rundles’ Hero Street proposed ten-part documentary series, will explore the personal and family sagas behind each of the eight heroes from Silvis, Illinois and tell the compelling true story of an ongoing struggle to memorialize them.
Fourth Wall Films is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated independent film production company formerly located in Los Angeles, and now based in Moline, Illinois.
Thursday, Feb 27, 2020, 01:00 PM
214 South Main Street, Port Byron, IL, USA
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