November 11, 2008
Talk of the South
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Writer, producer, and director Godfrey Cheshire of the film, Moving Midway.
Lissa Gotwals
Go South
No Place like Home
What’s a North Carolina family to do when their ancestral plantation home has become surrounded by highways and strip malls? Move…the house, that is. So begins the journey chronicled in Godfrey Cheshire’s film Moving Midway, which opened in September.
Along with documenting the move itself, in which the house is literally trucked across the countryside, Cheshire, a cousin of the plantation’s owner, also explores the discovery of an African American branch of the family, the ghosts of the past, and the role of the Southern plantation in American history and culture.
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