It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town simply miles from the Mexican border. The community's close-knit area prepares to honor the 100th wedding anniversary of Bisbee's darkest hr: the well known Bisbee Expulsion of 1917, throughout which 1,200 striking miners were strongly drawn from their residences, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this fierce, misconstrued past by presenting remarkable leisures of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based upon subjective versions of the story and also "guided," in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply individual sections torn from family history develop towards an enormous restaging of the expulsion itself on the exact day of its 100th wedding anniversary.
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It's 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town simply miles from the Mexican border. The community's close-knit area prepares to honor the 100th wedding anniversary of Bisbee's darkest hr: the well known Bisbee Expulsion of 1917, throughout which 1,200 striking miners were strongly drawn from their residences, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this fierce, misconstrued past by presenting remarkable leisures of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based upon subjective versions of the story and also "guided," in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply individual sections torn from family history develop towards an enormous restaging of the expulsion itself on the exact day of its 100th wedding anniversary.
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