Moving Midway, a 2008 documentary, looks at the unexpected results of moving an ancestral home. Based on actual events, Godrey Chesire, a New York film maker, records the physical move of his family's ancestral home, Midway Plantation, located in North Carolina. Chesire's cousin, Charlie Silver, wants to move the house several miles to get it out of the path of a proposed shopping mall. Taking the house off of its foundation and moving it on large trailers to its new location is time-consuming and difficult, and it captures the attention of a previously unknown branch of the family. Quite by chance, Chesire meets NYU history professor Dr. Robert Hinton, who also has roots in Midway; his grandfather was born a slave at the plantation. Upon further research, the men discover that the builder of Midway Plantation had a relationship with one of the slaves and the result was another branch of the family tree. Chesire and Silver discover that they have 100 African-American cousins. Approaching the history and meaning of Midway from very different perspectives, Chesire and Dr. Hinton redefined the family who once occupied Midway, as well as reuniting the descendants.MORE[EDIT]
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