I enjoyed the story and appreciated the writer’s discovery of the unknown worlds existing around the written record. With the understanding that history is written by the victors, I would urge the writer to try and be victorious personally and to notice the unvoiced, unnoticed history existing within their own family and locality while realizing ‘historical omission’ on the conscious level is more often than not simply people covering their tracks without regard to anything other than their own well being. And, I would urge caution researching history less than 100 years old as emotions and hurts die as hard as people often do.
This image is a surviving cut-down of a 99’ x 20’ canvas ‘mural’ that vanished from it’s space in the early 1960s after a 10+ year public exhibition. A 16 year hunt for the vanished painting came to a semi-successful conclusion with the discovery of a surviving 30% and the here to fore unreported story of it’s savior’s saving but the discovery left many questions. The first question is why. Why did someone attempt to destroy a ton and a half of what local press at the time called “treasure”? And, did this destruction have anything to do with this image of a black man dancing with a white woman?