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One of our favorites was the Beatles - Help. We thought it would be so popular that the theater would be near impossible to get in. There was almost nobody there. We liked it and saw it twice. But the most singular event was when we went to see the movie Shenandoah, which was big on costumes of the civil war period. We just got on a bus and rode west over to a section of town we had never been. It was all perfectly ordinary riding across in the late afternoon, and going into the movie theater.
But when we came out, it was after dark and it was a shock. It was all black people, which was not so much of a start in itself, but rather it was the police presence everywhere, which made one think it must be really dangerous here. The streets were all black people both walking and in cars. There were police cruisers going up and down. There were cops walking dogs on various corners of intersections. The cops seemed everywhere almost all white. We waited for the bus and did not notice any hostility. When we got on the bus it was all black people. As the bus drove East, eventually white people began to get on, and the police presence outside grew less and less.
MaryJ was a picture painter although she didn't do any painting while with me. Our quarters did not have a refrigerator and she had decided to be a vegetarian and would hang bags of vegetables outside from the window sill. I thought she was crazy and her diet very unhealthy and told her so. And I proved right she-so informed me in a letter once she had gotten back home, cavities I think.
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