Like any old house in which six generations of the same family have lived there are ghosts and there is the memory of the elders of the family and of living in the house.
Our notions of the Big Plantation House come from Hollywood and Gone With The Wind though.
Midway isn't all that much bigger than a modern suburban house, most plantations were not all that big, and few had as many slaves as depicted in the movies.
Trouble is 600 homes are being built in a new subdivision next to the house and property held by this family over 200 years. Thousands of vehicles including noisy big rigs go past every day on the street out front. It's time to move the house.
The physical aspect of moving a house to 40 acres of land that was once part of the original land grant is interesting in itself, but along with the controversy comes another descendant of the family, an African American professor from Yankee territory, and the discovery of 100 African American cousins though one of the cooks who was enslaved there and the owner of the house, are alive and some few also have memories of the family and stories of life there. The Professor of history is Robert Hinton. Together they explore the personal and historical mythologies.
I recommend this film which came out in 2008.
