Free Movie Screening – TWO SOLDIERS – presented by the Yadkin Historical & Genealogical Society – May 7 @ 6:30pm

Yadkin County Historical & Genealogical Society presents a 20^th Anniversary showing of Academy Award winning “Two Soldiers” on May 7 @ 6:30pm in the Willingham Theater

Two Soldiers, starring Ron Perlman, was filmed in 2004 at locations in Yadkinville and Winston-Salem, this 40-minute film is based on a short story by the same name written by William Faulkner.  It concerns the effect of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on two closely-knit brothers, the older of whom volunteered to serve in the US Army during World War II and the much younger brother who believes that he can do the same.  When the Society first showed this film in 2004, many local World War II veterans and their families felt the heroism of their military service and the pangs of separation that they endured to win the war.

The film’s director, Aaron Schneider, chose to film at several familiar Yadkin County locations: the historic Himes House on Old US Highway 421 east of Yadkinville, the banks of North Deep Creek, the historic Ebenezer J. Eaton House on Horseshoe Road, and stretches of Speer Bridge Road and Dinkins Bottom Road.   In historic East Bend, its downtown became Jefferson, Mississippi, its former Yadkin Valley Hotel became the Sheriff’s Office, and the Davis Brothers Store, now Kitchen Roselli’s Restaurant, became a Greyhound bus stop.   Forsyth County locations include the Old Winston-Salem Post Office, now the Millennium Center, which became an Army recruiting station.  A private air strip in Davie County became the point of embarkation for enlistees when they took off in a vintage Piedmont Airlines passenger plane and flew into a beautiful sunset.  Many local residents supported the production of this film.  They are invited to attend as honored guests at the showing.