Silversides

Heritage & Memory

Silver Screens Under the Stars: The Enduring Legacy of America's Drive-In Theaters

Once the beating heart of postwar American leisure, the drive-in movie theater remains one of the most evocative symbols of mid-century communal life. Though their numbers have dwindled dramatically, a dedicated handful of family stewards and cultural preservationists are ensuring these open-air monuments to shared memory do not flicker out entirely. Silversides explores what made them irreplaceable — and why their survival matters.

Jul 2, 2026

Arts & Culture

Songs from the Margins: Rediscovering the Accidental Historians of American Folk Music

Long before the academy turned its ear toward working-class America, a scattered constellation of regional folk and roots musicians pressed their lives into wax — capturing floods, labor disputes, harvest seasons, and heartbreak with an authenticity no formal record could replicate. Archivists and cultural institutions are now racing to recover these fragile recordings before silence claims them permanently. Silversides examines the musicians history nearly forgot and the scholars determined to

Jul 2, 2026