About Steve Buscemi Reveals A Past Darker and Stranger Than He Imagined
A bottle on the Susquehanna. A note no family expects to find. Steve Buscemi opens a door to a past darker and stranger than he imagined. Following the trail of his great-great-grandfather Ralph Montgomery, Steve discovers an 11-year-old servant in Camden, a Milton dentist who vanished from the records, and a penciled suicide note pulled from the river. The path winds through a courtroom assault, a Civil War desertion before Fredericksburg’s stone wall, a return to dentistry, and a grave in Strangers’ Row. A Flatbush census brings an unexpected reunion, and a chance meeting with a third cousin reshapes what Steve’s family thought they knew about Brooklyn and beyond. What broke this family apart, and what brought it back together? Watch to see how one river, one note, and one name changed everything.
Steve Buscemi Reveals A Past Darker and Stranger Than He Imagined is presented by Real Stories. Its listed runtime is 40 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
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- Steve Buscemi Reveals A Past Darker and Stranger Than He Imagined
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- Society
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- 40 minutes
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- English
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