#essos guide for tourists

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𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗨- 𝗔 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘

So this is the second entry on the next book for West Essos. For those who don’t know this is the city where Daenerys is at the start of game of thrones. I actually liked this a lot, but it’s kind of very complicated to do it so it might not be a daily series anymore like once or twice a week so tell me if you guys like it. I liked doing this a lot and next year I plan on doing this again. So Merry Christas to everyone ( because in my country we celebrate 24 and 25 ), and happy New Year.

WEST ESSOS. BRAAVOS. MYR. VOLANTIS. LYS. TYROSH. STEP-STONES. QOHOR. LORATH.

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Narratives of 2023

Books

- We've got this, edited by Eliza Hull

- Never Say Die, Anthony Horowitz

- The Making of Us - Sheridan Voysey

- Before the Coffee goes Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Films

- Admission

- Notting Hill

- Seriously Red

- Empire Records

- The Pretend One

- I Wanna Dance with Somebody

- The Green Book

- Palm Beach

- All My Life

- You People

- The Menu (well, half of it)

- 10 Things I Hate About You

- The Art of Racing in the Rain

- Jerry and Marge Go Large

- Steel Magnolias

- Marriage Story

- At Midnight

- The Truman Show

- Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Ticket to Paradise

- A Tourists' Guide to Love

- Good Will Hunting

- Charlie's Angel's (2019)

- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

- Death on the Nile

- Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

- The Outlaws

- Barbie

- Happiness for Beginners

- White House Down

- Past Lives

- Oppenheimer

- West Side Story

- You Are So Not Inivited To My Bat Mitzvah

- Love is in the Air

- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

- Family Switch

- Best. Christmas. Ever.

- The Heart of the Holidays

- The Muppets Christmas Carol

- 8 Bit Christmas

- Love at the Christmas Table

- Jones Family Christmas

- The Family Plan

TV

- Black Snow

- Hacks S1, S2

- Home Economics s3e11 - s3e13

- Modern Family s1e1 - s10e14

- Abbott Elementary s1, s2

- Kim's Convenience a few episodes in s4 rewatch

- That 90s Show s1

- Better Date than Never s1

- Aftertaste s1, s2

- How I Met Your Father s2

- Summer Love s1

- Physical 100 s1

- Latecomers s1

- Below Deck s5, s6, s9, s10

- Not Dead Yet s1

- The Mandalorian s3

- Cunk on Earth

- Seachange s1e1 - s1e6

- Ted Lasso s3

- Firefly Lane (s2e10 - end)

- Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

- Heartland s16

- Alone Australia s1

- In Limbo

- Five Bedrooms s4

- Never Have I Ever... s4

- Year Of s1

- Black Divaz

- Ahsoka s1

- The Traitors (a few episodes)

- Below Deck Down Under s2

- Surviving Summer s2

- Sex Education s4

- Old People's Home for Teenagers s2

- Starstruck s3

- Queen of Oz s1

- Heartstopper s2

- Doctor Who specials

- My Life with the Walter Boys s1

- Carols in the Domain

- Carols by Candlelight

- Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas

- Bump s4

Gigs/Plays/etc

- Feared and Revered Exhibition

- Drag Cabaret, Summer Lovin'

- Elton John

- Daniel Champagne

- Sons of the East

- Brass Knuckle Brass Band

- The Zackerbilks

- Multi Cultural Comedy Showcase

- Peking Duk

- The Women's Room 2 - Just Add Esteogen

- Koori Comedy Showcase

- Sarah Ison and Laura Johnston - Would We Lie to You

- Josie Long - Re-Enchantment

- Julia

- Wine Machine aka KLP, Northeast Party House, Vera Blue, Lime Cordiale, Bliss N Esso

- Choirboy

- A Day on the Green aka Rod Stewart, Cyndi Lauper, Jon Stevens (from INXS) and DACY

- Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap

- A Reconciliation Day Eve concert aka Yothu Yindi, Alinta Barlow, Stewart Barton, Tahalianna Soward-Mahanga

- Monkey Sparrow & This Way Orkestra

- Come From Away

- Brass Knuckle Brass Band, Lucy Ridge & the Derby Widows

- Footloose: The Musical

- Australian National Botanic Gardens: MEGAfauna After Dark feat Dead Puppets Society

- Reflections on Country Exhibition Opening, Kayannie Denigan

- Unchartered Territory Festival: innovation, art and science

- Rubber Necker & White Knuckle Band

- Soul Lab

- West Side Story

- Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

- The Visitors

- The War on 2023

- Campell's Ramble

- A Very Canberra Comedy Festival Christmas

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2025 Black History Month Day 22: Victor Hugo Green (1892-1960)

Raised in New Jersey, Victor worked as a letter carrier for the USPS. He married in 1917 and served in WWI in France.  After returning from the war, he and his wife, Alma, moved to Harlem just in time for its Renaissance. During Jim Crow, traveling was a dangerous proposition for blacks in the United States.  In 1932 Victor decided a solution, and in 1936 he began his career as the most important travel writer of the 20th Century. Victor wrote and published the 'Negro Motorist Green Book', which was named due to its color and from Victor's name. 'Green Books' allowed African Americans to safely travel throughout the United States.  They listed everything from what mechanics would service a black person's car, to lodging which would accommodate black patrons, to restaurants, grocery stores, and gas stations which would sell to black people.  Perhaps the most important tool within the books was a list of "Sundown Towns," all-white municipalities where blacks would face violence if they were traveling through after dark.  There were more than 10,000 such towns at their peak, and while you might not find a room to rent in those areas sleeping in your car was not an option.  While the 1936 edition only detailed accommodations around New York, by the end most of the United States, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean were detailed.  To explain just how rapidly he compiled knowledge Montana was first detailed in the 1939 'Green Book.' They were used by African Americans who traveled for work, musicians, athletes, and school bus drivers taking students on field trips. The books allowed people to move away from their hometown and to vacation.  In addition to hotels, motels, and restaurants, the guide also included "tourist homes," which were privately owned homes which would provide lodging.  The book eventually listed amenities such as beauty salons, nightclubs, and even country clubs. While at first accommodations were just listed by word of mouth, over time businesses paid for advertising to be included or even to have a start placed next to their name as a recommended locale. One of the biggest advertisers in the guide was Esso gasoline (the company which would become ExxonMobil), which was also the most common place to purchase a 'Green Book' due to Esso's policy of not turning customers away due to race.  Esso had many black owners of their service stations, many of whom had their names and likeness used in the the guide next to their gas station as ads paid for by Esso.  In 1964 'Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States,'  held that Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's prohibition on discrimination by race in public accommodations applied to private businesses, and that signaled the beginning of the end for Victor's guides.  In 1966 the last 'Green Book' was published.  May we remember his use of creativity to find solutions to problems and allow our own creativity to flourish!

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Why Giants Causeway and Game of Thrones Tours from Belfast are Better?

When you go on a Giants causeway private tours in Belfast UK, you may adjust your schedule and lodging level to fit your interests and financial situation, and you can explore your location at your own leisure. If you would want to make any modifications or just not join a group, any of our small group tours, family tours, and shoestring trips that have predetermined departure dates may also be personally organized and changed. 

Private tours are intended to provide you the opportunity to see and explore new locations, to learn more, and to assist you in developing a particular appreciation for the cultural legacies of the nations you are visiting. 

Our itineraries at Belfast Tours and Transfer are made to help visitors make the most of their frequently constrained time. We make an effort to provide free time so that you, the visitor, may venture out and explore on your own. You may get together with the folks you wish to spend out with and who you think would enjoy a similar holiday by scheduling a private tour. 

Why Are Belfast's Giants Causeway Private Tours Better?

Customize Itineraries

Use Giants causeway private tours in Belfast UK if there is something in particular that piques your interest. Our custom vacations are intended to help you discover and explore new locations, broaden your horizons, and get an appreciation for the cultural legacies of the nations you are visiting—all in a manner that you have conceived and organized—of course, with our assistance.

Go at Your Own Speed

Travel at your own speed, extend your stay, or shorten it to suit your needs and preferences while on vacation. Enjoy Giants Causeway Trip from Belfast without having to wait for a bus full of other tourists. You may get together with the individuals you want to spend time with and who you think would enjoy a similar vacation by scheduling a private tour, which gives you access to unique experiences that you created!

Superior Flexibility

Take advantage of the extra freedom to select your own travel dates instead of adhering to a set group departure date. Daily flexibility: if you would want to linger longer at a certain monument, it should not pose a problem as long as it does not interfere with the day's activities. It's important to keep in mind that although private excursions are more exclusive, their scope is greater when making a reservation.

Why Choose a Tour of Game of Thrones?

Learn about Historical and Cultural Context

A lot of the filming sites used for Game of Thrones tours have a rich past and culture, which enhances the experience's realism. Tour guides frequently offer background information on the historical, cultural, and practical significance of the locations. 

Make Lasting Memories

Games of Thrones trips provide the opportunity to make amazing experiences and long-lasting memories, whether you're travelling alone, with friends, or in a group. The trip experience is guaranteed to make an impression, from grand experiences to quiet times of introspection. 

See Iconic Filming Locations

Fans of the television series Game of Thrones Tours may visit actual sites where the show was filmed. Famous locations like King's Landing, Winterfell, Dragonstone, and the Wall allow fans to enter the fantasy realms of Westeros and Essos. 

Make Connections with Other Fans

Global Game of Thrones enthusiasts get together on tours to express their shared enthusiasm for the show. Participants get the chance to connect with other fans, exchange their love for the show, and forge new friendships based on a common interest.  

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The New Sounds (10/20)

October was a pleasant blur. Birthdays and leaves, fading daylight and oncoming chill, and running every street with these tunes.

The New Sounds from last month: Ólafur Arnalds, Sofiane Pamart, Bat For Lashes (The Carpenters cover), Lana Del Rey, Fiona Apple, Anna of the North, Taylor Swift, Father John Misty, This Is The Kit, Fenne Lily, Julien Baker, Julia Jacklin, Samia, IAN SWEET, Kate Bollinger, Lomelda, Prateek Chad, Local Natives & Sharon Van Etten, Tomberlin, Angel Olsen, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Tweedy, Kurt Vile, Cut Worms, Woods, Bright Eyes & Phoebe Bridgers, Kiwi jr., Spoon, Fleet Foxes, Bruce Springsteen, Wilsen, Bryde, Pool Holograph, Cory Flood, Tough Age, Dream Wife, Jordana, beabadoobee, Slow Pulp, Retirement Party, Cloud Nothings, Superchunk, Blanketman, Ball Park Music, Guided By Voices, Pixies (T. Rex cover), Nilüfer Yanya, Mint Field, Lost Under Heaven, Black Foxxes, bdrmm, Sea Girls, The Shins, Gorillas & Beck, Cathedral Bells, Nation of Language, Tom Snowdon (Men at Work cover), Helena Deland, The 1975, Mogwai, Ellis, Good Sad Happy Bad, jenny lee, Julia Bardo, Margaret Glaspy, Madeline Kenney, mxmtoon & Carly Rae Jepsen, Lisa Ann, Claud, Dizzy, Faye Webster, Tennis (The Carpenters cover), Arlo Parks, Tame Impala, Hot Chip & Jarvis Cocker, The Darcys, Oscar Jerome, Victoria Monet, Alicia Keys, SAULT, Grand Pax, Kelly Lee Owens, Sylvan Esso, Kate NV, Ela Minus, CHAI, Haiku Hands, Dua Lipa & DaBaby, GRANT, Ava Max, The Naked and Famous, Julia Michaels, Romy, Wave Racer, Bicep, Kllo & Jacques Greene, Disclosure & Syd, Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Chromatics & ATRIP, Tourist, Sam Prekop, Autechre, Shy Layers, Ultraísta, Marika Hackman, Vagabon, Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Tim Heidecker & Weyes Blood. And more.

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A COMPLETE LIST OF ALBUMS I LISTENED TO IN 2017

1.       Brian Eno—Reflection (2017)

2.       Joe Jackson & Friends—Heaven & Hell (1997)

3.       The KLF—Chill Out (1990)

4.       Run the Jewels—Run the Jewels 3 (2016)

5.       ESG—Come Away with ESG (1983)

6.       Pink Guy—Pink Season (2017)

7.       Madness—The Rise and Fall (1982)

8.       The xx—I See You (2017)

9.       The xx—xx (2009)

10.   Foxygen—Hang (2017)

11.   Shackleton and Vengeance Tenfold – Sferic Ghost Transmits (2017)

12.   André Previn, et. al—Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

13.   Code Orange—Forever (2017)

14.   Neil Cicierega—Mouth Moods (2017)

15.   Migos—C U L T U R E (2017)

16.   Buscabulla—EP II (2017)

17.   Allison Crutchfield—Tourist in This Town (2017)

18.   Delicate Steve—This is Steve (2017)

19.   Daft Punk—Homework (1997)

20.   Homeshake—Fresh Air (2017)

21.   Sampha—Process (2017)

22.   MF Doom—Operation: Doomsday (1999)

23.   Tobin Sprout—The Universe and Me (2017)

24.   Syd—Fin (2017)

25.   Julie Byrne—Not Even Happiness (2017)

26.   The Weeknd—Starboy (2016)

27.   Sinkane—Life & Livin’ It (2017)

28.   William Basinski—A Shadow in Time (2017)

29.   Paul White and Danny Brown—Accelerator (EP) (2017)

30.   Metallica—Kill ‘Em All (1983)

31.   Nas—It Was Written (1996)

32.   Priests—Nothing Feels Natural (2017)

33.   Urochromes—Night Bully (EP) (2017)

34.   Yung Bae—Skyscraper Anonymous (2016)

35.   Ty Segall—Ty Segall (2017)

36.   nobigdyl. —Canopy (2017)

37.   Son Volt—Notes of Blue (2017)

38.   Jansport J—p h a r a o h (2017)

39.   Jens Lekman—Life Will See You Now (2017)

40.   Maggie Rogers—Now That the Light is Fading (EP) (2017)

41.   Erykah Badu—Baduizm (1997)

42.   Dirty Projectors—Dirty Projectors (2017)

43.   Future—FUTURE (2017)

44.   Sun Kil Moon—Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood (2017)

45.   Future—HNDRXX (2017)

46.   Visible Cloaks—Reassemblage (2017)

47.   Barenaked Ladies—Born on a Pirate Ship (1996)

48.   Thundercat—Drunk (2017)

49.   Hand Habits—Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void) (2017)

50.   Vagabon—Infinite Worlds (2017)

51.   Amnesia Scanner—AS Truth (2017)

52.   Mega Bog—Happy Together (2017)

53.   Lin Manuel-Miranda, et. al—In the Heights (2008)

54.   Chicano Batman—Freedom is Free (2017)

55.   The Mountain Goats—We Shall All Be Healed (2004)

56.   King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard—Flying Microtonal Banana (2017)

57.   Mark Scott—Death & All His Enemies (EP) (2017)

58.   Strand of Oaks—Hard Love (2017)

59.   The Magnetic Fields—50 Song Memoir (2017)

60.   DMX—It’s Dark and Hell is Hot (1998)

61.   Jay Som—Everybody Works (2017)

62.   The Shins—Heartworms (2017)

63.   Pauline Oliveros—Accordion & Voice (1982)

64.   Steve Lacy—Steve Lacy’s Demo (EP) (2017)

65.   Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever—The French Press (EP) (2017)

66.   Real Estate—In Mind (2017)

67.   Jansport J—Pharaohmatic Immunity (2017)

68.   Drake—More Life (2017)

69.   Temples—Volcano (2017)

70.   Anohni—Paradise (EP) (2017)

71.   Diamanda Galás—All the Way (2017)

72.   Kelly Lee Owens—Kelly Lee Owens (2017)

73.   Paul F. Tompkins—Laboring Under Delusions: Live in Brooklyn (2012)

74.   Tinariwen—Elwan (2017)

75.   Gorillaz—Gorillaz (2001)

76.   Hippo Campus—Landmark (2017)

77.   Black Sabbath—Master of Reality (1971)

78.   Liquid Liquid—Optimo (EP) (1983)

79.   Hurray for the Riff Raff—The Navigator (2017)

80.   Blanck Mass—World Eater (2017)

81.   Beastie Boys—Hello Nasty (1998)

82.   Diet Cig—Swear I’m Good at This (2017)

83.   Ibibio Sound Machine—Uyai (2017)

84.   Mount Eerie—A Crow Looked at Me (2017)

85.   Future Islands—The Far Field (2017)

86.   Boards of Canada—Music Has the Right to Children (1998)

87.   Father John Misty—Pure Comedy (2017)

88.   Glenn Gould—Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1956)

89.   Arca—Arca (2017)

90.   Sorority Noise—You’re Not As _____ As You Think (2017)

91.   Gas—Pop (2000)

92.   Kendrick Lamar—DAMN. (2017)

93.   Passion Pit—Tremendous Sea of Love (2017)

94.   Shamir—Hope (2017)

95.   Portishead—Dummy (1994)

96.   Tonstartssbandht—Sorcerer (2017)

97.   Dr. Dre—The Chronic (1992)

98.   Wiley—Godfather (2017)

99.   Parliament—Mothership Connection (1975)

100.           Sade—Diamond Life (1984)

101.           Charly Bliss—Guppy (2017)

102.           Iggy Pop—Lust for Life (1977)

103.           Kasey Zoned—Isolation (EP) (2017)

104.           Gorillaz—Humanz (2017)

105.           Mac DeMarco—This Old Dog (2017)

106.           Slowdive—Slowdive (2017)

107.           The Record Company—Give It Back to You (2016)

108.           Garth Brooks—No Fences (1990)

109.           Gas—Narkopop (2017)

110.           Girlpool—Powerplant (2017)

111.           Perfume Genius—No Shape (2017)

112.           Marty Robbins—Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)

113.           The Mavericks—Brand New Day (2017)

114.           Dave Malloy, et. al—Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (2013)

115.           The Mountain Goats—Goths (2017)

116.           Temple of the Dog—Temple of the Dog (1991)

117.           Soundgarden—Badmotorfinger (1991)

118.           Burial—Subtemple (EP) (2017)

119.           Angelo Badalamenti—Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

120.           Death Grips—Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber) (EP) (2017)

121.           Various artists—Lost Highway (1997)

122.           Throbbing Gristle—20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979)

123.           Lil Yachty—Teenage Emotions (2017)

124.           Phish—Junta (1989)

125.           Talaboman—The Night Land (2017)

126.           (Sandy) Alex G—Rocket (2017)

127.           Burzum—Filosofem (1996)

128.           Sleater-Kinney—Live in Paris (2017)

129.           Power Trip—Nightmare Logic (2017)

130.           Sam Gellaitry—Escapism III (EP) (2017)

131.           The Cranberries—Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (1993)

132.           Bing & Ruth—No Home of the Mind (2017)

133.           Luxoddo Menatti—Climbing Through Clockwork (EP) (2017)

134.           Fleet Foxes—Crack-Up (2017)

135.           Cashmere Cat—9 (2017)

136.           Johnny Jewel—Windswept (2017)

137.           Ice Cube—Death Certificate (1991)

138.           Why?—Moh Llean (2017)

139.           Goldie—The Journey Man (2017)

140.           Lorde—Melodrama (2017)

141.           Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner and James McAlister—Planetarium (2017)

142.           SZA—Ctrl (2017)

143.           Calvin Harris—Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 (2017)

144.           Washed Out—Mister Mellow (2017)

145.           Vince Staples—Big Fish Theory (2017)

146.           JAY-Z—4:44 (2017)

147.           Haim—Something to Tell You (2017)

148.           Moon Diagrams—Lifetime of Love (2017)

149.           Various artists—Baby Driver (Music from the Motion Picture) (2017)

150.           Offa Rex—The Queen of Hearts (2017)

151.           Tyler, the Creator—Flower Boy (2017)

152.           Timecop—You Can’t Go Back From Where You Are Right Now (EP) (2017)

153.           Waxahatchee—Out in the Storm (2017)

154.           DJ Sports—Modern Species (2017)

155.           Ryan Adams—Prisoner (2017)

156.           Guided by Voices—August by Cake (2017)

157.           Paramore—After Laughter (2017)

158.           Cigarettes After Sex—Cigarettes After Sex (2017)

159.           Randy Newman—Dark Matter (2017)

160.           Kesha—Rainbow (2017)

161.           The War on Drugs—A Deeper Understanding (2017)

162.           Rezz—Mass Manipulation (2017)

163.           Liza Minnelli—Results (1989)

164.           Various artists—Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) (2017)

165.           Various artists—Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack) (2017)

166.           Iron and Wine—Beast Epic (2017)

167.           Com Truise—Iteration (2017)

168.           Godspeed You! Black Emperor—Luciferian Towers (2017)

169.           BROCKHAMPTON—Saturation (2017)

170.           LCD Soundsystem—american dream (2017)

171.           Arcade Fire—Everything Now (2017)

172.           Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives—Way Out West (2017)

173.           Clark—Death Peak (2017)

174.           Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends—New Worlds (2017)

175.           Aimee Mann—Mental Illness (2017)

176.           The Mountain Goats—Marsh Witch Visions (EP) (2017)

177.           Moses Sumney—Aromanticism (2017)

178.           St. Vincent—MASSEDUCTION (2017)

179.           Nina Simone—I Put a Spell on You (1965)

180.           Kamasi Washington—Harmony of Difference (EP) (2017)

181.           Extreme—Extreme II: Pornograffitti (1990)

182.           Timecop—Diocesan Howler (EP) (2017)

183.           Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile—Lotta Sea Lice (2017)

184.           Vangelis—Blade Runner (1982)

185.           Julien Baker—Turn Out the Lights (2017)

186.           Sam Smith—The Thrill of It All (2017)

187.           Alvvays—Antisocialites (2017)

188.           Björk—Utopia (2017)

189.           Charlotte Gainsbourg—Rest (2017)

190.           King Krule—The OOZ (2017)

191.           R.E.M.—Live at the 40 Watt Club 11/19/92 (1992)

192.           Kelela—Take Me Apart (2017)

193.           10,000 Maniacs—MTV Unplugged (1993)

194.           Sylvan Esso—What Now (2017)

195.           Beck—Colors (2017)

196.           Amber Coffman—City of No Reply (2017)

197.           Guided by Voices—How Do You Spell Heaven (2017)

198.           Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings—Soul of a Woman (2017)

199.           10,000 Maniacs—Our Time in Eden (1992)

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Green Book almost immediately identifies itself as a surefire hit. A period piece that’s also a road trip movie and a buddy dramedy? Based on a true story? With two strong performances and a heartwarming message about overcoming prejudice? That ends at a Christmas celebration? Sign America up.

The film, directed by comedy veteran Peter Farrelly, is good at being all of those things. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, Green Book is — as its tagline says — “inspired” by the true friendship of Tony Vallelonga, an Italian-American chauffeur/bodyguard from the Bronx, and Don Shirley, the black pianist Vallelonga is hired to drive and protect on a concert tour through the deep South in 1962. It’s often funny, with some poignant moments and a heart that feels like it’s in the right place.

Yet curiously, the Green Book itself doesn’t play much of a role in the film. Mortensen’s character, Tony, takes it on the trip and leafs through it several times. Early on, he briefly explains its purpose to his wife Delores (Linda Cardellini): to provide black travelers with information about “safe” places to stay and to eat while they travel. He’ll need to refer to it to do his job, getting Shirley from gig to gig safely throughout the musician’s eight-week tour.

Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in Green Book. Universal Pictures

But after that, the book is not mentioned by name, even as the pair encounters the full gamut of racism during the trip — ranging from casual remarks to “genteel” discrimination to violent hostility from civilians, bar patrons, and police. Indeed, we typically see it only when Tony quietly picks it up to find motels in which Shirley can safely stay.

Green Book’s treatment of racism is uneven at best. In an early scene, for instance, Tony throws away two drinking glasses that black construction workers used in his kitchen, suggesting he draws a hard line about even coming into contact with black people. But a movie like this needs a “likable” hero, and after that moment, he doesn’t engage in such blatantly offensive behavior for the rest of the film. As an Italian American, Tony would have experienced plenty of discrimination himself, but the film only hints at it.

But even setting aside the characters’ development, for a movie named Green Book, it’s light on details about the actual, well, Green Book. It also seems to imply that such a guide was only really necessary in the Deep South, which rang false to me. Watching it, I worried that the screenplay — written by Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, and the real-life Tony’s son, Nick Vallelonga, who clearly drew on his father’s remembrance of the trip — might have glossed over the reality experienced by black Americans like Shirley.

But before seeing the movie, I didn’t know much about the Green Book itself, so I dug into its history to learn more. What I learned helped me see the ways in which Green Book doesn’t go far nearly far enough in confronting its subject, and winds up trivializing serious matters as a result.

Here are four things I learned about the Green Books, and what they say about Green Book.

For middle-class Americans in the 1930s, the newfound availability of safe, affordable automobiles was not just a matter of convenience. It meant new possibilities, the ability to travel around the country at their leisure, without relying on anyone else. That was also true for African Americans, even in a country that was legally segregated in some places and functionally segregated virtually everywhere else.

But while white travelers could move with relative freedom, stopping into restaurants, bars, entertainment establishments, and places of lodging as they pleased, road travel was more fraught for African Americans. Staying in the wrong hotel, or trying to eat at the wrong establishment, could get you kicked out or much worse.

The Negro Motorist Green Book wasn’t the only travel book aimed at black motorists in America, but it was the most popular. It was created by Victor Hugo Green, an African-American mail carrier who lived in Harlem and worked in nearby Hackensack, New Jersey. Green worked on the project for three decades, from 1936 to 1966, shortly after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, with a break during World War II for about four years. The Green Book swiftly became the most vital document for black travelers in America, detailing places where they could eat, drink, and spend the night without being harassed or worse.

Twenty-two editions of the Green Book (and one supplement), published from 1937 to 1966, have since been collected and digitized by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. “From what I can tell, [Green] had a car, he was very interested in cars, and he decided to create a travel guide that helped black travelers, or black motorists, be able to take advantage of the newfound freedom of having a car,” Maira Lirano, the chief librarian and curator of the center’s Green Book collection, told me.

Cover of The Negro Motorist Green Book (1940 edition) Wikimedia Commons/Collection of the NYPL

The Green Books were mostly devoted to options for lodging and dining, but they contained other information too. “There were listings for rest stops, restaurants, barber shops, beauty shops,” Lirano says. And in some towns, especially smaller ones, no hotel would offer lodging to black people. For many of those, the Green Book listed “tourist homes,” which Lirano describes as “sort of like a precursor to Airbnb.” Black homeowners, mostly in the South, would rent a room in their home to black travelers looking for somewhere to spend the night.

That was especially important in so-called “sundown towns,” which passed laws designed to drive black people out of town that prohibited them from being on the road at night. One such town is depicted in Green Book.

Sundown towns weren’t specifically mentioned in the Green Book. But there were about 10,000 sundown towns in the US as late as the 1960s, and not just in the South: Levittown, New York; Glendale, California; and most Illinois municipalities were among their number. And while it could be dangerous to be on the road at night, it could be equally dangerous to check into the wrong hotel. In an age where you couldn’t just whip out your phone and look up Yelp reviews — and in which you could literally risk your life by being in the wrong part of town with the wrong skin color — you needed a guide.

So if you were traveling while black, you knew about the Green Book, because you had to, for your own safety. In his 2000 memoir A Colored Man’s Journey through 20th Century Segregated America, Earl Hutchinson Sr. (believed to be the oldest black American to publish a memoir, at age 96), wrote that “the Green Book was the bible of every Negro highway traveler in the 1950s and the early 1960s. You literally didn’t dare leave home without it.”

In the film, Shirley never mentions or even looks at the Green Book — only Tony interacts with it. In fact, the Shirley character in the film seems to have consciously distanced himself from many elements of black culture, while remaining richly aware of the discrimination he will encounter on the trip. But in real life, Shirley had previously traveled throughout the country before embarking on his tour with Tony, and would almost certainly have known all about the Green Book. It simply wouldn’t have been safe not to.

Green Book depicts a range of ways in which the racist attitudes that were dominant in American life in the early and mid-20th century manifested themselves, from snide comments and racial epithets to outright hostility. But it strongly suggests that a guide like the Green Book was only really necessary in the Deep South, where under Jim Crow laws, segregation was not just encouraged, but legally enforced.

The first time Tony consults the Green Book comes after several stops on Shirley’s concert tour, in Ohio and Indiana. Once they cross into Kentucky, the Green Book becomes his guide, and we see it in his hands and on the car seat beside him several times. And a key scene near the end of Green Book suggests that while Shirley was harassed and worse by police in the South, once they returned north of the Mason-Dixon line, he was safe from that experience.

But the reality was different.

Victor Green himself lived in Harlem, a predominantly black neighborhood in New York City, and his first Green Book covered mostly the New York metropolitan area. “It was very much a local guide that listed auto repair shops, but also places in the suburbs, like nightclubs and restaurants,” Lirano told me. “It was highlighting businesses that were friendly and open, and that would be of interest, to the African American motorist.”

But interest in the book was high, and subsequent editions expanded very rapidly. “In two years, they included pretty much the whole country,” Lirano said.

That meant the Green Book didn’t restrict its listings to places like Georgia and Alabama, or other states with explicit Jim Crow laws — it was a lifeline for travelers virtually anywhere in the country.

Esso was one company that used the Green Book to openly court black customers. (Negro Motorist’s Green Book 1947 via New York Public Library)

In the 1962 edition of the Green Book, published the year in which Green Book is set, you can find listings for restaurants in Wilmington, Delaware; hotels in Billings, Montana; entertainment establishments in Seattle, Washington; and antique stores in New York City, all of which were friendly to black clientele. In many editions, listings spilled over US borders into Mexico and Canada, going as far north as Alaska. And in every city where establishments were listed as friendly to black travelers, there were almost certainly establishments that were unfriendly.

“In states that didn’t necessarily have laws on the books, there was definitely a custom to discriminate,” Lirano said. “The country was pretty much very racist, everywhere you went.”

Certainly, black travelers experienced different conditions in places where segregation was legal and where it wasn’t, and conditions varied across the north as well. In his 1998 memoir Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a Civil Rights pioneer, writes about a 17-hour road trip he took with his Uncle Otis in 1951, packing their lunches and carefully plotting which bathrooms were safe to use along the way from Alabama to upstate New York. “It wasn’t until we got to Ohio that I could feel Uncle Otis relax, and so I relaxed, too,” he writes, later recounting his amazement that his relatives in Buffalo had “white people living next door to them. On both sides.”

But there was no magical line that a black traveler could cross to find safety on the other side. “I think that’s the part that maybe people don’t think about as much,” Lirano told me. “You can blame the South for their laws; but the North was very much also a very segregated place with spaces that were white and spaces that were black, even though it wasn’t by law.”

Green Book does well in illustrating how Shirley adapts his behavior to be more acceptable to the mostly white crowds who gather to hear him play, even though, as he knows, once he leaves the stage he’s back to being just another “Negro” in their eyes.

His strained, pained smile at the end of every stage set is the dead giveaway. It’s a stark reminder of the long American tradition of respectability politics. And the film is at its best when Tony and Shirley are discovering the limits of those politics, and learning how to challenge the white-defined status quo.

When the pair’s car breaks down across from a field of poor black sharecroppers, the meaning is clear. Universal Pictures

Some of the need to watch one’s step was reflected in the Green Books, which were intended for black readers but required broader support to remain in production. “Green had to collaborate with a lot of people, including the federal government’s travel bureau,” Lirano says. In interacting with the “Negro Affairs” office in that bureau, as well as other collaborators like gas and oil companies, Green often wound up working with other African-Americans.

But knowing that he needed the support of the government and various companies to keep producing this vital lifeline, Green tended to not rock the boat too much. “He’s not going to criticize or blatantly state things,” Lirano said. “You sort of have to read between the lines in a lot of what he writes in the Green Books.”

That meant not outright criticizing the very laws, customs, and racist attitudes that made 30 years of Green Books necessary. It also appears to have meant not identifying sundown towns.

Still, the sadness inherent in the very existence of the Green Books came through. The end of the introduction to the 1949 edition made this clear. After thanking the United States Travel Bureau’s “Negro Affairs” office for their support, and asking readers to send their feedback and mention the book to establishments that might want to be listed, Green concludes:

There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States. It will be a great day for us to suspend this publication for then we can go wherever we please, and without embarrassment.

“But until that time comes we shall continue to publish this information for your convenience each year,” he writes.

The 1956 edition of the Negro Travelers’ Green Book. (Negro Travelers’ Green Book via New York Public Library)

The Green Books were Green’s effort to make the best of a terrible situation, and to offer some kind of freedom to a wide swath of the American population who were considered inferior to white people, not worthy of being treated as equals. In America, barely more than a half century ago, it was legal in some places to be hounded off the road because of your skin color, or to be turned away by a “No Negroes Allowed” sign in a hotel lobby.

In 2010, Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, told the New York Times that the Green Book “allowed families to protect their children, to help them ward off those horrible points at which they might be thrown out or not permitted to sit somewhere. It was both a defensive and a proactive mechanism.”

So as much as they’re a triumph of ingenuity and hard work, the Green Books represent something else: decades of great pain, and a history which ought to be regarded with shame.

That’s ultimately why Green Book feels wrongheaded to me, no matter how well-intentioned: The movie clearly exhibits Hollywood’s unfortunate tendency to elide reality when making movies about historical racism. It takes the name of an important artifact of history, one whose very existence was a result of prejudice and entrenched white supremacy, and makes it the basis for a broad comedy. It centers its story on a goofy, lovable white man who learns to be less racist after spending time with a black man who, though he’s aloof and unlikeable at first, becomes more “sympathetic” after he’s beaten up a few times.

And curiously, the two never talk about the Green Book itself — its history, its necessity, its very existence. Green Book’s end credits show pictures of the two men and briefly explain what happened to Tony and Shirley after the tour, but never show or even mention the actual Green Books. That’s a bafflingly missed opportunity, given the very name of the film.

It also leans into the always-present danger that comes with movies about racism set in the past. They give audiences — particularly white ones that are eager to consider our era “post-racial” or “color-blind,” or who think black people keep pulling out the “race card” — the ability to leave the theater saying, Whew, the 1960s were a crazy time. Glad we fixed racism!

Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in Green Book. Universal Pictures

To be sure, there are a few scenes in which the movie overcomes this setup, to say something real about how expectations based on race, class, and identity can wreak havoc on a person’s soul. And at its best, Green Book may raise interest in the actual Green Books among viewers, particularly white audiences who’ve never heard of them before.

But borrowing the name of such a fraught piece of history and making a feel-good comedy about it, then failing to do that piece of history justice, is at best a misstep. At worst, it’s yet another example of Hollywood’s obliviousness and its willingness to feed into its audience’s self-satisfaction. As a piece of conventional Hollywood cinema, Green Book has plenty to recommend it. But as a film named for Vincent Green’s books, it’s got a lot to answer for.

Green Book opens in limited theaters on November 16 and wide on November 21.

Original Source -> Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.

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