A series of five short documentaries created for "Echoes in Time" - a 2009 Museum L-A event drawing 1,600 people to celebrate Lewiston-Auburn’s music scene from 1940s to the 1970s. The evening’s program paid tribute to the rich musical talent and heritage of the Twin Cities, reuniting close to 100 musicians and rekindling memories of the legendary “PAL Hop” dances. “Museum L-A” examines its grassroots founding to honor Lewiston’s industrial past and expansion in scope and mission to connect generations and community. Music’s prominence in local culture and its power to connect came through strongly as the Museum began to gather workers’ personal histories. The film “Early Local Music” looks at the time prior to the 1960s, when the French-Canadian immigration was at its heaviest, with adults being “millworkers by day and musicians by night.” Films “City Hall/Nick Intro” and “Garage Bands” look at the next generation of musicians, who took the love of music and talent of their parents and grandparents in a new direction in the late 1950s and the PAL Hop era of the 1960s. The final documentary profiles the Rockin’ Recons, an original PAL Hop band that has kept L-A rocking for 40-plus years.
Length of Film: 36 minutes, 26 seconds.