If you are like me and wonder how accurate a historical film or bio pick is (sometimes to the detrement of fully enjoying the movie) historian Dr. Will Swift will be discussing that very subject in regard to "Hyde Park on the Hudson," a film that premiered this fall at the Toronto Film Festival and went into general release last month.
The film, starring Bill Murray as President Franklin Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his cousin, and lover, Daisey Suckley, recounts a weekend in 1938 in which King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were guests of the president at Hyde Park, the Roosevelt's family home in Dutchess County.
Swift, the author of "The Roosevelts and the Royals," will parse out truth from fiction and give the real story of that well-known weekend.
The event will be held this Saturday January 19th at 3 p.m. at the Chatham Public Library
The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Chatham Public Library. A reception will follow Will Swift's talk. For more information go to http://chatham.lib.ny.us/.
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