Marialuisa Ernst's heartbreaking and inspiring documentary "A Place of Absence" follows her and the Caravan of Mothers, women who have relatives who were disappeared by dictatorial regimes in Central America, on a 2500 mile quest to find them (or their remains). It is showing at DOC NYC as part of its "Resilience" showcase. Go here for showtimes and ticket information. Marialuisa's uncle Guillermo was disappeared...

ABOVE: Willie Land (far left) and George Adams (right) at the J.H. Rowe School memorial, Jasper,TX, September 16, 2024. Photograph by Alan Govenar. If you look up the town Jasper, Texas in Wikipedia you'll discover that this small east Texas town is the "butterfly capital" of that state. And a few more paragraphs down, you'll see that it is the place where, in June 1998,...