Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: Chapter 2

This chapter discussed the Kristen Greens reluctancy to hold her wedding in her home town of Farmville, Virginia. She was getting married to a man of American Indian decent and to most looked south asian. She knew a little bit about the history of the people from her hometown and knew they wouldn't be so welcoming to her husband. They met each other in San Diego at a party and immediately felt a connection when their eyes met. They originally planned on having their wedding on the west coast in California, the state that they met in. However, Green realized that having her wedding so far from home mean't a lot of her family would have to go through a lot of trouble to get there and her grandma wouldn't even be able to make the trip. So even though she was reluctant at first she decided to have her wedding in Virginia. I think it was pretty cool of Jason, her husband to go along with this because this mean't his family from the west coast would be making the trip now instead. Green wasn't just worried about her husband being looked at differently, but as well as their multiracial friends. Honestly, I didn't think it was a good idea to bring all these people of different cultures to Farmville, Virginia because it is a place stuck in time and it can't seem to move on from its segregated past.