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My Linden, My Lyttonsville: An Untold Story

Filmmaker Curtis Crutchfield introduces My Linden, My Lyttonsville: An Untold Story (2024)

My Linden, My Lyttonsville: An Untold Story (2024) is an hour long documentary by former Lyttonsville (aka Linden) resident Curtis Crutchfield. It will air next on WHUT* at the following times:

  • Monday, February 17 at 9:30 pm
  • Tuesday, February 18 at 03:00 am
  • Tuesday, February 18 at 12:00 pm
  • Tuesday, February 25 at 4:00 pm

It is also available for streaming here.

The film features interviews with over two dozen current and former community residents and others, and draws parallels between the experience of living in Lyttonsville/Linden and in other small Black communities in Montgomery County (Maryland), such as Scotland and Emory Grove.

The film also includes footage of recent bridge-related events, e.g. 2023 Lantern Walk and 2024 new bridge opening.

* WHUT-TV, Howard University Television was founded in 1980 in Washington, D.C. as WHMM. At its inception, the station became the first public station in the United States to be licensed to and operated by a historically black college and university (HBCU) – Howard University.

The mission of WHUT television, the nation’s only Public Broadcasting Television station licensed to and operated by a historically Black University, is to deliver educational, entertaining and intellectually stimulating multi‐cultural and intergenerational programming to the public in the Metro DC region.