Nora Williams is now 100, and she is one of the last people alive to remember Maddoxtown at its height.

That’s back when one of the many rural Black hamlets scattered around the Bluegrass was bustling with people and activities — schools, churches, homes, people.

“I go back every Sunday,” Williams said of Maddoxtown Baptist Church on Huffman Mill Pike, where she grew up. “I don’t miss many Sundays. But it’s so different now ... fewer houses because everyone I knew moved.”

That earlier life of a bygone time is now the subject of a short film, “Ms. Nora Williams from Maddoxtown,” by documentary filmmaker Eli Scarr that will premier 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 11 at the Marksbury Family Branch of the Lexington Public Library. The film will be followed by a filmmaker talk with Scarr.

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