"One hundred and ninety minutes of people standing on their front lawns talking about their neighborhood might seem a bit much even for the most civic-minded. But...Jon Schwartz's oral epic exerts a fascination that is both amiable and eerie. The neighborhood in question is Houston's Riverside, a residential area that in its sixty-year history has been a microcosm of urban change in America. Originally an attractive upper-middle-class area marked by an idyllic ethnic heterogeneity, it brushed against integration in the fifties, nearly succumbed to white flight in the sixties, and has since become the elegant home of Houston's richest and most prominent blacks. Though the complexion of the residents interviewed alters, the values of family and community remain the same....By the end of the film the anxieties murmured by current black residents about whites moving in chillingly echo those of the original white dwellers about the first blacks....From the genial buzz of voices and faces one recognizes...the unfolding pattern of history itself."-Peter Keogh, Chicago Reader