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Society can learn from its mistakes. The more we know, the more likely we will get it right the next time.

Learning about what society did wrong in the past is part of making for a better future.

There are a couple such lessons in the Sentinel this month, one of which will be aired publicly in town next week.

“Blue Ticket,” a video of a 2019 Juneau play, will show at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, at the Nolan Center. It tells the story of Juneau police secretly removing gay men from the community, kicking them out with a one-way ferry ticket.

The purge came at a time of nationwide persecution of...