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Fall Heritage Storytelling Event, Mississippi Heritage Day

Fall Heritage Storytelling Event, Mississippi Heritage Day | Media List


Statement

Performed at the first annual Mississippi Heritage Day
Sept. 17, 2005

Played the role of Florence Noard in Mississippi Courts Monologue, a local history piece that I drafted about a woman who grew up in this post-war public housing complex (Camden Civic Theatre, 2005).


Also, wrote or adapted the following other parts featured in this program:

19th century explorer Zebulon Pike, describes how he came to negotiate the land upon which Fort Snelling now sits.

River pig Jack Orde, acquaints us with some of his exploits driving lumber down the Mississippi.

Sawmill Swede, tells of the pride and perils of working in the lumber mills at the turn of the last century.

Workhouse superintendent Frank R. McDonald delivers a speech on the state and work of prisoners in the early 20th century.

African American schoolteacher Bertha Johnson talks about how she worked against the odds to become an educator in a racially divided state.