This is something you all may find of interest.
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stu Smith" <adsmith(a)itol.com>
To: <tsvickery(a)adelphia.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:05 PM
Subject: Orphan Stories
By way of introduction, I am Stuart Smith, director of The Heritage
Players,
a non-profit, community-based theatre troupe located in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. We're now in our 11th year of researching, creating and
performing programs based on local history . Last year, we presented
"Waterways; The Lakes and Rivers of old Wisconsin in song and story" as we
had been invited to perform at the Tall Ships Celebration here in Green
Bay.
The previous year, it was "Bugles and Bonnets: Wisconsin and the Civil War
in song and story", a production that was awarded "Best New Historical
Program" by the State Historical Society. We research all available
sources,
libraries, museums and local historical societies for our stories. These
often come from diaries and personal recollections, old newspapers and
books, wherever stories have been recorded and just wait to be retold.
This year, we are concentrating our focus on Railroading in 19th Century
Wisconsin. We don't charge for our performances and we generally perform
at local historical sites, libraries, colleges, schools, museums as well,
this coming year, at The National Railroad Museum.
Would you mind sharing some of your favorite orphan stories with us so
that
we could dramatize them for area audiences. Thanking you in advance for
any
consideration you might give us.
Cordially
Stu Smith