Category: Charlie Edwards, Shakespearean
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This article, entitled “Fairies in the Short Grass,” sounded a fanfare for Charlie, Gilmor, and Kinsley’s success across the region. The newspapers had chronicled the romantic and idealistic reveries of two men who captured the imagination of countless Kansans.
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This project sits at the intersection of community theatre, rural cultural history, and queer history. Presented as an open-access, public-facing history, it seeks to recover the forgotten stories, overlooked people, and local artistic movements that helped shape American cultural life.
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So what was it, a stage or a forest? Some even believed that maybe, just maybe, the toddler actors were not children at all but, rather, fairies.
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100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…
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