Tag: Books
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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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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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How a brief reference in a doctoral dissertation tucked away in the labyrinthine stacks at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, led me to Charlie Edwards’ story, six years ago, would have been easy to forget if it had…
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When I arrived at the Huntington Library on the third of April 2019, I was searching for details to include in my dissertation, Grassroots Shakespeare, on amateur Shakespeare performance in the United States.
Community Arts Uncovered 