Staged Action: Six Plays From the American Workers\u27 Theatre

[Excerpt] This collection is an attempt to restore and revitalize interest in a largely forgotten American theatrical genre, the workers\u27 theatre movement. Workers\u27 theatre is a term that is used broadly to define theatre from the working class or theatre about working-class people. Here it refers to a unique and specific movement in the American theatre of the 1920s and 1930s to employ the stage to address issues concerning the worker and the workers\u27 movement. A simple definition was given by Hollace Ransdell of the Affiliated Schools for Workers in 1936: a workers\u27 theatre play deals truthfully with the lives and problems of the masses of the people, directly or suggestively, in a way that workers can understand and appreciate . These plays need not be written by workers themselves, and, in fact, many were written by figures sympathetic to the labor movement. The plays themselves are a series of fascinating, moving, occasionally frustrating dramas that often passionately explore the possibilities of the workers\u27 movement. Even during the Great Depression, these plays never displayed the pessimistic images of the future as reflected in the contemporary fiction of Steinbeck and Dos Passos. Instead, the plays of the American workers\u27 theatre clung tightly to stirring, Utopian visions, as was hoped for in the early writings that formed a basis for the movement

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

A national bestseller when first published in 1901, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch endures today as one of the most memorable literary creations by a Kentucky author. This immensely popular novel spawned several movies (with such stars as W.C. Fields and Shirley Temple), countless stage productions, radio shows, and even dolls. Alice Hegan Rice spins the memorable tale of a family struggling against all odds in the Cabbage Patch, an old Louisville slum “where ramshackle cottages played hop-scotch over the railroad tracks.” This hopeful story follows the Wiggs as they face eviction from their dilapidated house and take in two orphanage fugitives. Out of print for many years, this charming, funny chronicle of hope triumphing over despair is finally available to a new generation of readers. Alice Hegan Rice (1870–1942) was the author of twenty books, including the autobiography The Inky Way. She lived in Louisville, Kentucky. The stories of the Wiggs family are both heart-wrenching and hilarious, filled with Southern dialect and philosophy. —Kentucky Living To miss reading this story is to miss the brightest shade on the palette of Kentucky local color. —Southsider Endures today as one of the most memorable literary creations by a Kentucky author. —Union Co. (KY) Advocatehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_creative_writing/1004/thumbnail.jp

Aunt Jane Of Kentucky

You see, some folks has albums to put folks\u27 pictures in to remember them by, and some folks has a book and writes down the things that happen every day so they won’t forget them; but, honey, these quilts is my albums and my diaries. Aunt Jane is a fictional character well known for her gentle folk wisdom and her vivid descriptions of a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century. Her words recall lavish Sunday dinners, courtships, quilting bees, church meetings, and county fair competitions. Yet Aunt Jane of Kentucky is more than a collection of reminiscences about the region of Western Kentucky where Eliza Caroline Obenchain (who published under the name Eliza Calvert Hall) was born and raised. She writes about strong women and the ways in which they make their voices heard. Obenchain was a dedicated suffragist who worked to win rights for women in the areas of property ownership and divorce, and her interest in the social condition of women is evident throughout her fictional work. In one of the most popular stories in the collection, Sally Ann\u27s Experience, Sally Ann refuses to agree that women should be silent in church; she tells her male audience, Now it\u27s my time to talk and yours to listen. Aunt Jane of Kentucky, first published in 1907, is a delightful example of regional fiction that will also serve as a valuable document for those interested in the history of women\u27s issues. Eliza Caroline Obenchain (pen name Eliza Calvert Hall) was born in 1856 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The author of several books, she published poems, essays, and stories about her native Western Kentucky in such magazines as Scribner\u27s, Cosmopolitan, and the women\u27s page of the New York Times until her death in 1935. Heartwarming. . . . Quilters will find a kindred spirit here. —Library Journalhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1044/thumbnail.jp

Needles from the whispering pine: verse ; a close to nature series

Dedication: To the simple-living, home-loving people I meet and enjoy to be with; to the animals I know and pet and pat, and am rubbed and nosed by; to the birds that sing for me and with me; to the trees and flowers that give me of their balm and fragrance and inspire me; and to good old Maine, with her lakes and streams, hills and valleys, fresh air, blue skies, and sunshine, I affectionately dedicate what is between these covers. Nathan Appleton Teffthttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1050/thumbnail.jp

SALT, Vol. 1, No. 1

“Why the name SALT? Because salt is a natural symbol for the magazine — the salt of the sea, salt-washed soil, salt marshes and salty people, the kind that won’t use two words if they can get by with one.” Contents 1 Dedication 2 Sampling SALT 4 The Stilly Story Stilly Griffin tells about lobstering in Kennebunkport. 8 ‘No One Ever Beat Me’ Clamming with Helen Perley to get nine barrels a day. 11 Arden’s Garden Arden Davis harvests sea moss — his garden is the seacoast. 16 Planting’s only half of it Reid Chapman, an 80-year-old farmer shares his experiences. 26 Bait Girl Ann Pierter tells about being a bait girl on a lobster boat. 30 How to Knit a Lobster Trap Head Albert Hutchins shows us how. 36 Storm at Sea Ben Wakefield tells about the storm he survived in 1933. 40 Our thanks to... SALT acknowledgmentshttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/salt_magazine/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Colonnade, Volume XVlll Number 3, May 1955

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SALT, Vol. 4, No. 4

Contents 2 Indian Island On a small island in Maine’s Penobscot River live 400 Indians of the Penobscot nation. Some of them want to join the white man\u27s world and some look to the traditions of the past. 4 ‘We Don’t Make Baskets Any More’ Madas Sapiel is an elder of the Penobscots whose life has spanned five generations of changes on Indian Island. She is a strong minded woman who admonishes her people to shape up and seek “unity.” 17 Bobcat and the Governor Two of Madas’ sons illustrate divergent paths the Penobscots are taking. Bobcat looks to the traditions of the past, while his half brother, the governor, seeks economic progress for his people. 18 Medicine Man of the Penobscots Senabeh, medicine man of his people, has a rare story to tell, of an odyssey that led him to live alone on an isolated island for 26 years “to become a better man.” 28 Sails in a Bottle Win Morrill of South Hamilton, Massachusetts, performs magic that has bewitched children and sailors for years: putting tiny ship models into bottles. 43 ‘Goddamn! That’s bad luck!’ Fishermen of Kennebunkport, Maine, tell us superstitions of the sea that they know and-maybe-believe. 56 Fire! During the great fire of 1947 in Maine, the state was consumed by sixty fires that raged for a week. Eight people relate how the fire affected their lives. 73 Metal Spinning Fred Cooper of Kittery, Maine, demonstrates the dying art of spinning pewter. 80 Letters to Salt Our readers share their thoughts.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/salt_magazine/1014/thumbnail.jp