Antietam Anthologies: 1862

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Academy Theater Banquet & Conference Center (0)
Potomac Playmakers
58 E Washington St, Hagerstown MD

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Antietam Anthologies: 1862© is a dramatic play featuring real stories told by citizens and slaves of Sharpsburg, Maryland following the Battle of Antietam. The play is set in January 1868 at a Sharpsburg Town meeting, and the characters address the audience as though they are also part of the proceedings. Known characters from the area of Sharpsburg, Maryland include Henry Kyd Douglas, Tillie Watson, Aaron Good, Alexander Root, Hilary Watson, Jacob McGraw, Theresa Kretzer, Moses Poffenberger, and Silversmith and Mayor Pro-Tem of Hagerstown Thomas Boullt. As the stories of the individuals unfold, the characters express ideas about the Antietam National Cemetery which had been dedicated in September 1867, the culmination of a 5 year long effort to properly bury the Union dead. However, the Confederate dead are still lying in the fields, farms, orchards, hog pens and pastures of the town

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General Admission: $10.00

Send email to antietamanthologies@verizon.net or call 240-527-4458 for more information

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For more information, contact Antietam Anthologies at 240-527-4458 or antietamanthologies@verizon.net.

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antietam battlefield clean exhibits hagerstown history humane lecture museum railroad show society