The Largely Literary Theater Company to appear at Civil War Round Table
The next Wayne County Civil War Round Table on July 16 at 6:30 p.m. will feature the Largely Literary Theater Company — Sara Showman, left, and Mark Dawidziak — presenting Ghosts of the Civil War: Shades of Blue and Gray. The free program will be held at the Wayne County Historical Society in Wooster.
The Wayne County Civil War Round Table will continue July 16 at 6:30 p.m. with the Largely Literary Theater Company presenting Ghosts of the Civil War: Shades of Blue and Gray. The free program will be held at the Wayne County Historical Society schoolhouse, 546 E. Bowman St., Wooster.
The Largely Literary Theater Company, featuring co-founders Sara Showman from the South and Mark Dawidziak from the North, examines the War Between the States with a mixture of tales, literary selections, songs and history. This ghost tour will begin in Ohio, with stories drawn from Marietta, a stop on the Underground Railroad, the still-standing Hope iron furnace, and the two Confederate cemeteries that were part of prisoner-of-war camps in Columbus and on Johnson’s Island.
The journey will continue with stories from South Carolina and Virginia, with a special section about Abraham Lincoln and the White House hauntings. Literary selections include poems by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Selections from Civil War-era songs are heard throughout the one-act performance.
Dawidziak and Showman founded the touring theater company in 2002 to promote literacy, literature and live theater. They have presented various shows in more than 70 Ohio communities, and their travels also have taken them to such states as New York, Connecticut, Virginia and Michigan. Find more information at www.largelyliterary.com.
Parking for the event is onsite — enter from the Spink Street entrance — and along the fence in the Drug Mart parking lot. For more information about the Wayne County Historical Society, visit waynehistoricalohio.org or call Penny Gasbarre at 330-845-3069 or email her at pennygasbarre@gmail.com.