Record #:

20534

Author(s):

Hunter, Kermit

Abstract:

This is a reprint of a paper presented at the fifty-second annual session of the State Literary and Historical Association in Raleigh, December, 1952. This essay promotes the genre of the Outdoor Historical Drama as North Carolina's latest achievement in, and contribution to, the restoration of Southern cultural pursuits during the mid 20th century. The author, Kermit Hunter, is a noted playwright in the genre and is the author of the 1950 dramatization of Cherokee contact with European settlers entitled \"Unto These Hills.\"

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 30 Issue 2, April 1953, p218-222, il

Subject(s):

Theater, Open-air--Cherokee