Author: William Chauncy Langdon

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781332178148

Excerpt from The Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant, of Marietta, Ohio The Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant of Marietta, Ohio, seeks to commemorate and to bring into their relation of very direct influence the coming of the Pilgrims to New England three hundred years ago and the coming of the pioneers to the North-West Territory in 1788. The parts are taken by members of the faculty and student body of Marietta College and by citizens of the town of Marietta and their families, all uniting to produce a drama of the history and background of their common community. The pageant grounds are located in Muskingum Park, Marietta, where some of the events represented in the episodes of the pageant took place, and in front of the First Congregational Church, the oldest of the churches, the fine architecture of which gives an excellent symbolic background for the historical and ideal scenes presented. The Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant of Marietta, Ohio, has been written and composed on the principle that both dramatically and musically the pageant is a distinct and individual art-form, having its own laws and its own technique. All the elements of this pageant have been worked together in accordance with these laws and technical considerations, to produce, if may be, in the sequence of actual, typical or symbolic scenes a clear, beautiful and impressive drama of the events recorded and of their significance to this community. In presenting the historical material a certain freedom has necessarily been exercised for the sake of dramatic clarity and effectiveness. In many instances the language of the dialogue is in the actual words of the characters represented. It has, however, seemed inadvisable to indicate these passages by quotation marks, on account of the frequent necessity for making slight changes, omissions, or additions in the wording to suit the situation as represented. Also some of omissions and changes have been made in the producing which it has not been thought necessary to specify here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.