Main Street Theater this week unwraps "A Civil War Christmas," the most unusual performing-arts gift Houston will receive this holiday season. The show weaves a tapestry of vignettes and songs ...
A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration It’s very earnest down by the banks of the Potomac on Christmas Eve, 1864. Extremely earnest. In this musical from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Who knew Abraham Lincoln could play the violin and accordion? In Paula Vogel’s warm, non-saccharine vision, the Lincoln character pitches in to do that and more in her sprightly, ...
A few days before Christmas 1864, a local lad made good, Lancaster’s own William Tecumseh Sherman, sent a telegram to his commander-in-chief Abraham Lincoln saying to him: “I beg to present you, as a ...
As America closes a divisive year that also, fittingly, included a host of anniversary events commemorating America's bloody Civil War, we find our Christmas time thoughts turning backward rather than ...
User-Created Clip by zlowe January 3, 2022 2019-12-21T18:28:27-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/edb/1641226586.jpgMuseum docent Brad Stone presented this festive ...
Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, at New York Theatre Workshop, unfurls on December 24, 1864—a few months before General Robert E. Lee’s surrender would conclude the War Between the States. But on ...
The Virginia Museum of the Civil War, New Market Battlefield State Historical Park is located at 8895 George Collins Parkway, New Market. The site is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, ...
Santa was dressed in red-and-white-striped pants, a blue jacket with white stars, and tall black boots. His beard was white, his glasses were wire-rimmed and his eyes had a twinkle. The Civil War ...