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Query #97944 MW answer: Script for The Tucker Station Affair - at ACPL

Play was staged twice, in June & September 1975 at Lindsey Wilson College, under the direction of Edith Walker, N.M. Berley, and Jane Kimbler. Performances followed by BBQ (Anyone remember the BBQ contractor or Pit Master? - CM) sponsored by the Adair Heritage Association to benefit the renovation of the Trabue-Russell House.
Comments re article 97944 QUERY Is a script for Affair at Tuckers Station extant

By Mike Watson

Does a script of "The Tucker Station Affair" exist? There was once a copy at the Adair Public Library in the local history and genealogy collection. I have not looked for it lately, but it was there some years ago when the first Bibliography of Adair County was compiled.


The entry:
Walker, Edith. (circa 1975). "The Tucker Station Affair."

Stage play adapted by Edith Walker from the writings of Judge Rollin T. Hurt on the Tucker Station attack by Indians in 1793. Play was performed at Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, June and September 1975.

The local historical play, "The Tucker Station Affair" written by Edith Cundiff Walker, was first performed at the Lindsey Wilson College amphitheater on Sunday, 15 June 1975, during the Mark Twain Bi-Centennial Celebration in Columbia. The play, a drama, was based on true events of the area, an attack by a Native American group upon Tucker's Station, located on Bull Run, near where it empties into Russell Creek. The site is now best known as Tucker Station Farm.

Rev. John Tucker, a Methodist minister, his wife, Rhoda Powell Tucker, and their family resided in a station just outside present day Columbia. Mrs. Walker's play was based upon the historic writing of Judge Rollin T. Hurt and additional research of Nancy Montgomery Berley. The play was again staged on Sunday, 19 September, at Lindsey Wilson. The cast, almost all local folk, numbered about forty, and also included a frontier reenactment group from Jefferson County. Direction was by Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Berley and Mrs. Jane Kimbler. Both performances were followed by a barbecue sponsored by the Adair Heritage Association with donations to benefit the renovation of the Trabue-Russell House.
- Mike Watson


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