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rse-08X-m98t;o-laulreh,orr-d,Lhlan»n,Tuesday evening April 6, Marietta^ week-long festival of history wilt open with a performance of the spectacular pageant '‘Wagons West!” in which 1,000 persons will participate. The generat plan of this running presentation of local, state and national history m indicated in a brief resume issued by the Marietta Celebration Commission.To he presented on a specially constructed 050-foot stage in Marietta Stadium, the show will consist of 21 important historical scenes, employing more than 1,000 persons in acting part, supplemented by realistic props and equipment, In. eluding horses, oxen, covered wagons and other authentic incidentals of the various periods represented. The show is unusual and Impressive, particularly due to the number and variety of scenes and the efficiency of the presentation; neither time nor action is lost at any point in the program.Matty Interesting Scenes**WoO'M'rt* Wrielt; I’’ ni'neAnlt;0Mass., in December, 1787; Seen* 8. the landing at the mouth of the* Muskingum, April 7. 1788; Scene s, the inauguration of Arthur St. Clair as Governor of the Territory July 15, 1788; Scene 9, the arrival of the first white woman, who became a heroine of the early sot-tlement; Scene 13, the first Wedding, Feb. 9, 1789; Scene 15, an Indian attack on Campus Martina; Scenes 18-19, Blennerhasset Island and the Aaron Burr conspiracy of. 1805; Scene 20, Lafayette’s visit to Marietta in 1825.Members of the Pioneer Flotilla, due to arrive at Marietta on Api.i 7. will present their pageant “Free-dom on the March’* In Marietta Stadium on the evening of April 8 and in the afternoon of April 9.A cat sent by Dr. W. Dean, of Uppingham, England, to a friend at Framingham, 100 miles away, disappeared from its new homo and was discovered 8 days later lt;* sitting outside Dr» Dean’s home.
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Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Tue, Apr 05, 1938
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