[cinci_dads] Re: Dads Night Out - July 20 or 21- Blue Jacket Outdoor Drama
- From: "Cincinnati Dads" <cincinnatidads@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cinci_dads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:40:33 -0400
Mike,
Thanks for the book report! I actually just finished The Frontiersmen by Alan
Eckert and loved it! I am now reading "A Sorrow in my Heart". I agree with
you, very good reads...though long if you read all the footnotes! Another good
book by Eckert is The Dark and Bloody River...about the settling along the Ohio
river. I find most interesting in all his books are all the local references
to places in our area.
Are you going to Blue Jacket?
Tim
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Busam
To: cinci_dads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:58 PM
Subject: [cinci_dads] Re: Dads Night Out - July 20 or 21- Blue Jacket Outdoor
Drama
If you'll pardon a long book report.... I've heard "Blue Jacket" is a pretty
good show. The play was written by Allan W. Eckert and based on what are
thought to be actual events about a white kid from West Virginia with the
improbable name of Marmaduke Van Swearingen, who was captured in 1771 by the
Shawnee, adopted and eventually became a war chief. There's a bit of
controversy at present about whether Blue Jacket really was of European decent,
and Eckert has been on the defensive for his role in popularizing the story,
but either way, the story is interesting--and indeed, *someone* named Blue
Jacket really existed.
The story of Blue Jacket is also detailed (along with other historical
figures and episodes) in a number of books Eckert wrote, including "That Dark
And Bloody River," which is about the settling of the Ohio River and Ohio, with
an emphasis on southern Ohio (much of it takes place in our area), "The
Frontiersmen," which has plenty of stories about Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton,
and "A Sorrow in My Heart," about Tecumseh, who was born in the Xenia / Yellow
Springs area.
Eckert calls these books "historical narratives," and while they read like
novels, the books are copiously end-noted, etc., and except for a cases where
the original sources he relied on proved to be bogus--for instance, he tells
how Tecumseh fell in love with a white woman in "The Frontiersman," but when he
wrote an entire book about Tecumseh years later he discovered his 18th century
source (the woman's diary) for the love affair was pure fiction, a lie made up
to get attention--the books are considered to be accurate accounts of the
history of that period. In any case, there's plenty of hatchetings and
scalpings and gun battles and amazing escapes and rescues, tales of bravery,
cowardice, cruelty, etc., and the reading is never dull, though it is,
admittedly, often rather depressing.
Take care,
---Mike Busam
----- Original Message -----
From: Niewierowski
To: Cincinnati Dads
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: [cinci_dads] Dads Night Out - July 20 or 21- Blue Jacket Outdoor
Drama
Howdy All!
I'm planning a Dads Night Out for Saturday or Sunday July 20-20 for the
Outdoor Drama Blue Jacket in Xenia, Ohio approximately 1.5 hours away.
the Drama starts at 8 p.m. and ends around 10:30 p.m., this doesn't
include trave time. Ticket prices for Saturday are $15 for the show and
$8.95
for the frontier dinner prior to the show. Sunday Ticket prices are $9.00
for the
show and $8.95 for the frontier dinner. The Drama contains violence and
loud noises
and considered inappropriate for little children.
If interested I need a firm commitment, MONEY for the tickets in advanced
no later than June 22nd.
Again, NO MONEY, NO TICKETS.
For further info, check-out their web site ; www.bluejacketdrama.com
Please e-mail or call me if you have further questions.
rick n-ski
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