Act II
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Scene
7 : c. 1925: Arthur Morgan attracts investors and entrepreneurs
to Yellow Springs
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Scene 8 : 1905
to c. 1990: Notable and important women in the village talk
to each other across time. Lucy Morgan's words come from her
pamphlet Pioneering Days at Antioch College. Jean Barlow
Hudson is quoted from her book of poems Foreverness.
Pat Matthews Howard's lines came from two Yellow Springs
News articles in which she was quoted. Caroline Urie's words
are from the book Women of Greene County, and Virginia
Hamilton's story is from her website.
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Scene 9: 1948 to c. 1964: Students and local activists picket
Louis Gegner's barbershop on Xenia Avenue. Mr. Gegner refuses
to cut a black man's hair in violation of a public accommodations
law. Years of orderly protest end on one ugly day of mass arrests
in March 1964, but Gegner closes his business and never cuts
hair again. The dialogue at the beginning of the scene is from
an article in the Yellow Springs News circa 1961.
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Scene 10: c. 1965 to 1973: The escalating war in Vietnam
sparks civil unrest at home. Antioch is just one of many colleges
in America experiencing mass antiwar demonstrations. James Dixon
is president of Antioch, and he expands the college into 30
or so extension campuses and affiliates collectively known as
the Antioch Network. Poor and inner city students are recruited
under the full aid admissions program called New Directions,
until federal financial aid is drastically cut. A student strike
to force Antioch to fund the rest of their education shuts down
the college for six weeks in the summer of 1973.
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Scene 11: A glimpse into the lives of teenagers in Yellow
Springs, written in part and totally inspired by Dee Krieg,
music by Glenn Reed.
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Scene 12: A tribute to the Yellow Springs News.
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Scene
13: Interviews with Horace Mann
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Video Interview with Walt Tulecke (Antioch Emeritus Faculty),
Faith Patterson (AACW), Mary Morgan (Historical Society), Joe
Kennedy ( '76 Alum) and Horace Mann portrayed by Kieffer Erdman
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Scene14: Slide show with text collected from posters put
up around town. The question on the poster was: What comes to
mind when you think of Yellow Springs?
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