
- 290 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Robert Gard's timeless book is a moving account of one man's struggle to bring his dream of community-building through creative theater to citizens around the country. He traveled across Americaāfrom New York's Finger Lakes to the prairies of Alberta, Canada, to the backwoods of northern Wisconsinādiscovering and nurturing the folklore, legends, history, and drama of the region. He talked to ballad singers, painters, the tellers of tall tales, and farm women, whose poetry and painting reflected the elemental violence of nature and quiet joys of neighborliness. Grassroots Theater reminds us that an individual's creative vision transcends technology, current events, and changing demographics.
This reprint of Grassroots Theater was generously funded by the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation, an affiliate of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Chapter One: A Feeling for Places
- Chapter Two: Frontier in Canada
- Chapter Three: The Boundaries of a State
- Chapter Four: The Wisconsin Idea Theater
- Chapter Five: A Portrait of Place
- Chapter Six: Centennial Interlude
- Chapter Seven: Grassroots Theater
- Chapter Eight: Culture and Community
- Chapter Nine: Rural Writers
- Chapter Ten: Catalysis and Leadership
- Index