The play boasts 90 characters (with actors playing multiple roles). "People from every state and country fought in the Civil War," says Vogel, who is half Jewish, half Catholic, of German, Russian, French and Spanish descent. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

The production includes holiday classics "O Christmas Tree" and "Silent Night," as well as spirituals and folk songs of the era. A Civil War Christmas received its world premiere at the Long Wharf Theatre in 2008. Full Article at Playbill

Delance Minefee (George’s Ghost) and Jacqui Parker (Elizabeth Keckely) in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration (Photo courtesy of Huntington Theater)... Full Article at Bay State Banner

tool goes here LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. Full Article at Centre Daily Times

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. Full Article at Chicago Sun-Times

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. Full Article at Denver Post

The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. Full Article at Chicago Tribune

"We are thrilled with the acquisition of those earrings," he said. Full Article at The Bellingham Herald

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune

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tool goes here LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat

The earrings, each bearing hand-painted figures of a man and a woman, were purchased by the Historical Society in late 2008 for more than $19,000 through Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Full Article at Kentucky.com

yet there is solace to be found in the coming holiday. Wilkes Booth to the poet Walt Whitman, with the anonymous, such as a slave who saves enough money to send her boy to college, only to have him perish on the battlefield. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News

In an interview in October 1998, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her remarkable memory play “How I Learned to Drive,’’ the playwright Paula Vogel said, somewhat surprisingly: “I want to start to write for musical theater.’’ When the... Full Article at Boston Globe

What more can possibly be said about Abraham Lincoln? What is there left to ponder, 200 years after his birth in his Hodgenville, Ky. , log cabin? Full Article at Louisville Courier-Journal

Steppenwolf associate artist Jessica Thebus directs the production that officially opens Nov. 18 and will run through Dec. 13 at the Boston University Theatre. Full Article at Playbill

2009-11-11 02:21:15 - Rosemary McKittrick is a storyteller. Full Article at PR-Inside.com

This isn't scientific, but I submit that Vermont is the most New Englandy of all the states. Sure, Massachusetts has its historical sites, and Maine has its coastline. Full Article at Hartford Courant

November 6, 2009 5:01 PM EST -- "Arlington National Cemetery" honors our country's veterans and the more than three million Americans buried in our national cemeteries. Full Article at Street Insider