The Great Kentucky Tragedy & My Old Kentucky Plays II

Six Kentucky historical dramas too This murder for love story charmed the world with its great lure for romanticism. In 1825 Solomon P. Sharp a promising politician in Frankfort Kentucky was murdered at his doorstop by the apprentice that idolized him. Jereboam O. Beauchamp claimed he was defending the honor of his wife Anna Cooke who accused Sharp of fathering her child and abandoning her; both were executed and buried in the same grave. Songs poems novels and plays responded around the globe. Even Edgar Allan Poe tried his hand at it in his drama Politian but to safeguard himself changed the names setting date and title. Its fiction failed to interest Poe and his public. Now The Kentucky Tragedy as it was known can appear as Poe had dreamed it. BOTHERUM An old farmhouse mid-Nineteenth Century Lexington Kentucky. Widower Madison Conyers Johs purchases a farm with an unexpected enslaved family. Conyers brother-in-law of abolitionist Cassius M. Clay and the enslaved foreman overcome the situations that separate them and develop a lasting friendship that surpasses social position and race. Two Kentucky Gentlemen of the Old School. BEATING THE DARK HOME Dressing room of the Pekin Theater in Chicago 1906. Vaudeville performers Amos and Andy Tribble confront one another with their love and hatred of the stage. While Amos returns to the farm Andy is left to reinvent his stage presence or lose it. DAY OF RELEASEMENT Shaker Village Harrodsburg Kentucky 1812 and 1999. Enslaved servant Patsy Williamson is not only gifted with freedom and equality at Shaker Village but also with spiritual songs - music that connects her to the love of Andy separated from her by almost two hundred years. These star - crossed lovers discover a hidden portal to bring them together: their music. Pioneer Christmas in Kentucky The Old Log Meeting House on the road to the first county seat of Madison County Kentucky Christmas 1788. The residents of Milford unite with a plot to stop a group of marauding and murdering bandits. Moon Above Benson Valley Two taverns during Prohibition one below the town belonging to John Fallis the murderous and radical King of Craw and the other atop Bald Knob belonging to the low key compliant ever - bachelor William Vest collide in the unsolved murder of an Italian immigrant.