The next Liars Bench is on March 15th and this marks the first in a series entitled "Balsam Chronicles." The Jackson County Arts Council gave us a grant to do a series of programs on the history, folklore, music, poetry, etc of Jackson, Macon and Swain. This was will focus on Cashiers Valley, Whiteside Mountain, square dances, Kidder Cole and Charlie Wright who got a Carnegie medal for rescuing Gus Baty when he fell/jumped off Whiteside.
The April Liars Bench will deal with the hanging of Jack Lambert in Bryson City (then called Charleston) with descendants of both Jack Lambert and the murder victim, Dick Wilson in the audience. Jack was innocent and we hope to celebrate this story with appropriate music, poetry and storytelling.
My play, "Outlander" will audition next month with a premiere planned for June at the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville. (I would have preferred the Peacock Theater, but it didn't work out.) The play will have original music by Frank Lee of Bryson City and there is a possibility that the play will tour this fall.
I will be conducting a workshop at the Carolina Literary Festival on April 13-14 at Wadesboro. The topic is, how stories become "theater."
--Gary Carden
My play, "Mother Jones" will premiere at the Unitarian Church in Franklin on April 7th with Lara Chew in the role of Mother Jones.
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