William Tucker, author of “Freedom Summer,” says Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 93-year-old inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, has donated $8,000 of the $35,000 needed to take the playย about civil voting rights and murder in Mississippi during the 1960s on a nationwide tour. Tucker and the Shades Reportory Theatre in Haverstraw hope with the help ofย Kickstarter […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a deadline of April 19, the Haverstraw-based theatre group Shades Rep is going to the Internet with Kickstart and doing advertising in the Rockand County Times, educational journals and theater publications to raise the funds to present a national tour of “Freedom Summer,” written by Stony Point resident William Tucker. […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE Musical and film legend Sam Waymon of Nyack wrote the gospel-humming song “Mrs. Jackson” in memory of an 85-year-old black woman who members of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee helped to register to vote in Mississippi in 1964. Another song, “Freedom Is My Name,” recalls the days of violence and the […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE “Freedom Summer,” a play appearing February 7, 8 and 9 at Shades Repertory Theatre, Central Presbyterian Church, Main St., was written by William Tucker 10 years ago and was originally meant to be a film. The play depicts the killing of three students who were part of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating […]
Story of the 1964 segregation battle in Mississippi BY GEORGE J. DACRE The story of the college students who went to the deep South and risked and sometimes lost their lives trying to end segregation will be performed next month at Shades Repertory Theatre in Haverstraw. The play is written by William Tucker and will […]