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Horn in the West, written by playwright Kermit Hunter, is an outdoor drama produced every summer since 1952 in the Daniel Boone Amphitheater in Boone, North Carolina.The show, the oldest revolutionary war drama in the United States, was about the life and times of the hardy mountain settlers of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
Kermit Houston Hunter (3 October 1910 – 11 April 2001) was an American playwright known primarily for writing historical outdoor dramas.His many works include two dramas for Cherokee tribes, one for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina and one written for the larger Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
By then, America's first outdoor symphonic drama was a critical and popular success, proof that "people's theatre" could work. By the 1950s, North Carolina led the nation in outdoor dramas, with other notable productions including Unto These Hills at Cherokee and Horn in the West at Boone among others. [4]
The Living Word Outdoor Drama season will run from June 14 to Sept. 27 on Fridays only and will be closed July 5 and Aug. 30 for holidays. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and have a two-and-a-half-hour ...
In 1923, Fog Horn also managed the “Passing of the West” rodeo which played in several locations on the East Coast and featured legendary rodeo and wild west show performers. His oldest son ...
Unto These Hills is an outdoor historical drama during summers at the 2,800-seat Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, North Carolina. It is the third oldest outdoor historical drama in the United States, after The Lost Colony in Manteo in eastern North Carolina and The Ramona Pageant in Southern California.
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The Saga of Sycamore Shoals, formerly known as The Wataugans, is an outdoor historical drama that takes place in Elizabethton, Tennessee, at the Sycamore Shoals Historic Area. Designated the official outdoor drama of the state of Tennessee, it is presented by the Friends of Sycamore Shoals every June each night of the first four weekends (Fri ...