A-10 Tuesday, September 20, 2022 South Gibson Star-Times
From left, Kristofer Schmitt as abolitionist Seth Conklin, Shane Bonaparte as local
farmer and landowner Charles Grier (whose descendents now spell the name Greer)
and Vincennes University Professor Aaron Tyson Simms as Frederick Douglass
dramatized the real Conklin's actual attempt to free enslaved people as they moved
through Gibson County and stopped at Grier's farm and the Stormont family's home.
Lyles Station School and Museum hosted "Fugitives and Heroes," an Underground
Railroad after-dark experience at the museum Friday night. In a collaboration with
Broadway Players, the museum took attendees by candlelight around the muse-
um grounds to meet local heroes of the Underground Railroad brought to life in a
dramatization of one of the most dangerous and well-publicized escape attempts that
came through Gibson County.Actors accept their applause at curtain call after a dress
rehearsal of "Fugitives and Heroes" Thursday.
Underground Railroad
presentation at Lyles Station
Caleb Murphy dramatizes 1850s
abolitionist and father Peter Still as he
receives a letter from the Stormonts in
Gibson County with news of his family.
Alechia Memmer prepares her lantern
to lead audiences around the grounds
of Lyles Station during the 8 p.m. "after
dark" performance.
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