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Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Centennial of Author Paul Green Celebrated March 17, 1994, marked the centennial of writer Paul Green’s birth. Green is perhaps best known as the author of the outdoor drama The Lost Colony, presented each summer at the Waterside Theatre on the grounds of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in Manteo. Written in 1937, The Lost Colony is one of the most influential literary portraits of the sixteenth-century English expeditions to Roanoke Island. This summer will be the 54th season that Green’s first symphonic drama will be produced. He went on to write twenty other outdoor dramas before his death in 1981. Several events and publications to mark the centennial have come to the attention of the Roanoke Colonies Research Office’s staff. Lectures and seminars, as well as music and drama, were scheduled for March 19 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On March 25, the Dare County (NC) Arts Council produced a concert featuring cellist Nancy Green and pianist Frederick Moyer, two of Green’s grandchildren, at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Publications connected with the occasion include A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), edited by Lawrence G. Avery. Also, the North Carolina Literary Review published two lengthy articles and several sidebars on Green and his life in its spring 1994 edition. The two full-length articles are John Herbert Roper’s. Paul Green’s War Songs, about Green’s unpublished poetry written during his service in World War I, and Ed Devany's Paul Green: Documentarian, about Green’s approach to documenting the folklore that served as an important basis for his symphonic dramas. (For the North Carolina Literary Review pieces with specific references to The Lost Colony and Green's theories of writing, see the source checklist on pages 5-6.) *** 250 copies of this document were produced at a cost of $90, or 36¢ per copy. Top
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