Croatoan (the historical reference)
Jun. 18th, 2010 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feliciakwMorning at the beach, afternoon relaxing, watching DVDs, reading, napping.
This evening we went to Roanoke Island, had lunch at a wonderful 50's atmospheric restaurant called Big Al's Soda Fountain & Grill. The original owners of the restaurant were also Coca Cola collectors, so there was memorabilia all over the place. Then we went to the Waterside Theatre in Manteo to see the first/oldest/longest running outdoor drama in the country: The Lost Colony. As one might expect, it's a dramatization (including dance and song) of the events surrounding and a possible explanation for the disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. The costumes and sets were pretty amazing, and amphitheater is a very nice venue, and the cast was very good. At the end of the play, the story proposes that the remaining colonists (including the first European born in the New World, Virginia Dare) traveled south to Croatoan in hopes of escaping the Spanish armada and surviving other growing hardships. The carving (referenced in the SPN ep) was left on a tree. The colonists were never seen or heard from again.
A few of the actors came out for a meet-and-greet, and I mentioned to a couple of them that the show made me homesick to do outdoor drama again. One young man asked where I'd done such drama before, and I told him in Ohio. "Where?" asked the girl next to him. "Springfield," says I. "The Springfield Summer Arts Festival." She knew exactly what I was talking about. "I'm from Toledo!" says she. "I went to Bowling Green!" says I. She'd never had the opportunity to go to the Arts Festival, but it was a nice little moment meeting someone "from home."
I'm enjoying my Carl Hiaasen book. I'll write about it more when I'm done, but one of the characters reminds me of a 12-year-old Dean, and I think I've picked the character I would want Jensen cast as were it ever made into a movie. Something very different for him--I could even see him wearing his beard in the role. Heh.
This evening we went to Roanoke Island, had lunch at a wonderful 50's atmospheric restaurant called Big Al's Soda Fountain & Grill. The original owners of the restaurant were also Coca Cola collectors, so there was memorabilia all over the place. Then we went to the Waterside Theatre in Manteo to see the first/oldest/longest running outdoor drama in the country: The Lost Colony. As one might expect, it's a dramatization (including dance and song) of the events surrounding and a possible explanation for the disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh. The costumes and sets were pretty amazing, and amphitheater is a very nice venue, and the cast was very good. At the end of the play, the story proposes that the remaining colonists (including the first European born in the New World, Virginia Dare) traveled south to Croatoan in hopes of escaping the Spanish armada and surviving other growing hardships. The carving (referenced in the SPN ep) was left on a tree. The colonists were never seen or heard from again.
A few of the actors came out for a meet-and-greet, and I mentioned to a couple of them that the show made me homesick to do outdoor drama again. One young man asked where I'd done such drama before, and I told him in Ohio. "Where?" asked the girl next to him. "Springfield," says I. "The Springfield Summer Arts Festival." She knew exactly what I was talking about. "I'm from Toledo!" says she. "I went to Bowling Green!" says I. She'd never had the opportunity to go to the Arts Festival, but it was a nice little moment meeting someone "from home."
I'm enjoying my Carl Hiaasen book. I'll write about it more when I'm done, but one of the characters reminds me of a 12-year-old Dean, and I think I've picked the character I would want Jensen cast as were it ever made into a movie. Something very different for him--I could even see him wearing his beard in the role. Heh.
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Date: 2010-06-18 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-18 11:49 pm (UTC)Locally though, it's Croatan--the Croatan National Forest, etc. I grew up with Croatan, and it sounds "wrong", now--heh.
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Date: 2010-06-20 07:58 pm (UTC)Working a drama like that would be FANTASTIC performance experience for majors or newly graduated. I miss doing outdoor drama. Heck, I miss doing full-scale drama, period.