"Pilgrims, Patriots and Pioneers" This play is like a history lesson as each scene takes you to a different time in our nation's past. The play begins with a town gathering for their annual picnic and the kindly old Daniel begins telling the kids about the ordinary people who helped make our country great. Each following scene is acted out starting with the pilgrims in 1621 and ending with World War 2 in 1945. All the stories are based on real people and real situations, with a few fictional characters thrown in and some imagined dialogue. Some pilgrim women meet Squanto, the Indian who helped them get throught the first winter in Plymouth. Abigail Adams has Martha Washington to tea to discuss the most recent letter from John. A pioneer wagon train on the way to Oregon finds they have seven orphaned children to deal with. Katherine Wright introduces her famous brothers to some friends who want to hear all about that famous first flight. Two soldiers learn to cope in a prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1945.
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