The ghosts of the Rush pioneers are calling you…..to – The Rush Creek Anthology.
One of the final events of the Rush Bicentennial celebration year is the upcoming play scheduled for Sunday, November 4th at 2pm. Retired RIT-NTID theatre professor, Dr. Bonnie Meath-Lang has written a script around some of the town’s early settlers. Bonnie is also directing the performance as well as portraying Julia Wilbur, who was a Rush resident and teacher, abolitionist and relief worker for the Freedmen’s Bureau during the Civil War.
The performance illustrates a recap of the lives of these early Rush residents and how they are revisiting Rush with each telling their own stories. The play stars early Rush residents: John Webster, Colonel Markham, Peter Myers, Elizabeth Myers, Peter Price, Julia Wilbur, Jacob Galentine, Barbara Schinster Smith, Al Mattern, Bessie Hallock and a long-suffering Rush Teacher. These Rush folks will be channeled by Gerry Kusse, Dan Woolaver, Hal Carter, Elise Carter, Dan Chase, Bonnie Meath Lang, Tim Mee, Ann McMican, Dave Sluberski, Martha Keyes and Sandra Boysen Sluberski.
The performance will take place on Sunday afternoon at 2 pm at the Rush Methodist Church, 6200 Rush Lima Road. This event is the second to last of monthly Bicentennial events that have been scheduled throughout the year. The final event will be a dedication of the Bicentennial clock which will be installed in the Rush Commons. The dedication will take place on Saturday, December 1st, at 6:30 pm. Along with the dedication, a time capsule will be buried for future Rush residents to open. The tree in the Veterans Park gazebo will also be lit at that time. This event will close the Rush Bicentennial year and also help launch the holiday season.
Please join us both on November 4th and again on December 1st!
