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Preston K Dillenbeck would enroll some of the world’s first film celebrities, and the up-and-coming teenage director from Kinsley, Kansas, Charlie Edwards. Subscribe to Community Arts Uncovered to learn how Dillenbeck’s school of elocution impacted film and theatre in the…
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Gilmor Brown’s dramatic work became incredibly consequential, but is still rarely acknowledged in theatre history. More so, Gilmor’s educational efforts would go on to directly impact television and film luminaries, like Rue McClanahan, Leonard Nimoy, Dustin Hoffman, Sally Struthers, and…
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100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…
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I had one advantage: this Victorian cabinet photo was taken at the studio of D. H. Atkins in Kinsley, Kansas. This proprietor only operated in town from November 1890 to March 1891, providing a short window for when the image…
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After acquiring the original copy of this photo, I was resolved to determine who the men were; one of them looked familiar, but I wasn’t sure exactly why or how I would recognize him. However, first, why were these three…
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How a brief reference in a doctoral dissertation tucked away in the labyrinthine stacks at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, led me to Charlie Edwards’ story, six years ago, would have been easy to forget if it had…
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When I arrived at the Huntington Library on the third of April 2019, I was searching for details to include in my dissertation, Grassroots Shakespeare, on amateur Shakespeare performance in the United States.
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