Third Thursday, February 21, “From Torrington to Harpers Ferry” John Brown Reenactment.

Actor Norman Thomas Marshall will give a short reenactment followed by a discussion on the life of Abolitionist John Brown. The year 2019 will mark the 160 year anniversary of John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry.  In his 1967 New York debut, Norman Thomas Marshall played the title role in the Judson Poets Theatre production of the Theatre of the Ridiculous classic, Gorilla Queen by Ronald Tavel. Since then he has participated in several hundred plays, films, soap operas, voice overs, commercials and radio dramas as actor, director, producer and playwright with such stalwarts as Moses Gunn, F. Murray Abraham, David Hasselhoff, Burt Reynolds, Harvey Fierstein, Bette Midler, Christopher Lloyd, and Barbra Streisand. Since 1995, his attention has centered on John Brown: Trumpet of Freedom, a one-person play with thirty characters that has been performed several hundred times from California to Denmark.