[Capdist-announce] WHITEHALL’S BRIDGE THEATER CELEBRATES 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR -- SATURDAY, AUGUST 24

[John Hickman]

*WHITEHALL’S BRIDGE THEATER CELEBRATES 150^TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR -- SATURDAY, AUGUST 24*

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*WHITEHALL, NY-- A re-created 19th century picnic grove will be the site 
of a Bridge Theater celebration of the 150th anniversary of the American 
Civil War beginning at noon,Saturday, August 24.
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*The theatrical re-creation, open to the public, will take up all the 
parade floor of the former Whitehall Armory, renamed the Whitehall 
Athletic Club when Greg Gross, a New Jersey insurance broker, purchased 
the 110-year old structure in 2010.Location isPoultney (Route 4) and 
Williams Streets, Whitehall, NY*

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Produced and directed by MartinP. Kelly for the Bridge Theater, the 
celebration will be presented as a mid-Civil War picnic at which Abraham 
Lincoln re-enactor Phil Jessen of Hartford in Washington County, will 
appearfollowing the picnic lunchprepared by the Athletic Club's staff 
for all attendees. *

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*Phil Jessen as President Lincoln*

**Tickets for picnic lunch and the celebration are $15.00 for adults and 
$13for students 17 and younger.Reservations are available at 
518/499-0477**.

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*During lunch, the audience will be serenaded by the 77th Regiment *

*Balladeers**, agroup of a dozen musicians and singers who are also *

*Civil War re-enactors. This troupe*

*appears a good six months a year at*

*such events throughout the northeast, and earlier this summer appeared 
at the Gettysburg battlefield. *

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*Following lunch, Lance Ingmire, President of the Friends of the NYS *

*Military Museum at Saratoga, and the Balladeers will welcome President 
Lincoln.*

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*Jessen as Lincoln will discuss his arrival in Washington as *

*President, and the lead up to the Civil War, while relating the purpose 
of his Emancipation Proclamation.He will conclude with the deliverance 
of his Gettysburg Address as given in 1863 shortly after the famed 
battle**. *

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*Following President Lincoln's appearance, Lance Ingmire will introduce 
actors from the Bridge Theater company who will presentletters from 
Civil War soldiers who were Whitehall residents, in dramatic form with 
musical background by The 77th Regiment Balladeers.Lance Ingmire will 
conclude the afternoon's official program with a Power Point 
demonstration of photographs taken by his great-great grand-uncle who 
was Lincoln's photographer.Inguire is a ninth generation resident of 
Saratoga County.

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*The Balladeers, led by John Quinn of Greene County, will lead the *

*audience in songs of the Civil War period as the gathering of visitors *

*prepare to leave the picnic grounds in the former state armory.*

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*Tickets for picnic lunch and the celebration are $15.00 for adults and 
$13for students 17 and younger.Reservations are available at 
518/499-0477**. *

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*/(The Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) in Glens Falls has 
provided a small grant fromNew York Arts Council funds to enlist the aid 
of the musicians, speakers and actors.)/*

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