Model T Visits the PAG Stage
for
CAMPING with HENRY and TOM
Performing Arts Guild's
production of 'Camping with Henry and Tom' from June
2010.
The play, written by Mark St. Germain, set in the woods of
Maryland, July 1921.
This wonderful 1919 Ford Model T, generously on loan from
John Barnhart and family, was perfect for the show and
couldn't have been 1" larger and still fit in the
theater.
The show explores a
fictional evening with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and
their guest, President Warren G. Harding, lost in the woods
after Ford hits a deer and drives his Model T into a tree.
Based on historical accounts of an actual camping trip, the
remarks are adapted from the words of the three men, their
documented philosophies and the political climate of the
time. The dialogue is full of laughs and character
developing conversation that will leave you
thinking. While there's no way of knowing their actual
conversations, the expedition is a well-established fact
and was the last of Thomas Edison's many annual camping
trips with Henry Ford.
The PAG production
featured Dexter Perkins as Henry Ford, Jim Davis as Thomas
Edison, Mark Tremble as President Harding and Dennis
Cheatwood as Colonel Starling was directed by Jeff Bold at
Pinecrest Grove Theater in Mt. Morris.
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