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1 online resource (xvi, 124 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124). |
| Summary |
Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colorful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by native Virginian Robert Porterfield in 1933, the Barter Theatre offered the people of Abingdon, Virginia, and the surrounding area entertainment and a much-needed escape from their Depression-era working lives. It became the State Theatre of Virginia in 1946 and it is where the likes of Gregory Peck, Ernest Borgnine, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, and Hume Cronyn got their starts. Mark Dawidziak, a journalist from New York who spent much of his twenties in Appalachia and grew to admire the theater, tells the improbable story of the Barter Theatre, which remains one of the last year-round professional resident repertory theaters in the country. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2017. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Barter Theatre (Abingdon, Va.)
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Porterfield, Robert, 1905-1971.
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Porterfield, Robert, 1905-1971 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJj4pkwMKXrgfyYCjgbfMP
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Barter Theatre (Abingdon, Va.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 82022667 (OCoLC)9043745 |
| ISBN |
9781469638157 (electronic bk.) |
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1469638150 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000043807078 |
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GBVCP 1014945100 |
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