Photograph, Theater - Performance by the Garden Players
1918 – 1923 (Date manufactured/created)
7 in. H
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12 in. W
Black and white photograph of a performance by the Madison Garden Plays.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy.
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