{"id":18739,"date":"2015-02-27T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=18739"},"modified":"2018-06-08T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T02:57:31","slug":"nativity-play-letter-from-mary-rogers-to-ruby-yocum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=18739","title":{"rendered":"NATIVITY PLAY: MARY ROGERS&#8217; LETTER TO RUBY YOCUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>\nSeries 16: Special and Annual Events<br \/>\nNativity Play<\/h5>\n<h2><strong>Nativity Play: Mary Rogers&#8217; Letter to Ruby Yocum<br \/>\nDecember 12, [1953 ?]<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*Mary Rogers&#8217; letter to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=5680\">Ruby&#8221; Yocum<\/a>, dated December 12, describes in detail the preparation of the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=17821\">Nativity Play<\/a> and the many delights and challenges that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=2480\">Mary Rogers<\/a> faced as she prepared the cast for the play. The cast was comprised of local children and, typical of the age, many of them needed some &#8220;nudging&#8221; to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>This letter was among items sent to Pine Mountain by the family of Ruby Yocum Thatcher in 2011.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_18710\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bram_-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18710\" class=\"wp-image-18710\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bram_-41.jpg\" alt=\"bram_ (41)\" width=\"667\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bram_-41.jpg 979w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bram_-41-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bram_-41-624x465.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nativity Play in the Pine Mountain Settlement School Chapel with cast. Prophets not shown. c. 1950s. Joe Bramlett Album, [bram_(41).jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>TRANSCRIPTION &#8211; Nativity Play: Mary Rogers&#8217; Letter to Ruby Yocum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dec. 12th [1953 ?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dear Ruby,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I wish you were going to be here tomorrow. Many of the same kids as last year are in the play. I started out with others but Billy MacQueen thought he could &#8220;sass&#8221; me all the time and kept the others giggling, so Wilma Boggs and he went out and my trusted Sonny [Begley] came in, and Tom Ely again! Now Sonny was sick for the dress rehearsal and I don&#8217;t know if he will be well tomorrow, and rather than re-instate Billy (who rather wanted to now!) I&#8217;m having Kit to come down from the prophet&#8217;s stand, shed his head-cloth behind the trees and emerge as a shepherd. I do hope Sonny will be well enough. I&#8217;ve still got my fingers crossed about Tommy Scearse as a King, but so far his desire to shine (which he does, he looks gorgeous) has out-weighed his desire to play the fool. He came in with many reservations on my part. Jack [Cornett] makes one of the best prophets we&#8217;ve had. George Washington C. [Couch] is Simeon so we have to use short candles! Stephen [Steven] Hayes is Shepherd lad, Sue Day singing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sweetly<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gently<\/span> &amp; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in tune<\/span> is Mary! She sings unaccompanied.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Other members of the cast: 1st Shep., Sylvan [?] (very hard work to get him loud and clear, and I&#8217;ve failed somewhat on getting him expressive, Bargella [?] 4th Shep., Coburn [?] 3rd, Ronnie Hughes, Joseph, Bonnie Creech, 2nd Shepherd&#8217;s wife, Dennis Baker, Blind Boy, Don Browning and Virgil [?], Kings. O, I do pray it goes well. I&#8217;m absolutely dithering.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Come and see us Ruby. There is so much to talk about and I&#8217;m such a poor hand at sitting down to letter writing. It was good to have Mary Taylor and her mother over here the other day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This brings much love and every good wish from us all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Mary<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=5680\">Ruby Yocum Thatcher<\/a>\u00a0Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=17821\">Christmas Nativity Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pine Mountain Settlement School Series 16: Special and Annual Events Nativity Play Nativity Play: Mary Rogers&#8217; Letter to Ruby Yocum December 12, [1953 ?] *Mary Rogers&#8217; letter to &#8220;Ruby&#8221; Yocum, dated December 12, describes in detail the preparation of the annual Nativity Play and the many delights and challenges that Mary Rogers faced as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18739","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.1.2 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - 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