The Washington County Historic Courthouse will be the site of a stage musical based on the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment charge at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War.
The free performance is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, at the courthouse at 101 W. Pine St. in Stillwater.
It has been 150 years since the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment made a historic charge to the death at Gettysburg. Twin Cities theater veteran David James Carlson has written a play with music after three years of researching and creating the drama. Though the subject matter is serious, these performances are family appropriate, with songs and some scene excerpts that range from melancholy to lighthearted to dramatically intense.
On July 2, 1863, during the battle of Gettysburg, 262 Minnesotans made a sacrificial charge against 1,600 Confederate soldiers to secure higher ground for the position of Union forces. There were 215 casualties, one of the highest loss percentages for a regiment in military history.
Woodbury
Library offering a writer's workshop
Teens and adults are invited to attend a Writers Roundtable Workshop featuring author Alice Ozma at 3 p.m. Friday, June 28, at the R.H. Stafford Library, 8595 Central Park Place, Woodbury.
The workshop is an opportunity for aspiring writers to gather, share their work, talk about the writing process and get tips from an author.
Ozma is the author of "The Reading Promise: My Father and The Books We Shared," the story of the 3,218 consecutive nights her father spent reading to her.
Ozma's book was Washington County Library's selection for the 2012 One County One Book Reading program.
