Tag: Tracy Ford

  • Generals Grant and Sherman to Lay Siege to Albion’s Hoag Library

    Generals Grant and Sherman to Lay Siege to Albion’s Hoag Library

    Generals Grant and Sherman will invade the Hoag Library in Albion on Wednesday, April 17th and lay siege to the place if necessary.  There GCC professors Derek Maxfield and Tracy Ford will present their play Now We Stand By Each Other Always. The play features an engaging conversation between Generals Grant and Sherman in March…

  • Rudely Stamp’d on Campaign

    Rudely Stamp’d on Campaign

    The Spring campaign has begun and the generals are busy riding from town to town.  We are excited that our play has been expanded to three acts now.  Although we still offer our original act, we now can offer a program with a fuller arc to the friendship between Gens. Grant and Sherman.  The new…

  • Morgan-Manning House to Host Generals

    Morgan-Manning House to Host Generals

    BROCKPORT – The Western Monroe Historical Society will host Rudely Stamp’d on March 22nd at 7:00 PM at the Morgan-Manning House in Brockport, NY for one show of our play Now We Stand By Each Other Always. The play features a conversation between Union Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, which…

  • 2019 Looking Like a Banner Year for Rudely Stamp’d

    2019 Looking Like a Banner Year for Rudely Stamp’d

    Rudely Stamp’d has come a long way in 2018!  Our first conversation – Now We Stand By Each Other Always – went from the drawing board to the stage, with three great performances since September.  Even before the dawning of 2019, we have six bookings with others pending. We also have some wonderful news to…

  • The Generals Take to the Road

    The Generals Take to the Road

    Fresh off successful engagements in Clarendon and Hornell, NY, Generals Grant and Sherman now will literally take the show on the road, making it available to schools, libraries, round tables, historical societies and more. Now We Stand By Each Other Always is a two man play featuring a conversation between Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant…

  • Travelling with Grant and Sherman

    Travelling with Grant and Sherman

    Beginning at the Sherman House in Lancaster, OH, Sherman visited the site where he was born and reminisced with staff about his life prior to fame.  A poignant story, marked by the loss of his father at age nine, Sherman would be adopted by Thomas Ewing – a friend of his father Charles Sherman, and…

  • First Performance Set for Now We Stand By Each Other Always: A Conversation Between Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman

    First Performance Set for Now We Stand By Each Other Always: A Conversation Between Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman

    The generals have arrived. After much planning, we are proud to announce the first Rudely Stamp’d performance: Now We Stand By Each Other Always. This conversation between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman will debut Saturday, September 8th at 2:00 PM at the Clarendon Historical Society in Clarendon, NY. The first performance of…