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The Merry-Go-Round
by Julia Peterkin

Dramatized by Laura Harrington
Directed by John Theocharis

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CAST

 
   

Waitress

Margaret Ann Brady

William Carson

Jeremiah Kissel

Deputy

Richard McElvain

Brother Abraham

Ed Peed

Policeman/Conductor

Roland Robinson

Captain/Foreman

Tim Sawyer

Jesse Weeks

Baron Vaughn
Maum Mary Parker Rose Weaver
Meta Parker Denise Williams
   
Also taking part Kerrie Jackson and Rachel Craw.
   

PRODUCTION STAFF

 
   

Executive Producer.

Valerie Henderson

Sound Engineer Jeff Whitehead

Sound Effects Producer

Scott Saloway

Dialect Consultant

Erica Tobolski

Assistant producer &
Organist

Drew Myler
Humanities Advisor

Susan Millar Williams
   
Funded by the South Carolina Humanities Council.

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