Yale Professor and American Historian John Mack Faragher to Speak at Hartford Stage, 4/14

Join Yale University professor and American Historian John Mack Faragher for a post-show discussion immediately following the 2 p.m. performance of Abundance on Sunday, April 14. (The discussion is free to those attending the performance.)

John Mack Faragher is professor of the history of the American West at Yale University, Arthur Unobskey Professor of History, Professor of American Studies, and Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992); The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Hine; A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005); and Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. Hine.

Beth Henley's Abundance
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crimes of the Heart comes a breathtaking tall tale. Wickedly funny and deeply touching, Abundance follows the adventures of Bess and Macon, two mail-order brides, on their twenty-five year journey across the American frontier and revels in their lifelong friendship - a bond strong enough to withstand a kidnapping, outrageous catastrophes - and even husbands.

For tickets call Hartford Stage at 860-527-5151 or visit hartfordstage.org.