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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-26 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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the recent rains and rushed along brimming to both banks. There is a place where the valley sweeps in a great horseshoe. And on one side the hill rises abruptly for five or six hundred feet. With its side cut into narrow terraces each held up by an old wall it forms with the level land below a great natural ampitheater. Parks and I looked long at it today from below and above and exclaimed what a magnificent place it would make for the staging of a mammoth pageant. There was the semi-circular hillside forming a natural place from which thousands could look down with every seat affording perfect view. Below the great level field traversed by the stream, well back a row of trees and a dip in the ground behind which the actors could be massed awaiting their cues and in the background a perfect "back drop" made up of the distant hills, the picturesque old town and the blue and white sky. If somebody will furnish the money I'll undertake after the war to put on a pageant here every summer that will draw all the world to see it. The hillside is a beautiful composite of broken walls and grass and pine trees and blossoms. I hope it is like it was today when I bring you to see it. And the path up the ravine was a delight at every step. Here it ran through a thicket of plum trees in bloom; here it was flanked by low, ragged walls overgrown with moss as thick and soft as plush; here it crossed an open space where the wild flowers made all the air sweet with their perfume. We arrived at
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the recent rains and rushed along brimming to both banks. There is a place where the valley sweeps in a great horseshoe. And on one side the hill rises abruptly for five or six hundred feet. With its side cut into narrow terraces each held up by an old wall it forms with the level land below a great natural ampitheater. Parks and I looked long at it today from below and above and exclaimed what a magnificent place it would make for the staging of a mammoth pageant. There was the semi-circular hillside forming a natural place from which thousands could look down with every seat affording perfect view. Below the great level field traversed by the stream, well back a row of trees and a dip in the ground behind which the actors could be massed awaiting their cues and in the background a perfect "back drop" made up of the distant hills, the picturesque old town and the blue and white sky. If somebody will furnish the money I'll undertake after the war to put on a pageant here every summer that will draw all the world to see it. The hillside is a beautiful composite of broken walls and grass and pine trees and blossoms. I hope it is like it was today when I bring you to see it. And the path up the ravine was a delight at every step. Here it ran through a thicket of plum trees in bloom; here it was flanked by low, ragged walls overgrown with moss as thick and soft as plush; here it crossed an open space where the wild flowers made all the air sweet with their perfume. We arrived at
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