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  • WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA We/comes you fo KERMIT HUNTER'S Unto TS$M Wills This is one of the great, true stories of history brought to life ... a "See-It-Now, I-Was-There" epic relived by descendants of the Cherokee Indians who wrote it in heartbreak and triumph. . . . Acclaimed by critics as the most satisfying and inspiring vacation experience to be found in America. . . . Played against the backdrop of Eastern America's last primeval wilderness—the Great Smoky( Mountains. . . . Nightly except Mondays from late June through Labor Day at 8:00 P.M. in Mountainside Theatre, Cherokee, North Carolina. Admission $1.50 to $3.00. You'll long remember this colorful, centuries-spanning, true- life drama of the Cherokee Indians. You will relive a forgotten and neglected page of our Nation's history. You will thrill to the dazzling pageantry, feel the excitement and adventure of stepping into history. Played out in two acts and fourteen scenes, UNTO THESE HILLS is "an event rather than a mere performance." Descendants of the Cherokee who lived the story are cast in principal roles, and in dances and crowd scenes. This is the drama that started out I to re-create history and made history I of its own. It turned a sleeply, little, mountain village into another Sutter's Mill and put the Cherokee Indians in high feather. It sparked development of the.moun- I tain region and increased business for I an area the size of Vermont. Since its inception in 1950, it has opened up new and needed revenue for the Indians themselves, for the mountain people who make a living through their handicrafts, and for the nearby I communities which depend upon the travelling public for a livelihood. More than a million persons have seen Unto These Hills—a record for similar outdoor historical productions. The success of Unto These Hills has made it possible for its sponsor, the non-profit Cherokee Historical Association, to turn more than a half million dollars into constructive aid to the Cherokee Indians. It has provided $18,000 in college scholarships for Indian boys and girls and more than $21,000 in developing a Cherokee Indian community development program. As America's only Indian drama, Unto These Hills is unique in the history of the nation's theatre. It is the only historical drama in which roles are played by the direct descendants of the very people who actually lived the story. And it is produced right in the heart of the Cherokee country where the Red Man of eastern America wrote his story into the history of a land that had been his home for five thousand years and more.
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