The widow of actor Moses Gunn donated memorabilia from the actor's 30 year career to the theatre department at the University of Kansas. Gunn was an alumnus of the university, attending from 1959-1961.
He was known for his Shakespearean performances with the Yale Repertory Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival; he played Othello on Broadway, Cominus in "Coriolanus" and Randolph in a production of "King John" in Central Park, part of the New York Shakespeare Festival. He also co-starred in South African playwright Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot" and "My Children, My Africa."
An authoritative black character actor in films and TV, Gunn's many film credits include "WUSA," "Hot Rock," "Wild Rovers," "Rollerball," "Shaft," "The Great White Hope" and "Leonard IV." He played Booker T. Washington in the 1981 movie "Ragtime," a performance that won him another NAACP Image Award. His last major film was Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge" in 1986.
On television, he co-starred with Avery Brooks on "A Man Called Hawk" and appeared on "Good Times," "Little House on the Prairie," "Father Murphy," "The Cosby Show," "Equal Justice" and "Homicide: Life on the Street." He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of African chief Kintango in the first installment of ABC's groundbreaking miniseries "Roots" and for "Of Mice and Men." On PBS, he was featured in "The Killing Floor," "The House of Dies Drear" and "Charlotte Forten: Experiment in Freedom."
His role on Little House on the Prairie as Joe Kagan is small considering his long career, but Joe Kagan was one of my favorite characters on the LHOP series. I looked him up on the IMDB web site and he was only on 5 episodes of LHOP. It seemed to me he was on more often than that.
Gunn died at his home in Guilford, Conn., in December 1993 from complications of asthma.
Tickets for the new Little House on the Prairie musical go on sale June 27. The play opens in the summer but approximately 250 Minnesotans were the first to have a look at the musical based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. The sneak peak lasted for 30 minutes. Kara Lindsay, who plays a young Laura and Ali Litrell, who plays Mary, performed a duet called "I'll Be Your Eyes". Lindsay also performed a solo entitled "I'm Old Enough".
Later, Kara performed a love song duet with Dieter Bierbraur who plays Almanzo, entitled "Carried Away".
Right now, the play centers on the middle books, during Laura's teenage years. But things could change between now and when full rehearsals open in April.
The shad are about to start running and my serviceberry (shadbush) tree is about to bloom.
Rose Wilder Lane wrote about the serviceberry trees that grew in the woods at Rocky Ridge Farm. She commented that the blooms gave a misty appearance to the woods surrounding the farm house. The story is in "Little House Sampler" and I will post Rose's quote here.
The fruit is good for jellies, pies, etc. The size of the fruit is about the size of a holly berry. It would take a great many to do anything with. I usually eat a few of mine fresh off the tree. Most go to the birds, I thoroughly enjoy watching the birds enjoying them.
This link at Wikipedia says more about the genus than I can type here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviceberry
Found a comment in a cooking blog tonight. The blog entry was about pancakes. The person making the comment mentioned Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about using a blanket pancake to keep the smaller pancakes underneath warm. She said LIW wrote it in her book "Little House in Brookridge". This must be one of Laura's books that I have not read, and I thought I had read them all.
As far as the recipe goes, it calls for soymilk. I can't imagine using soymilk in pancakes. It sounds gross to me. I don't think humans were meant to be vegetarians, at least this one.
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