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Adolph Vermont, a Belgian-born teacher at the University of North Carolina, planned the July 4, 1918 pageant on French-American friendship in Chapel Hill's Battle's Park and wrote Esther Wake, a play on the early history of Hillsborough and Orange County that Summer School students staged at Cameron Park in July 1919.
1874–1949 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Adolph Vermont.
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A playbill for a performance of Esther Wake by Adolph Vermont, staged at Cameron Park in Hillsborough on July 16, 1919. The single sheet measures 28 by 15 centimeters. Small printed items of this kind are often the only surviving record of an evening's entertainment in Orange County.
Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Vermont, Adolph, 1874-1949.
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Adolph Vermont's four-act drama of the Regulator uprising, first performed on the University of North Carolina campus by its Summer School Dramatic Club on 4 July 1912. Scenes move from Governor Tryon's palace at New Bern to Orange County, on the Eno, at Hillsborough and on the Alamance battlefield, as the heroine, Esther Wake, pleads for the Regulator gunsmith James Pugh; N. W. Walker's introduction admits she may never have lived. Printed at Raleigh, 1913.
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