Contact: Bill Strassner, Museum Educator
Press Release: For Immediate
Release
Custer’s
Last Stand; Dramatic Reading/Living History Program
On Sunday November 15th,
2009 at 1:00 P.M. in the Eckley Miners
Village auditorium living historians Stu
Richards and Tommy Symons will present a dramatic reading and living history
program about two men from Schuylkill County who served in the Seventh Cavalry and made their
mark in history on that hot dusty day on June 25, 1876. Privates, George Adams and
Harman Knauch. The program is open to
the public; free of charge.
On the
late afternoon of June 25, 1876 overlooking the Little Big Horn River a force of
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians attacked and overwhelmed Lt.Col.
George Armstrong Custer’s battalion of five companies, consisting
of 210 men. Writing into history the famed heroic last
stand of Custer and the 7th cavalry.
The Little Big
Horn is over a thousand miles from Pennsylvania, but there is an ever lasting local connection
and mystery connected to one of the most talked about and discussed battles in
American history. Three men from Schuylkill County fought and died on that dusty plain one hundred
and twenty three years ago.
With an
interest for the Indian Wars of America Stu Richards
got involved into researching the battle and the men from Schuylkill County who served in the military during this time
period. Stu Richards wrote this detailed and
interesting narrative about two of the men and what they witnessed in the days
prior to and during the last minutes of their lives at the battle of the Little
Big Horn.
Eckley is located nine miles east of Hazleton, just off Route 940. For directions or more
information, please call 570-636-2070.
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