Using music and an array of puppetry techniques, this play, “The Town That Fought Hate”, incorporates the concepts of tolerance and acceptance by recounting the events of a 1933 bias incident that took place in Billings, Montana. Includes purchase of copies of the book on which the play is based: The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate by Janice Cohn. Play performed for all MP, TPH, WW 5th graders by Young Audiences Arts for Learning. Would be incorporated into Holocaust unit during library classes.
(awarded to Marilyn Merrill, Mary Niedenfehr for TPH, MP, WW)
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