Ride into History
Ride is fun! Ride is factual! Ride is highly recommended! Ride comes to you! And we can bring our horses.
Ride into History is a historical performance touring troupe. For over five years we as scholar/performers have been giving audiences of all ages the opportunity to meet intriguing individuals such as Calamity Jane and Amelia Ear hart who are part of the past that is in all of us.
We travel all over the country to take our chautauqua-style performances to conferences, schools, annual meetings of business groups, historical societies, retreats, universities, libraries, fairs, and, yes, even theaters. Or you can see a performance around Ride's home campfire.
We call ourselves "Ride" because we use horses to represent travel--travel through time as well as space. Outdoors we ride up on horseback. Indoors the horses remain hitched outside and we burst in carrying our authentic-to-the-time saddles.
We are a Kansas Arts Commission's Touring Program and on the National Women's History Project roster.
We also lead workshops on creating first-person narratives, storytelling, and doing local history and oral histories.
| Character Portrayals: Ride into History with these characters from our past . . . |  |
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| Calamity Jane | |
| Amelia Earhart | |
| Rosa Fix | |
| Julia Archibald Holmes | |
| Elizabeth Hampstead | |
| All programs available with horses! | |
| Praise for Ride into History: Here's what hosts and audiences of Ride are saying . . . |
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| "Their energetic first-person narrative style, combined with
authentic costuming and properties, makes this an enjoyable offering
for virtually all . . . audiences. . . . I am impressed with the
group's ability to achieve and sustain audience interest in . . .
dissimilar settings." "Your . . . Elizabeth Hampstead was wonderful. I have never seen that many girls and adults stay that quiet." "[Y]ou did a super job of telling your stories, making history come alive for us. The student in each of us appreciates your thorough researching and interaction with members of the audience and their questions. A group of small children were seated in front of me, and I watched their fascination and eagerness as you talked. What a wonderful way to learn history!" "Several students who had previously showed little interest in Great Plains History were 'INSPIRED' by your program." "You made it seem as if we were really there in the wild west . . . ." "Through your talk you were a great help to us in our efforts to project and share the history of this area with the community, and more importantly, opened the eyes and minds of the audience to information, fact, and history about women on the land of which we were previously unaware. It was a wonderful talk!" "You both have given these lucky participants in your class a precious, lasting gift--that of curiosity and investigation." |
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