HISTORIC EDENTON TRIVIA NIGHT

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 Revolutionary War veteran Jonathan Overton, with Tanaa Hines portraying his son, James. Chowan County Commissioner Larry McLaughlin took on the role of local newspaper publisher Maurice Murphy, and Patrick Lee served as the closing narrator.

“Since I had played a ‘Tea Party Resolves signer’ character around town many times as Lydia Bennet, I decided to use both of these little-talked-about historic characters in a fun, one-act play,” said Laws, who served as the play’s writer, producer, director and one of its performers.

Finding the young actors proved challenging until Gena-Erin Copeland, a music teacher at John A. Holmes High School, stepped in to help.

“Mrs. Gena-Erin Copeland of John A. Holmes High School collaborated with me to find young cast members after all my flyers around town and in my neighborhood brought no response,” Laws said. “She was wonderful, as were the students from JAH.”

The performance made a significant chapter of national history feel close to home by presenting it through the voices of people who once lived in Edenton. The setting was especially fitting, given Edenton’s prominent place in North Carolina’s colonial history.

Watch the accompanying video to see the story unfold.

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 His family’s account remembers a happy, adventurous child who loved Edenton, the beach and his sister Reid. It also recalls how he drew pictures for other young patients at Duke and delivered them like mail.

The two events had different settings, but the turnout at each showed how Edenton continues to gather around families and causes close to the community.