but yeah, she continued. >> so mary bacon how did you get involved with this project? >> well i am -- i did a premiere -- well premiere of james' play of called "iron kisses." i can't remember how many years ago. but i knew -- i knew him. and then so when the audition came up, just knowing the writer and that it's a new play of his, that makes you interested immediately. if you liked him. and you believe in their voice and the strength of their plays. also, for me, my late mother-in-law, my husband's mother was a really wonderful woman. judy lindsay. i should say her name. she was in new york city. she went to the theater, she read everything. she read every -- and she was also trying her hand at playwrighting, after a career in journalism, working at columbia university, and cpj. and she was actually writing a play about mary lincoln. and i never got to talk to her about it because she died unexpected ly about four years ago. it was really creepy that when this came up, i felt obligated to explore. that was -- it did make me pause and think, well what was she so taken

. >> we're at ford's theater with james still and mary bacon. i want to ask both of you what it is like -- i will start with you, mary bacon, because i think this is a new experience for you, what it is like to produce a lincoln-centered play in ford's theater. with that flag-draped box right by you. what is that experience like? >> it is definitely, what is the word -- very aware of it. i am very aware of it. the first time i stepped into the theater, i was like, whoa. why is there a picture of president washington up there? i don't know the specific history of the theater. i don't, i don't -- i did my research to do the role, but also, i have to say for me, i have thought a lot about how we turn a place into a shrine -- um -- because we know what happened there. but, there are a lot of places where we don't know what happened there, so it is a mixed thing. james has a line in the play and a lot of lines from his play come to me. when i look at the box, i think about him making him an idol. we have anticipated in that veneration, if that makes

she went to do it and was brought back to washington because they were all suspects. >> mary bacon, how did you get involved with the project? mary: i did a play called "iron kisses" i can't remember how many years ago. i knew him. when the audition came, just knowing the writer, it is a new play of his, that makes you interested immediately, if you like him, if you believe in their voice on the strength of their play. and that -- and also, for me, my late mother-in-law, my husband's mother, was a really wonderful woman. judy lindsay. and she was in new york city. she went to the theater, she read everything. she read every -- and she was trying her hand at playwriting after a career in journalism and working at columbia university and cpj. she was actually writing a play about mary lincoln. i never got to talk to her about it because she died unexpectedly about four years ago. and i -- it was really creepy that when this came up, i felt obligated to explore, at least -- it did make me pause. what was she so taken with? she herself experienced the death of her first husband untimely dea

we sat down with playwright james still and actor mary bacon to talk about the production of the widow lincoln. this is about 30 minutes. >> we're at ford theater with james still and actor mary bacon about the play the widow lincoln. before we get started about the particulars of the play i wanted to ask both of you, what it is like and i want to start with you, mary because i think this is a new experience for you. james still has been here before, but what it's like to produce a lincoln centered play in ford theater with that flag draped box right in the room with you? what's that experience like? >> well it's definitely -- what's the word? very aware of it. i'm very aware of it. the first time i stepped into theater i was like whoa. and i thought why this a picture of the president there? because i don't know a lot of the specific history of the theater. i don't -- i just -- since my research into the role. but also i have to say for me i thought a lot about how we turn a place into a shrine because we know what happened there. but that there's a lot of places where we just don't k

we sat down with playwright james still and actor mary bacon to talk about ford's production of "the widow lincoln." commissioned to mark the anniversary this april of president lincoln's assassination, 150 years ago. this is about 30 minutes. >> we're at ford's theater with playwright james still and actor mary bacon about the play "the widow lincoln kwrt. before we get started about the particulars of the play i wanted to ask both of you what it is like, and i want to start with you mary bacon because i think this is a new experience for you, james still's been here before, but what it's like to produce a lincoln centered play in ford's theater with that flag-draped box right in the room with you. what's that experience like? >> it is definitely, what is the word, very

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we sat down with james still and mary bacon to talk about widow lincoln. that's monday night at 9:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >> boston college history professor heather cox williams talked about how cowboys became a symbol for reunited america is the temples of jesse james and buffalo bill. she explained how cowboy individualism was a balance in the government. she says their lasting symbolism for american culture has far outweighed their act will number and the limited time in which being a true trail cowboy was a viable job. this is part of a symposium hosted by the vermont humanities council to correct this afternoon i am supposed be talking about why cowboys matter in the postwar years. they mattered more than perhaps any thing else. as an example of that, i want to show you some images of reconstruction and ask you how many of them you know. i would suggest that probably few of you could pick them out of this group. shortly after the civil war, there's a reason you may not remember him. red cloud, how many of you would know who red cloud