YOUNG AMERICA
MUDVILLE
`THE GREAT AMERICAN TELL~
Aims for the Reconstruction of National Pride and Unity while Reframing Historical Narratives, Truths, and Errors regarding "Our" Uniquely American Theatre of Traditions, Sports, Folklore, Ballads, Poetry, and Comic Relief.
Moreover ~
The Controversies that Inspired Them.
All Ye That Enters Here Leave Sin and Care Behind
POETICAL ~ MUDVILLE
THE CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR NATIONAL IDEALIZED IDENTITY ~ A RITE OF PASSAGE.
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We invite you to become a part of an epic adventure into the heart of a National Treasure.
It is a forgotten chronicle so uniquely American that the folktales could only be contained within a series
of profound parabolic passages, seasonal event-filled novellas, and philosophical pantomime odysseys.
`A Mudvillian theatre filled with our nostalgic past; A docudrama-comedy where our cast of poetical characters and notable team players will lead you through a series of lyrical, satirical, heroic, tragic, controversial, and thought-provoking storylines. The themes are reminiscent of and rewarding to the celebrations and birthrights of `A nation and its unending saga of bonding an immigrant people.
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CASEY AT THE BAT
A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
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The monumental story of struggle, growth, and reflection of our newly formed Reconstructed-Republic.
The telling offers insights into the poem and its paternal parent, Ernest Lawrence Thayer while embodying his life's work. "The Ballads of the Republic."
Revealing his many unheard folktales, prose, and poetic musings, which have been hidden or censored powerless in our past and present-day historical and literary journals. For some protagonist-being:
'The freedom of speech' and 'The power of the penned word;
`Are the underlying reasons for the antagonists, `Emblematic jamboree!
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Oh, Somewhere in this Favored Land, the Sun is Shining Bright...
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POETICAL ~ MUDVILLE
POETICAL: BEING BEYOND OR ABOVE THE TRUTHS OF HISTORIES...
CASEY AT THE BAT
The single most acclaimed and beloved poem in American literature will be presented for the first time, "Ever," within the illustrated legendary pages of Mudville and:
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In the author's penned hand!
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The Great American Poem
The Great American Poem: Could only be acquired after the United States of America experienced hundreds of years of democracy and history. However, The Great American Novel could be penned much sooner.
John W. Forest
Me Mudder
MOTHER'S DAY GREETINGS
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WHEN MY PRAYERS WERE EARLY SAID,
WHO TUCKED ME IN MY WIDDLE BED,
AND SPANKED ME BUTT TILL IT WAS WED?
ME MUDDER
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WHO LIFTED ME FROM MY COZY "COT,
AND SAT ME ON ICE COLD POT,
AND MADE ME "P" IF I COULD NOT'
ME MUDDER
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AND WHEN THE MORNING LIGHT HAD COME,
IN MY WIDDLE CWIB, I'D DRIBBLE SOME,
WHO WIPED MY TINY WIDDLE BUM?
ME MUDDER
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WHO DID MY HAIR SO NEATLY PART
AND PRESSED ME GENTLY TO HER HEART
AND SOMETIMES SQUEEZE ME TILL I'D F___?
ME MUDDER
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Casey ~ The Cultural Icon
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Over a hundred million Americans have read, memorized, or recited the famous baseball lyric "Casey at the Bat." Respectively, over a billion have witnessed its performance play out on the dramatic stage of our lives and our time. JohnMichael
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When you come to analyze it, its subject is the same subject that has inspired the epic and the ballad-poetry of the past-the prowess or the defeat of the strong man striving against the odds. Dr. Harry Thurston Peck
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I had an epic written that I thought would never die, Where they'd build a statue for me with its head against the sky; I said, "This will live forever"-but I've canned it in the vat. For here's a guy who never heard of ...
"Casey at the Bat."
Grantland Rice
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LOVE HAS ITS SONNETS GALORE, WAR ITS EPICS IN HEROIC VERSE, TRAGEDY ITS SOMBRE STORY IN MEASURED LINES.
BASE BALL HAS "CASEY AT THE BAT"
Albert Spalding
They enter 'the classroom' and are greeted by a mighty shout and stamp of applause. Then ~ Silence, and there it begins;
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A reflective hour of description, analysis, anecdote, and harmless pun, which bathes the dry bones with poetic imagery, enlivens a hard fatiguing day with humor, and brightens to the tired listener's soul the details of pithy, yet profound, engaging study.
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