An Evening’s Journey to Conway Massachusetts

Leonard Baskin

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An Evening’s Journey to Conway Massachusetts

This play was written to commemorate the 1966 bicentennial of the town of Conway, Massachusetts, where MacLeish had lived since 1928. At this time he was the John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College.
The story is focused on a young man who is from the town and has lived there all his life. Over the course of the story he talks to new people and he comes to realize he does not really know the town. He doesn’t know its history, the people, or any of the intangible things that make a place home. During a fair for the town’s 200th birthday, the young man is introduced to historical figures who helped develop Conway, and he ultimately gains a deeper understanding of what his hometown represents.

Published by the Gehenna Press in 1967

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Leonard Baskin

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An Evening’s Journey to Conway Massachusetts