Locations
Belle Meade Plantation
Carnton Plantation
Ellington Center Iris Garden
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Glory Farm
Stones River National Battlefield
The Renaissance Center
The Village Chapel
Traveller’s Rest
Story re-enactors
Sarah Hannah Sheppard - Shonka Dukureh
Mammy Vinnie - Helen Shute-Pettaway
Young Ella Sheppard - Nadyia Clark
Julia Ward Howe – Tonya Staggs
Casting for Ella Sheppard story
Odessa Settles
Historic voices
Rachel Ward Howe – Hollie Larkey
Northern Soldier- Steve Hall
Col. Speed Fry - Lou Giansante
Southern Soldier – Larry Black
Abraham Lincoln – Kenneth Wolt
Production:
Written and Produced by
Stephen Eugene Hall
Script Consultant
Annette Nole Hall
Audio production coordinator
Doug Grau
On-location Audio engineers
Rory Rositas
Joe Flynn
Rex Collier
Studio audio engineers
Christos Gatzimos
Ray Dryden
Shawn Conley
John Napier
Paul Jones
Photojournalists
Barry Cross
Terry LeCroix
Rich Stone
Ken Tucker
Boom operator
Craig Anderson
Lighting
Craig Anderson
Barry Cross
Terry LeCroix
Rich Stone
Production Manager
Ken Tucker
For Nashville Public Television:
Executive in Charge
Beth Curley
Project Director
Kevin Crane
Project Coordinator
Ed Jones
Special thanks to:
Dr. Carroll Van West
Brenda and Solomon Golden
Bill Gatzimos
Dr. Paul Kwami and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Lucinda Cockrell
David and Mitzi Curtis
Candace Page
Brian Allison
Eric Jacobson
J.T. Thompson
Stephen Navyac
David Van Hooser
Ezekiel Hall
Raleigh and Becky Lane
Elizabeth and Julie Tucker
Snowden family photographs courtesy of Judith and Howard Sacks, authors of “Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem,” University of Illinois Press
Stones River footage courtesy of the National Park Service
Sheet music images courtesy of the Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
Daniel Decatur Emmett photos courtesy of the Knox County, Ohio, Historical Society
George Frederick Root photos courtesy of Dr. Polly Carder
Additional period music photos courtesy of Bill Michal, www.banjoonmyknee.com
Bonnie Blue Flag made by Granny B’s Quilt Shop, Dickson, Tennessee
This has been a presentation of The Renaissance Center, Doug Jackson, Executive Director
Copyright Nashville Public Television, 2011 |
