The 8th KentuckyInfantry C.S.A. & U.S.Living Historians andCivil War Re-enactorsannounce a “living his-tory” event at RowanCounty Arts Center(the old Rowan Countycourthouse) on MainStreet in Morehead.Events will be heldFriday, June 1, from 8a.m. to 8 p.m.; Satur-day, June 2, 9 a.m. to10 p.m.; and Sunday,June 3, from 9 a.m. to3 p.m.

Participants include:General Robert E.

Lee, portrayed byDavid Chaltas

Col. and Mrs. Mar-shall, portrayed byLynn and DarleneHammond.

Stonewall Jackson’swidow, Mary AnnaMorrison Jackson, andLt. Morrison, brotherof Anna Morrison Jack-son, portrayed by LoriRoberts and DougRoberts.

Colonel Charles Dah-nmon Whitt

Mr. Rick Waltz andhis horse Bram.

Wayman SpinningWheels: ProfessorNancy Wayman

Event is sponsoredby Morehead TourismCommission, TheMorehead News, andStrong’s Gun Shop.

Sutlers include An-thony Hawkins BookPublications, withbooks for the serioushistorians and peoplewho want to read truehistory, and ColonelCharles DahnmonWhitt, author and his-torian.

There will be a Sun-day morning church

service at 11 a.m. byRob Ginter.

The Rowan County Conserva-tion District presented awards atits annual awards program forthe 2011 poster and essay con-tests. Approximately 50 peoplewere in attendance at the pro-gram held April 17 at the RowanCounty Middle School.

The theme of the contest was“Where Kentucky’s Wild ThingsAre.” Awards were presented to13 students.

The county winner of theposter contest was AllisonWalker from Farmers ChristianAcademy, and the county run-ner-up was Cameron Moore fromTilden Hogge Elementary

School. The county essay winnerwas Jonathan Martin fromRowan County Senior HighSchool, and the county runner-up was Sydnie Tackett fromFarmers Christian Academy.

The county winners each re-ceived a trophy, T-shirt, certifi-cate, $100 check from the RowanCounty Conservation Districtand a $25 check from KentuckyFarm Bureau Federation. Run-ners-up each received a trophy,T-shirt, certificate and a $50check. All other school winnersreceived a trophy, T-shirt, certifi-cate and $20.

Morehead State Uni-versity’s Opera andHighlands Light Operawill present a new pro-duction of CharlesGounod’s operatic mas-terpiece, “Faust.”

The first performanceis at the Gateway ArtsCenter in Mt. SterlingFriday, May 4, at 7 p.m.Tickets are available atthe Gateway Center for$10 and $5 for stu-dents.

The show also will bepresented at Jesus OurSavior Catholic Churchin Morehead, Sunday,May 6, and Friday, May11, at 8 p.m.

All tickets for theseshows will be availableat the door for $5, cashor check only.

The story of a manwho makes a bargain

with the devil is eter-nal. This productionwill take place duringour own time and in ourown country. DoctorFaust is an aging, es-teemed American au-thor and professor oftheology, undergoinghis own “dark night ofthe soul.” His “devil”appears as a worldlyand sophisticatedFrench gentleman, whointerrupts Faust’s sui-cide attempt. What fol-lows is a tale of lostinnocence, seduction,murder, and, ulti-mately, redemption. “AFaust for Our Time” ispresented in a more in-timate and accessiblesetting instead of thetraditional grand andornate French style. Allscenes will be sung in

English.The legend of Faust

can be traced backthrough many centuriesand genres. Several lit-erary and musical gi-ants have set the story.The most well known ofthese are by the early19th century Germanwriter Goethe and the19th century Frenchcomposer CharlesGounod, whose operaticsetting is based onGoethe’s drama.

This collaborativeproduction between thetwo local opera groupsprovides an exciting op-portunity for singers atMSU to work withemerging young artistsfrom the region.

Dr. Roma Prindle, as-sociate professor ofmusic, will direct the

productions withpainists ChialingHsieh, instructor ofmusic, and HyejinYeom, graduate assis-tant in music.

Dr. Prindle createdMSU Opera as Opera-Works in 1993 whileHighlands Light Opera,central Appalachia’sfirst opera company,was established in2008.

Several of the rolesare double cast and in-clude:

Dustin Stevens,Morehead, Faust;David Herrington, FortThomas, Mephistophe-les; Alex Lindamood,Portsmouth, Ohio,freshman, Wagner;Catherine Wherthey,Louisville sophomore,Siebel; Paula Jo

Roberts, Pikeville fresh-man, Siebel; AmandaBalltrip, Lexington,Marguerite; KristenWhalen, HighlandHeights, Marguerite;Ryan Wardell, BigStone Gap, Va., sopho-more, vocal, Valentin;Dawn Fahnestock, Ver-sailles graduate stu-dent, Marthe; andHillary Keesee, Belfrysenior, Marthe.

Chorus members in-clude: Sarah Caudill,

Owingsville freshman;Neil DeAtley Ben-tonville, Ohio, junior;Jeremy Gaines, Butler,freshman; LukeHaynes, Jackson, Ohio,junior; John Lawwill,Winchester sophomore;Emma Lucas,Zanesville, Ohio, junior;Joe Rivers, Cincinnatifreshman; and WillWhalen, Lexington,freshman.

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‘Faust’ opera presented in May

Sydnie Tackett was a winnerof the essay contest. Not pic-tured are other essay contestwinners Brett Tackett, BrettMcKinney, D.J. Logan, KobeMcWhorter and JonathanMartin.

Winners of the postercontests wereNovenda Wells, Can-non Caines, AllisonWalker, Noah Walker,Shawn Edens andAustin Prevatte. Notpictured is CameronMoore.

Conservation District annual awards announced

Morehead’s Civil War LivingHistory celebration is June 1-3