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The Long Way Home, an outdoor historical drama produced each summer from 1971 to 1999, at the Ingles homestead, relating the history of Mary Draper Ingles and her family. The General Assembly identified it as the "official" outdoor drama.
- Escape from Native American captivity in 1755
- William Ingles
- Thomas Ingles, George, Mary, Susanna, Rhoda, John
Mar 1, 1998 · Her saga is the subject of Alexander Thom's best-selling novel, "Follow the River"; Earl Hobson Smith wrote an outdoor drama, "The Long Way Home," still produced each summer in Radford [addendum, 5/21/09 – the drama ran for nearly three decades but is no longer produced]; ABC made it the basis of a made-for-television movie which aired early ...
Jan 10, 2022 · HINTON, W.Va. — The tale of Mary Draper Ingles —of her escape from Shawnee captors and her return through the mountains—is the ideal American frontier story in many senses. It's a tale of endurance and indomitable spirit. And, because her adventures led through the valley of the New River, it has a unique appeal to residents of the Virginias.
Aug 26, 2023 · After negotiations with the Shawnee people, now seventeen-year-old Tommy returned home. Mary lived for many more years passing away in 1815 at age 83. Her son, John, recorded the events of her escape in his work The Story of Mary Draper Ingles and Son Thomas Ingles. This work would inspire other authors to write books and movies about Mary's story.
Oct 1, 2023 · That was the challenge facing the courageous pioneer woman Mary Draper Ingles after she was captured by the Shawnee during the French and Indian War. Without a map or even a road, she walked more than 500 miles to her place in frontier history. In July 1755, Shawnee warriors attacked the settlement at Draper's Meadows, a cluster of cabins in ...
Oct 14, 1980 · Believing her husband still to be alive and having had her two young boys taken from her while in captivity, Mary Ingles came to the momentous decision to leave her own baby girl with the "savages", in an attempt to escape and make the long, long journey home.
Jun 22, 2018 · The City of Radford revived a long-standing tradition of hosting performances of a play that tells Mary Draper Ingles’s story. The play, titled “The Long Way Home” ran from 1971-1999. A group of Ingles’s descendants worked to revive a version of the play, which started up again last summer.
