PRESS RELEASES

 Date: September 19, 2005

Contact:Ida Patton
(276)676-6390
ipatton@wcpl.net

For release September 25-October 2

 Judge Isaac Freeman to Present Buck Fever Dramatization

     When Sherwood Anderson started editing the two Smyth County newspapers in 1927, he introduced a fictional character Buck Fever to comment on the events of Marion, Chilhowie and Coon Hollow, Buck Fever’s fictional rural community.

     On Sunday, Oct. 2 at 3:00 p.m., Judge Isaac Freeman from Marion will present a dramatization of the Buck Fever columns in the conference room of the Washington County Public Library in Abingdon.

     The presentation is part of the larger Sherwood Anderson Festival being presented all fall in both Abingdon and Marion to celebrate the life and literary legacy of Sherwood Anderson.  Freeman’s event is sponsored by the Friends of the Washington County Public Library and is free to the public.

     The Buck Fever columns ran in both Marion newspapers for several years.  Gradually Buck became a unique persona to his readers, commenting on the political and social mores of Southwest Virginia.  Buck had supposedly moved from Coon Hollow to the sophisticated city of Marion to work on Editor Anderson’s newspapers.

     In his presentation, Isaac Freeman, a judge for the 28^th Circuit Court but also a professional storyteller, will give the audience a flavor of the Buck Fever columns, presenting them from the perspective of Felix Sullivan, a real neighbor of Anderson.

     For more information on this presentation, contact Ida Patton at the Washington County Public Library (676-6390) or visit the Festival’s website at sherwoodandersonfestival.com

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