On Stage: The WWII Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and AFS Driver Norton S. Baskin

The AFS Archives photographs depicted above will be included in the upcoming stage performances of Cross Roads: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Norton S. Baskin in Unguarded Moments, a play based on the letters written between Rawlings, author of The Yearling and Cross Creek, and Baskin, her husband and an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance driver in India during World War II.  Rawlings wrote to Baskin nearly every day during his eighteen months overseas with AFS. 
 
Performances will be held March 15-16, 22-24 at 7:30 pm and on March 17 at 2:00 pm in the Flagler Room on the campus of Flagler College in downtown St. Augustine, Florida.  The March 17 matinee will be followed by an audience discussion led by Florence Turcotte, president of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society and curator of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Collection at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. The play was written by Deborah B. Dickey, and originally debuted in May 2012. For more information on the scheduled performances, view the flyer or read the official press release from A Classic Theater, Inc.
 
Photographs: (Left) Norton Baskin passport photograph, undated. (Right) Norton Baskin, ca. 1943-1944.  RG2/002 AFS World War II Photographic Collection.  Please contact us if you can help identify the unknown copyright holder(s) or if you are the copyright holder and would like the image removed.  These images cannot be reproduced without permission from the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.
 
Posted May 3, 2012 and updated on February 5, 2013 by Nicole Milano