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Simple sets, modern costumes and lively acting brought Romeo and Juliet back to life Tuesday before a young audience.

Romeo and Juliet presented with a hip hop edge

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May 8, 2012

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Mary Potter

(Clinton, KY - May 8, 2012) - Hundreds of students sat in rapt attention as the Shakespeare Company of Kentucky brought William Shakespeare’s tragedy of feuding families and young love to life before their eyes. They laughed at the jokes, sighed or giggled nervously at the love scenes and mourned with Juliet when she woke to find her love had killed himself beside her.

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Bobby Keel playing Floyd Cramer's "Last Date"S aturday evening in Clinton.

Singer - songwriter Bobby Keel entertains on guitar and piano

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May 8, 2012

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Charlotte Smith, Hickman County Gazette republished with permission

(Clinton, KY - May 5, 2012)- ...During the concert, which was sponsored by the Hickman County Arts Council, Greg's Supermarket, and Ruby Faye's, Keel had the crowd in the palm of his hand as he played a variety of songs from gospel, country and more...

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Metcalfe opted for the Colt repeating rifle for the duel.

Civil War duel - one of the last "affairs of honor" in the Bluegrass State

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May 8, 2012

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Berry Craig

(Mayfield, KY, May 8, 2012) - On this date in 1862, Mason County Southern sympathizers were mourning the death of former mayor William T. Casto, who died in a duel with Yankee Col. Leonidas Metcalfe.

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