For the Mountain Mail
Northern Catron County’s Roadrunner Arts Council, in conjunction with the New Mexico Humanities Council, is sponsoring Randy Milligan in a Chautauqua performance of “Theodore Roosevelt – Rough Rider President” at the Quemado Senior Center at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16.
The performance will by a dinner at 4:30 p.m. for $6.50. The performance is free.
Besides accompanying Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson on Mount Rushmore, Teddy Roosevelt is known for his charge up San Juan Hill as a Rough Rider in the Spanish American War, speaking softly and carrying a big stick, finding solace in the West after his first wife died, plus championing and creating many of our National Parks and Monuments. Becoming our 26th President in 1901 when President McKinley was assassinated, he brought six irrepressible children to the White House. A slew of biographies have been written about him. Two of them live in my house and are recommended: “Mornings on Horseback” by David McCullough and “The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill” by Hermann Hagedorn.
Imminently quotable, Roosevelt said, (among other statements) “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency” and, my favorite, “I can if I will.”
Randy Milligan delighted the audience in Quemado as Judge Roy Bean last spring and is brought back by popular demand. As a Chautauqua performer, he also plays Mark Twain. Milligan lives in Carlsbad where he keeps very busy as speech and theatre instructor at New Mexico State University and president of the Carlsbad Arts and Humanities Alliance as well as acting and directing at the Carlsbad Community Theatre. Roadrunner Arts Council and the Quemado Senior Center are pleased and honored to host his return.
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