Join us on June 29th at 7:00 p.m. for Byline: Ernie Pyle, a one-man show created by Steve LaRocque of the Montgomery History Speakers Bureau. This program showcases excerpts from the famous wartime newspaper columns of Pulitzer Prize winning WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle. One of the first “embedded” reporters, Ernie Pyle wrote a column that ran daily in the Scripps-Howard newspapers during World War II. President Harry S. Truman spoke of how Pyle “told the story of the American fighting man as the American fighting men wanted it told.”
Byline: Ernie Pyle features actor Steve LaRocque as Ernie Pyle, recounting the major events of World War II in Pyle’s own words (used by permission of the Scripps-Howard Foundation). The actor becomes the reporter, appalled at the tragic waste of war and the brutal conditions it imposes on the ordinary American men who fought it, and yet remained personally committed to going back to it, again and again. In-person at Speer Hall, 17800 Elgin Rd. (109).
Presenter Short Bio:
Steve LaRocque has been active as a performer, director, and playwright in the greater Washington, DC, area since 1994. He has appeared as an actor in more than a dozen productions at Silver Spring Stage and has had eleven of his one-act plays produced there. He is also a charter member of the Quotidian Theatre Company of Bethesda and has appeared in more than twenty Quotidian productions. A retired Navy officer, he served 29 years on active duty.
Kathie Mack has called Montgomery County home since 1975. She loves history, knitting, and the performing arts. When she gets up on stage herself these days, it is usually to sing in nursing homes.
Location: Speer Hall, Poolesville Presbyterian Church – 17800 Elgin Road