"Another River Flows: Stories, Songs and a Celebration of the Lehigh Valley Black Experience," the product of three years of oral-history gathering in Pennsylvania, opens in Easton, May 30, 2008. The Lehigh Valley Black African Heritage History Project and Touchstone Theatre partnered on the new theater work with New York theater artist Peggy Pettitt, playwright Linda Parris-Bailey of Carpetbag Theatre in Knoxville, and composer Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock in D.C. They gathered oral histories and songs of the African-American citizens of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton to create the show, which features Pettitt and 25 community actors, and travels to the three cities during its run (through June 14). The History Project partners Muhlenberg College, Lehigh County's Senior Center and Historical Society, Kutztown University, Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society and Touchstone. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham