Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 2:30 – 4 PM EST

Six hundred years ago the citizens of York, England, would flock to the Pageant Green outside the walls of the city in the month of May to watch in wonder as their friends, family, and neighbors would present the entire story of the Bible in a cycle of 48 short plays, starting at dawn and ending as night fell. Craftsmen's Guilds were responsible for the individual performances and on December 3, the Emeritus College meeting room will be the scene of an encore presentation of the York Tile-Thatcher's Play, "The Birth of Christ." Don Saliers, Clark Lemons, and Brenda Bynum will be featured, respectively, as the Angel Gabriel, Joseph, and Mary. Liza Davis will present an introduction to the world and the people of that time and place and what this festival meant to them. This event is fondly dedicated, with deep admiration, to the memory and spirit of John Bugge, who first had the idea to do it.