You might say this is a short biography in play form. Most of us really can't identify with his scientific thought or with his celebrity scientist lifestyle. And also his frustrations. They used to say that when a person went on an LSD trip they never came back completely to being the same person that they were before the trip. I think the Einstein effect is similar. He had channels into a special section of his brain that allowed super-observant powers, but interfered with maybe other regular functioning. I don't know that. Just a possibility. People considered him eccentric and not too many...

Raisins and Roaches is the story of my two years of heavy addiction to crack. I didn't drink or smoke pot. I just wanted crack. I couldn't be trusted anymore and that was my big claim to fame, my trustworthiness with everyone. Raisins are the good guys in the crack world. They have little black faces like raisins visible under their big sports hats and jackets and they always have on expensive shoes. Those are real crack dealers. You are safe with them. They will protect you and also sell you high quality drugs. They control the lots and buildings where they work. They get you in and get you...

This is an 8000 word play based on the life and times of Harriet Tubman, one of the greatest heroines of the United States ever. There are some scenes from her youth as a slave and some from her years as Moses leading her people to freedom. There is a section in the play where abolitionists she knew speak about how the goal of eliminating slavery can be attained. Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Wendell Phillips, and John Brown each give a short talk based on their writings and beliefs. The rest of the play is mostly about Harriet Tubman. She did an amazing amount of courageous feats and...

List of Poems 1. Early History 2. Vanished Towns 3. The Crescent City Tanker Cars Explosion/1970 4. Letourneau Museum/Bourbonnais/Adrien Richard Heritage Preserve 5. Perry Farm/Exploration Station/Indian Caves 6. B. Harley Bradley House/Frank Lloyd Wright 7. Strickler Planetarium/Bourbonais 8. Riverview Historic District 9. Haigh Quarry 10. Kankakee Torrent/Geologic History 11. Native American History in Kankakee 12. French-Canadians in the Kankakee County 13. Coal Mining in Kankakee Area 14. Carbon Hill School and Museum 15. Bison Introduction Prject/Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie 16....

Martin Luther King is the giant of the mid-20th century. Brave and intelligent and dedicated to justice, equality, integration and equal rights. He achieved massive amounts of improvement for African-Americans in the United States and he did it non-violently. He was rewarded with a Nobel Prize. I fact he was the youngest man to ever be given that honor. This play touches on some of the major events in his life and the controversy surrounding his death. He was interviewed many times, but this play incorporates 3 interviews by national news writers. King was raised in a middle class environment...

It was the age of tycoons. The beginnings of heavy industry. Large amounts of capital accumulated by bankers and investment groups. Despoil the land. Dispossess the Native Americans. American imperialism throughout the hemisphere. Morals? Forget it. Money rules. George Pullman created the first luxury sleeper railroad car and it was used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Many stops along the way and the Pullman car became a national sensation. Investors flocked around him offering huge amounts of lending capital. Enough for George to do one of the greatest social-industrial experiments...

This is a 6000 word play especially suitable for a staged reading. It features the words and wisdom of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an orator and author. He presented the plight of the slave better than any abolitionist who had never experienced slavery. He became a conductor on the Underground Railroad and befriended other abolitionists and rights workers such as Wendell Phillips, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony, with whom he shared many stages speaking for women's right to vote. Douglass was called upon for his advice by...

This play examines the early days of psychoanalysis. Some of these pioneers include Freud, Jung, Breuer, Charcot, Stekel, and Adler. Our knowledge of the workings of the mind and its malfunctions is still very incomplete, but because of the working of these scientists there are some possible non-surgical, non-drug therapies for mental illness. They experimented with the unconscious, trying to understand it and hopefully correct problems with it that are resulting in difficulties for the patient. Most of us just experience the unconscious in our dreams. Regular memories seem to be able to be...