The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 3, January 21, 2007, Article 15

AN EVENING WITH ANDREW CARNEGIE AND HIS CENTENNIAL MEDAL

Dick Johnson writes: "On Tuesday night this week I spent an evening
with Andrew Carnegie. He gave an hour and a half presentation of his
life. Okay, it was an actor playing the part of Andrew Carnegie.  It
was a one-man show, or what he calls "solo performer."  The actor
was Richard Clarke, of Boylston, Massachusetts. He gave his
presentation at my local library.

"It was the same night as the Litchfield County Coin Club meeting,
my local club. But the program started an hour before the coin club
meeting so I asked if coin club members could attend. The library
program director learned of my interest in Andrew Carnegie and that
I was involved with the creation of the Carnegie Hero Fund Centennial
Medal. She asked if I could prepare an exhibit of the medal for
that night.

"Sure. And that could be good reason for the coin club members to
attend. The performance was phenomenal! Actor Clarke bore a grey
beard and was in custom and Scottish cap of Carnegie in later life.
All of us in attendance learned a great deal about Carnegie. He has
performed this on Broadway, but does it now for historical societies
and libraries. He has other celebrities in his repertoire, including
Mark Twain, John Barrymore, William Shakespeare and his favorite,
lawyer Clarence Darrow.

"Afterwards we had his picture taken with the centennial medal of
the Carnegie Hero Fund Foundation, bearing the portrait so close
to that of the character he had just played."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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