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It has been 100 years since the cold afternoon of Jan. 8, 1924, when a fire struck a highly-utilized Berea block. It was noted by The Berea Citizen at the
John Gay English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was educated at the free grammar school in Barnstaple. He was apprenticed
Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theater departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. His notable plays include The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and Her Children.