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Plot Synopsis
"America the Great" is the story of two young men in the British Army during the French and Indian War, "Timothy Landry" and "Laurence Cushing", who become best of friends when Larry Cushing saves Tim Landry from being massacred by Indians.
Tim introduces Larry to the woman he loves, "Susan Haynesworth", and Tim marries an a beautiful Indian maiden, "Bonawici". His parents disown him at first when he brings an Indian girl home to Georgia, but Larry gets them back together.
The two friends marry the women they love and the couples are best of friends, but then the American Revolution breaks out and they find themselves on opposite sides, Tim Landry for George Washington's (played by David Wilson) Continentals and Larry Cushing for the British.
During the American Revolution, they come in contact with historical figures, Betsy Ross, George Washington, and British General Lord Charles Cornwallis.
But because he witnesses a cruel British officer murder an innocent civilan who refuses to remove his pregnant wife and family from their log cabin for the British to move in under The Quartering act, Laurence Cushing realizes he is on the wrong side and deserts the British and is re-united with his good friend Timothy Landry when he joins the Continental Army.
Both friends are with General George Washington when General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrender to him at Yorktown, Virginia.
David Wilson had always wanted there to be something in his hometown of Grantville, Georgia (Interstate 85 Exit 35) since he was a little boy when he went to all the town's merchants and asked them to purchase American flags to fly at their businesses on the 4th of July.
His late mother, Emily Gene Smith Wilson, never let him forget that time in his childhood.
"It just never made since that all surrounding communities had something on July 4th but Grantville had nothing," Wilson said.
AUDITIONS for "America, the Great" will begin some time in Februrary. The performance for the play will be on July 4 at 7:15 pm and July 5 at 4 pm at the Historic John C. Meadows Log Cabin at the Coweta County Recreation Park in Grantville, Georgia. The cabin was built by David Wilson's maternal great-great grandfather, John C. Evans, in 1828, and was bought and moved to its present site in the 1970's (when it was about to be demolished to make way for Interstate 85) by the Coweta County Commissioners through the efforts of Mr. Weyman Evans of Moreland, who was one of David's cousins and who's name was partly used along with an aunt and uncle's to create one of the main two charactes, "Dr. Weyman Holbrook", in David novel, CURSE OF THE VAMPIRE".
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