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The "Lost Limner" returns in a new play

"Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog" by Ammi Phillips.

Back in 2020, we brought you the story of Ammi Phillips, a traveling portrait painter, and one of America’s most prolific artists, who went unrecognized for more than a century.

We’d like to revisit that episode today — for a very special reason. It’s the debut of a play inspired by this episode: Seven Cousins for a Horse by Tammy Ryan, a production of the Thrown Stone Theatre Company.

Learn more about Seven Cousins for a Horse or get tickets.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.