MAY 23 at 8 pm

MAY 24 at 3 pm​

(Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime)​

This historic presentation of "It Can't Happen Here"  by Sinclair Lewis with Lee Moffit  was written in response to what the world was experiencing at the time. It was a very uncertain and chaotic time. The Nazis had expropriated the German democratic institutes, Mussolini was well into his reign with the National Fascist Party, and Imperial Japan would within the year commit the Rape of Nanking. Here in the U.S. fascist organizations such as the German-American Bund was just getting underway, as were the National Social Christian Party, the Lictor Federation, The America First movement, The Silver Shirts, The KKK's radical arm called the Black Legion and Father Charles Coughlin's Christian Front. And that was just here in the States. The world was a troubled place in 1936. Germany remilitarized the Rhineland, Italy and Germany formed the Rome-Berlin Axis, and the Spanish Civil War had just gotten underway. And over the next decade 85 million humans would perish, the vast majority innocent men, women and children whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time or who believed in a different God.

2. This was written as a cautionary tale for its times. Some will see a distant mirror of ourselves. Others will take it as nothing more than a work fiction. Many will say to themselves...this can't happen here.