By Erik Sietsema
This week marks the 115th anniversary of the first Big Sandy School play. On June 30, 1911, the school staged *The Rescue of Princess Winsome* by Annie Fellows Johnston. The performance kicked off a proud tradition of school theater that continues to this day.
The production was covered in a brief article in the July 6 issue of the *Mountaineer*, which lauded the show as deserving “all and more credit than we can give it.” Auditions were described as “drills” meant to prepare the children for their roles, and the paper noted that the “children played their parts far better tha...