Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Cherry Sisters

Before alternative music or plays, there was Marion's very own Cherry Sisters who terrorized the opera houses of the local state in the late 1890s.  A couple interesting artifacts are found here.
http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/Early/cherry.html

The Cherry Sisters may have also figured in free speech to which they sued and lost to newspapers that didn't like their performances.   case in point: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohms/cherry_articles.html

They were ahead of their time, long before Yoko Ono was even born and Nicki No Talent Minaj not even a twinkle in the eye of her grandparents. 

A one of a kind that was the Cherry Sisters.

further reading:
http://travsd.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/stars-of-vaudeville-85-the-cherry-sisters/

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