“Hick darling, all day I’ve thought of you & another birthday when I will be with you, & yet tonight you sounded so far away & formal. She is careful not to stray from the original text of the letters Roosevelt wrote, thus allowing the audience to judge the nature of their relationship. Playwright-actress Terry Baum portrays Hickok, nicknamed Hick, in the one-woman show. Can One Be Gay, Republican and pro-Israel in the U.S.?Īt the beginning of the week, the New York International Fringe Festival chose the play “Hick: A Love Story” – which recounts the relationship between the two women based on their love letters – for its prestigious Encore Series.How Islam Became the Right's Number One Enemy.So what keeps the lesbian affair of America’s greatest first lady in a historical “glass closet,” and prevents it from claiming its rightful place as one of the greatest love stories of the 20th century?
The letters are open to the public and have been published and mentioned in research. Two hours drive from New York, in the picturesque town of Hyde Park, there are thousands of letters written by Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, a pioneer journalist who was the first woman to get a front-page byline in The New York Times.
