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LAWRENCE
Local actor's tweets receive technology award
DYLAN LYSEN
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Ric Averill didn't want to portray William Quantrill, and he wasn't sold on using Twitter either.
"I got rid of my Twitter account because I was sick of seeing when everyone was brushing their teeth," Averill said.
But that didn't stop the local actor from recognizing the potential for an acting exercise by playing the most infamous person in Lawrence history. Averill's acting, along with those of other participants, helped 1863 Commemorate Lawrence win the 2013 Technology Award given by the Kansas Museums Association at the KMA Annual Conference in Lawrence on Oct. 18. 1863
Commemorate Lawrence is a group of local organizations that worked together for the project.
Averill, who is the Lawrence Arts Center artistic director of performing arts, acted as William Quantrill and other "bad guys" for the 1863 Commemorate Lawrence's Twitter project #QR1863, a reenactment of Quantrill's Raid on Aug.21, 1863, exactly 150 years later. Averill and other actors tweeted status updates as if the raid happened that day.
"People loved it," Magariel said. "We had feedback from people who said they were at work and couldn't get anything done because they were too busy following the action."
The raid was an attack on the people of Lawrence during the American Civil War by Quantrill and his group of combatants of the Confederate Army. The attack left almost 200 people dead.
Magariel said 1863 Commemorate Lawrence recruited actors and others who were interested to join the project through Twitter. One participant even joined the project by seeing the casting
Abby Magariel, education and programs coordinator at the Watkins Museum of History, said the project sent 7,000 tweets and reached more than 1 million people.
Murl Riedel, the KMA Awards Chair, said the award was given to the project because of its innovative use of technology.
"We liked it because it went beyond social media for just promotion," Riedel said. "It's something that can be adapted for other commemorative events. It's pretty groundbreaking."
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For such a massive project, large amounts of research had to be done for those who would write the tweets. Those who participated were given published memoirs and letters of the characters who lived in Lawrence during the event. Averill said that he had done some research on the subject for another project, which helped him with his tweets.
"It ended up being quite fun, but I did feel quite dirty after," Averill said. "You think of a situation like that and, regardless of the fact that and what they did were horrible actions, they had a sense of motivation for what they did."
Magariel said finding an actor to play William Quantrill was important, and Averill's presence in Lawrence as an actor helped move the project along.
"We knew we could trust him," Magariel said of Averill. "He was going to do a great job creating dialogue, it was going to be interesting, it was going to be engaging. It wasn't going to be just dry talk."
Magariel said there was even a Lawrence resident who was originally critical of the reenactment and created a satirical profile of a horse during the event. But when the project started, the horse profile began to participate with the project, and gave an account of Quantrill's raid through a horse's eyes.
Magariel said the project ended up working better than the group had anticipated, and that they plan to use the practice later for educational purposes.
"We knew it was going to be exciting, and we were going to have a whole lot of voices going at once," Magariel said. "But we didn't realize just how moved people were going to be."
With a project so large, there was a possibility for disaster, including the chance of southern sympathizers derailing the project through the public forum.
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Top: Murl Riedel presents the KMA Technology Award for 1863 Commemorate Lawrence's live-tweeting reenactment of Quan-trill's Raid to Christine Metz Howard, the project creator, and Abby Magariel, a planning member of the event. Bottom-Ric Averil tweeted in character as William Quantrill as part of the 1863 Commemorate Lawrence's reenactment project.
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