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PBS Series Has Ties to Woodberry History
The new PBS television series Mercy Street premieres Sunday, January 17, 2016. Based on historical people and events and set in Civil War-era Virginia, the show includes figures prominent in Woodberry Forest School history.
Jack Falahee plays Frank Stringfellow, a Confederate scout and cousin of Woodberry Forest School founder Robert S. Walker who courts the beautiful Southern volunteer nurse Emma Green.
Jack Falahee plays Frank Stringfellow, a Confederate scout and cousin of Woodberry Forest School founder Robert S. Walker who courts the beautiful Southern volunteer nurse Emma Green.
After the war, Frank married Emma, and lived with her and their first two children at Woodberry as the school's first chaplain. Emma is played by Hannah Vere Nicoll, known professionally as Hannah James, a young actor who grew up in an antebellum home only a few miles from Woodberry.
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