The Tree That Saved Connecticut

A historical radio play stages a colonial confrontation in which the colony's leaders defy an outside royal governor seeking to claim their territory and to seize their charter; the action centers on militia preparations, a tense shore-side parley, and a secretive effort to hide the charter inside a great oak to prevent confiscation. The script is written for radio performance, providing microphone directions, crowd and distance effects, dialectal speech, and production notes so performers can recreate the episode through vocal expression without scenery or costumes.