Young ‘Thomas Jefferson' comes alive at SCCC

Newton - Steven Edenbo will play young Thomas Jefferson in a presentation, In the Course of Human Events…, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, in the Sussex Bank Theater at Sussex County Community College, located at One College Hill Rd. in Newton. Admission is $3. Opening the floor almost immediately to questions from the audience and encouraging lively discussion and debate, actor and historical interpreter Edenbo brings the many-faceted Jefferson out of the past and into the present. Edenbo has appeared nationally as Jefferson, and his uncanny resemblance to the red-headed Virginian is fast becoming recognized as a premier interpreter of the author of the Declaration of Independence. In 1776, a 33-year-old, relatively unknown young man from Virginia vaulted onto the world stage and into the pantheon of liberty when he penned America’s Declaration of Independence. Since 1999, Steve Edenbo has given new life to Jefferson for audiences ranging from school children to corporate executives, drawing them into the exciting times when Jefferson struggled against the uncertainty and peril that threatened America’s hope to establish freedom and equality as the founding concepts of a nation. Best known as a lawyer and a statesman, Jefferson was also an architect, an investor, a musician, founder of the University of Virginia, and even an authority on grapes and wine, yet he listed his primary occupation as “farmer.” Perhaps more than any other person in America’s history, Jefferson embodies simultaneously the ideals and paradoxes of the nation’s core values. Edenbo encourages his audiences to ask hard questions about difficult subjects, challenging them to reexamine their history as well as their present. For information, call 973-300-2120.