Lula Vollmer

Overview

Lula Vollmer born Keyser, NC March 7, 1889 (d. 1955). Broadway actress and playwright. Appalachian folk play “Sun-up” (1923) features nonviolence: Widow Cagle counsels draft resistance and shelters conscientious objector; decides not to kill for killing her husband, concluding that peace can come only from love and realizing our common humanity.

Quotations

“As long as thar is hate thar will be feuds—and wars.” (“Sun-up”, p. 77)

“Thar ain’t no reason for war, unless us poor folks fight the rich uns for the way they air bleedin’ us to death.” (Ibid., pp. 2-3)

“[H]it’s lovin’ them all that counts.” (Ibid., p. 79); photo ncpedia.org)