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TALES & SCALES TO MARK RAT CATCHER'S DAY AT ZOO
From: Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
Date: 20070720
Author:Roger McBain
The Brothers Grimm cited June 26, 1284, as the date the Pied Piper led the children out of Hamelin, Germany, and into fabled fame, according to National Geographic News.
Robert Browning, the 19th-century British poet, however, set the disappearance at July 22, 1376, in his telling.
Some purists still hold to the June date, but in a triumph of revisionist storytelling, July 22 endures as International Rat Catcher's Day.
Tales & Scales, Evansville's touring musical storytelling troupe, is going with Browning, marking Rat Catcher's Day at the zoo Sunday with a public rehearsal of "The Pied ...
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