Playwright, actor and director T. MYCHAEL RAMBO received funding to travel to Rambo, Dallas and Austin, Texas, as well as Charleston, South Carolina; Los Angeles, California and Costa Rica. In 1856, Rambo, Texas was settled by Colonel Gale Rambo and his former slave Lydia, T. Mychael Rambos great, great grandmother. Through interviews with family members and others, he will create a multidisciplinary theater piece about the turn of the century in Rambo, Texas, a thriving community of Black Americans, known as the first Freedman City in East Texas.