BRAINERD — When an email from ‘ILHS’ appeared in his inbox, Patrick Spradlin nearly deleted it unread.

“I thought it was spam, or at worst a scam,” he said. “I didn’t know what ‘ILHS’ stood for or who the person sending the email was. Fortunately, I put aside my suspicions and opened it.”

What followed was a months-long preparation for a five city Iowa tour of the one-man play “Clarence Darrow,” presented by Actors Repertory Theatre. An encore performance of the play is slated for 7 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Dryden Theatre on the Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College.

It turns out ILHS is the abbreviation for the Iowa Labor History Society. Its vice president, Bill Gerhard, was looking for a unique event to bring to his members and to others across the state of Iowa. Gerhard knew that Henr

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