Stumbling Stones: The John Rosenberg Story is a solo play performed by Jeff Sherr about a man who made eastern Kentucky his life’s work.

John Rosenberg came to this country as a child refugee from Nazi Germany. He went on to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi and then did something most people wouldn’t: he stayed in Appalachian Kentucky, built a legal aid organization from the ground up, and spent more than fifty years fighting for coalfield families, miners, and people who had nowhere else to turn.

AppalReD Legal Aid — the organization John founded and led — is still doing that work today.

The play follows John and his wife Jean across decades of courtrooms and communities, tracing how a refugee boy became one of the most consequential lawyers in the history of this region. It’s a story about what it means to show up, stay, and keep going — and about the partnership that made it possible.

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