Campfire Stories with Captain Drake
New for 2024!
Sit around the campfire in the Bradford House gardens listening to ghostly tales told by Captain Drake aka Erik Sprowls.
Tickets are $10 per person.
Each session lasts roughly 60 minutes.
Erik Sprowls
Professor Erik Sprowls is a native to Washington, Pennsylvania and holds several degrees in Communication Arts from California University, and Robert Morris University. As a college professor by trade, he was a member of the faculty at California University, Clarion University, The Art Institute of Ohio, the College of Southern Maryland, Bloomsburg University and Bethany College to name a few, even finishing as Faculty of the Year at several of them, in addition to accumulating numerous awards to his credit. Of the many TV stations he supervised, he even received the award for “The Best College Television Station in the Country.” At the Art Institute he was also their museum curator for 5 years. All of that reflected, his niece one day posed the question to him, “as a teacher, don’t you get tired of making other people famous?” And that changed everything.
So, five years ago, Sprowls created his own television show called, Dead and Buried Treasures, seizing the opportunity to take advantage of the Covid Crisis, initially producing the entire show out of his home at first on public access. On the show, he plays feared, fictional pirate, Captain Calico Drake, hosting monster movies each week throughout the Pittsburgh Region (that has now expanded to many affiliates which continue to expand to this day), much like “Chilly Billy” did in the 1960’s thru the 1980’s on Pittsburgh Television’s WPXI Channel 11. It wasn’t long before the show began winning awards locally and nationally including the CMA Award for The Best TV Program Produced in Pittsburgh and The Vortexx Award for the Best Host throughout the country, among others. Dead and Buried Treasures also walked away with the 2023 Rondo Honorable Mention Award for the Best in Horror Entertainment Word-wide.
Dead and Buried Treasures can be seen Saturdays at Midnight (with an 11:30 PM EST preshow) on DBTV Nationwide, and now worldwide. If you don’t get DBTV in your viewing area, the entire channel is streamed at www.dbtv.tv.
If you live locally, you can see DABT on Channel 21 in Bethel Park on BPTV, Moon Township on MCATV, and PCTV in downtown Pittsburgh. It also can be seen on ANCTV in the Connellsville Area on Channels 20 and 100, and finally on California University’s College Network on Channels 17 and 62 in Washington and Fayette Counties, stretching from the mountains, to the West Virginia Border, to North of Pittsburgh into Cranberry and beyond including occasionally on The Monster Channel, YouTube and Facebook. Just search for Dead and Buried Treasures.
Questions? Email: education@bradfordhouse.org.