The Reach of Song is Georgia's state drama written by Tom DeTitta.
It depicts life in the Appalachian Mountains between World War I and World War II and follows the life and death of Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Byron Herbert Reece.
[1] The two-act play premiered in 1989 in the Anderson Music Hall at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds in Hiawassee.
In 1990, the Georgia General Assembly named it the state's official historic drama.
[3] The new venue was notable because Reece taught at the school and took his own life in his campus office in 1958.