

Bringing people to justice so that the judge and the jury can decide their fate. It’s the guy bringing a positive image and going after those that have done something wrong. What I represent is not the bad part, the outlaws, it’s the good part. Everybody wants to try and reinvent or rewrite it. We can’t get away from it and we can’t change it it’s the way events took place.

Why do you believe that era needs to be preserved? You’ve mentioned in the past that you want to preserve the history of the Wild West. He appears when he’s needed and he leaves after the job is done. Every episode, who was that masked man? And that’s the way I think it should be.

The Lone Ranger seemed to make a strong impression on your generation, what makes the Lone Ranger such an American icon for you? So that’s how I stared into this and from then one thing led to another. So, no one would recognize who I am because it’s not about me, I’m doing it for the image and the character that was started by Brace Beemer in and then Clayton Moore. Well, I watched the reruns as a kid growing up and I could hide my face. So, I started thinking, which one would I like to represent, and that’s when I thought of the Lone Ranger. On television, there was all this action stuff today and I felt like that’s way beyond what it used to be when I was growing up. I was on vacation out West and I went to a few ghost towns out in California where I saw some reenactments, and I decided that I wanted to represent a character of integrity. How long have you been the Lone Ranger? I mean, how does something like this even get started? The festival will feature tributes to the characters of the show, meet-and-greets, performances, and a parade that will make its way through downtown Oxford.įor Cherricks, it’s an opportunity to pay tribute to a character that transformed his life. For the fifth year in a row, the township of Oxford will celebrate its connection to the iconic American pop-culture character.īrace Beemer, best known for portrayal as the radio voice of the original Lone Ranger back in 1941, resided in Oxford on his 300-acre ranch, Paint Creek Acres, until his death in 1965. Lone Ranger Festival, in Oxford, Michigan.

This year Cherricks has been invited to the Aug. His first appearance was on a radio show in 1933 and has endured over the years on TV, books and movies, including a 2013 film starting Armie Hammer has the main character and Johnny Depp as Tonto. The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, Tonto.
