 In 1953 he staged "Florida Aflame", a historical pageant about the Seminole Indian wars, in Lake Wales, and in 1977 he staged "Royal Hunt of the Sun", a pageant celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of a college in St. Petersburg.In both productions he appeared as a solo dancer.He spent his last years at his home in Clearwater, where he died in 2001 at 88.