Monday - later.

Lots of Activity! There's something going on on Putnam Street: NYSEG trucks and also a pipeline company ----- I don't know what they're doing, but it looks important!

On E. Main Street, the new RAILINGS have arrived and
will be set in place next to the three sets of stairs
that were installed last summer.

The preparations seemed to be taking a very long time!

This "tub" deserved a better picture, but the important thing is that Thanks go to Shirley Kellogg for the bright new decorations!

Something else that really deservs a photograph is the Post Office Window, but reflections make it difficult. DO go and LOOK at it and enjoy the humor: what's the name of Santa's sleigh?


I've been hoping to catch Tom in the act! the Sign at his Car Wash seems to change nearly every day, but I never see anyone actually doing it and began to wonder if the elves were coming in the night!

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I remember, as clearly as if it were yesterday, sitting in Miss Driscoll's English class and staring unbelievingly at the test paper in front of me. We'd been reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House of Seven Gables" - an appealingly romantic mystery, from my point of view - but Miss Driscoll had just passed out a test paper that seemed to have dealt with another book, entirely! Character analysis? (He was handsome; she was beautiful) and historical accuracy (who cared?!) I didn't do well on the test, nor have I ever reread the book.

But now's my chance to revisit the characters and enjoy the "important" aspects of Hawthorne's story, again.

The WCS DRAMA CLUB
presents
Nathaniel Hawthorne's
"House of Seven Gables"

Friday, December 1 at 7:30
Saturday, December 2 at 7:30
in the high school auditorium

General admission $5; Students and Seniors, $3.

The story goes like this:

A century ago, cruel and cunning Colonel Pyncheon (Alex Mowrey) hung an innocent man (Abram Koester) and built a mansion on the dead man's property. It is now the 1840's. The citizens of this sleepy New England town say the Pyncheons are cursed. They say the musty old house is haunted. They say Hepzibah Pyncheon (Mallory Gilchrist) has a face that would make a tombstone giddy. But the life of the reclusive spinster is about to change. Uncle Venner (Rusty Ritzel) brings an inquisitive photographer (Andrew Rycraft) as a boarder and vivacious cousin Phoebe (Brianna Cowen) from Virginia arrives for a visit.

Step over the threshold of the House of the Seven Gables. Join me there!

(There will not be a test!)