Friends

Laura’s pictures have touched our hearts and kick-started our memories. Here on the home front, we’ve recently spoken with Liz Fisher (Winedale staffer) and Angela Barratt (summer staff) and Laura shared her pictures with them. They are enthusiastic and supportive of us taking Laura’s gift as a point of departure. (Liz says they found a program from 75 as well.)

With each of us contributing written memories, annotations to Laura’s photos, anything else we might have (Carol & I each submitted a paper on Winedale for academic credit, and there might be a sentence or 2 in there worth salvaging), we could show the other classes the way to archive their experiences as well. We could, collectively, be the first class to show and tell the story of our summer.

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Here are 2 things I remember so well that should be part of the record:

1. We were struggling with Much Ado, and nothing seemed to be going very well—as I recall. I was one of several people who felt like our performance was just not going to be that good. Then we all gathered in the barn and watched Terry/Dogberry and her crew—Kevin (where’s Kevin) Eve, Laura & Jerald perform their madcap Keystone Cops scene which was so wonderfully choreographed, so over-the-top, so funny that it lifted everyone’s spirits. I remember thinking “My friends won’t hate me for making them come watch Shakespeare at Winedale. This scene alone will justify their drive.

2. Remember the beginning of the play? Everyone in the audience is seated. Doc rides in on a horse, unrolls a scroll (that Carol lettered) reads that the troops are coming home, nails the scroll to a wooden post, and invites everyone out to greet the returning soldiers. Then he joins the bedraggled parade with Rollie & Marilyn and others on horseback, me and Donald and I can’t remember who else out front, Alice and Carol by the fence, waving their handkerchiefs and making eyes at the soldiers, and the Polka Dots bringing up the rear playing Anchors Away off key.  Then we all sweep in and begin Much Ado About Nothing. That, opening, as I recall, was purely a manifestation of Doc’s genius.

Terry & Doc inspiring us to make much ado about Winedale….

Rob Lallier

DSHS Communications

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