Catching Up (Again)

Sort of a bizarre winter – a good friend of mine died just before Xmas and the seasonal greys sort of overcame me. But spring is back, the flowers are about to bloom in the Borough. So here's a little bit of this and that around Stonington.

First of all, go to the Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, which is ending a wildly successful national tour with a last two performances at Stonington High School on Sunday, 18 May 2008 at 1 pm and 4 pm. Jeff Brown, the author, lived in Stonington Borough and asked before his death to have this live theatre event end in his town – and all proceeds are going to benefit the Stonington Free Library and two other local non-for-profits (I heard their names but forgot to write them down, it's my fault!). ALL the profits of the Stonington shows, so it's both a fun event and terrifically worthwhile for local institutions like the Library. The tickets are only $15 for children, $20 for adults and it's live theatre, which is great and unpredictable (both good things).

Well-known Stonington painter David Black is having a New York gallery show entitled "New York Paintings" which opens on Thursday the 8th of May, 2008, at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 WEst 20th St, 4W, New York 10011. If you're in the Big Apple, you can stop by from 6 to 9 and have a drink and admire Mr Black's work.

The Stonington Players putting on "Anatomy of a Murder" at the COMO, from Thursday, 8 May through Saturday, 10 May 2008, all performances start at 8 pm. The Stonington Players are really a wonderful local troupe that puts on excellent and fun productions (I loved last year's "Our Town") so everyone should support them. I can't remember what tickets cost, but I know they're quite reasonable. And you all know where the COMO is.

The La Grua Center ribbon-cutting ceremony on 19 April was a great success. Mrs La Grua herself did the honors, and quite excellently. State Senator Andrew Maynard, Burgess Jeff Callahan, Regan Morse, Annamaria Palmer, Cormac O'Malley, Bill and Shelly White, Sandy Fromson, Diana Leslie and lots of other friends were there to congratulate her. Dorothy Papp spoke and introduced her. Work has already begun on rehabilitating the Old Foundry as a living memorial to the late Maurice La Grua.

More anon. Sorry for the long delay.