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Ti Festival Guild prepares whodunit dinner theater
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LAMENT PROPOSED CUTS IN AID Cuomo proposing to trim $59 million
Mr. Appleton needs your help
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By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | After a one-year hiatus, the Ticonderoga Festival Guild Players will be back in action in 2019, performing a dinner-theater murder mystery later this month at the Best Western hotel. Even for a whodunit, this one has some serious surprises, including a segment when amateur sleuths in the audience will be able to question the actors about their (fictional) backgrounds as they consider the clues. The play, “Solving Mr. Appleton’s Demise,” is written and directed by Vincent Smith, who began the theater group five years ago as a way to provide a cultural and economic boost for Ticonderoga. Since then, the troop has performed six plays, three dinner theaters and two Christmas specials. Smith is no stranger to innovation, and when costumes for “A Christmas Carol” were beyond the company’s budget, he rewrote the Dickens’ classic, setting it in modern times with a female Scrooge. » Murder mystery Cont. on pg. 4
Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week proposed $59 million in cuts to the state aid and incentives for municipalities program.
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Scourge in the Adirondacks Historian speaks on the 100-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
Historian Maggie Bartley speaks to a gathering at the Keene Valley Library about the Spanish Flu. Photo by Tim Rowland
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PORT HENRY | In March of 1920, the spunky and adventuresome silent film star Pearl White was in the village of Port Henry shooting a picture about Alaska. While there, she got wind of a crisis roiling the hills and hollows 30 miles to the west in the Keene and AuSable valleys where high percentages of the population were being felled by a deadly flu bug that had stricken the nation over the past two years. So, lacking any other obvious transportation, according to newspaper accounts, she commandeered a dog team from the movie
set and mushed a sled load of “food, medicine and delicacies” to the wilderness outpost, where she became an instant heroine. It was an exploit that perfectly matched her onscreen persona. Too perfectly, it turned out. New Russia historian Maggie Bartley thought this was a tremendous story — until she started thinking about the distance and terrain between Port Henry and Keene. “I thought wait, there’s something wrong here,” she said. “And how much can you carry on dog sled anyway?” Her instincts proved correct. A little digging provided follow-up coverage proclaiming that the heroic rescue was a hoax cooked up by an over-imaginative publicity fi rm and willingly disseminated by a gullible press. But if the story of a frozen Florence Nightingale were fake news, the terror of the influenza in the Adirondacks was not. » Spanish flu Cont. on pg. 4
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