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Library of the Chathams offers gardening, back pain lectures online – New Jersey Hills

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THE CHATHAMS During the COVID-19 shutdown, the Library of the Chathams at 214 Main St. is offering a variety of online services for children, teens and adults, Library Director Karen Brodsky said.

By visiting the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org, one can obtain digital resources including e-books, films, audio, and magazines, Brodsky noted. Weekly online classes, book groups, story hours and other informational programs can also be found on the librarys webpage.

Brodsky advised that residents of the Chathams who do not have a library card may obtain one by emailing mycard@chathamlibrary.org. Please join us as we social distance together, Brodsky invited.

Container Gardening: Master Gardener Marta McDowell will present Container Gardening for Vegetables and More in a livestream lecture at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, May 21; for information, visit the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

Do you have limited space but want to grow some vegetables, herbs or flowers this year? Container gardening may be your answer, said Deborah Fitzgerald, head of Adult Services at the library.

In this live presentation with a question-and-answer session, Fitzgerald said, we will discuss which containers work best, what soil should one use, where you should put your containers, which varieties of plants work best, how to take care of your containers, and how to harvest and store your crops.

Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham. She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and is one of the founders of the Chatham Community Garden. She became a master gardener in 2009.

Preventing Back Pain: Ricardo Costa, owner of Results Physical Therapy in Chatham Township, will talk about preventing back pain while working from home in a livestream lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27; for information, visit the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

Costa earned a doctoral degree in physical therapy in 2006 from Seton Hall University, South Orange. Since that time he has been treating patients in Morris and Union counties. Costa also serves as an Seton Hall University.

Said Fitzgerald, Ricardo prides himself on considering each of his patients individual needs to tailor their treatment. He is here to help you get back to the things you enjoy doing.

For information, visit the Library of the Chathams website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

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DeKALB The DeKalb Public Library will offer free virtual events through Zoom meetings and Facebook Live.

Virtual Medicare 101 will be offered 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 25. Licensed Medicare sales representative Carol Cherry will discuss Medicare insurance plans. Please register for this event at dkpl.org. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting, a phone number to call into the Zoom meeting and a password to the meeting. Join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes prior to the program, especially if you havent used Zoom before, as this session is limited to the first 10 people.

Virtual Stories at Home will be held on Facebook Live from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27. The live story time will feature books being read and songs. To watch the programs, join the DKPL Stories at Home Facebook group.

Wonder Woman will lead a virtual superhero story time on Facebook Live from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. The story time will feature singing, engaging storytelling, and the characters will respond to your childs comments by name. To watch story time, join the DeKalb Library + Princess Story Time Event Series Facebook group. All attending families are automatically entered to win a 10-minute Parties with Character diamond package video call with the story time character directly after the event. Superhero and Princess Story Times are presented by Parties with Character.

The library will host a virtual anime and manga club for adults from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 28 via Zoom. During the meeting, the group will play Japanese Salesman, a game where you have to sell odd Japanese products without knowing what they are, and watch Arte. Register online for the event at http://www.dkpl.org.com. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting, a phone number to call into the Zoom meeting and a password to the meeting. Join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes prior to the program, especially if you havent used Zoom before, as this session is limited to the first 10 people. This program is intended for adults.

For additional information about the librarys upcoming virtual events, contact Samantha at samanthah@dkpl.org.

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Increased use for High Life Highland online library resources in Inverness and the rest of the Highlands during coronavirus pandemic – Inverness…

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Inverness public library.

High Life Highland (HLH) libraries have been given top marks as people turn to the charitys online resources during lockdown.

While library buildings are closed people can still access a rage of materials and activities online including Bookbug sessions, e-books, audio books and newspapers.

Bookbug is a national programme for sharing stories, songs and rhymes for young people, with the number of views of sessions rising to 6500 last month from just under 2000 in March.

Pressreader, the online newspaper service, has more than doubled the number of views in April in comparison with the same month last year an increase of 30,000 views.

The number of uses of e-books through the HLH library service has also doubled compared to last year.

One parent, Davina Seaton, said: As you can imagine this has been a very difficult time trying to provide home school and nursery for a three-year-old and a five-year-old who are at different stages of learning.

"The Bookbug sessions online help to bridge that gap for a short time and provide relief and enjoyment for all of us in our household, as we try to watch them as a family.

"Both my children benefit as they are learning whilst having fun and the burden of teaching is lifted from myself. Thank you for helping to bring these vital services to the Highlands during this difficult, stressful and often scary time.

Julie Corcoran, principal libraries manager for High Life Highland, said: It's great to hear that so many people are using and benefitting from our online library services at the moment.

"By using online channels, weve been able to keep many of our services available for people in Highland communities during this unprecedented period. Well keep adapting the range of resources available, as new options become available.

For details of all activities, with links to the resources, visit here.

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Bernard Shaw (journalist) – Wikipedia

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Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940) is a retired American journalist and former lead news anchor for CNN from 1980 until his retirement in March 2001.

Shaw was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, including stints in Hawaii and at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina, where in 1962 he was a "Message Center" specialist, achieving the rank of Corporal, E-4. He exhibited a passionate interest in the print media, clipping articles from newspapers, and often traveled on weekends to Washington, D.C. He cultivated an acquaintance with Walter Cronkite and had an interest in baseball.[1][2]

Shaw began his broadcasting career as an anchor and reporter for WNUS in Chicago. He then worked as a reporter for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Chicago, moving later to Washington as the White House correspondent. He worked as a correspondent in the Washington Bureau of CBS News from 1971 to 1977. In 1977, he moved to ABC News as Latin American correspondent and bureau chief before becoming the Capitol Hill Senior Correspondent. He left ABC in 1980 to move to CNN as co-anchor of its PrimeNews broadcast, anchoring from Washington, D.C..

Shaw is widely known for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. Knowing that Dukakis opposed the death penalty, Shaw asked him if he would support an irrevocable death penalty for a man who hypothetically raped and murdered Dukakis's wife. Dukakis responded that he would not; critics felt he framed his response too legalistically and logically, and did not address it sufficiently on a personal level. Kitty Dukakis, among other public figures, found the question inflammatory and unwarranted at a presidential debate. Several journalists also on the panel with Shaw, including Ann Compton, Andrea Mitchell, and Margaret Garrard Warner, expressed an interest in leaving Dukakis's name out of the question.[3]

He is also remembered for his reporting on the 1991 Gulf War.[4] Reporting with CNN correspondents John Holliman and Peter Arnett from the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, he found shelter under a desk as he reported cruise missiles flying past his window. He also made frequent trips back and forth from the hotel's bomb shelter. While describing the situation in Baghdad, he famously stated "Clearly I've never been there, but this feels like we're in the center of hell."

He moderated the October 2000 vice-presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman.

Shaw co-anchored CNN's Inside Politics from 1992 until he retired from CNN in 2001. He has still occasionally appeared on CNN, including in May 2005 when a plane flew into restricted air space in Washington, D.C. He also co-anchored Judy Woodruff's last broadcast on CNN in June 2005. Shaw noted that after 41 years in the business, given what he missed in his personal life, the cost was not worth it.[5]

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Bernard Shaw, Husband and Bodyguard of Patty Hearst, Dies …

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Bernard L. Shaw, a former San Francisco police officer who became the bodyguard and husband of Patricia Hearst, the heiress who was abducted in 1974 by a leftist guerrilla organization and then imprisoned for crimes she was accused of committing on its behalf, died on Dec. 17 at his home in Garrison, N.Y. He was 68.

The Hearst Corporation said he died after a long illness but did not specify the cause.

Mr. Shaw gained a kind of reflected celebrity through his association with Ms. Hearst, which the news media saw as an unlikely union of the upper and working classes.

They met in 1976 after she was released on bail pending an appeal of her conviction in a bank robbery, which was carried out with her help, prosecutors said by a radical group that called itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. Mr. Shaw was one of about 20 bodyguards hired by the Hearst family.

Ms. Hearst was 19 when she was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., on Feb. 4, 1974. She said in a tape recording that April that she had willingly adopted their cause, but her lawyers later said her captors had physically and sexually abused her and brainwashed her into joining them.

Ms. Hearst was also accused of spraying a Los Angeles street with gunfire to help one of her kidnappers escape after he had robbed a sporting goods store. She was taken into custody more than a year after six Symbionese Liberation Army members were killed in a shootout with the Los Angeles police.

After the United States Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal, she was returned to prison, where Mr. Shaw visited her four times a week. His first marriage was dissolved in 1977. President Jimmy Carter commuted Ms. Hearsts sentence in 1979, and she and Mr. Shaw married in a brief but well-publicized Episcopal ceremony at a naval base in San Francisco Bay.

Bernard Lee Shaw was born in San Francisco on Sept. 3, 1945. He attended the University of San Francisco and served in the Army. He began working for the Hearst Corporation in 1983 and was Hearsts vice president for corporate security at his death.

Ms. Hearst, now Patricia Hearst Shaw, survives him, as do their two daughters, Gillian Hearst Simonds and Lydia Hearst-Shaw; two children from his previous marriage, Thomas and Heather Shaw; a sister, Joan Carmignani; and a granddaughter.

Ms. Hearst Shaw said her family had been pessimistic about her long-term chances of staying with Mr. Shaw. My parents gave us a Sears vacuum cleaner as a wedding present, she told Conan OBrien in 1996. They thought it wouldnt last.

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Pygmalion | Summary, Characters, & Facts | Britannica

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Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system.

Henry Higgins, a phonetician, accepts a bet that simply by changing the speech of a Cockney flower seller he will be able, in six months, to pass her off as a duchess. Eliza undergoes grueling training. When she successfully passes in high societyhaving in the process become a lovely young woman of sensitivity and tasteHiggins dismisses her abruptly as a successfully completed experiment. Eliza, who now belongs neither to the upper class, whose mannerisms and speech she has learned, nor to the lower class, from which she came, rejects his dehumanizing attitude.

The play became famous as a motion picture in 1938 and later as the stage musical My Fair Lady (1956), with a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. A 1964 film version of the musical featured Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

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and most popular play, is Pygmalion (performed 1913). It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its antiheroic hero, Henry Higgins, is a phonetician, but the play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. The play is about the training Higgins

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>Pygmalion (performed 1913). The story was filmed in 1938, starring Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, and was adapted as the stage musical My Fair Lady in 1956 (filmed 1964), with Rex Harrison as the professor (on both stage and screen).

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>Pygmalion (performed 1913; filmed 1938; adapted as the stage musical My Fair Lady, 1956; filmed 1964).

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Why this Govt reminds you of George Bernard Shaw at every step – National Herald

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The official notices were clear: the workers themselves would have to pay for the tickets home, plus a surcharge. As we know, as soon as Congress president Sonia Gandhi offered to pay for all travel, all hell broke loose and the Centre took a days silence to then pretend that it had meant to pay all along, with some small amount to be borne by state governments.

To date, that lie has been proved over and over as travellers claimed that they have paid for their rail tickets. Karnataka meanwhile said it was banning labourers from leaving for their home states because the builders lobby needed labourers. It was only after public outrage that trains were permitted.

And do not ever forget that at the same time, hundreds and millions of rupees were spent to get the Indian Air Force to drop flowers on hospitals even as the long walks of desperation continued. So lets get back to Shaw. Even as the government robbed Peter, there were huge appeals from Paul like the builders lobby in Karnataka that government handouts be given to them. As a favour, the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh decided to do away with most labour laws. Peter once more was to be sacrificed for Paul.

In essence, while some rubbed their hands with glee, the rights done away with included toilet facilities, ventilation, somewhere to sit, protective gear, first aid, canteens, lighting, 8-hour shifts, weekly holidays and more. This in effect means that the worker is now a slave, at the mercy of his or her employer. You can rest assured that wages will also be similarly reduced. The Indian economy is at its lowest point ever now, between the Modi governments own severe mishandling and lack of policy and now thanks to SARS-Cov-2, as the virus has been renamed. And because of the lockdown, Indias most vulnerable are even more at risk.

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Celebrating the Trinity College Class of 2020 – Trinity College

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The Trinity College community recently celebrated the graduates of the Class of 2020 through two online events. With their Commencement ceremony on campus postponed until spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of this years graduating class were honored with a virtual Baccalaureate program and a special tribute video, both of which they could view remotely with their families from anywhere around the world.

The virtual Baccalaureate 2020 program invited reflection, offered thanksgiving, and included wisdom, prayer, and music from many traditionsin addition to sweeping aerial views of campus and the familiar sounds of the Trinity College Chapels pipe organ and carillon bells. The video was shared online on Saturday, May 16, the date which marked the 197th anniversary of the colleges founding.

The program featured guest speaker and honorary doctor of divinity degree recipient The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church. The Rev. Allison Read, college chaplain and dean of spiritual and religious life, welcomed the Trinity community to the unique virtual gathering before presenting Currywhom Read noted is perhaps most well-known for presiding over the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markleto Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney for the honorary degree.

In his Baccalaureate Address, Curry noted that he spent some time in conversation with Trinity students via Zoom and he was asked what gives him hope in difficult times. Recalling volunteering for the late Robert F. Kennedys Senate campaign when he was in high school, Curry said, One of the often-repeated quotes that Sen. Kennedy said was quoting George Bernard Shaw Some men see things as they are and ask, Why?; I dream things that never were and ask, Why not?

The truth is, those who have made a difference, however large or small, are people who have dared to be Why not? people, who have not settled for the way things are, Curry said. My dear friends, Class of 2020 do not settle for the why of this world. Be strong and courageous; dare to dream and to make a dream reality and ask, Why not?

To watch the video of Currys conversation with members of the Trinity community, click here.

Read more about all of this years honorary degree recipients here.

Todays activities are in no way intended to replace a traditional Commencement ceremony, but we couldnt let today pass without marking the completion of the academic year and celebrating you, our graduating students, Berger-Sweeney said at the start of A Tribute to the Graduating Students of the Class of 2020 on Sunday, May 17, the original date of Commencement. The video included the conferral of degrees to candidates for bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and master of arts degrees, in addition to short videos submitted by graduating students who shared some of their favorite memories of their time at Trinity.

In a lemonade toast to the class that bookended the Lemon Squeezer tradition the graduates learned about at their Convocation ceremony four years ago, Berger-Sweeney said, Please, raise your glasses and join me in celebrating you and your accomplishments as official graduates of Trinity College. Your liberal arts education has prepared you for uncertainty and challenge. Today, you join the ranks of alumni of Trinity College. You will emerge out of this crisis stronger and embark on a new chapter in your lives, more resilient and determined than ever.

Cornelia Thornburgh 80, chair of the Trinity College Board of Trustees, recognized the recipients of this years Trustee Awards for Excellence, whom she said exemplify Trinitys highest standards and bring distinction to the institution. The Trustee Awards for Student Excellence went to Rahuljeet Chadha 20 and Hamna Tariq 20. Professor of Physics and Environmental Science Christoph Geiss and Jonathan Gourley, principal lecturer and laboratory coordinator in the Environmental Science Program, received the Trustee Awards for Faculty Excellence. Director of Campus Safety Brian Heavren received the Trustee Award for Staff Excellence.

Secretary of the Faculty Mark Stater, associate professor of economics, remarked on the determination of the graduates to complete their Trinity education even under exceptional circumstances this semester. Rest assured that your class will never be forgotten, he said. Be strong, courageous, and blessed with good fortune as you go forth into the world.

Eric Estes 91, president of the Trinity College Alumni Association, encouraged the graduates to keep in touch with their professors and with fellow alumni. One of Trinitys greatest strengths is its tremendous alumni network, and we welcome you with open arms, Estes said.

Demonstrating the ability of this network to pull together, alumni were invited this spring to share messages of encouragement with the graduating students as they worked hard to finish their final classes remotely and prepared to join the alumni community. One such note said, in part, Trinity is a special place. while [alumni] are all different, we all share a passion for the college, a love of learning for the sake of learning, a commitment to service, and a willingness to make our mark in the world at large. Rest assured, as you blaze a trail and make your mark in that world, that Trinity will be there every step of the way.

Both video presentations concluded with Trinitys alma mater, Neath the Elms, performed for the tribute to the Class of 2020 by the a cappella groups The Trinitones and The Pipes; and for the Baccalaureate program by The Chapel Singers.

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Dakota West Credit Union Awards Additional Scholarships To Support Its Members – The Roundup

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Watford City, ND Breaking from its tradition, Dakota West awarded $500 to every student who submitted an application for its 2020 Dakota West Credit Union Annual Scholarships. Originally planning to award four scholarships, current high school seniors and enrolled college and trade school students submitted essays focusing on the Dakota West Value of Communication.

The unconventional circumstances for most students right now made the final months of this school year an exercise in self-discipline. Any students who made the effort to speak to their viewpoint on the importance of Communication in this time of social distancing deserves to be recognized for his or her dedication, Juliet Jones, Dakota West Marketing Coordinator, explained of the change in the number of recipients.

Taylalyn Kaczmar, Dakota Wests Watford City branch member, plans to pursue studies in Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University. Kaczmar wrote of the importance of Communication, Once in the medical field, discussion with providers and patients will be critical for the best and efficient care to be provided. I recognize that having effective communication in the workplace can determine and impact how well my relationships with my superiors, coworkers, and patients will be.

Charles Eriksmoen, a current student at Bismarck State College, is finishing his first year as a farm and ranch management major. Eriksmoen paused in his online studies to write, Communication will impact my life heavily in the future years to come and it is a large part of my life and will always be a big part of my life to continue to communicate with breeders, friends, family, and anyone that is willing to help me succeed.

A member of the Watford City branch of Dakota West, Ethan Kobosplans plans to study cyber security this fall at the University of North Dakota. His application pointed to the importance of Communication when he penned, In current times, student engagement with teachers has been greatly diminished. And due to this, it has become important for students to develop the ability to briefly, yet professionally, communicate with teachers regarding their classroom questions.

Gracey Russell from Washburn hopes to begin classes in the fall at Bismarck State College. Regardless of the change of in the current online class environment, Russell recognized the role of Communication in her future, Communication also goes in hand with the career I want to pursue in the future. I want to get my nursing degree and become a nurse. Communication is vital in this field because if people do not communicate with each other, then others could potentially be at risk.

One of the first applicants, prior to his school being closed in March, Clayton Ledahl intends to stay close to home when he enrolls at Williston State College in the fall. After I graduate college I plan to open and run my own business. If I do open up my own business, I would have to do interviews with potential workers. In order to do this Id be communicating with people Im interviewing. This could well include people in Ledahls hometown of Grenora.

Morgan Reiser, finishing her first year at Dakota College of Bottineau, took time to elaborate on the role of Communication in the current world scenario, Right now, in these trying times, I do not think communication could be more crucial. With Blackboard Collaborate, Zoom, and email I am able to stay in daily contact with my professors to discuss all of my assignments and any questions I may have. Not only has communication been a huge part of my life, especially in these special circumstances, but it will continue to be a huge part of life in my future. Reiser studies Nursing from her home in Turtle Lake.

A two-time Dakota West Scholarship recipient, Hannah Johnson quoted George Bernard Shaw in her take on Communication, The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. Johnson continues, The importance of good communication cannot be overlooked and is needed on a daily basis. Dakota Wests Grenora branch is proud to have Johnson as one of its members.

These seven students received news of their receipt of these scholarships on Dakota Wests Facebook page (www.facebook.com/DakotaWestCredit Union) on Friday, May 15.

Dakota West expresses its congratulations and gratitude to all the student members who belong to the non-profit credit union headquartered in Watford City. Established in 1941, each of its branches and its members and employees help grow the Dakota West family with exceptional commitment to building relationships and strengthening communities.

Dedicated to exhibiting its values of Responsibility, Positive Attitude, Respectfulness, and Communication throughout west and central North Dakota, including branches in Grenora and Watford City, Dakota West Credit Union is instilling its young members with skills to maintain personal financial responsibility throughout their education. Dakota West supports that all its members grow with comprehensive, competitive financial products partnered with personal, professional service. To learn more about its services and communities, visit http://www.dakotawestcu.com/member-services/.

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The Philadelphia Story, The Thirteenth Chair, and works by A.A. Milne set for the coming weeks

Langleys Theatre in the Country (TIC) might not be able to physically bring productions to the stage because of COVID-19, but online is a much different story.

Artistic director Reg Parks said TIC has been streaming plays for the past four weeks and plans do it right through August until they can safely re-open the theatre space.

The idea came from being in a Zoom meeting at the school I teach at and joking around with colleagues. I realized it was engaging and interesting to be so close to the faces, Parks said. It gave me the idea that doing theatre this way would allows the audience to get a close up perspective that they dont normally get.

Parks felt the opportunity was a great way to keep his company of actors engaged and patrons entertained. Currently, TIC has 45 actors signed up to take turns to perform in online shows.

Because of the technological opportunities, actors are performing from all over the country including Ontario, Prince George, Princeton, North Vancouver, and Langley.

So far, Zoom productions have ranged from An Ideal husband by Oscar Wilde to Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

TIC is using a Pay-What-You-Can method online which allows patrons to select how much they want to pay from $5 to $50 the recommended donation being $15 a person.

Certainly, the fact that we still have rent to pay, and other standing expenses factors in, but beyond that we have a community that loves to create and loves to tell stories. We also love a challenge, and when we started discussing it everyone was very game and energetic, Parks explained.

He said this has given actors an outlet to perform and patrons a much needed to break from the news and concerns of the day.

I have been shocked about how many people have thanked for simply making the effort, for offering some form of interactive entertainment, he added. They have been very gracious as we have gotten things started, and as we fine tune the experience for everyone involved.

Upcoming shows include:

May 22 & 23 The Philadelphia Story a comedy by Phillip Barry that became the musical High Society with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.

June 5 & 6 Molieres Tartuffe A new prose translation of the original french verse play, and the translator David Nicholson will be joining live from Toronto for the shows and the talk backs afterwards.

June 12 & 13 Two Curtain Raisers Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton about a landlady who rents the same room to two men without them knowing and How He Lied To Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw.

June 19 & 20 Two one-act plays by A.A. Milne

June 26 & 27 The Thirteenth Chair by Bayard Veiller a classic British Locked Room murder.

We are currently looking for shows for July and August, and plan to run them until we can re-open the theatre space, Parks noted.

READ MORE: VIDEO: Langley Community Chorus sings Shenandoah

People can find out more about the upcoming performances at https://theatreinthecountry.com.

Theatre is a great way to have a truly shared experience, and doing it online has in some ways made it even more intimate because we are performing right in people homes, Parks said. Since everything we do is live its a case they see us, and we see them. Its very bonding.

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