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Surprising Franklin Stage Has Surprises In Offing This Season, ‘La Dolce Vita’ Meets Palm Springs By LIBBY CUDMORE FRANKLIN
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On the stage at Franklin Stage, executive director Carmella Marner summons up this season’s offerings.
fter six years with the Franklin Stage Company, executive director Carmela Marner can still be surprised by a performance. “Last summer, we had the Metawee River Theater Company performing out on the high school field,” she said. “There were 300
IF YOU GO: Humorist Jim Mullen’s “How To Lose Your Money In Your Spare Time At Home” opens its season at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 16, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 17. Full schedule, www.franklinstagecompany.org people there. I came up over the edge and I almost burst into tears – to draw a crowd like that is really
amazing.” The Metawee River Theater company will be returning as part of the 16th season of free theater with a moon-lit puppet show, “Communications from a Cockroach: Archy & the Underside,” based on the Archy and Mahitabel cartoons of the 1920s. “It’s crazy,” she said. “It’s our usual eclectic and varied array of performances.” There are some big difPlease See STAGE, A9
Already, It’s Their Lucky Day! Jessica Guenther tries on wedding dresses at Rainbow’s End along with her bridal party. In the background are, from left, Heather Ellis, Jamie Moxham, Athena Leverock, Sandy Guenther (mother of the bride), Nichole Bainer (of NCP Fashion styling services, standing) and Aisha Guenther. In photo at lower right, Rainbow’s End proprietor Norah Doyle looks on approvingly.
Couple Wins All-Expenses-Paid Wedding, Honeymoon By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA ride-to-be Jessica Guenther of Oneonta made her father, Ben, an offer the father of the bride couldn’t refuse. “I asked him, if we paid for the wedding, would he pay for the honeymoon?” said Jessica. What dad didn’t know was the wedding was already paid for, courtesy of Celebration Creation’s “From Us To You, Your Dream I Do” Contest. Six couples vied for the $19,369 prize package, which included the gown, the tuxes, the venue, the cake, the food and the flowers.
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ix Hall of Famers, including Carlton Fisk, whose 1975 homerun hitting bat is detailed at “FENtennial: Fenway Park’s First 100 Years” exhibit in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, will join more than 20 former MLB players at Doubleday Field for the fourth annual Father’s Day Weekend Classic at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 16. Info, National Baseball Hall of Fame, 547-7200
DAD’S TREATS: Take Dad out to celebrate with free fun on Sunday, June 17: • Dad’s play free when hosted by their darling daughters at Edgewood Golf. $20 includes cart! T-times from 7 a.m. to dark. Edgewood Golf Course, one mile from Gilbert Lake State Park. Call (607) 432-2713 for info and reservations. • Tortoises, lizards & frogs, oh my! Father’s receive free admission to the Oneonta’s Joseph L. Popp, Jr. Butterfly Conservatory, 5802 State Hwy. 7, Info, www. OneontaButterflies.com • History buff? Learn about Robert Fulton, creator of the first commercially successful steamboat when historian Robert W. Arnold III presents “Life Speeds Up: Robert Fulton and a Changing New York.” 2 p.m. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 County Highway 12, East Meredith. Admission to both lecture and museum free. Info, keving@hanfordmills.org.
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Carlton Fisk At Dad’s Day Classic Game
DRIVE IN: Take a cruise down memory lane at the Reminiscer’s Car Club 38th Annual Car Show 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at Oneonta’s Sixth Ward Athletic Club, 22 West Broadway. Flea market, food, 5050 raffles, used-car corral, silent auction and trophies. Proceeds benefit The Lord’s Table and Club scholarship fund. Spectators $3; $8/carload, kids free. Info, 4319029, (607) 988-2812.
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Carlton Fisk will be at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Classic at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 16.
But Jessica’s father lucked out as well, as the five-day, four-night honeymoon in the Dominican Republic was also included. Jessica and her fiancé, Dan Decker, used to play together as children. “We’ve known each Please See LUCKY, B2
More To Come...
AllOTSEGO.life reporter Libby Cudmore
will report periodically how wedding planning is progressing through the Guenther-Decker nuptials in November.
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