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Majestic Theater screens classics in its summer series

Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater is celebrating 15 years of its Summer Classic Movies series in the historic 1925 auditorium. Enjoy classic movies in the beautifully restored historic theater on Wednesday nights at 7:30 p.m. through August.

Tickets for each film are $8. Advanced ticket purchase is strongly recommended.

“After being stuck at home and watching films on your iPhone, rediscover the fun of watching great classic films up on the giant screen in the company of your friends and neighbors,” urged Jeffrey Gabel, the Majestic’s Founding Executive Director. “The emotions elicited by a movie are magnified in a crowd so you scream louder and laugh heartier. Even better, you get to binge on the Majestic’s award-winning buttered popcorn.”

Join other classic film fans on July 13 to watch 1988’s “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” a ground-breaking film combining digital animation with live action. Return to high school July 20 with John Hughes’ teen classic about growing up, The Breakfast Club (1985) starring Brat Pack members Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, and Ally Sheedy.

The Coen Brothers’ romping retelling of The Odyssey, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000) makes its Majestic debut on July 27, before Harrison Ford returns to the summer series as a tough Philly cop protecting a young Amish farm boy in “Witness” (1985) on Aug. 3. Return to classic Hollywood on Aug. 10 with “Guys and Dolls” (1955) starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra in the adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. On Aug. 17, “Thelma & Louise” (1991) run away from their unhappy love lives to set off on a cross-country trip, meeting charming young Brad Pitt (in his film debut) along the way. The series closes Aug. 24 with the heartfelt family drama “On Golden Pond” (1981) starring legends Henry Fonda, Kathryn Hepburn and Jane Fonda.

Tickets for all Summer Classics showings are available at the Majestic Theater Box Office, 25 Carlisle St., Gettysburg, by calling 717-3378200 or online at gettysburgmajestic. org. Free parking is available from Gettysburg College’s Constitution Parking Lot. Shuttle service will not be available. Metered parking is available at the Gettysburg Borough Parking Garage in Race Horse Alley as well as along Carlisle Street.

The Majestic Theater at the Jennifer and David LeVan Performing Arts Center is owned and operated by Gettysburg College as a gathering place for its campus and community to celebrate the arts together.

Andrea Sachs photos Ewell, the largest of Smith Island’s three villages, is a popular birding destination.

Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island

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The Barbara Ann chugged past a jetty heavily occupied by pelicans standing around like teens outside a Starbucks.

We docked in Ewell and, after quick stop at the Smith Island Cultural Center, walked along a road that was light on car (and golf cart) traffic but heavy with bird jams. More than half of the main island is salt marsh, and the knee-high cordgrass and black needlerush seemingly stretched to the Earth’s curve.

In Tylerton, our group piled into three skiffs captained by islanders who could read the private thoughts of the sea and sky. I claimed the co-pilot seat next to Bradshaw, who was clearly intrigued, if not smitten, by the pelicans. Before we set off for the colony, he told me that he had previously dropped by the library to further his education on pelicans.

Bradshaw piloted the boat across the Maryland state line and into Virginia and rounded a bend partially obscuring the rookery on Chesapeake Bay Foundation land. “You can smell them before you can see them,” Rapp said. “Enjoy the show.” I switched my breathing from nose to mouth, and settled in for the spectacle.

The boats parked within close range of a scrubby berm dotted with nests and the white-capped heads of pelicans warming their eggs between their webbed feet. Incoming birds landed on the beach with blades of grass dangling from their beaks like cigarettes. Behind us, pelicans cooled off in the water.

The rookery was mainly populated by adults, with a few youngsters in the mix. “See those real dark birds?” Wes asked, pointing at what looked like chocolate-dipped pelicans. “They are last year’s babies.” The pelicans also intermingled with other colonial nesting birds, including herrings and great black-backed gulls. The double-crested cormorants, which had set up a maternity ward behind the pelicans, were also relatively new to the area.

“I’ve been out here a bunch of times and I still ask myself, ‘Am I really on the Eastern Shore?’” Rapp said.

For a moment, we forgot about the pelicans as we watched a floofy gull chick hobble down the beach and stand apprehensively on the water’s edge. Its parents, bobbing on the waves, squawked encouragement. The baby took one tentative step, then another, and was soon floating toward its life coaches. Our boat erupted in quiet cheers. Soon, it would be the pelican chicks’ turn. Better late than never.

A skiff with Delmarva Birding Weekends carries guests to a brown pelican rookery.

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