On Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:35:17 -0700, NordLark
wrote:
:|In article ,
:| Ariane ~YL~ wrote:
:|
:| On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 15:34:33 -0400, Kilgore Trout
:| wrote:
:|
:| :|Here's another flea market find, a July 1984 slide of quintessential New
:| :|England, the harbor of Isle au Haut, Maine, and the boat "Mink".
:|
:| AND the Opera House!!! !! !!! wondering what they were
:| performing at the time this photo was taken - TY for sharing
:| this amazing find, Al
:|
:|
:| {}{}{} --- Ariane
:|
:|I was curious about this place, too,
:|Ariane, and found out that it's the
:|Stonington Opera House.
:|
:|
http://www.operahousearts.org/stonington-opera-house
:|
:|Summarized:
:|
:|Rebuilt in 1912 after a fire, the Opera
:|House has hosted vaudeville shows, plays,
:|dances, basketball games, and numerous
:|other community events.
:|
:|It has held a movie-theater off-and-on
:|since 1918 (which was likely its main
:|use at the time this photo was taken).
:|For a while in the 1960s, it even held
:|a roller-skating rink.
:|
:|Since 1999, its new non-profit owners
:|have restored the building to use as
:|a community-arts-centered place, with
:|a regular schedule of performing arts
:|and movies.
:|
:|Lark
awwww - WHAT a history *and* WHAT a resilience this Opera House
has... I should add it to my bucket-list (THERE I wanna go in
person)
- thank you SOOOO much for finding *and* sharing
this {{{{{{{Lark}}}}}}} :x:x:x
{}{}{} --- Ariane