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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. - Walt Whitman Song of the Open Road

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Friday, July 24, 2009

TOUR UPSTATE NY - revives local murderess, Eva Coo


Our Brooklyn, NY based theatre company brought an upstate murderess to life with the world-premiere of Isaac Rathbone's new play, "LITTLE EVA." The play occurs in the upstate New York county of Otsego, where the murderess, Eva Coo, was tried in 1934 and executed a year later, in Sing Sing Prison. Her crime: killing her ward and handy-man, Harry Wright, for the insurance claims, about 12 in all. Rathbone's drama focuses on the Trial in the Otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown in 1934 and cuts back and forth to the people and patterns of Eva's life that have led her up to this point.

This trial attained National Press coverage, similar to the modern O.J.Simpson Trial, due to the lows of Depression and the lack of other news. Dorothy Kilgallen even covered the case with her youthful cosmopolitan flair, as a newbie journalist. Quite the excitement for a small, rural, railroad town.

We're so pleased to have had a successful run of nine performances in the Milford and Cooperstown areas to about 1, 000 people. We presented the show with the Greater Milford Historical Association in the Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center and in the Otsego County Courthouse (site of the original 1934 trial).

This area, and most of the land in upstate New York, is beautiful, particularly in the summer months. The air is fresh and the grass, lush with the heavy rains they've been experiencing, reminds us that enjoying nature should be an integral part of our existence. Even a mere day trip a few hours north of NYC would do everyone's psychological well-being a wealth of good. We're so accustomed to the hectic pace of the metropolis, that to slow down and smell the wet grass blended with the aromatic scents of hay and yes, manure, is revitalizing, as is acquainting with the friendly locals.

I am very grateful for having family in the area that were gracious enough for us to spend a month or two coming and going from their home. But I truly encourage you to find a respite in a local environment that allows you the freedom to spend a day or so reconvening with nature.


Enjoying the summer weather with family and friends...priceless. Cheers!
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Ireland/Scotland 2008 Travel Journal - Part I

Travel Journal - Destination Ireland/Scotland July 2008

Ireland July 3 - 16th
Scotland July 16 - 28th

Part I - Enterring Ireland via Shannon Airport and the Southwest coast

My folks and my youngest brother arrived a day prior in Shannon. They spent the day traveling to our B&B in the Ennis area, resting, and then going on a day trip via bus to Galway.

My husband and I joined the trio at Anne's B&B near Ennis on the bus route. We rested for a bit and then headed off to Bunratty for the latter part of the day into the late evening. We explored Bunratty's Castle and then Folk Park, while the weather held off rain. As the rain began to pelt later in the afternoon, we made our way back to the Castle for the mid-hour Medieval Dinner Banquet.

The banquet began with cocktails of aromatic honey-flavored mead and salty bread as a gesture of good tidings and peace. The hall was filled with the lightly plucked instrumental song of Baroque music before we were ushered to the lower Banquet hall. Once in the lower room, we were escorted by costumed Medieval hosts to our long wooden banquet tables and benches. As the meal progressed from bread and soup to meat and wine a plenty, a duke and duchess were chosen, madrigal music elighted through the room, and "Charles" jestered with the festive crowd.