Summer Puppet Shows, July 1995

For Immediate Release:

The Main Street Museum Of Art is pleased to announce its Summer Puppet Schedule featuring the inimitable talents of Professor Ria Blaas and her little Band of Midget Minstrels. “The Upper Loveland Puppets,” are who we specifically refer to; and on Sundays, for most of July and August they will regale us with their antics both Comic and Tragic upon a specially constructed stage in The Museums Main Gallery and Art Studio Space. The Upper Loveland Puppet Players this season, consist of Prof. Blaas and her Co-Puppeteers: Beth Finney and Neal Meglateris

It might be mentioned that all the Actors in these dramas were once genuine, life-sized People, Animals, and Potatoes and that a highly specialized series of dehydrations, pulverizations and “smoke treatments” were performed, similar to those practiced by the Zhivarans of Peru, South America—in order to make them Small—and all of these skilled practitioners of Thespian Art are really, really Undersized.

It is a miracle of ingenuity that cannot help but captivate you. Here then is the Schedule; all dates are Sundays:

the 16th, and 23rd of July at 4:00 p. m. will feature The Terrible Pignap

Here is a Story thats All Animal; and they all live on Sunny Side Up Farm. Such Characters as a Mixed up Hen, and a Bashful Cow are protagonists in league against Larry Leach (a creep, a crook, a criminal) who comes to take away the Pig; The animals save the Pig; a happy ending.

the 30th of July and the 13th of Aug. at 4:00 p.m features: Patty Peels Out

An All Potato Escape Story; See the potatoes as they grow roots, fall in love, become estranged, attempt homicide. Spud is a Little Spud. Rotten Potato Traps Patty in a box. Sweetie and Rotten get into a fight. A posse searches for Spud. They encounter all these terrible things: the Sun, the Knife, and a Guy named MacDonald. The moral: “Dont just Sit On It”; another happy ending.

the 16th and the 20th of Aug. at 4:00 p.m will be Isabelle and the Amazon

A Little Girl is bored in class. Mr. Dewitt, her teacher, leaves the class after a sneezing fit and a huge butterfly named Viola transports the Girl and her little Bear Bobo to the Amazon River Basin. They encounter Cannibals. Although, at last, dont look surprised, this one has a happy ending as well.

The shows are all priced at $4.00 (four dollars) per person and last approximately 45 minutes. As a special added attraction, the infamous Sea-Monster will also be on display both before and after the “Fantoccini” Entertainments as its “Run” in White River has had to be extended due to Urgent Public Demand.

A Christmas Story

For Immediate Release:

15 Nov., 1995

Dear Folks;

The Poster on the other side speaks volumes doesnt it? What more can we say? Only that Prof. Ria Blaas, her Co-Puppeteer Beth Finney have recently returned from an extended Tour through the major Cultural Capitals of Europe where they have entertained Crowned Heads, Celebrities of the Art and Intelligencia Circles, and not a few White Collar Criminals as well. Now they are in White River Junction again. Their Home. Our Home. Our Town. Why not make it your town as well this Season. Our midget actors have been rehearsing many long hours this Fall during their sojourn on display in the Art Public Project Windows in the Coolidge Block. (They practice at night, when you arent looking.)

So once again there will be entertainment “a’plenty” for children and adults on Sunday, 3 December at 4:00, Saturday 9 December at 4:00 and Sunday 10 December at 4:00 and 7:30 pm; all shows cost a measly $4.00, so see you there at...

The Main Street Museum. Lets face it, it really wouldnt seem like Christmas without us would it?

“May it Please You,”

—David Fairbanks Ford, Prop.