PHOTO COURTESY LINCOLN MEMORIAL GARDEN Lincoln Memorial Garden will welcome in fall on Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 12-13 with their popular Indian Summer Festival. Family activities on the grounds will include crafts, face painting, storytelling, puppet shows, pumpkin decorating and fairy house building. In addition to more than 40 craft vendors, Art in the Garden […]
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This will grow you more brain cells
You grow new brain cells with each new experience. Never tasted chai tea? Drink it and grow more brain cells. Never listened to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Listen: New brain. Never wrote a poem. Do it, new cells. Cross off your list another “never done this before” — attend Springfield Poets and […]
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Masterful musical
The Muni opens its 2013 season with Les Miserables, June 14-16, 19-23 and 27-29. Directed by Stephan Kaplan, this musical follows Jean Valjean, an unfairly imprisoned man who upon release becomes a force for good but finds he cannot escape his past. Joshua Ratz plays Valjean. The Muni has been entertaining Springfield area audiences at […]
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Autumn ambience
Springfield’s long love affair with the Indian Summer Festival continues this weekend, Oct. 13 and 14. Two fun-filled days are planned, and it is certain that all ages will once again flock to the fields and forest at Lincoln Memorial Garden for mouthwatering food, autumn ambience, loads of music and enjoyable activities such as pumpkin […]
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Biblical musical
The popular musical, Josepeh and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, opens a summer season of theater at The Muni. Set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles, from country western and calypso, to bubble-gum pop and rock ’n’ roll, this production of the Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors, will deliver you […]
