MAY 19, 2016 // 7
‘he Drunkard’ melodrama is on tap
ILWACO, Wash. — The
audience will have a chance
to prove that “love overcomes
liquor” as they cheer the hero
and boo the villain in “The
Drunkard,” starting at 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 19, and run-
ning through the weekend at
the River City Playhouse, 127
S.E. Lake St. in Ilwaco.
Cribbs, the villain, is out
to get the opposite result and
proclaim that “ liquor over-
comes love,” in this Peninsula
Players production.
This old-fashioned melo-
drama is an adaptation of the
original produced in 1844
at the P. T. Barnum Lecture
Room in New York City. The
production broke all records
for a New York “run” up to
that time. The play went on to
become one of the weapons
used by the American Tem-
perance League in their ight
to bring about Prohibition to
America.
The plot centers on
Cribbs, who has only two
goals. The irst is to scam the
rightful owner of a large in-
heritance by causing death by
the “demon rum.” His second
goal is to marry the sweet
and tender Mary. Alcohol
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Cast of “The Drunkard”
becomes the major tool in his
onslaught.
Cribbs is helped along
by his sidekick, Stickler.
The plot thickens when poor
Mary has to choose between
the evil Cribbs and the drunk-
ard. Mary’s mother tries to
convince Mary that to marry
for money is more important
than love. ‘
“The Drunkard” is further
enhanced by original music
by Rita Smith on piano to
accentuate the good and evil
of the characters. Smith has
appeared as the pianist in
several Peninsula Players’
performances.
Shows are 7 p.m. Thurs-
day through Saturday, May
21. There is a matinee at 2
p.m. Sunday, May 22.
Presale tickets are
available at the Olde Towne
Trading Post in Ilwaco,
Stormin’ Normans in Long
Beach and Okies Thriftway in
Ocean Park. Tickets will also
be available at the door.
Manzanita Writers’ Series features Nicole Hardy
MANZANITA — Nicole
Hardy will read from her
memoir, “Confessions of a
Latter-Day Virgin,” at 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 21, at the
Hoffman Center for the Arts
in Manzanita, 594 Laneda
Ave, with a writing work-
shop during the day.
“Her struggle between
trying to be the woman her
community expects her to
become and her growing
conviction that she must be
herself, is one I won’t soon
forget,” said Suzanne Morri-
son, author of “Yoga Bitch.”
Hardy’s memoir was a
inalist for the 2014 Wash-
ington State Book Award.
Nicole Hardy
Her other books include
the poetry collections “This
Blonde” and “Mud Flap
Girl’s XX Guide to Facial
Proiling,” a chapbook of
pop-culture inspired sonnets.
Her work has appeared in
many literary journals and
newspapers including The
New York Times, and has
been adapted for radio and
stage. Her essay “Single,
Female, Mormon, Alone”
was noted in 2012’s “Best
American Essays.”
From 1 to 4 p.m. Satur-
day, she will lead a work-
shop: Writing Our Personal
Stories. Students will divide
their time among lecture,
discussion, and writing exer-
cises to delve into the art of
creating memoir from mem-
ory. Hardy will share lessons
learned the hard way, show
samples from other authors,
and explain how novelists’
techniques can be useful in
writing memoir.
Registration fee for the
workshop is $30. Register
online at hoffmanblog.org
Following Hardy’s read-
ing and Q&A in the evening
is an Open Mic where up to
nine local or visiting writers
will read 5 minutes of their
original work. The suggest-
ed (not required) theme for
the evening’s Open Mic is
“Confessions.” Admission
for the evening reading is
$7.
Go underwater for
next History & Hops
SEASIDE — The next
History & Hops free local
history lecture is 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 26, at Sea-
side Brewing Co., located
at 851 Broadway.
Jerry Ostermiller,
executive director of the
Columbia River Maritime
Museum, will share “A
Tale of Two Shipwrecks:
Underwater Archaeology
on the Most Dangerous
Bar,” which introduces a
1989 discovery of a myste-
rious shipwreck near Sand
Island at the mouth of the
Columbia River.
Underwater archaeology
in extreme environments
is inherently dificult. The
Columbia River Maritime
Museum and the National
Park Service’s Cultural Re-
source Dive Team initially
identiied this ship as the
Hudson’s Bay Co. supply
vessel Isabella.
Over the next 18 years,
Ostermiller conducted an-
nual monitoring dives for
the Oregon State Historic
Preservation Ofice which
produced new information
requiring further study,
leading to a different
shipwreck identity. This
shipwreck has become a
national case study and
Jerry Ostermiller
was featured in a National
Geographic Society TV
production illustrating the
value of new “CSI-type”
technologies.
Ostermiller is an
award-winning historian
specializing in underwater
archaeology. He is a mas-
ter diver and a founding
member of the Maritime
Archaeology Society and
the Paciic Northwest Mar-
itime Heritage Council.
He served as the executive
director of the Maritime
Museum for 20 years.
History & Hops is a
monthly series of local
history discussions hosted
by the Seaside Museum at
Seaside Brewing Co.
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