However, musical theatre and a candlelight turkey dinner with all the trimmings served beside a crackling fire inside Mersey River Chalets’ Cascades Restaurant might make the adventure a little easier.
Co-organizer Suzanne Frail says the Caledonia Visitor Information Centre Committee theatre fundraiser is replacing, for this year at least, the annual house tour, “just to make a change and it sort of closes out the year of the Tent Dwellers centennial.”
The two sittings, 4-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. sold out a few days after the tickets went on sale.
Frail says the old-fashioned Christmas dinner theatre will take people back to 1908, when the famed book by Andrew Bigelow Paine, The Tent Dwellers was released. The book - its centennial celebrated this year with numerous events, activities and festivals - describes a true turn-of-the-century fishing trip through parts of what are now Kejimkujik National Park and Tobeatic Reserve.
Jonathan Sheppard and Ashley Moffat, two talents who also work at Kejimkujik National Park, are offering the show. Moffat wrote the original music.
The tourist bureau committee is also selling tickets on a Christmas basket filled with lots of “goodies,” says Frail.
Tickets are available at the Valley Credit Union North Queens Branch and from Frail at 682-2663.
All proceeds from both fundraisers go towards the centre’s upkeep.
Adventurous dinner theatre with Tent Dwellers
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November 29, 2008
- Published on January 31, 2010
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Mark Roberts/The
North Queens residents are celebrating Christmas on “The Edge of the Unknown” Nov. 29 with some rugged, trout-wielding Tent Dwellers.
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