Sycamore High School - Log Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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hbThz's Play Is Called hOur TownJ. . . 'hIt was written by Thornton Wilder and pro- duced by the Thespians 0f Sycamore. In it you will see Mr. Contryman, Mr. Greer, Mr. Payne, Miss Gross, Miss Glenn, Miss Garneret, and many others too numerous to mention. The name of our town is Grover's Corners, New Hamgshire nice town, ya know what I mean? Therehs an early morning calm about the town this is the way we were in our growing up and in our marrying, and in our living, and in our dying .. . The First Act was called Daily Life; this Act is called Love and Marriage weddings are per- fectly awful things. Farcesethat's what they are on the wedding morning a girls head is full ofeoh, you knowenclothes and one thing and another . . . How all this began, this wedding, this plan to spend a lifetime together Why sure-I always thought of you as one of the chiefpeople I thought about t. . Iim giving my daughter away, George. Do you think you can take care ofher? . . . I never felt so alone in my whole life Emily I'm going to do my best. I love you, Emily. I need you I can? bear it. They're so young and beauti- ful. Why did they ever have to get old? . . . When youye been here longer, youhll under- stand , . . I can't go on! It goes so fast. We don? have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me backeup the hill;to my grave. But wait! One more look! Goodbye! Goodbye, world! Goodbye, Gro- ver's CornerseMama and PapaiGoodbye to clocks ticking away and my butternut tree and Mama's sunflowerseana' food and cojjreeeand new-ironed dresses and hot bathseand sleeping and waking upleOh, earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you! They don't understandi do they? No, dear. They don'tunderstand. gm... .-...;. ma. mu-o,