First off, for those seeking fun this weekend things are starting to get spooky round the Rock.
Sort of.
Hike, stroll, march, step or jaunt — however you tread, get set for some seasonally spectacular scenery because the 26th annual Pumpkin Walk is returning to Bainbridge Gardens.
A fun, festive, free family-oriented tradition, the donated proceeds from the non-scary walk event will benefit the Bainbridge Island Boys & Girls Club.
This year, the Pumpkin Walk will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 and Saturday, Oct. 12 at Bainbridge Gardens (9415 Miller Road NE).
Hundreds of people of all ages come to walk along the decorated trail, glowing with a grand display of nearly 300 lighted, carved pumpkins. For many families, the Pumpkin Walk has become a staple of the Halloween season.
Food and beverages are available for purchase from the New Rose Café.
Visit www.bainbridgegardens.com to learn more.
Next, what’s in a name? Well, in the case of Fustian House, literally everything.
You see, it’s absolutely the most dull historical home in all of England (and that’s saying something). Fustian itself means pompous and bombastic, inflated language, which is exactly what poor bored tour guide Lettice Douffet is forced to employ so as to spare her numbed charges a slog through the dustier parts of history and instead, “Enlarge! Enliven! Enlighten!” their experience (tips accepted at the door, thank you very much).
So, you know, she just sort of lies, employing much bombastic and inflated language in service of the ever-growing fictitious fables she spins about Fustian House, until one day when Lotte Schoen, a peculiarly well-informed woman on the tour, reveals herself to in fact be a member of the Preservation Trust, which owns the lifeless manor — and also employs its tour guides.
Tiresome truth thus collides with invigorating fancy in Peter Shaffer’s award-winning comedy “Lettice and Lovage,” the latest production of which is being staged at Rolling Bay Hall (10598 NE Valley Road) by Bainbridge Island’s Lesser Known Players.
“Lettice and Lovage” will be staged at Rolling Bay Hall for two successive weekends: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 and Oct. 18, Saturday, Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13 and Oct. 20.
Tickets, on sale now via www.brownpapertickets.com (search: “Lettice & Lovage”) are $15 each for students, seniors and military members, and $20 general admission.
Finally, Joan Shelley, a singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky, will perform at the Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12.
Tickets, $25 for reserved table seating, are on sale via www.treehousebainbridge.com for this 21-and-older-only concert.
Shelley draws inspiration from traditional performers from her homeland, as well as those from Ireland, Scotland and England — but she’s not a folksinger.
Her disposition aligns more closely with Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, or her fellow Kentuckian Tom T. Hall, who once explained in a song, “I Witness Life.”
She sings less of her life and more of her place: of landscapes and watercourses; of flora and fauna; of seasons changing and years departing and the ineluctable attempt of humans to make some small sense of it.
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