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Dear Nancy and Rube
I would like to give you thanks for a great trip to Chicago. All of our Hidden Treasures members had a wonderful time. Father Jim really enjoyed the trip -- most fun he had in a long time. You people always know how to entertain people. God Bless, Love
Mary McDonald, Hidden Treasures, St. Ignatius Martyr Church

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I really enjoyed the trip, very different, nothing that I was expecting. I am not an art person for the most part, but I could have stayed in there and looked around more. I was really taken by her art. The whole day was delightful and I came home a good tired. That was a trip worth more than its price. Just getting to the landfill was an experience. I thought sure we were lost. I haven't bowled for a long time and and even though my arm was killing me when I got home, it was fun and worth it. You are never going to please everyone, but I think just about everyone enjoyed themselves. (In reference to a mystery trip and edited for length)
Sr. Ann Mann, Sts. Simon & Jude Church

Now there is another reason to drive to Branson for a show: June 20, 2008 Sight and Sound Theaters will open a new showplace that duplicates the Millennium Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And the first show will be Noah, the first and most highly praised epic of the many shows of Sight and Sound theaters. If there is a show that rivals it, it will be "As it was in the Beginning," the birth of the earth. It too will feature an array of animals and plants as it portrays the Garden of Eden and God breathing life into man. Both shows will take full advantage of the 300-foot stage that wraps itself around the 2,000 persons in the audience.

Sight and Sound Theaters is a master at music, staging, and carefully adhering to the biblical stories that you learned in Sunday school. They bring those stories to life, only in much much bigger than life in dizzying detail. In Noah, the audience is in the ark with floors an floors of animals "two by two." It is awesome.

If you think you would like to see Noah at Branson, tell your group leader soon. Tickets are on sale now, and Sight and Sound seats fill quickly, and likely even more quickly in Branson.

If you want to see what Sight and Sound theater is all about, join the July 23-26 tour to Lancaster by Incarnation Church seniors. They will see "In the Beginning," at the Millennium Theatre and at the Living waters Theatre, Psalms of David. The latter a story of the growth and trials of David, including the slaying of Goliath. The church club likely have openings. Call Sunshine Adventures 324-0075 for contact information.

The new sight and Sound theater presenting a reprise of the Pennsylvania counterpart's Noah certainly is having its effect> We have three tours slated for Branson this year.

Sept. 10-13, sponsored by Incarnation Cathokic Church, Louisville; Oct. 16-18, sponsored by Memorial Methodist Church, Elizabethtown and Nov. 17-20, a Christmas trip, sponsored by Cecilia Bank with branches in Elizabethtown and other cities. For details call 324-0075, a Louisville number.

A GREAT LITTLE TRIP THAT FEATUREs A GREAT INN AND WONDERFUL ATTRACTIONS and a hit with last year's patrons will be duplicated this year for Incarnation Church. A Kentucky Pride two-day tour to a host of attractions to Augusta, Maysville, Washington and in Fleming County, Kentucky June 2-3. A scenic drive north of Lexington to Augusta and the Rosemary Clooney museum opened by former Lt. Governor Stephen Henry and his wife Heather Renee French Henry, Miss America in 2000, in Rosemary's former Kentucky home. The museum includes material from the Clooney family plus a room of Heather's gowns and collections from her reign as Miss America. The museum fronts on the Ohio River in a beautiful setting.
We enjoy a buffet lunch in the nearby Parkview Inn before another scenic drive -- 30 minutes -- paralleling the Ohio River to Maysville. There, two trolleys and guides await to show us the sights of Maysville, including a stop at the theater where Rosemary Clooney (born and schooled in Maysville) required her first movie be premiered, and most recently prmiering "Leatherheads," a museum stop and a unique general store stop. Afterwards we drive into the country to a 1740 farmhouse, now the site of the McGee Bakery, specializing in transparent tarts and pies. You get a chance to don an apron and help fix supper after touring the farm house. Your bed awaits in the self-styled luxury hotel The French Quarter Inn, downtown, overlooking the Ohio River, a great experience. Time for a moonlit stroll on the river bank.
Tuesday we will have an early start at Kentucky pioneer life at Washington including a one-room "fort" where a couple and their 14 children lived, and the Harriet Beacher Stowe museum, dedicated to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, partly based on her experiences with slavery and the underground railroad from Washington/Maysville. We then move southerly to Fleming County and visit two covered bridges before returning to Louisville.