Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon
See the Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon live at Pike County High School, Monday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. when the one act play will take the stage.
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Tue, May 14, 2013 - 02:16 PM
It IS disturbing and a picture is worth a thousand words. Pike needs animal control.
Tue, May 14, 2013 - 01:40 PM
Three horses owned by this family have been attacked by dogs - only one was killed. I did not use the graphic pict [...]
Tue, May 14, 2013 - 10:57 AM
This picture of the dead horse is pretty disturbing. Why did you find it necessary to post that? The story is incr [...]
Mon, May 13, 2013 - 09:30 AM
I agree. I live on Melville Brown Rd and over the years have had to deal with abandoned animals. I am fed up. I ha [...]
Sun, May 12, 2013 - 08:03 AM
This exactly why Pike County needs a Animal Control Facility.
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It was judged by audience approval and we won first place. Betty Jo done a great job.
My Grand-Daughter, Heather, will be starring in this one. I am really excited and hoping that a big crowd shows.
This is a practice run for a competition that will be held in Barnesville on the 27th. The monies gathered in this practice run will help pay for transporting the props and cast members to the competition.
On behalf of the Drama Class, please come.....your support is needed and appreciated.
And it promises to be a fun evening!
Thanks
Sandy Lord
Why aren't plays celebrated by any attention from the school systems?
Really. This is Friday and the play will take the stage on Monday. I am "just sayin"......I bet we all know the sports schedule, don't we?
I hope the auditorium is standing room only for this play.
Plays are underrated in today's world. They are not altered, rewound, adjusted or corrected. They are live. They are very important moments in the lives of these children.
I look forward to it. Meet me there.
Between “once upon a time” and “happily ever after” lies a timeless, ever-changing world, where everything is possible and dreams do come true.
Countless fairy tales with infinite variations, usually offering moral, social or political lessons through skillful narrative and interesting characters, have existed throughout history and throughout the world.
The nature of this genre seems to invite evolution. Originally these deceptively simple stories were passed orally from generation to generation. As the printed word became more accessible, the tales became easier to transfer from one to another, generation to generation. Today the images we see on the movie screen have firmly implanted themselves in our minds and have all but erased the originals.
More significant than the changes themselves, however, is what the evolution of the fairy tale tells us about ourselves and our changing society.
(More to come... after my interview with my Great, Great, Great, Great, etc. Grandmother.
(It really is interesting.)
The origins of the fairy tales we know today are found in various sources. From mythology to the Bible. Common themes can be found in most cultures. Perhaps because of similar experiences or because the tales themselves traveled with both conquerors and the conquered. Stories were used sometimes to educate and sometimes to frighten children into compliance, warning of the consequences for wrong actions.
Among medieval peasants, folktales passed from those older and more experienced to younger adults and children as moral lessons for life. Many take place during the hero’s or heroine’s passage from childhood to adulthood, often ending in marriage. Along this fantastic path are not only challenges to be overcome but warnings: the perils of being alone in the woods; the potential pitfalls of physical attractiveness; the dangers of being naïve.
This brings me to...you guessed it... Little Red Robin Hood. A rhyme tells the moral at the end of Perrault’s story. His warning to young girls about the nature of wolves, for instance, leaves no doubt that he was not referring to canines in “Little Red Riding Hood.” One English translation reads:
Little girls, this seems to say,
Never stop upon your way,
Never trust a stranger-friend,
No one knows how it will end.
As you’re pretty so be wise,
Wolves may lurk in every guise,
Handsome they may be, and kind,
Gay, and charming—nevermind!
Now, as then, ’tis simple truth—Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!
A collection of Perrault’s stories was published in 1697, subtitled Contes de Ma Mere l’Oye (Tales of My Mother the Goose).
(How about that....I shall return, you all come back now...ya hear?)