During my 4 years of high school, we were exposed to some of the world's greatest literature and plays. From The Merchant of Venice, Chaucer, The Crucible, and Moby Dick, to name a few.
I was also involved in our local and school theater clubs, where we put on plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelve Angry Men, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Inherit the Wind. Musicals such as Bye Bye Birdie, The Fantastics. Both on the stage and backstage as well. In one play, Ah, Wilderness, my role of young Richard had two and a half pages of uninterrupted dialogue.
St Patrick's Day is coming up soon. In my part of the world, it is also Evacuation Day, when the British were forced from Boston, thanks to Henry Knox. It is local to Boston and a few surrounding communities, and an excuse to drink green beer, avoid as much as possible those wearing Kiss Me I'm Irish paraphernalia among the parade goers. Not forgetting corned beef and cabbage, and suffering the byproduct fumes hours later.
Changing the clocks is an honored family tradition going back eons. Every five years, it was my family's turn to participate. I used to think it was stupid to get all dressed up like Druids till I got to drive the Land Rover...