{"id":30112,"date":"2012-07-26T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=30112"},"modified":"2012-07-26T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:44:09","slug":"back-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/back-138\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12july\/firstnighterth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>First Nighters<!--more--><br \/>\nby Barry Bauer<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/12july\/firstnighters.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nSeated left to right: James Moore, Joan Davidson, Cynthia Jones, Joan Hopko and Judy Reese.<br \/>\nStanding left to right: Maxine DeYoung, Wayne Hicks, Charles Caudy, Rosalee Ludwick, Henry Dellar, Gene Livingston, Steven Hopko, Loi DeGroot, Dan Bross, Treva Hill and Kaye Fish.<br \/>\nMissing from the picture: Theda Murdock, Roger Kowalski, and Roy Brisendine.<br \/>\nOn May 7th and 8th in 1965 a local theatre group called First Nighters put on the play, &#8220;The Man Who Came to Dinner.&#8221; This was their second production after first organizing. They put on their first play, &#8220;See How They Run&#8221; on January 21st and 22nd, 1965.<br \/>\nHila Bross, the librarian at Bement Library at that time, directed the play which was well received by the audience. Hila was a correspondent for the Clinton County Republican News; and she and her husband, Dr. H. Manning Bross, owned the locally famous Salt Box House located on the southwest corner of French Road and US-27, French&#8217;s Corners, north of St. Johns.<br \/>\nThanks to Carole Livingston for this information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Nighters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lookback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}