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Monday, November 19, 2012

Busy Weekend in the Central Valley

Going to Turlock via Amtrak


  
 Saturday Night
 Saturday night children's performances.  The kids were from 3 to about 17.
A three year old, Denair's version of Honey Boo Boo, stole the show.


Sunday
Christmas Craft Fair in Hughson



Anna in the Tropics is a play by Nilo Cruz.
When Cuban immigrants brought the cigar-making industry to Florida in the 19th Century, they carried with them another tradition. As the workers toiled away in the factory hand rolling each cigar, the lector, (historically well-dressed and well-spoken), would read to them. It was the lector who informed, organized and entertained the workers until the 1930s, when the rollers and the readers were replaced by mechanization.
Ybor City a section of Tampa was the center of the cigar industry, and it serves as the setting for Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.


  2 hours and 24 songs of the 53 songs of the Messiah
MODESTO - The fifth consecutive year that local singers gathered to participate in a sing-along performance of Handel’s “Messiah” - Sunday, Nov. 18.
The community-wide event,  free and open to the public, was at 4 p.m. at
 Trinity United Presbyterian Church,
 1600 Carver Road in Modesto.
The entire Messiah in one setting seems too much, but two hours of it was quite lovely.


Sunny day return


9:30 a.m. Southbound train between Modesto and Bakersfield




Lodi



 Ever interesting things to see from train.


 
 River Park District of Sacramento

 
 One more form of transportation to get home...lite rail -THE  KAY District

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