Left: Annandale Hall Middle: Henry Norton’s Workshop Right: Taylor’s Forge later Coal House and Machine House

PLAYS

In the past, most communities had a Drama Club which rehearsed and presented many three-act plays. The years after the First World War saw a great surge in community theatre. Little Pond was often the scene of such productions when plays like “Finnigan’s Fortune”, “Red Acre Farm”, and “Molly Bonn” were performed. In 1927 and 28, Bridgetown’s Cheese Factory would be packed to the doors for such groups as St. Peter’s Bay Drama Club presenting “Cyclone Sally", and St. George’s Drama Club with “The Path Across the Hill”. The 1930’s brought such favourites as St. Theresa’s Dramatic Society and their play “Dust on the Earth”, as well as East Royalty Players and their comedy “Meet the Malones”. When movies became popular and movie theatres opened in Souris and Montague, community theatre suffered a serious setback.

Recently Drama Clubs are starting to become more common on P.E.l. In 1980 a group from Little Pond formed together to present “Damsels ln Distress", a comedy that had previously been put on in the 1930’s. This group is presently quite active and usually do one play every winter.

DANCES

The most common form of entertainment along the Boughton River has always been dances. People danced in houses, barns, halls, and even on Annan- dale Wharf. Sometimes all it would take to prompt a dance was the presence of a fiddler and a few light footed young people. John William MacDonald, Little Pond, told us that the old fellows first learned to step dance while cleaning the

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