Show ! 1999 23 j July o yi There can celebrate pioneer heritage all Logan's Willow Park and in Hyde Park Mention Weston Dayton and North Logan The Utah Festival Opera season is in full swing You can see the productions at the Old Lyric Theatre Jesse Datwyler is sponsoring a Children's Theatre Festival on Saturday July 31 at the fairgrounds The Festival of the American West runs July 30 through Aug 7 complete with mountain men gunfights food and a pageant The USU Alumni Band is playing Sunday night outside in the Old Main Amphitheater The Famous Preston Night Rodeo is July 29 (MINTS 2 I of this weekend at the Jensen Historic Farm Friday The is tons to do in Cache Valley in July 4 — interview Cache Valley's tenor talks about life and the Utah Festival Opera Company 9 — in the dark Michael Flood on Stanley Kubrick's d "Eyes Wide Shut" 3031 much-toute- There are art shows galore — Bullen Center Fuhri man's USU Nora Eccles Museum There is an antique quilt show in the USU Tippets Gallery and another quilt show opens July 30 at the Wellsville Tabernacle A gardeners' market is each Saturday morning in the parking lot behind Tony Roma's Page 5— A reads 10 — periodical look at books of local inter- est due to their authors subject or 6 7 — inside the Utah Festival Opera Company they’ve been making a scene If crossword you dare 11 — on At 8— opera Musica Magnifies brings the UFOC orchestra to life campus More USU Alumni Band plus concert from the Ughtwood Duo 12 a free —potpourri of Pioneer Day Festival of the American West Celebrations and Whew Tired yet? I'm sure there's more But if you do one thing in the next two weeks — one thing only — make your way up Logan Canyon to Tony Grove Park as near to Campsight No 7 as you can and follow the trail to the lake The wildflowers along the path are perhaps the most powerful — in a gentle sort of way — visual stimulation you can hope to drink in all summer Everything is in bloom The columbine are nodding their lacy heavy heads and hummingbirds hover nearby await- ing their sweet nectar Purple and white wild geraniums fill the landscape And everywhere a surprise In botanists' terms adore the little teeny tiny blue flowers and the yellow petals on a stem that resembled a lemon popsicle look for the delicate purple flowers that look like an ones elephant's trunk ami the tall you have to look at really closely to capture their intensity And for an entree in the floral smorgasbord there are a host of critters and insects Birds everywhere dragonflies squirrels marmots and ' fish You don’t have to commit to sore hips from sleeping overnight in a tent you don’t have to eat hot dogs or roasted marshmallows tinfoil dinners but please if you want to see how beautiful Northern Utah can be take that walk ' four-petal- ed grey-purp- U Trt PANPCDMIN6 'CindyElla Charlie Brown and more Theatre Festival rounds comer — Nancy Bodily Cache Magazine editor thespians will gather from around the state at the Utah Children's Theatre Festival on Young annual July 31 at the Cache County Fairgrounds The event features drama workshops for children and adults an art carnival and plays performed by children from various towns across the state as they gather to celebrate talent and have fun The festival will host James Omar Hansen a professor at Ricks College who will perform and teach one of the workshops Here is a schedule: ON THE COVER: One of eight columns ranging from 16 to 22 feet tan created for the Utah Festival Opera Company's The Tales of Hoffmann' It takes the scenery crew two hours to set-u- p the stage for ’Hoffmann Photo by Mitch MaecaraHerald Journal 10 to 11 am — Performances by Brigham Puppetry Mr and Mrs Omar Hansen songs and stories and Trudy Bosworth Pantomime artist 11 to 11:45 am — Two workshops offered technical secrets: Bruce Duerden USU and acting Rosemarie Howard BYU 11:45 am to 12:15 pjn — Lunch served bring a sack lunch or for $3 you can get a lunch 12:15 to 1 pm — Two workshops: directing Mr and Mrs Omar Hansen Ricks Pantomime Trudy Bosworth USU 1 to 2 pm — Play performance — Nibley City presents “CindyElla" an original play 2 to 2:45 pm — Two workshops: Stage combat Nikki Olsen Curtis Kidd USU USU and Stage make-u- p 2:45 to 3 pm — Scenes from Charlie Brown Brigham City and le CORKBOARD: Children perform all kinds of creative characters at the Utah Children's Theatre Festival awards handed out 3 to 4:30 pm — Art carnival: The following can be made: masks crowns and puppets face paint karaoke and coloring The festival is for all ages and families are encouraged to attend Tickets are $3 Feel like being creative? Have you written something so fine it makes you smack your fingers to d your lips? Send it in to Cache Magazine's for publication This is not a place for political statements and Letters to the Editors It is a Cork-boar- The address is: ThefteraSdljoumal Corkboard Attn Nancy Bodily PO Box 487 Logan Utah 84323-048- 7 or me at nbodilyOhjnewscom i |