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Sandra Scott Travels

Sandra Scott Travels: Happy St. Patrick’s Day – Let’s Eat!

Glazed Loin of BaconWhen John and I were in Roscommon, Ireland, during June 2011 I contacted Sarah Browne to set up a cooking experience featuring Irish food. I was surprised to learn that in Ireland the traditional dish is bacon and cabbage served with a side of Savoy cabbage boiled in the bacon water, accompanied by champ which is mashed potatoes seasoned with scallions, milk, and butter along with salt and pepper.

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Arts and Entertainment

Loveable Baseball Players Featured in Damn Yankees

The wives of the Washington Senators’ fans complain that they become ‘baseball widows’ in the song “Six Months Out of Every Year.” As they are lamenting baseball season, their husbands are following their favorite baseball team on television and in the stands. Shown here in the opening number from Quirk’s Players’ production of Damn Yankees are (l to r): Mitch Lalik, Paige Havener, Nathan Hawthorne, Krista Vann, Amanda Trombly, Alex Bawarski, Abby Field, Joe Medico, Kayla Hatch and Cody Hockey. Damn Yankees is under the direction of Tom Briggs, Tom Nami and Rob Lescarbeau with dances choreographed by Doreen Forbes and opens this week at G. Ray Bodley High School. Photo by Kelly LeVea.Performances for Damn Yankees are scheduled for March 8, 9 and 10 in the Bodley H.S. Auditorium. Curtain time is set for 7:30 each evening. Additionally there will be a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. “Damn Yankees is a great story with wonderful music,” explained Tom Briggs, theatre director at Bodley. “It is a story of love, self-discovery and baseball. Set in the nostalgic 1950s, Damn Yankees is thought provoking and moving.”

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