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to do. The Society had great hopes of buying from Carl
Marco the town's early Victorian train depot, evicting
Sidney Blossom, and then restoring it with the
thousands of dollars that an endless stream of tourists
would be happy to pay for such souvenirs as
bicentennial T-shirts, caps, pennants, balloons, and
turtles—all printed with the Betsy Ross flag and with
slogans like DINGLEY FALLS 1676–1976 and I
WAS IN DINGLEY FALLS AND I LOVED IT and
SHOP DINGLEY FALLS.
Limus Barnum had gotten the ladies a great deal on
the merchandise, and the ladies' markup was justified
only by their worthy cause. The grand finale of all these
festivities was to be ten tableaux vivants, each
representing one Dingleyan event for every thirty years
of the town's history, each starring a member of the
Thespian Ladies. Even Beanie had been pressured into
portraying her grandmother Lady Camilla Dingley as
she charged on horseback into the Great Madder
Strike and Riot of 1898. Everything had been planned
for months.
Everything ought to go well. Beanie would surely be