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Regional News: Pacific Bonanza Society
Ashland Fly-In, July 21-24, 2011
By Ron May
Fourteen Bonanzas carrying 12
couples and two singles arrived
at the Ashland Airport, S03, in
southern Oregon on a sunny July
afternoon. Setting the stage for the
weekend, the participants managed
to arrive in an orderly fashion (in pairs)
allowing for easy transportation to our
downtown hotel, the Bard’s Inn.
Our Thursday night dinner was
at the Standing Stone Brewing Company
where we sampled their beers
and wines and enjoyed salad, varied
pizzas, and berry pie before a short
walk to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s
outdoor Elizabethan Stage.
We arrived in plenty of time for the
Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, “The
Pirates of Penzance.” All agreed that
the production was lively, colorful,
and thoroughly entertaining.
Friday morning we walked back
to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
grounds for a backstage tour. Our tour
guide was an actor who grew up in
Ashland volunteering at the festival,
later becoming a professional actor
in New York and then returning to
perform at the festival for the past six
years. The information provided in the
tour was interesting, but the insight
provided by our guide about the hiring
process for the actors, their commercial
opportunities, their part in the
productions, and balancing their lives
was particularly interesting.
In the afternoon we departed for
the town of Jacksonville, which was
the largest city in Oregon in the 1850s
during the Gold Rush period. On the
way there we recognized four couples
and one single for their first-time attendance
at a PBS event, a high proportion
of newcomers. After a drive
through Jacksonville, with a stop for
the obligatory group photo in front
of the Jacksonville courthouse, we
stopped at a nearby winery for lunch
and wine tasting. The winery also
raises alpacas and sells alpaca yarn
and sweaters.
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