W-PHS Presents Original Play

May 6 & 7 Only!

Advanced ticket sales are sold out. There will be a limited number of tickets available at the door on a first come, first served basis.  Cash or check only accepted at the door.  Adult tickets $8; no tickets required for 18 and younger.

As we continue to commemorate the Wayne County Bicentennial throughout 2023, there are many opportunities to celebrate our history. One such opportunity to step back in time is through an original play to be presented by the Williamson-Pultneyville Historical Society (W-PHS) in May. Motivated by three of Samuel Throop’s very own tavern journals which reside in the W-PHS archives, “At Samuel’s Tavern, And Thereabouts” reveals satisfactions, frustrations and merriment of the pioneering Samuel Throop family that along with a colorful cast of characters portray early settlers who all forged their unique paths through the uncleared wilderness to Pultneyville in the early 1800s.

Representational situations of settler life in the newly designated Town of Williamson, about 1806 and beyond, is what this production is all about.  Love
prevails as babies are born, children play, adults carve out their livelihoods, and a strong sense of community is formed.  There is singing, frustration, anger, genuine concern for each other.  Emotions experienced 200 years ago are much the same as now.

Names of original landowners are available in several history books, but not their perspectives, conversations, day-to-day interactions.  This play, therefore, adds literary embellishment to their stories and embodies anachronisms galore regarding the many births, second marriages, and deaths to enable shrinking these decades into an evening or afternoon performance.

Written by W-PHS playwright, Irene Bierer, the play will be presented on Saturday, May 6 at 7pm and Sunday, May 7 at 3pm in historic Gates Hall at 4107 Lake Road in Pultneyville.   Nearly two hundred years old, the primitive ambiance of historic Gates Hall . . . the oldest continuously active small community theatre in the United States, appropriately sets the scene for this production that celebrates the early settlers and settlement of Pultneyville.

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Tickets are designated for either Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon.  Please purchase accordingly.