{"id":159,"date":"2008-06-10T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T02:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:13:00","slug":"shakespeare-meets-old-west-and-canada-in-ashland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/shakespeare-meets-old-west-and-canada-in-ashland\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Meets Old West and Canada in Ashland"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/shakespeare-meets-old-west-and-canada-in-ashland\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2F10%2Fshakespeare-meets-old-west-and-canada-in-ashland%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/MomDadHeather-Ashland-Jun08-small.jpg\" alt=\"Mom Dad and Heather in Ashland\" \/>My parents came to visit a few days ago&#8230; they&#8217;re here for almost a 2-week stay, and they&#8217;re planning to see as much of the area as they can during that time.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve never been to Oregon, but it&#8217;s strangely reminiscent of Ontario in a lot of ways (besides both starting with an &#8220;O&#8221;)&#8230; for instance, both have beautiful rivers and tree-filled scenery, and both have Shakespearean festivals that are among the top in the world.<\/p>\n<p>So Barry and I thought they&#8217;d enjoy going to a play here at the <strong>Oregon Shakespeare Festival<\/strong> in Ashland&#8230; and I decided on <em>A Comedy of Errors<\/em>, which was presented as a Western musical.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Shakespeare, Western twangs, and song-and-dance &#8212; all in the same play.<\/p>\n<p>This picture of us is one Barry took a few hours before the show, walking around the quaint historic downtown Ashland.  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