Three things for September 27
1. Woman uses missing marble gravestone to prepare fudge
In August, a gravestone was found at an estate sale after the owner was moved to an Alzheimer’s care facility. Since its discovery, it has been determined the gravestone was used as a surface to make fudge.
“The family hired an auctioneer to take care of the items,” Friends of Lansing's Historic Cemeteries President Loretta Stanaway told CNN. “As he was going through things, he saw this slab of marble in the kitchen and turned it around and discovered it was gravestone. The family told him they used it to make fudge. The family could not say how or when the gravestone got there.”
The family told Stanaway that the gravestone was used as a surface to prepare fudge because it is made of marble.
The owner of the headstone, Peter J. Weller, died in 1849 and was buried in Oak Park Cemetary. In 1875, his body was transferred to Mount Hope Cemetery, but his gravestone never arrived.
“We looked into trying to find any relatives to see what we could figure out,” said Stanaway. “Someone who could give us permission to put the monument back where it belongs, but we weren’t able to find any survivors.”
FOLHC restored Weller’s plot, and he now resides next to his two daughters 172 years after his death.
2. Lee Theatre opens their first show of the fall season
The 2021-22 Lee Theatre season opened this weekend with the student-directed comedy “The Illiad, the Odyssey, and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less.” The show opened to a sold-out audience on Friday night in the Buzz Oates Black Box Theatre.
The show is a five-person cast set on a simple stage that tells all of Greek mythology and Homer’s epics in 99 minutes or less.
“99 Minutes’ is a hilarious take on the entire canon of Greek mythology, a formative culture base for all of western history,” said student director Laura Harris. “It is definitely ridiculous, brilliant and somehow still educational.”
The show continues Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Students can pick up a free ticket at the box office in the Communication Arts Building. Tickets can also be purchased online here.
3. Fabio Bidini to return to Lee University for Presidential Concert Series
Fabio Bidini, an Italian pianist, will return to campus with the Los Angeles Piano Trio on Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. for the first installment of the 2021-22 Presidential Concert Series. The concert will take place in Pangle Hall across the street from the Communication Arts Building.
The evening’s performance will feature Mozart’s “Allegro” and “Andante grazioso,” Beethoven’s “Allegro vivace e con brio,” and Chausson’s “Pas trop lent” and “Vite.”
Bidini will perform with violinist Margaret Batjer and cellist Andrew Shulman.
For more information about the Los Angeles Piano Trio, click here.
