Clark Art Presents: The Writing on the Wall

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —The Clark Art Institute hosts the return of the literary celebration The Writing on the Wall on Sunday, July 20 at 3 pm, featuring a quartet of award-winning actors performing short fiction readings.

This special program combines art, theater, and the written word. The event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.

According to a press release: 

James Naughton, Maria Tucci, John Benjamin Hickey, and Julie White star in a new program featuring dramatic and comic readings taking on searing and sublime subjects. Naughton delivers Michael Cunningham's stunning coming-of-age story “White Angel.” Tucci offers Margaret Atwood's devastating parable “Death by Clamshell,” in which Hypatia of Alexandria, a real-life figure who was murdered in late antiquity, narrates the story of her life and death at the hands of a mob. Hickey presents Thomas Meehan's classic comedy of wordplay "Yma Dream," and White takes on Lynna Williams's “Personal Testimony,” about trouble in Bible camp as a preadolescent preacher's daughter begins writing testimonies for her fellow campers.

Actors subject to change.

Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu/events.


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Williamstown Police Looking into Damage at Post Office

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Police are looking into property damage at the U.S. Post Office on Spring Street.
 
On June 28, the Police Department received a report from a member of the Williamstown Garden Club, who was watering flowers at the Post Office and, "noticed that a granite slab had been displaced and a metal grate had been damaged," according to a police report.
 
Officer David Jennings responded to the scene and reported that it, "appeared that a vehicle or piece of machinery had struck the granite slab, causing it to shift into the metal grate and bend it," Jennings wrote.
 
By the middle of July, the damage to the grate was still apparent.
 
Williamstown Police contacted the postmaster, who said he would notify his supervisor about the damage.
 
Police Chief Michael Ziemba on Wednesday confirmed there is no closed-circuit television footage that provides details on how the damage occurred.
 
The damage is estimated to be worth about $500, according to the police report.
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