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Manatee Heritage Days offers monthlong celebration with various events
Throughout March, Manatee County s historical organizations and sites will host special exhibits, lectures, walking tours and more.
Manatee County s annual monthlong celebration of its history returns with a full roster of events, many outdoors as well as virtual amid the pandemic.
The 42nd annual Manatee Heritage Days takes place throughout March, as the county s historical organizations and sites host special exhibits, lectures, walking tours and more. Originally a week in length, Heritage Days eventually grew to nine days, then into a monthlong event in 1995.
Monthlong events:
Jiggs Landing Heritage Foods: Jiggs Landing Outpost will offer special menu items and local favorites such as sour orange pie, swamp cabbage and smoked mullet dip throughout March. Tickets can be purchased for this limited time menu now. Jiggs Landing Outpost, 6
Lakewood Ranch s Kathy Junkins sat at a picnic table at Jiggs Landing Feb. 27 with her friends Fran and Jeff Wiser, who were visiting from Pennsylvania.
The chatted while waiting for the Players Centre of Performing Arts to begin its performance of Spoon River Anthology.
Although Junkins husband, Ken, was the technical director for the production, Junkins said she didn t know anything about the play and was excited to see it. I m also looking forward to seeing my favorite actors on the stage who are friends that I haven t seen in a year, Junkins said.
East County s Nancy Stasiewicz said with her love of theater and with the play happening so close to home, she and her husband, Duane, didn t want to pass up the opportunity.
2 months ago Share As the Players Centre gets closer to opening a new complex in Lakewood Ranch, it is expanding its outdoor shows.
Editor s note: Jay Heater s article incorrectly stated the role Daniel Pelissier said he earned in a Kiss Me Kate audition. The correct role is Hortensio.
Sarasota actor Daniel Pelissier stood on the new outdoor stage Jan. 17 at Jiggs Landing Outpost, his back turned toward Director Donna DeFant and Assistant Director Patti McCauley.
DeFant and McCauley were hosting auditions for Edgar Lee Masters “Spoon River Anthology,” a 1915 collection of poems that narrate the epitaphs of the residents of a fictional Illinois town. The two directors were looking for about 13 actors to fill roles in the play they will present beginning in late February on that same stage.