The rosy lenses of nostalgia often color our childhood days with pleasant hues of innocence and vitality. They were, colloquially speaking, the good old days. Of course, that view on youth is incomplete. In “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” (yes, the show’s title is that long), the six children competing are weighed down.
Sometimes from the ashes of destruction rises a powerful idea that sparks people to rebuild not only what was lost, but improve what came before and prosper beyond their prior capacity, which is one outcome of the Mendocino Complex Fire that nearly destroyed essential commercial activity in much of Lake County.
Communication freshman Nic Lam said he considers himself the black sheep in his family. While most of his family members pursued STEM-focused careers and wanted him to do the same, he fell in love with the art of theatre instead. “There’s an attractiveness to the societal prestige that being a doctor, or being an engineer.