FINIS

Best of news! The Style Guide is officially DONE!

It took plenty of time, but it's completely done. The only thing I could say is missing is one little artistic flourish that I'd like to add, but I would need a picture that I don't currently have. The final document is 53 pages long including the title page (right).
It includes 4 sections of info - 1) Elisabeth Ball, 2) Faeries, 3) Faeries, Sprites and Lights at Minnetrista, and 4) The Faerie Tea. There is also an appendix with pictures of all of the Fae houses currently in use for the event split up into categories, and then of course the bibliography at the end.

Well. I feel as though I've accomplished something. :) Now to hand it over. My internship technically ended on Thursday, August 25th, but I'm meeting up with George and Josh for lunch at some point next week for a post-internship lunch where we'll finalize everything and I plan to hand this over.

EL FIN!

Can you O.D. on faeries?

Late night working on the Style Guide... zzzzz....

The bad news: it's not quite done yet.

The good news: it's so close to being done!

Tomorrow is my last day at Minnetrista. So I think I'm going to go to sleep and dream about faeries for awhile, then wake up and head to Minnetrista to finish this thing.

I like old things.

The second half of my internship seems to be rather less eventful than the first half. That's not to say I don't like it; it's just different.

Research, in any context, I've discovered, is research. But it has its redeeming qualities. Faeries, ancient Celtic, Scottish, and English faerie lore, the folk faerie's transition into the Elizabethan faerie... I've discovered that it's all supremely fascinating to me. As is sifting through documents that once resided in George A. Ball, his wife Frances Ball, and Elisabeth Balls' desk drawers. The first time I ventured down into Collections in the basement of the Minnetrista main building and began looking through letters and invoices dating to the 1910s and 20s that had their signatures scrawled on the bottoms, I had a moment where I began to more fully understand why dramaturgs, historians, museum curators, and perhaps even archaeologists do what they do. It's that moment when you hold something between your fingers and try to wrap your brain around the fact that nearly a century ago, a fascinating human being was holding this same item for the first time. The biggest treat so far, I think, has been a few discoveries I made. In one box in a folder marked "Miscellany - Elisabeth," I found lots of loose sheets of paper with notes in her handwriting all over them. I found two or three half sheets with ideas for story plots scrawled on them, as well as an unpublished poem called "The Subconscious" that made me laugh out loud. I also found some correspondence between Elisabeth and her father, and some not-yet-transcribed correspondence between Elisabeth and her childhood and lifelong friend Emily Kimbrough that prove that both Emily and Betty were familiar with the story of Peter Pan.
I still have more to go through, and I have many transcribed letters to Elisabeth from her mother still to read, as well as some photographs to look through.

Today I hit a milestone, however. Today I finally finished all my explicitly faerie-related research. I've made all the notes I plan on making and will be able to write a (hopefully) concise and helpful essay on the origin, appearance, dress, behavior, and dwellings of faeries that will help set a precedent and standard for Minnetrista faerie lore of the future.

The title of the books and journal and encyclopedia articles I've used are as follows -

Ball, Elizabeth. "The Fairy." Oakhurst Poems and Obiter Scripta of Elisabeth Ball. Ed. Hope Barnes. Pub. Rosemary Ball Bracken, 1984.

Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

Briggs, Katharine. An Encyclopedia of Fairies. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976. Print.

Briggs, Katharine. The Fairies in English Tradition and Literatre. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967.

DiTerlizzi, Tony and Holly Black. Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World around You. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005. Print.

"Fairy." Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. Ed. Alison Jones. New York: Larousse plc, 1995. Print.

"Fairy." The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15th ed. 2007. Print.

Feitchte, Mrs. “Our Fairy Lore.” Cosmopolitan Art Journal 3.2 (1859): 59. Print.

Hand, Wayland D. “European Fairy Lore in the New World.” Folklore 92.2 (1981): 141-148. Print.

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. Ed. W. B. Yeats. New York: Random House, 19--. Print.

Keightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1968. Print.

Latham, Minor White. The Elizabethan Fairies: The Fairies of Folklore and the Fairies of Shakespeare. New York: Octagon Books, 1972. Print.

Leach, MacEdward. "Fairy." Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1950. Print.

Narváez, Peter. "Fairies." American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. Print.

Phillpotts, Beatrice. The Book of Fairies. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. Print.

"Pixy." Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend. Ed. Maria Leach. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1950. Print.

Rabuzzi, Daniel Allen. “In Pursuit of Norfolk’s Hyter Sprites.” Folklore 95.1 (1984): 74-89. Print.

Silver, Carole G. "Faerie and Fairy Lore." Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. 2nd ed. Denver: ABC-CLIO, 2011. Print.

Silver, Carole G. Strange and Secret Peoples. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print.

Susina, Jan. "Dealing with Victorian Fairies." Children's Literature 28 (2000): 230-237.Project MUSE. Web. 21 Jan. 2011. <http://0-muse.jhu.edu.oak.indwes.edu/>.

Swann, Marjorie. “The Politics of Fairylore in Early Modern English Literature.” Renaissance Quarterly 53.2 (2000): 449-473. Print.

Wilby, Emma. “The Witch’s Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland.” Folklore 111.2 (2000): 283-305. Print.

Wood, Juliette. “The Fairy Bride Legend in Wales.” Folklore 103.1 (1992): 56-72. Print.

            Now I have some more research on Elisabeth Ball to do, some research on the history of the Faeries, Sprites and Lights event itself to do, and some research on the faerie tea party to do. But those will be more fun because part of the research is conversations with the people who make the events happen and have been a part of their history since their inception. And then of course the actual writing and compiling of the thing. And by thing I mean Style Guide. We'll see how this goes! Hopefully I have something worthwhile to show for my efforts by the time this is over. :o)

A drama-what?

In one of my first entries (it may have been the first one... but I'd have to go back and check...) I told you that the second half of my summer I would be a dramaturg. In case you didn't see it before, check out that link. At the end of the paragraph you'll find the most accurate description of what I'll be doing -

"At larger theatres, a casting director hires the actors, a literary manager helps with play selection and editing/workshopping, and the dramaturg works on the historical and cultural research into the play and its setting. A dramaturg will create a workbook for the director and actors (usually these are different) and work extensively with the director prior to the first rehearsal."

Most people have no idea what a dramaturg is... usually I get incredulous looks and "... you're a drama-what?" "No... not a dramaTURD... a dramaTURG..."

So what does Minnetrista, more specifically, Faeries, Sprites and Lights, need a dramaturg for?

As I think I said at one point or another, the starting point for Faeries, Sprites and Lights was Elisabeth ("Betty") Ball and her love of (maybe belief in?) faeries. When she was little she had faerie tea parties, and she wrote that poem about faeries that I shared with you when she was 19 years old. Faeries were a big part of her childhood. And basically, they'd like to know what inspired her love of faeries. What kinds of books did she own when she was little? What stories would her parents have read to her? What sorts of things did she do when she was little? And then, based on all those things, what would the faeries in Betty Ball's head have looked like, more or less? That's basically what it's my job to find out.

On top of Betty Ball research then, I'll also be doing some generic research on faerie lore through the centuries and trying to fill in whatever gaps we can about faeries... trying to establish a precedent for "Minnetrista faeries." And then I'll also be writing a sort of history of the Faeries, Sprites and Lights event at Minnetrista, and helping to establish a little bit of a precedent for the event itself and different things that have been done within the event.

So it's back to the library, getting reacquainted with the stacks of books and online article databases. :) By the end of the summer though, I should be pretty much an expert on faeries. So if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer them!

I do believe in Faeries! I do I do I do!

I'm very behind with blogging...

This week starts my seventh week at my internship and this is only my fifth blog post. Hmm.

This past week has been really crazy. Production weeks always are. :)

Faeries, Sprites and Lights 2011 was a huge success! I'm so glad I got to be a part of it. It was much more fun than I ever imagined on that day when I was interviewing for the stage manager position.

The week before last and this past week started to get a little stressful for some crew members because things weren't falling into place as fast as we would have liked them to. The set was still quite a way from being completed, there were still some costume pieces we were scrambling to try to find, and lighting and sound fell into place a little later than Josh would've liked. But somehow the magic of theatre always prevails and things get done even though it doesn't look like they will.

Tuesday was an interesting day for me that I spent running around. I found the dry cleaning place and dropped off costume pieces, bought a couple of dowel rods, a tarp to cover the set, and 40 hangers for clothes (which ended up being way too many, but oh well). Considering the fact that I am directionally challenged, do not know Muncie at all, and did not have my GPS, the fact that I found the dry cleaners (with road construction smack dab in the middle of Muncie I might add), Walmart, and Lowe's and everything on my list within an hour and fifteen minutes doesn't seem so bad. Ha. Maybe there's hope for me after all!

Josh ended up taking over directing the scripted production - "The Golden Touch." George wrote the script and blocked the show but handed the production over to Josh after that while George managed the eight actors and the improv character work that they did.

Josh, George and I discussed this in a meeting but there really wasn't any way to fully prepare any actor for what Faeries, Sprites and Lights was like. Having 30 people (14 of them being little girls wearing wings and glitter) come at you and bombarding you with questions and comments isn't something that you can really prepare anyone for. So it makes sense that the first night seemed pretty hectic and the second one seemed  a little calmer.

Unlike stage managing a show at IWU or a theatre company, I didn't call cues for the scripted show. For most of the event I ran around with radio in hand checking in on the actors and making sure that everyone had enough water, enough paper, enough markers, etc. There were pockets of time when I would be at the theatre tent (the big central tent where the stage and seating were located) and Josh put me to work more than once running lights or helping him out. One of my jobs was to keep track of time and make sure that the "Larke" family - the three actors who performed the scripted show - were in their places on time. It was also one of my jobs to re-set the stage and props with Josh after every show. The show was performed three times each night. The event went from 6:00 to 9:00 and the show began at 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30. It ended up running about 17 or 18 minutes long.

We had a couple of technical difficulties with the show. On the first night, the 6:30 performance went fine, but right as we were about to begin the 7:30 performance, one of our actors, Kaitlin Burch, tripped and did a nose dive off the downstage right corner of the set. I froze momentarily but un-froze in time to run over, help her up, and walk her over away from the stage to check and make sure she was okay. After a minute to catch her breath she told me that she'd just had the wind knocked out of her but that she'd be fine. She bounced right back and played it cool, telling the audience that it had been "just a test" and even making the comment "that's what Briar's been talking about - tripping hazards!" which was a reference to one of the other characters, Briar White, who was constantly checking things to make sure they were "regulation" and warning against uneven ground and "tripping hazards."

After Kate got on stage and the show began, I left the theatre tent to make rounds and make sure all the other actors were doing all right. When I got back around to the theatre tent, Josh urgently asked me to go get a bag of ice and asked whether or not I had an Ace bandage in my stage manager kit. Apparently one of the rose bushes (the set was an enormous plywood pop up book complete with castle, rose bushes, and table), which was held in place by a wooden foot that popped down into a notch, had fallen over on another member of the "Larke" family (and set designer) Sarah White. I got a bag of ice and fished my Ace bandage out of my bag in order to ice Sarah's ankle. Fortunately that was it for mishaps that night.

As far as the rest of the evening, one of the characters, Tessie Meadow (who loved books and stories), had a little book-making craft that she did with the visitors. But there were so many people in and out of the cabin where she was stationed that she needed at least one or two volunteers to help people make the craft so that she could focus on being in character. The first night, because of some miscommunications, she didn't have any volunteers and seemed like she wanted to pull her hair out the first couple times that I visited her. Eventually, after a few radio calls and some scrambling, George and I found her a volunteer or two and things seemed to go a little smoother. A couple of our other actors seemed to be getting fatigued quickly and asked for breaks, so at one point I stood in one actor's space and talked to people for awhile while he got some water and sat down for a bit.

Over all, the second night went much smoother than the first night, though we had a scare at the beginning. Sarah slid down the flight of stairs in the building where our green room was located and hit her tailbone pretty hard. When we asked her about it she didn't act like it was a big deal but she seemed like she was in quite a bit of pain. George ended up taking her to the First Aid station. After taking her over there he came back, found Josh and me and said, "We have three options. Option 1 - she deals with the pain and the show goes on. Option 2 - if things look serious we take her to the hospital and we cancel the shows for tonight. Or... option 3..." and at that point he gave me the same look that the Grinch gave Max when he was looking for a reindeer for his sleigh. So... I spent the first part of the evening looking over Princess Rose's lines and blocking. To my immense relief, however, we ended up going with option 1 and I was off the hook. Poor Sarah was in pain all night even with pain meds but I think everyone pulled through all right.

Saturday night, after everything was over, we cleaned up a few things and had the actors clean up their props and set dressing. The actors got their checks, and everyone went home. Then, Sunday afternoon, we had strike - tore down the set, sorted props and costumes, stored lighting/sound equipment, etc. Afterwards we had pizza and some pop and a little cast party. Not everyone was there but it was fun just the same. :)

It was a fantastic whirlwind of a weekend that was so much fun. It was great to see all the families, all the little girls in glitter, tutus and wings, and all the smiling faces. I could definitely tell that the community really enjoys and looks forward to this event.

And, even though this weekend would have made a fantastic grand finale, the best news is that my internship isn't over yet! I'll still be there two days a week for the rest of the summer. And even though FSL is over for the year for everyone else at Minnetrista, it will have to stay fresh in my mind for awhile because I'll be working on the FSL style guide and spending the rest of the summer figuring out what faeries are like. :)

So here's to getting to be a kid and believe in faeries again!



And here are some pictures from the event -

The patio with tables where you could sit and eat your "fair"-y type food

Me running lights while Josh runs sound

Full house!

The Larkes handing out bells to the kids

Note: my radio is clipped on one side of my belt and my phone is tucked into the other. Don't judge. It worked.

Toadstools set up in the gardens made great photo ops for families with little girls in wings

A faerie house that I set out :) There were 40 at my last count spread out all over the gardens. Maybe I'm silly and sentimental but at twilight with candles burning in jars along the path, fireflies glowing, and music floating through the air you really could almost see faeries flitting in and out of houses and through the leaves of trees.

Some Pictures!

Right now we are thick in the middle of rehearsing for the event Faeries, Sprites and Lights and I've already done some very typical stage manager-type things. For example, I now have at least the beginnings of a stage manager kit of my own. So, on the first day we read through the script, I had highlighters for everyone. During an ensemble rehearsal I had index cards and pens to hand out to everyone when we needed impromptu information collected, I had blue painter's tape on hand to tape out the dimensions of the set on the ground so that we could begin blocking, and just today Josh (the assistant director and Theatre and Outreach Manager) managed to cut himself on the tape measure, and I had bandaids and antibiotic ointment out and ready to go by the time he got his hand washed. :)

The fifteen minute scripted show (called "The Golden Touch") was blocked at the end of last week in one two and a half or three hour rehearsal. Today was our first time working the show off book. George wasn't there today so it was just Josh and me. I was on book for line calls, to watch that the actors were sticking to the correct blocking, etc. Fortunately everything went very smoothly today, and there were even some great discoveries and character choices. I love it when those happen. :) I think it will be a lot of fun, especially for the kids.

Here are some pictures of the houses I talked about in the video, as well as some pictures from rehearsals.

This is the main building - built on the site where Frank Ball, the co-founder and first president of the Ball Corporation, originally built his house. He called it "Minnetrista" which means "gathering place by the river" in a Native American dialect.

This house belonged to Edmund Ball, the other co-founder, secretary/treasurer of Ball Corporation. He called it "Neebosham" which means "gathering place by a bend in the river" in a Native American dialect.

This house is called Maplewood. Personally, it's my favorite. :)

This is Oakhurst. This house has four acres of grounds, and was where Betty Ball lived all her life - the inspiration and starting point for Faeries, Sprites and Lights. It is on the grounds of Oakhurst that Faeries, Sprites and Lights takes place.

This building is usually just called "L.L." The house belonged to Lucius Lorenzo Ball - the oldest brother, who was a doctor. It is the plainest house, and now serves as an office building for many Minnetrista staff, including the theatre staff (which includes me). :)





And here are just some pictures snapped during rehearsal. Enjoy!

Come, let's rehearse!

Rehearsals for Faeries, Sprites and Lights have officially begun! We began on Monday last week, this whole week will be rehearsals, all of next week, and then the week after that will be production week preparing for the event on Friday and Saturday nights, July 8 and 9.

Stage managing for this event is much different from stage managing for a regular show. Most of the actors don't actually have scripts because it's guided character improvisation, so when we meet for rehearsals, it is my job to keep track of time, take notes on the developments that come out of the character-building activities that George or Josh do with the actor, occasionally stand in to help, and, of course, provide bug spray.

I still have my office hours in the early afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00 when I send emails, track down and collect paperwork, and do various and sundry other tasks that Josh or George need done.

Rehearsal is typically from 4:00 to 7:00. Character-building rehearsals usually consist of a few physical warm-up types of activities, followed by possibly some improv games or walking around and interacting in character. Sometimes we send the actors off on their own to reflect and create back story for their characters in their heads and figure out things like mannerisms, etc. that would be unique to their character.

Today, the finished script for "The Golden Touch," - the show within a show that 3 of the actors will perform during the event - was given to me with just minor tweaks necessary. We did a read-through yesterday and two more read-throughs today. Unfortunately, Nic, who is playing the father of the "Larke Family Troupe" is sick and not doing very well, so he hasn't been able to be there for the last couple of days. We're waiting to see what happens with him. George is starting to wonder if we'll have to have Josh understudy and possibly perform for him. We'll have to see.

Pictures to come!

Oh, and here's the poem I talked about in the video about the history of Minnetrista -

The Fairy
By Elisabeth Ball
July 1917

Once I saw a fairy...
Tiny in the grass.
She moved along so quickly
I hardly saw her pass.

Yet I know it was a fairy,
For the shimmer of her wing
Left a little flitting sunbeam
On a web where dew-drops cling.


So there you have it. Betty Ball and her love of faeries. :)

The History of Minnetrista (According to Kendra)

Weeks 1 and 2: So what does a theatre intern DO exactly?

I'm a little late getting started on this blog and I apologize. I thought I'd heard tell somewhere along the way that with every IWU Communications internship there was supposed to come a blog but I was a little late getting enrolled in the actual class and forgot to ask for the syllabus. Sooo... here goes.

On Tuesday, May 31 I began my internship with Minnetrista Cultural Center in Muncie. I soon found out that interning at Minnetrista is 1) not much like I imagine interning for a theatre company would be and 2) probably not much like interning for any other company. In some ways, Minnetrista is a world unto itself with a rich history and culture all its own. My first week on the job (Tuesday, May 31 and Thursday, June 2) was mostly orientation and education on the history of Minnetrista, which I will elaborate on at a later date. Week 2 actually started to have more of a job-like feel to it.

Minnetrista itself is a... well... they call it a cultural center. According to their website -

"Minnetrista is a museum and cultural center that serves the people of East Central Indiana. Minnetrista offers exhibits and programs for children, families, adults, scouts, teachers and students that focus on nature, history, gardens, and art.

Minnetrista's 40-acre campus includes beautiful gardens, a modern museum facility, an historic home, Nature Area, numerous sculptures, and a portion of the White River Greenway." 

If you want to know more about Minnetrista, feel free to visit their website: http://www.minnetrista.net/.

Their educational program employs theatre as a chief teaching tool, so they have the "Theatre Preserves" which is a touring group that goes to local libraries and elementary schools to perform for the students, and they also have a variety of theatrical events. That's where the "theatre" comes into this internship.

So. What will I be doing? I've been working through that question myself.

Firstly, I'm the stage manager for this year's Faeries, Sprites and Lights event, which is a theatrical event involving eight actors, a band that plays music for the duration of the event, and many activities for the children. Where the actors are concerned, most of the event is improvisation. The eight characters are stationed around the grounds at Oakhurst (Elisabeth Ball's historic home). Parents bring their children to the event, and the characters interact with the children and families. Each of the characters has a back story, and they each have a relationship with each other. Some of the back story details that these characters have each been invited by the faeries to their mid-summer celebration on the grounds of Oakhurst, and each for a different reason. There are faerie and sprite houses placed all over the grounds at Oakhurst, and everyone is free to explore and see as many of the sights as they can see. The story goes that Queen Lilliana, the Faerie Queen, wants to patch things up with the humans and revive the friendship. That's why everyone has been invited to the celebration. Prince Greenhorn of the sprites, however, doesn't think so and therefore the faeries and sprites are still invisible to the humans. There's not a whole lot of difference between a faerie and a sprite that I know of, except that faeries have wings and sprites don't. And I think the story behind that is that the sprites were so mischievous that the faeries took their wings away. I don't know what the difference between them was before that. :) So that's some of the history behind the event.

There IS an actual stage to manage. During the event there's a play-within-a-play of sorts. Three of the eight characters constitute the "Larke" family - a traveling troupe that puts on shows. This year's show will be "The Golden Touch" - a re-telling of the King Midas story. That will actually have a script, a stage, and a set that I will be in charge of managing. This involves making up binders for the actors, taking blocking and line notes, resolving any conflicts that might arise, and making sure that lights, sound, props, costumes, and actors are all ready to go by July 8 and 9 - our event days.

So far what I've been able to work on has been stage manager-type responsibilities. I attended several meetings including a general theatre meeting, a set design meeting, and a marketing meeting for the Faeries, Sprites and Lights (FSL) event. I've also managed to pull together some resources and prepare binders for each of the eight actors with rehearsal schedules, character information, and maps. This has all been preparatory work.

But stage managing isn't to be my only responsibility for this internship. During my office hours, I will also be a dramaturg. For those who don't know what that is, please check out the link. Basically what this means for me is that I will be creating and compiling a style guide. I will be doing some research and answering questions like, "What is a faerie?" "Why does Minnetrista spell it with an 'e' instead of an 'i'?" "What do faeries and sprites wear?" "What exactly is the difference between a faerie and a sprite?" "What do their houses look like? What are they made out of?" I think you get the picture. Basically, this is the 5th year for this event and they're looking to start establishing a sort of precedent and reasoning for the overall history and appearance of things, etc. The dramaturgic work will most likely be concentrated toward the latter part of the summer. Although on my second day I did get to photograph each of the faerie houses for inventory and so that I can begin working out what faerie houses are made of.

On the first day I met with HR and signed some paperwork. Then I met Josh Moore - the new Theatre Outreach Coordinator at Minnetrista. It turns out that the new Outreach Coordinator (Josh) started the same week as two new interns. Josh started on Monday, I started Tuesday, and then the other intern, Melody, started on Wednesday. Josh is technically right above me... I think. But George Buss (whose title is "Director of Experience and Education") is actually my supervisor.

George and I then walked down the lane past all the different houses (I'll touch on them when I talk about the history), and showed me to the office in the L.L. Ball house where the intern work station is. I had lunch with George, Josh, and Nic Blevins who is the summer touring actor along with Tonya Kunkel (Cody Konschak's internship position from last summer). Nic is acting in Faeries, Sprites and Lights also, as well as being the props master. He works for Exhibits at Minnetrista on a regular basis.

My schedule for the summer is a little crazy. These past couple of weeks I've been at Minnetrista two days a week on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am to 3 pm. On Monday/Wednesday/Friday I've been working at the library at IWU. I've only had office hours at Minnetrista so far. This coming week begins rehearsals for FSL, which are from 4 to 7 pm every day. Not every actor is called every day, but rehearsals are every day. Before rehearsals, I will have office hours from 1 to 4 every day. So I will be at Minnetrista from 1 to 7 pm every day until our actual event days, July 8 and 9, and FSL will go from 6 to 9 pm on both those days. After FSL is over, I will go back to office hours two days a week, like I have been been these past two weeks, and I will mostly work on the style guide.

It's probably not like what many theatre interns do, but this is the beginning of my answer to "So what does a theatre intern DO exactly?" :)

At some point during this week, I'll try to post some pictures and share some of the history of Minnetrista, because the history is key to most of what goes on there.

The people I work with are fun, I've liked what I've gotten to do so far, and it's just the right mix of history and a little bit of magic and imagination. I think it's going to be a great summer. Hopefully it just gets better from here!

Thanks for reading!