The Boy Scouts of America will host an American Flag Retirement Ceremony at 7 p.m. Friday at the Abingdon Muster Grounds in Abingdon, Va. June 14 is Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the American Flag by the Second Continental Congress. Worn flags will be honored by being properly retired. Take your worn flags and join the tradition. The ceremony will be conducted around an outdoor camp fire. Some
AFTER EARTH A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige and his legendary father, Cypher, stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet and an unstoppable alien creature that escaped during the crash. Father and son must learn to work together and
It’s Encore Theatrical Company’s first encore. After a successful run Mother’s Day weekend, Encore is bringing back “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” the popular production featuring stories about women and their ties through clothing. The original setting was the Higher Ground building downtown, but for this second run it will be at the Hillside Grill. “We talked to Dino (Angelos) at the Hillside Grill, and they were very excited,”
Editor’s Note: To submit a calendar event, e-mail: ctstate@lcs.net JUNE MARCH 1-JUNE 23 – Nashville – Exhibit: Exploring Arts of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection in the Upper-Level Galleries at the FristCenter for Visual Arts. The exhibit features 125 artworks from Mexico to Peru. Organized thematically by culture, the artworks present more than 2,500 years of creativity in Mesoamerica, Central America and Andean South America between 1200 B.C.