Hancock County Creations offers weekly watercolor workshop
GREENFIELD — Hancock County Creations Studio, located at 202 N. State St., offers weekly two-hour watercolor workshops from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Each $25 session includes all supplies. Visit Hancock County Creations Art Studio on Facebook for more information.
Bed race looking for participants
GREENFIELD — The Forty and Eight, a veterans honor society, seeks teams for the Four-Post 400 Bed Race Challenge, to be held from noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 7 on North Street between State and Pennsylvania. The event is open to groups of five (four to push the bed and one to ride) for the Parade of Beds at noon, followed by the bed-racing at 1 p.m. and the world championship race at 4 p.m. The registration fee per team is $75. Teams must provide their own beds. For more information and guidelines, email [email protected] or visit 40and8voiture1415.org.
Deadline for “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” video contest looms
UNITED STATES — The deadline for Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s third annual “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” Video Contest is July 31. Contestants are encouraged to create a three-minute video promoting discussion of the question "Who Wrote Shakespeare?" in a format that is “entertaining, engaging and witty,” said contest coordinator Tom Regnier. First-place prize money is $1,000, second place receives $500, and third place receives $250. Did the man Shakspere of Stratford, England, really write the plays and poems published under the name William Shakespeare? Or is Shakespeare a pseudonym used to conceal the true identity of the author? This question has lingered for centuries, and has intrigued brilliant minds such as Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Walt Whitman, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Derek Jacobi, to name just a few. There is no evidence that the Stratford man ever went to school, wrote a letter or owned a book. Yet the works of Shakespeare show evidence that the author (whoever he was) was deeply familiar with law, medicine, astronomy, philosophy, mythology, gardening, precious stones, music, Italy and many other subjects. Considering that the Elizabethan Age was a "golden age of pseudonyms," could Shakespeare have been the pen name of a reclusive genius who felt the need to hide his identity? For more information and to view winning videos from previous years, visit shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/sof-video-contest.
