To enhance your holiday season, come to the Hampton Community Center at 2PM on Sunday December 17, for a performance of “A Christmas Memory.” This very early work of Truman Capote, originally a short story, then an hour long TV production, won 18 major awards including the Peabody as best TV show of the year, International Critics Award, and several Emmys. A film version produced as part of a trilogy with two other Capote stories was one of only two American films chosen for exhibition at the Cannes Film Festival.

This adaptation into a radio play is the work of Juan Arriola and the late Gordon Hansen. Here is your chance to see your friends and neighbors step into literary characters: Perry Mandanis, who is playing Capote, Anne Flammang as the young “Buddy”, Mary Oliver as his beloved cousin, and cameos from other performers, such as Juan Arriola as Ha-Ha, the Native American proprietor of the small town’s local bar.

Admission is free and refreshments will be served after the performance, including, of course, a treasured fruitcake.

Following the performance, caroling for Seniors at their homes will be led by the Believers Mennonite Church members. Other Town residents are welcome to join. We will meet at, and leave from, the Town Hall at 4:30.