To: Mitch Moore MM@Fountain.com
From: James Smythe JJSmythe@GVL.org

Subject: Information you requested

Mitch,

Here's a list of community resources in the Fountain Hills area. In the Fountain Hills downtown area we have a few centers that serve the general public. I hope you will include that information in your upcoming article.

I also listed a couple of places in the surrounding area. It's not uncommon for Fountain Hills residents to go to a neighboring town for a special cultural event, as we are a fairly small town. The nearest library is in a neighboring town, but that's only 20 miles away.

Aside from the activities I've listed, there are plenty of other seasonal events that spring up quickly around here, so please keep an eye out for those, and hopefully you can help publicize them as they come up.

For more specific information about the events listed, please contact the respective facilities.

Best of luck,
James Smythe


Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623 John Heminges and Henry Condell, two friends and fellow actors of Shakespeare, published a more definitive

text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's

In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been repeatedly adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular and are constantly studied, performed, a

nd reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.


It is not known definitively when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592

Throughout his career, Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford. In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, north of the River Thames

He was still working as an actor in London in 1608; in an answer to the sharers' petition in 1635, Cuthbert Burbage stated that after purchasing the lease of the Blackfriars Theatre in 1608 from Henry Evans,

the King's Men "placed men players" there, "which were Heminges, Condell, Shakespeare, etc.".

Some time before 1623, a funerary monument was erected in his memory on the north wall, with a half-effigy of him in the act of writing. Its plaque compares him to Nestor, Socrates, and Virgil.